The Golden State Warriors’ Steve Kerr will replace Gregg Popovich as the head coach of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team. The USA Basketball’s managing director Grant Hill confirmed the news on Monday.

Kerr is well familiar with Team USA, serving as an assistant to Popovich during the Olympic gold medal run at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He also represented the USA as a player, helping his country win the 1986 FIBA World Championship.

“I’m incredibly honored and humbled to represent our country as the head coach for the USA Basketball Men’s National Team,” Kerr said in a statement. “It’s a thrilling opportunity, and I’m excited for the challenge.”

Kerr will be tasked with continuing Team USA’s streak of consecutive Olympic gold medals, which now stands at four. He will also coach the team at the 2023 FIBA World Cup, where Team USA will be looking to win the competition for the first time since 2014.

Steve Kerr has been the head coach of the Warriors since 2014 and has led his team to three NBA titles. He previously also served as the general manager for the Phoenix Suns.

USA Basketball also announced Kerr’s coaching staff for the upcoming competitions. He’ll be joined by Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, Suns head coach Monty Williams, and Gonzaga University longtime coach Mark Few.

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The United States men’s national basketball team learned who their opponents would be for the 2023 Basketball World Cup qualifiers. The draw held by FIBA on Tuesday placed Team USA in Group D of the Americas region, where they will play Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

The first round of the qualifiers will take part between November and June. During this stage, each county will play the rest of the teams in the group two times. The three best teams from each group will make it to the second round, which takes place in late 2022 and early 2023.

In the end, a total of seven teams will get to take part in the 2023 World Cup that is held in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia between August 25th and September 10th, 2023.

Team USA will be looking to get to the 2023 World Cup and redeem themselves for poor results at 2019’s edition of the tournament. The U.S. national team failed to pick up any medals two years ago while finishing seventh overall.

Team USA has five gold medals from World Cups, with their most recent wins coming in 2010 and 2014. They are tied for most wins with Yugoslavia.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry has confirmed that he is committed to representing Team USA at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer.

“That is the plan, for sure,” Curry stated. “You know, obviously knock on wood, you don’t want any injuries or things like that to interfere.” This would be the first time that the six-time NBA all-star would appear on the Olympic stage.

When asked to elaborate on this concrete decision, Curry emphasised: ‘Definitely wanna go. I’ve never been on the Olympic team. I’ve been on two World Cup championship gold-medal teams. But the Olympics is the experience that I want. And next year will hopefully be it.”

The three-time NBA winner, along with numerous other stars, was absent from Team USA’s world cup lineup this year. In fact, the squad was mainly comprised of last-minute addtitions, making it that much more understandable that the 2019 world cup culminated with Team USA’s worst-ever finish.

Despite their dissappointing performance, Curry remains confident in Team USA’s ability to turn their fortunes around. He explained, “We’re still the best. If we get the guys that are supposed to be there, in terms of, you know, representing us in the Olympic stage and the commitment’s been there, and I think it’ll be there next year.”

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Don’t expect to see a Dream Team or anything remotely close at this year’s FIBA World Cup. Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes reported on Tuesday that Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard and San Antonio Spurs’ DeMar DeRozan became the latest stars who withdraw their name from Team USA roster for the tournament.

Lillard and DeRozan join the long list of dropouts that includes the likes of Anthony Davis, Bradley Beal, James Harden, Tobias Harris, C.J. McCollum, and Eric Gordon. According to Haynes, the reason for such a big number of rejections is the players’ wish to be better prepared for the upcoming NBA season. With no clear favorites for the title this year, and a significant number of moves that majority of the teams made in the offseason, NBA stars choose to get to know their teammates better and develop chemistry rather than play in China.

You may think that there is no one left on the Team USA anymore, but the United States will still be the favorite with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, Boston Celtics’ All-Star Kemba Walker and Milwaukee Bucks All-Star Khris Middleton reportedly confirming their participation. The rest of the roster includes Sacramento Kings’ Harrison Barnes, Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry, Denver Nuggets’ Paul Millsap, Houston Rockets’ P.J. Tucker, and Indiana Pacers’ Myles Turner among others.

Celtics’ duo Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart, as well as New York Knicks’ Julius Randle and Chicago Bulls’ Thaddeus Young, are set to join the team during the training camp.

The training camp will take place from August 5th to August 9th  in Las Vegas, after which the Team USA roster will be cut down to 12 players. FIBA World Cup kicks off on August 31st in China.

