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Lillard And Team USA Begin Their Quest For Gold Sunday Morning

Unless you’re working graveyard or are an incredibly earlier riser, you’ll likely need to set an alarm in order to catch Damian Lillard representing the United States at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, at least if you want to see it live.

While some of the events of the 32nd Olympiad are already well underway, even with the Opening Ceremony only being held Friday night (though for our purposes, we’ll stick to Pacific time for the sake of clarity), the USA Men’s National 5x5 Basketball team won’t start their quest to win a fourth-straight gold medal until Sunday, July 25 when they face France in the group play opener for both teams at 5 a.