Olympics Basketball

Members of a team that compete in at least one of the heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, or finals receive a medal if their team finished the final competition in the top three. For example if a swimmer in the 4x100 freestyle relay competes in the semifinal race only, they will get a medal if their team finishes in the top three in the final race.

By most accounts, the first time basketball was officially played at the Olympics was in 1936 in Berlin, with only amateur players-- and at that time, this meant men only. In 1992, professionals were allowed to compete for the first time.

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Glen Rice (Michigan and Los Angeles Lakers)

Nazr Mohammed (Kentucky and San Antonio)

Richard "Rip" Hamilton (UConn and Detroit)

Corliss Williamson (Arkansas and Detroit)

Antoine Walker (Kentucky and Miami)*

Michael Jordan (North Carolina and Chicago)

Magic Johnson (Michigan State and Los Angeles Lakers)+

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA, Milwaukee and Los Angeles Lakers)#

Billy Thompson (Lousville and Los Angeles Lakers)+

Bill Walton (UCLA, Portland)#

James Worthy (North Carolina, Los Angeles Lakers)

Henry Bibby (UCLA, Knicks)+

Bill Russell (USF, Boston)+#

K.C. Jones (USF, Boston) #

Isiah Thomas (Indiana and Detroit)

Tom Gola (La Salle and Philadelphia Warriors)

Additions (likely others not yet included):

Jerry Lucas (Ohio State, New York Knicks)

Gail Goodrich (UCLA, Los Angeles Lakers)

Quinn Buckner (Indiana, Boston Celtics)

Clyde Lovellette (Kansas, Minneapolis Lakers)

Dereck Anderson (Kentucky 1996, Miami 2006)

*Anderson was teamate of Antoine Walker in both instances, making them one of

two pairs to win championship in college and nba together, joining K.C. Jones and

Bill Russell, respectively.

+ Henry Bibby, Bill "Rings" Russell, Ervin "Magic" Johnson and Billy Thompson are the only players to win an NCAA title one year and an NBA championship the next.

#Russell, Jones, Walton and Abdul-Jabbar are the only guys to win multiple NCAA titles and multiple NBA titles.

It should be noted that some players like Gola won NIT championships, which at the time was the top tournament in college basketball.(Gola also is only person to win NBA '56, NCAA '54 and NIT '52)

Dont forget Eric Riley!!! (University of Michigan and the Houston Rockets) (I don't wanna erase someone else' work, but Eric Riley never won an NCAA championship, the fab five only reached title game twice and he redshirted 1989 season that Michigan won ncaa title, and in NBA, was placed on injured reserve before playoffs of rookie year 1993-1994 with rockets, so i find it hard to count a guy who never played a minute of playoffs or marchmadness years his team won)

the first olympic games were in athens 1852

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Guards- Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury, Dwayne Wade

Forwards- Carlos Boozer, Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James, Shawn Marion, Lamar Odom, Richard Jefferson

Centers- Emeka Okefor, Tim Duncan, Amar'e Stoudemire.

Jim Abbott
Bret Barberie
Andy Benes
Jeff Branson
Mitchell Fiore
Tom Goodwin
Tyrone Griffin
Tino Martinez
William Masse
Ben McDonald
Mike Milchin
Mickey Morandini
Charles Nagy
Doug Robbins
Scott Servais
Dave Silvestri
Joe Slusarski
Ed Sprague Jr.
Robin Ventura
Ted Wood

Jordan played on the 1984 team that won gold in Los Angeles and the 1992 team, nicknamed the 'Dream Team', that won gold in Barcelona.

The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating. The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II.

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1996 Atlanta Games

The United States' winning streak in basketball, which started in 1936, was ended by the USSR at the 1972 Olympics.

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Kobe Bryant

LeBron James

Dwight Howard

Chris Bosh

Chris Paul

Jason Kidd

Michael Reed

Deron Williams

Carlos Boozer

Tayshaun Prince

Carmelo Anthony

Men's basketball was introduced in 1904 but not played again until 1936. It has been played in every Summer Olympic Games since 1936. Women's basketball was introduced at the 1976 Summer Games.

No, team coaches do not take the medal podium and therefor do not receive medals for their teams achievements in any Olympic sport.

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Oscar Schmidt of Brazil scored 55 points against Spain in a game at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul. He had an average that year of 42.3 points per game which is also an Olympic record.

As this is the year of the first recorded olympics it was Olympia

If your a TRUE basketball player, you should automatically be able to tell if it is a 29.5 (size 7) basketball, BUT, if not, you can ask the person in the store, or it should say size 7 somewhere on the ball.

Yes, Google the Dream Team. Good example of a decent Olympic Team.
Yes, American style basketball is one of the ports in the summer olympics.