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We’re speculating about which players will be on the roster two years from today when the opening ceremonies for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics take place — but we appear to know the coaching staff.
Thunder coach Mark Daigneault, Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff and Gonzaga coach Mark Few will join the staff of USA Basketball head coach Erik Spoelstra (Miami Heat), reports Shams Charania of ESPN. USA Basketball is expected to make that official in the coming days.
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This is a potential stepping stone for Daigneault and Bickerstaff. Spoelstra was named the head coach for this cycle of USA Basketball — which includes the 2027 FIBA World Championships — after serving as an assistant on Steve Kerr’s staff in the Paris Olympics, where the USA men won gold for the fifth consecutive Games.
This staff will face the stiffest challenge the USA has seen to its basketball supremacy — the rest of the world has been catching up fast for years. It took a golden final few minutes from Stephen Curry — with Kevin Durant and LeBron James flanking him — to win gold two years ago.
That win was against a French team led by Victor Wembanyama, who has grown into arguably — and in two years it will not be up for debate — the best player on the planet. The French, Serbia (led by Nikola Jokic), and a deep German team are medal threats as well. A deep Canada team cannot be discounted as well.
The USA will send a very deep roster of its own and will be the favorites, although what that final USA roster looks like is going to be an interesting conversation.
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