Kevin Durantone of the great stars of the team USA of basketball, a strong favorite to win gold at the Paris 2024 Games, said, at a press conference Thursday in Paris, that of his calf injury is “healing day by day”with the goal of the tournament starting in the French town of Lille, headquarters of the group stage of a competition that will be resolved, starting with the quarterfinals, in Paris-Bercy.
Durant, 35, power forward for ‘Team USA’ and the Phoenix Suns, could mark a milestone at these Games, where he aims for an unprecedented fourth consecutive Olympic gold. In a tournament that starts on Saturday and where the United States will debut a day later, against Serbia, the current world runner-up.
Double NBA winner with the Golden State Warriors (2017 and 2018, years in which he was elected MVP -most important player- of the NBA finals), under the command of his current coach Steve Kerr, Durant, who is debating his fourth Games, with complete success in the previous three (London 2012, Rio’16 and Tokyo 2020), he did not play – due to the aforementioned injury – a single minute in the five friendlies played by ‘Team USA’ before the Olympic event .
“Every day has been better than the last”said Durant, who appeared at the press conference alongside his former Golden State Warriors teammate Stephen Curry, with whom he won two NBA championship rings.
“Now we’re taking things off the list. Today I have practice, and I practiced yesterday. I’m seeing how things are going,” said Durant, who is about the same age as some of his teammates, including LeBron Jamesanother great star of the team, who is 39 years old, declared that they “remain effective.”
“We all change as we get older, but the good thing about greatness is that you adjust and find a way to stay effective. And that’s what LeBron did at that age,” he said.
“He doesn’t jump like he did when he was 25 years old.; but he continues to jump high and continues to run very fast,” he highlighted, referring to LeBron, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
“Obviously we are old players; and we already have good mileage on our bodies. But we managed to find a way to continue to be effective,” he stressed. EFE
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Source: La Verdad
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