Top 10 NBA moments of 2024

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Looking back, 2024 in the NBA struck a near-perfect balance for fans. The year was one part celebration of a generation of players who have lifted the league up and carried it for the past 15 years — and can still be golden. It was also a year in which we got a vision of the direction the sport is going in the next decade, both on and off the court.

Let’s look back at the 10 biggest NBA moments of 2024 — two of them tied to Paris.

1) LeBron, Curry, Durant win gold in Paris

The NBA’s biggest moment didn’t happen on an NBA court; rather, it was on an Olympic one — but it doesn’t happen without the NBA’s biggest names: LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Kevin Durant.

The most iconic basketball moment of 2024 happened at the Paris Olympics when the best players of an NBA generation — three of the top 15 players of all time — teamed up like the “Avengers” they called themselves to win gold. This was more than simple nostalgia for basketball fans around the globe, Paris became an opportunity to savor watching this trio play at the highest level of the sport one more time, and working together in a way we had not seen before.

The three of them painted their legacies in gold in the Paris Olympics.

Curry scored 60 points and hit 17 3-pointers across the final two games for Team USA, and when gold was on the line he took over like only Curry can.

LeBron already had gold on his GOAT-level resume, yet at age 39 he was the tone-setter and MVP of Team USA throughout the Paris Olympics. LeBron finished the Games leading the USA with 14.2 points, 8.5 assists and 6.5 rebounds a game — he was the Olympics MVP.

Durant — who should be remembered as the greatest USA FIBA player ever — wrote his name atop the record books in Paris, passing Lisa Leslie to become the all-time leading scorer in USA Basketball Olympic history. With the one he collected in Paris, Durant now has four gold medals — the most of any men’s Olympic basketball player ever.

2) Victor Wembanyama announces himself, scores 50

The other takeaway from the Paris Olympics is that Victor Wembanyama is the future of the sport, which is good news for France and…

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Author : NBC Sports

Publish date : 2024-12-30 19:42:00

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