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The Golden State Warriors’ Steve Kerr will replace Gregg Popovich as the head coach of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team. The USA Basketball’s managing director Grant Hill confirmed the news on Monday.

Kerr is well familiar with Team USA, serving as an assistant to Popovich during the Olympic gold medal run at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He also represented the USA as a player, helping his country win the 1986 FIBA World Championship.

“I’m incredibly honored and humbled to represent our country as the head coach for the USA Basketball Men’s National Team,” Kerr said in a statement. “It’s a thrilling opportunity, and I’m excited for the challenge.”

Kerr will be tasked with continuing Team USA’s streak of consecutive Olympic gold medals, which now stands at four. He will also coach the team at the 2023 FIBA World Cup, where Team USA will be looking to win the competition for the first time since 2014.

Steve Kerr has been the head coach of the Warriors since 2014 and has led his team to three NBA titles. He previously also served as the general manager for the Phoenix Suns.

USA Basketball also announced Kerr’s coaching staff for the upcoming competitions. He’ll be joined by Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, Suns head coach Monty Williams, and Gonzaga University longtime coach Mark Few.

The post Steve Kerr Confirmed as Head Coach of USA Basketball Men’s National Team appeared first on SportzBonanza.

The United States men’s national basketball team learned who their opponents would be for the 2023 Basketball World Cup qualifiers. The draw held by FIBA on Tuesday placed Team USA in Group D of the Americas region, where they will play Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

The first round of the qualifiers will take part between November and June. During this stage, each county will play the rest of the teams in the group two times. The three best teams from each group will make it to the second round, which takes place in late 2022 and early 2023.

In the end, a total of seven teams will get to take part in the 2023 World Cup that is held in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia between August 25th and September 10th, 2023.

Team USA will be looking to get to the 2023 World Cup and redeem themselves for poor results at 2019’s edition of the tournament. The U.S. national team failed to pick up any medals two years ago while finishing seventh overall.

Team USA has five gold medals from World Cups, with their most recent wins coming in 2010 and 2014. They are tied for most wins with Yugoslavia.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry has confirmed that he is committed to representing Team USA at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer.

“That is the plan, for sure,” Curry stated. “You know, obviously knock on wood, you don’t want any injuries or things like that to interfere.” This would be the first time that the six-time NBA all-star would appear on the Olympic stage.

When asked to elaborate on this concrete decision, Curry emphasised: ‘Definitely wanna go. I’ve never been on the Olympic team. I’ve been on two World Cup championship gold-medal teams. But the Olympics is the experience that I want. And next year will hopefully be it.”

The three-time NBA winner, along with numerous other stars, was absent from Team USA’s world cup lineup this year. In fact, the squad was mainly comprised of last-minute addtitions, making it that much more understandable that the 2019 world cup culminated with Team USA’s worst-ever finish.

Despite their dissappointing performance, Curry remains confident in Team USA’s ability to turn their fortunes around. He explained, “We’re still the best. If we get the guys that are supposed to be there, in terms of, you know, representing us in the Olympic stage and the commitment’s been there, and I think it’ll be there next year.”

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Don’t expect to see a Dream Team or anything remotely close at this year’s FIBA World Cup. Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes reported on Tuesday that Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard and San Antonio Spurs’ DeMar DeRozan became the latest stars who withdraw their name from Team USA roster for the tournament.

Lillard and DeRozan join the long list of dropouts that includes the likes of Anthony Davis, Bradley Beal, James Harden, Tobias Harris, C.J. McCollum, and Eric Gordon. According to Haynes, the reason for such a big number of rejections is the players’ wish to be better prepared for the upcoming NBA season. With no clear favorites for the title this year, and a significant number of moves that majority of the teams made in the offseason, NBA stars choose to get to know their teammates better and develop chemistry rather than play in China.

You may think that there is no one left on the Team USA anymore, but the United States will still be the favorite with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, Boston Celtics’ All-Star Kemba Walker and Milwaukee Bucks All-Star Khris Middleton reportedly confirming their participation. The rest of the roster includes Sacramento Kings’ Harrison Barnes, Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry, Denver Nuggets’ Paul Millsap, Houston Rockets’ P.J. Tucker, and Indiana Pacers’ Myles Turner among others.

Celtics’ duo Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart, as well as New York Knicks’ Julius Randle and Chicago Bulls’ Thaddeus Young, are set to join the team during the training camp.

The training camp will take place from August 5th to August 9th  in Las Vegas, after which the Team USA roster will be cut down to 12 players. FIBA World Cup kicks off on August 31st in China.

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