Team USA’s ’embarrassment of riches’ diminishes Olympic basketball intrigue WPXI [Video]

In the 2024 Olympics, Australia, Canada and France — the rosters outside the U.S. that boast the most NBA talent — are respectively starting Patty Mills, Dwight Powell and Evan Fournier, none of whom could crack a playoff rotation. Fournier came off the bench for the Detroit Pistons. He and Mills are unsigned.

Meanwhile the media is manufacturingcontroversies about whether the Americans even need either of the two best players on the NBA’s reigning champions. Team USA executive Grant Hill did not select Jaylen Brown, and head coach Steve Kerr did not play Jayson Tatum in their win over Serbia in pool play.

Team USA features perennial All-Stars Anthony Davis and Bam Adebayo at center and felt the need to recruit 2023 NBA MVP Joel Embiid, a Cameroon native who holds citizenship in both the U.S. and France. And Team USA does not even need Embiid opposite the only center alive better than him, Serbia’s …