[Zilgitt] Kawhi Leonard will fill the 12th and final spot on the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team in Paris, I’m told.

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1. I am now expecting him to be 100% to start the series on Sunday.

2. Kawhi Leonard playing free basketball. I never thought I’d see the day

3. smh what does Gradey Dick have to do to get his respect

4. USA Basketball is going belt to ass this year

5. Yall woke up angry dame

6. FIBA team went out so sad that they gave the final spot to Kahwi 😭

7. I guess the starting five will be:

   Steph – Kawhi – LeBron – KD – Embiid.

   Dayum.

8. Half of this team will end up in street clothes

9. Average age of the team just spiked up. They should call this the Steam Team cause they’re all old veterans running out of steam LOL

10. oh yea this is the dream team

11. Imagine a USA 5 of jrue-ant-kawhi-ad-embiid

    How do you score on them?

12. Kawhi should’ve been a no-brainer in the first place. If he’s healthy I would put him in the starting 5

13. This news basically meant he’s ready to go for the playoffs. Maybe not 100% tho

    Then shortly after Ty Lue confirmed he’s practicing and ramping back up.

14. There is NO way this team doesn’t win. Maybe other countries will have a starting 5 that can somewhat keep up (IMO hell no), but look at the fucking bench, what country could possibly not just stay in the game with their starting 5, but then have a bench good enough to not get absolutely destroyed by USA’s bench.

15. Not American, but this team USA has put together is a powerhouse among power houses. Im thinking prioritizing D is a great move, might separate the men from the boys as they say

16. Kawhi’s gonna get those ‘92 Bird minutes

17. If I’m the rest of the world I’m taking this year off and just enjoying my summer break

18. figured they’d choose a wing to round out the roster. was hoping it’d be Jaylen Brown but can’t be mad at Kawhi

19. So he’s gonna play for the Olympics?

    “I didn’t say anything”

20. Okay so who’s gonna be replacement when he can’t play for some reason?

21. He probably doesn’t answer work texts on personal time.

    Responded to Grant Hill the moment practice started.

    “Hey. Yeah”

22. Im still rocking with Canada if Mathurin is healthy

23. Lebron, Steph, KD, and Kawhi all on the same team. Probably the Mt. Rushmore of the 2010s era. I hope they all stay healthy cuz if they do, that era will be going out with a bang

24. So who starts on this team?

    Curry, Durant and LeBron of course because of seniority. I like the idea of starting Holiday and Embiid for defensive coverage as well.

    Leonard and Tatum spell Durant and LeBron.

    Davis spells Embiid.

    Haliburton and Edwards spell Curry and Holiday.

    Booker might be the best guard option for nailing 3s while Adebayo can do a lot of everything.

25. SAS crying shitting and puking rn.

26. Why does “, I’m told.” make things sound so much more badass than they are

27. USA can afford for Kawhi to play 15MPG just to focus on locking down a main offensive player with an occasional back-breaking shot-clock-beating iso

    His +/- would be insane while filling a reverse-Melo role

28. Yeah, that U.S. team looks pretty unbeatable.

29. Are ex-NBA players eligible for Olympic spots? Like if I guy retires early but is still playing at a high level (the Andrew Luck of the NBA), can he join the Olympic team?

30. Now they only have 7 of the top 100 players of all time on the team.

31. I’ll be honest seeing Lebron, Curry, KD, Kawhi, AD all on the same team USA makes me feel some type of way. All legends and first ballot HOFamers so it will be cool, like all of their last hurrah’s

32. I need a Lebron, Tatum, KD, Kawhi, AD lineup. Ultra-switchable Forward lineup would be the next / perfect iteration of basketball

33. This roster is insane, between Steph/lebron/KD/AD/embiid/tatum/healthy kawhi/Book you’ve got like 8 of the top like ~12ish players in the nba on your squad

34. Lots of legacy players.

35. Reminder that Dillon Brooks started all of this