2024 Paris Olympics: Kevin Durant wins historic 4th gold medal while leading Team USA past France

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Kevin Durant made extra historical past on Saturday night time in Paris after serving to Group USA to a fifth consecutive gold medal.

Durant and the USA powered previous France to seize a 98-87 win within the gold medal sport at Bercy Area in Paris. That formally gave Durant the fourth gold medal of his profession, which broke a tie with Carmelo Anthony and made him probably the most embellished Group USA males’s basketball participant in historical past.

Durant received his first gold medal on the 2012 Olympics in London. He didn’t play on the 2008 “Redeem Group,” which received the primary of the 5 straight gold medals after Group USA slipped within the 2004 Video games in Athens. Durant then returned in 2016 in Brazil and in 2021 in Tokyo.

Durant can also be Group USA’s all-time main scorer within the Olympics, too. He surpassed Lisa Leslie for the all-time milestone within the Individuals’ quarterfinal win over Brazil in Paris. Leslie completed her Olympics profession with 488 profession factors and 4 gold medals, too.

Durant’s gold medal on Saturday broke a tie with Anthony for probably the most on the lads’s facet. Anthony received three in his profession, in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Fellow Group USA star LeBron James received his third gold medal with the win over France, too. Each James and Anthony have 4 whole Olympic medals every, although that features the bronze medal they received in 2004 in Greece.

Durant returned to the beginning lineup on Saturday and completed with 15 factors, 4 rebounds and 4 assists whereas taking pictures 5-of-12 from the sphere. He averaged 13.8 factors, 3.2 rebounds and a couple of.3 assists in Group USA’s six video games in Paris and shot 54% from the sphere. He surpassed 500 whole Olympic factors, too, which made him simply the eighth males’s basketball participant in historical past to take action.

Whereas Durant has nothing left to show on the Olympic stage, and he’ll be 39 when the Video games head to Los Angeles in 2028, the Phoenix Suns star didn’t rule out a possible fifth Olympics earlier than he retires.

“We’ll see,” he stated, by way of ESPN’s Marc Spears.