Team USA fell to 0-4 in men’s basketball pool play at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a 20-18 loss to Lithuania followed by a 21-19 loss to Latvia on Thursday. It certainly hasn’t been the showing the Americans were looking for in their first Olympic competition.
The team’s biggest-name player by far is Jimmer Fredette. The former BYU star played six seasons in the NBA but hasn’t been in the league since 2019. Joining him in France are …
- Dylan Travis, who played NAIA, junior college and won a Division II national title at Florida Southern before playing overseas in Germany and Australia. His last of five professional seasons was in 2019.
- Canyon Barry, who started his college career at College of Charleston and finished it at Florida. He has played in Finland, the Czech Republic and, most recently, in the G League for the Iowa Wolves. He’s the son of Basketball Hall of Famer Rick Barry and shoots underhand free throws just like his dad did, too.
- Kareem Maddox, who played at Princeton and then the Netherlands, Great Britain and Poland. He has not played traditional five-on-five basketball professionally since 2017.
How did this group come together? Well, in order to even be eligible to play for the U.S., you…
