LeBron James celebrates scoring a basket against Canada during an exhibition game on Wednesday in Las Vegas. This is how the US Olympic men's basketball team took the floor for warmups before an exhibition game in Abu Dhabi: Stephen Curry opened with a layup, followed by more of the same from Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards and Derrick White, and then …
Steve Kerr saw everything that Gregg Popovich went through as coach of the U.S. men’s national team, saw exactly how difficult it was last summer for the Americans to emerge from the Tokyo Olympics with another gold medal. Kerr was formally announced as the next coach of the U.S. men’s team on Monday in San Francisco, a not-very-well-kept secret in …