The 2024 Paris Olympics is internet hosting essentially the most proficient worldwide basketball event ever, and star-power goes nicely past Workforce USA. The times of the 1992 Dream Workforce dealing with solely 5 NBA gamers on their approach to gold are lengthy over. Basketball is really a global sport lately, and even with the USA sending a loaded roster, the three greatest gamers within the occasion are competing for different nations.
The People stay the favourite within the event for good cause. LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Kevin Durant type one of many biggest crew foundations the game has ever seen. The U.S. had a pair shut calls of their tune-up slate, however nobody has been capable of beat them but. With the knockout phases looming, although, an upset is all the time attainable in a single-elimination event.
SB Nation has already ranked the 12 groups within the Olympic males’s basketball event by who’s almost certainly to win gold. We even have a listing of the 50 greatest gamers within the subject. With Nikola Jokic main Serbia, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander main Canada, and Franz and Moritz Wagner main Germany, there shall be no straightforward matchups as soon as the knockout stage begins. Right here’s the whole lot you want to know in regards to the 2024 Paris Olympics males’s basketball event.
Olympic basketball format and guidelines
- The Olympic basketball event begins with group play. Groups play everybody of their group one time. The groups with the 2 greatest information out of every group advance to the knockout spherical.
- The primary tiebreaker in group play is head-to-head outcomes. If there’s a three-way tie, point-differential is used to decided who makes it by way of.
- The knockout rounds are a single-elimination event with 16 groups. The 2 highest-ranked groups are positioned on reverse ends of the bracket. Groups can’t play one other crew from their group within the quarterfinals.
Males’s Olympic basketball group standings
Group A
Canada 2-0
Australia 1-1
Spain 1-1
Greece 0-2
Group B
France 1-0
Germany 1-0
Brazil 0-1
Japan 0-1
Group C
USA 1-0
South Sudan 1-0
Serbia 0-1
Puerto Rico 0-1
Olympic males’s basketball schedule and outcomes
All instances Japanese
Saturday, July 27
Australia 92, Spain 80
Germany 97, Japan 77
France 78, Brazil 66
Canada 86, Canada 79
Sunday, July 28
South Sudan 90, Puerto Rico 79
USA 110, Serbia 84
Tuesday, July 30
Spain 84, Greece 77
Canada 93, Australia 83
Japan vs. France, 11:15 a.m.
Brazil vs. Germany, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, July 31
Puerto Rico vs. Serbia, 11:15 a.m.
USA vs. South Sudan, 3 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 2
Japan vs. Brazil, 5 a.m.
Australia vs. Greece, 7:30 a.m.
Canada vs. Spain, 11:15 a.m.
France vs. Germany, 3:50 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 3
Puerto Rico vs. USA, 11:15 a.m.
Serbia vs. South Sudan, 3 p.m.
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, Aug. 6
Groups TBD, 5 a.m.
Groups TBD, 8:30 a.m.
Groups TBD, midday
Groups TBD, 3:30 p.m.
Semifinals
Thursday, Aug. 8
TBD vs. TBD, 11:30 a.m.
TBD vs. TBD, 3 p.m.
Bronze medal match
Saturday, Aug. 10
Loser of semifinal 1 vs. Loser of semifinal 2, 5 a.m.
Gold medal match
Saturday, Aug. 10
Winner of semifinal 1 vs. Winner of semifinal 2, 3:30 p.m.
