US Basketball National Team Fails To Win At FIBA World Cup 2023, LeBron James And Stephen Curry Want To Intervene In The 2024 Olympics

Los Angeles Lakers player, LeBron James. (Photo: Twitter/@KingJames)

JAKARTA - LeBron James and Stephen Curry seem hot to see the failure of the United States basketball team winning the 2023 FIBA World Cup. Both are rumored to want to return "down the mountain" to help their country.

The AFP report said James and Curry were among the top players interested in representing the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The US itself failed to win the FIBA World Cup 2023 after losing to Germany in the semifinals. They fell with a thin score of 111-113.

James had previously brought home two gold and one bronze Olympics for the US. He won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, then two golds were won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics.

However, since the 2012 London Olympics, the 38-year-old basketball player has no longer played for the US team.

Furthermore, James, who is the NBA champion four times as well as the NBA's all-time top scorer, is said to be targeting to bring home gold again for the US at the upcoming Olympics.

James is not only interested in playing again at the Olympics, but also participated in the call for the players to fill the US squad. He is said to have called fellow former NBA MVPs, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant in hopes of luring them to play in 2024.

Durant, the Phoenix Suns forward who will turn 35 later this month, helped the US efforts to win an Olympic gold medal in London as well as the 2016 Rio Olympics and at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Meanwhile Curry, the star of the Golden State Warriors team, has expressed his desire to play in the Olympic squad hosted by Warriors coach Steve Kerr. He has never previously tasted playing for the US at the Olympics, but has participated in a number of tournaments for the US team.

Anthony Davis, Draymond Green, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Chris Paul, are also among those who are said to be interested in participating in the Paris Olympics, as reported by Antara.