The 2024 Olympics are rapidly approaching, promising eternal glory and gold medals to the exceptional performances and YouTube ridicule to those who stumble.
The stark contrast is well-known to LeBron James, who has been on the receiving end of both, um, accolades. James and Team USA won gold in Beijing in 2008, and again in London in 2012. But in 2004, James and his American superfriends won bronze, which in USA Basketball terms is the equivalent of finishing last.
Those are the standards of Team USA, and understandably so. America is not only where the best league in the world is located, but it's also home to hundreds of colleges that would make for legitimate teams elsewhere around the world.