There have been only a few male basketball gamers with 4 Olympic medals. Kevin Durant is the one one with 4 golds.
Durant received gold at his fourth consecutive Olympics, beginning with the 2012 Video games in London. He joins Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James as American males with 4 whole medals in basketball, however the latter two solely received bronze in 2004 in Athens, primarily as a result of their coach didn’t play the then-rookies sufficient.
KD has been round so lengthy that his American teammates now embody gamers who idolized him whereas they had been rising up. One in every of them, Anthony Edwards, was on the receiving finish of a lob from his favourite participant throughout the third interval.
Durant did it with out taking part in a single warmup recreation earlier than the Olympics started. He responded by hitting his first eight shots in Crew USA’s opening recreation and occurring to interrupt Lisa Leslie’s document for Olympic scoring.
For a man who has been criticized for making an attempt to kind superteams — with the Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and now the Phoenix Suns — Durant actually does thrive within the final superteam, Crew USA. Whereas this can be Durant’s ultimate hurrah on the Olympics, don’t be stunned if an getting older Slim Reaper comes again for extra on the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles.
