OLYMPIC GAMES
Which NBA players are playing in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris? Full list
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will be among the NBA stars looking to take down Team USA at the Olympics.
The men’s basketball tournament at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris gets underway on Saturday, July 27, with the gold medal game to be played on Saturday, 10 August, the penultimate day of the event. As ever, the United States are firm favourites to win the competition, with all 12 members of their roster strutting their stuff in the NBA, the premier professional basketball league in the world.
However, 11 of the 12 competing nations have at least one player on their squad currently playing for an NBA team, with plenty more having plied their trade in the league at one point or another during their careers.
South Sudan is the only team without an NBA representative as it stands, with the Suns’ Bol Bol having withdrawn from their roster in the run-up to the tournament.
2024 Olympics men’s basketball tournament: group stage draw
Which NBA players are playing in the 2024 Olympics?
Group A
Australia
Greece
Canada
Spain
Group B
France
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Group C
Serbia
Puerto Rico
United States
Which former NBA players are playing in the 2024 Olympics?
NBA followers will also recognise a host of other names playing in the 2024 Olympics, with the following players having featured in the league at some stage in the past:
In addition, South Sudan have one player who could well turn out in the NBA in the future. Center Khaman Maluach currently plays for the City Oilers of the Basketball Africa League, under a development program with NBA Academy Africa.
Final rosters for the tournament will be confirmed following the Technical Meeting, which is set to take place before the start of the competition. That means changes could yet be made before the action gets underway.