What we learned from the Olympics: LeBron and Steph have juice, Jamal Murray may not and more
4 months, 1 week ago

What we learned from the Olympics: LeBron and Steph have juice, Jamal Murray may not and more

New York Times  

Hats off to perhaps the most memorable Olympic basketball tournament ever. The U.S. men’s basketball team needed all it could muster from its aging superheroes, and based on the state of their NBA teams, one can fairly wonder if that is the last time any of Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant play in this big a moment again. Murray’s stats for the tournament are troubling enough — 36.6 percent true shooting and a 4.7 PER — but that maybe could be dismissed as a small four-game sample. Potential pieces A few other guys marked themselves as players whom scouts will watch more closely this coming season, or circle back on via film for a potential addition later this summer: Aside from Yabusele, if there was one former NBA player who made a case to get back in the league in this tournament, it was Canada’s Khem Birch. South Sudan guard Carlik Jones signed with Partizan Belgrade in Serbia for the coming season; he’s undersized at 6-0, but the former G League MVP’s ability to create shots could see him fill a second-unit creator role at the NBA level.

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