The USA will begin their pursuit of a fifth straight Olympic gold in men's basketball in Paris out of Group C alongside Serbia, South Sudan and Puerto Rico. In order to accomplish that goal, USA Basketball assembled a team featuring most of the best players available, including forward LeBron James and guard Stephen Curry.

The USA are currently training in Las Vegas, Nevada. Curry, 36, will make his Olympic debut.

"That's why I'm here. It will mean everything," the four-time NBA champion said. "You get the players with this type of talent, the best in our league, against the best in the world, continue to show our dominance, Team USA, and just the whole Olympic experience, something I've never had before, so I'm very excited about just taking and soaking it all in."

Both Curry and coach Steve Kerr admitted that the differences in rules between FIBA and the NBA can be a challenge for the USA, which did not perform well in the last two editions of the FIBA World Cup. They finished in seventh place in 2019 in China, and came in fourth at the 2023 edition in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

"There's only 75 percent as many possessions in a FIBA game, 40 minutes instead of 48," Kerr told reporters. "More physical. I think the NBA guys are used to star, they're used to be able to go out there and find their rhythm over a 48-minute game, and there's just less time to do that in a FIBA game."

"It is an adjustment but like anything, the more reps you get, the more confident you get," Curry said. "Thankful that we have another two-and-a-half weeks before the first Olympic game to kind of shake all of those cobwebs and get used to the spacing on the floor, to feel the ball all that. None of that will be an excuse, just play basketball."