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 complete 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 have been rising up. Certainly one of them, Anthony Edwards, was on the receiving finish of a lob from his favourite participant in the course of the third interval.
Durant did it with out taking part in a single warmup sport earlier than the Olympics started. He responded by hitting his first eight shots in Workforce USA’s opening sport and happening to interrupt Lisa Leslie’s file 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, Workforce USA. Whereas this can be Durant’s remaining hurrah on the Olympics, don’t be shocked if an getting older Slim Reaper comes again for extra on the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles.