With Olympic gold secured, could Team USA players potentially team up in the NBA?

SOMEWHERE OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN — Now for the question you know you’ve been dying to ask for three weeks about the Team USA men’s basketball “Avengers”: With their gold-medal mission accomplished , which players on this star-studded squad are going to join forces on an NBA team down the road? With the national team’s rich history of such things, it’s only natural to wonder. The Miami Heat -les trio of LeBron James , Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh that teamed up in 2010 had USAB roots, as they grew close while playing together in the 2006 FIBA World Cup in Japan and Beijing Olympics in 2008. Advertisement The Golden State Warriors dynasty had a similar story, with Kevin Durant , Andre Iguodala and Stephen Curry bonding in Turkey at the FIBA World Cup in 2010 then finding a way to come together six years later (Iguodala and Durant were also together on the 2012 Olympic team in London).

Just last week, longtime NBA veteran and ESPN commentator Kendrick Perkins claimed that James Harden , while playing for Team USA at the London Olympics, was strongly encouraged by his superstar teammates to leave his sixth-man role with the Oklahoma City Thunder that summer and pursue a more worthy role elsewhere (he would be the centerpiece of the Houston Rockets by that October). Free, daily sports updates direct to your inbox. document.

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