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2024 Paris Olympics: Joel Embiid, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant among Team USA's biggest wild cards
CBSN
These are the guys with the widest ranges of potential value to a star-studded American team
The men's basketball group-stage games for the 2024 Paris Olympics are set to kick off Saturday, but the United States won't be in action until Sunday, when it will face a tough Serbia team featuring Nikola Jokic and Bogdan Bogdanovic right out of the gate.
The Americans are, of course, the heavy favorite to win their fifth straight gold medal, having assembled another roster full of NBA superstars. With such a vast swath of talent, the U.S. has a margin for error that no other team can match, as it can literally go to the last man on its bench (right now, that might be Tyrese Haliburton) and still have an All-NBA level player on the floor. But the rub of that is you have a bunch of guys who are used to being the star of their team potentially playing limited minutes in a supportive role.
Take Joel Embiid, for instance. The man is an NBA MVP, but most people don't even think he should be in the starting lineup. It's a reasonable projection that he might not even play that big a role on this American team.