USA Men's Basketball Olympic Team 2012

USA Men's Basketball Olympic Team Trims the fat and makes it's final roster for the 

London 2012 Olympic Games.

London, here we come...well after a few exhibitions. The USA announces its
team and it is ready to play ball. Led by Lebron James and Kobe Bryant,
this team looks ready to go for gold. No cash for gold here, strictly gold
around the neck.

Take a look at the squad:

Cutting the roster was the first major step for Colangelo and Krzyzewski,
whose job it is now to craft a cohesive unit from the 12 players who did

make the cut – a star-studded bunch led by James, *Kobe Bryant, Kevin

Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Tyson Chandler, Kevin

Love* and *Russell Westbrook* that was rounded out with *Andre
Iguodala*and national team newcomers *Blake Griffin* and *James Harden*.

That list includes five players — James, Bryant, Anthony, Paul and Williams
— that own gold medal from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Five more —
Durant, Westbrook, Iguodala, Love and Chandler — helped the U. S. to gold
at the 2010 World Championship in Turkey.

Carving a 12-man crew out of the 15 healthy, mostly, stars that showed up
for training camp was the sort of endeavor most of the competition wish
they had to endure. With Bryant, James, and Durant on the team and the
three point guards they have, I see no reason for team USA to come home
empty handed.

I noticed no one on this team outside of Chandler, James and Bryant have won a NBA 

Championship. They have seven between the three.

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