Dubs' Curry to compete for Team USA in Paris 2024
Steph Curry is going to be an Olympian for the first time, according to a report from ESPN.
Curry, 36, will represent the United States at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. As the national team finalizes its roster ahead of the games, Curry was one of 11 players on the list; one slot is reportedly being left open for the time being.
Curry will be joined by contemporaries like LeBron James, Kevin Durant as well as some of the game's best players — Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Davis, Devin Booker and Anthony Edwards. Heat center Bam Adebayo, Celtics guard Jrue Holiday, and Pacers playmaker Tyrese Haliburton are also on the roster, per ESPN.
The Olympic games will be a reunion for Curry and Durant, as well as Steve Kerr — the Warriors head coach who is coaching the Americans.
WNBA CLARK TAKEN NO. 1 IN DRAFT >>
Caitlin Clark admitted she was a bit nervous before being chosen with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever, even though it was no surprise.
“I dreamed of this moment since I was in second grade, and it's taken a lot of hard work, a lot of ups and downs, but more than anything, just trying to soak it in,” Clark said.
The former Iowa star became a household name among basketball fans during her record-breaking college career, and she will now try and help revive the Indiana franchise along with last season's No. 1 pick, Aliyah Boston.
Los Angeles chose Stanford's Cameron Brink at No. 2. She'll get to stay in California and will give the Sparks a two-way player.
Chicago had the third pick and chose South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso before the Sparks were on the clock again and selected Tennessee's Rickea Jackson. Dallas took Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon with the fifth pick.
Baseball ROBINSON REMEMBERED ON 77TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIM BREAKING COLOR BARRIER >>
Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color barrier on Monday.
Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, beginning the end of the racial segregation that had relegated Black players to the Negro Leagues for decades.
“Jackie Robinson became the most vilified, targeted subject of verbal abuse and malicious treatment in the sports arena since Jack Johnson had the audacity to become heavyweight champion of the world in 1908,” sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards said at Dodger Stadium. “Like Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson stood alone.”
Members of Robinson's family, including his 101-year-old widow, were at ballparks from coast-tocoast to honor him.
Boston Marathon LEMMA WINS BOSTON MARATHON IN RUNAWAY >>
Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia set a blistering pace and held on to win the Boston Marathon, running alone through most of the course to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 17 seconds — the 10th fastest time in the race's 128-year history.
Hellen Obiri defended her title in the women's race, outsprinting fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi down Boylston Street to win by eight seconds. Obiri is the first woman to win back-to-back Boston Marathons since 2005.
Lemma arrived in Boston with the fastest time in the field, becoming just the fourth person ever to break 2:02:00 when he won in Valencia last year.