By no means has the county, maybe, felt extra united than whereas watching Golden State Warriors participant Stephen Curry completely canine on the French males’s basketball crew throughout the gold medal closing of the Paris Olympics. Within the annals of historic moments in US historical past, Curry’s 4 straight three-point pictures towards France ought to be held on a wall subsequent to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Moon Touchdown.
As Staff USA basketball edged out France 98-87 on Saturday, customers on X (previously Twitter) let their American spirit be recognized to the world.
Let’s not overlook that the ladies’s USA basketball crew additionally received gold in Paris, additionally towards the French, however in a far more dramatic vogue. Staff USA received by the pores and skin of their enamel as France guard Gabby Williams banked a game-tying shot — besides her foot was on the road, that means France misplaced by 1.
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Naturally, the dialogue of ladies’s basketball’s Olympic victory shifted to WNBA star Caitlin Clark, who was not chosen to be on Staff USA, as a result of social media refuses to be regular about ladies’s basketball.
Because the Paris Olympics mark their finish, it was a generationally triumphant second for Curry, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and the remainder of Staff USA basketball.
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