USA Basketball team hoping to get gold at Beijing Olympics

 

The USA national basketball team has dissapointed at their last appearances at the Olympic Games, but this time, their squad is energized and featuring two natural born leaders: Lebron James and Kobe Bryant.

The team that will represent the United States at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games was announced without any previous tryouts, and here’s the roster:

Kobe Bryant Dwight Howard

Lebron James Chris Paul

Carmelo Anthony Michael Redd

Jason Kidd Deron Williams

Tayshaun Prince Carlos Boozer

Chris Bosh

With such team, it will be difficult to see the US having a hard time against their rivals, though, distances have shortened in the last decade in worldwide basketball, and now many foreigners are all-stars at the NBA, which brings more tough competition to competitions like the Olympics.

The last time the americans won the gold was 8 years ago at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and after getting the bronze metal at Athens in 2004, they are ready to defeat china at the opening game, proving why US baskeball has always being regarded as the best of the best, and with Bryant (on his first Olympics appearance), who just won his first MVP title at the NBA and Lebron James, who averaged 30 points per game all along the 2008 NBA season, chances are that they will come big and win the most noble metal.