USA Olympic Basketball Team

The USA national basketball team was named today, here's the team:

• LeBron James - F - Heat
• Kobe Bryant - OG - Lakers
• Kevin Durant - SF - Thunder
• Russell Westbrook - G - Thunder
• Kevin Love - PF - Timberwolves 
• Chris Paul - PG - Clippers
• Deron Williams - PG- Nets
• Carmelo Anthony - SF - Knicks
• Blake Griffin - PF - Clippers
• Tyson Chandler - C - Knicks
• James Harden - OG - Thunder
• Andre Iguodola - SF/OG - 76ers

Injuries knocked out Dwayne Wade, Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose, Andrew Bynum, Brook Lopez & Chris Bosh.   The last 3 players cut were Eric Gordon, Rudy Gay & Anthony Davis.    This will easily be the most athletic team in the Olympics, nobody is going to be able to run with them.   They are a bit thin at the center position, I'm surprised they didn't take another one (Roy Hibbert?  Tim Duncan?  Greg Monroe?).  Anyways, I fully expect them to come home with another gold medal.  It'll be interesting to see if this will be the last "Dream Team" version of Olympic basketball, I personally hope not, I quite enjoy it, but there is some talk of it being changed to a 23 and under tournament starting in 2016.  


**** UPDATE:  Blake Griffin hurt his knee on 7/12/12 and has been ruled out of the Olympics, he has been replaced on the roster by Anthony Davis.  That's a blow, they were already thin in the front court, hopefully Davis can live up to his potential. ****