According to a Feb. 29 report from prominent journalist Shams Charania, seven players will be on the U.S. men's basketball squad as long as they are not injured. Of those six players, four are supergiants (including a first-time candidate in history), an All-Star starter, an All-Star, and one is a regular on an NBA team. They are: James, Durant, Curry, Embiid, Tatum, Booker and Holiday Among them, Durant, Tatum and Holiday have all played in the last Olympics and have gold medals.
James, Durant, Curry and Embiid can be on the squad, this is an ironclad fact, Tatum and Booker can basically enter, but as the first batch of American national players to lock the squad, it is quite surprising, after all, there are Davis, Leonard, Butler, etc. Holiday can get the same treatment as James, Durant and Curry, which makes fans even more shocked, although he can do defend, Leonard and Butler are also outside defensive giants, and the offense is more aggressive.
According to reports, Edwards and Haliburton, the two U.S. men's basketball players in the last World Cup, are also very optimistic candidates for the U.S. men's basketball team. All nine of these players will likely make the U.S. men's basketball squad, so there are only three spots left. Because there are too few interior lines, it is necessary to add centers, and the two big men Davis and Adebayo may be selected. There is no fixed candidate for the last place.
If Holiday , Haliburton and Edwards are selected, and superstars such as Leonard, Butler, Zion, George, and Irving are not selected, then this year's U.S. men's basketball team will focus more on practicality than fame. However, with James, Durant, Curry, Davis, Embiid, and Tatum here, it is appropriate to say that it is a dream team.