Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill sat down with the superstar forward at USA Basketball men’s national team camp in Las Vegas to discuss the outlook for this year’s squad as they prepare for Paris.
Video Transcript
Katie, this is your fourth Olympic games.
Will this be your last?
Somebody just asked me, I don’t know, I don’t wanna, I don’t know.
Um I’m just gonna enjoy this one.
Stay in the present.
Have some fun along the way, you know, we’ll see.
Do you feel like this one is a little different than the previous ones?
Just because of the star power, the expectations, you know what I mean?
No, I ain’t.
There’s expectations every time we step on the court, we can’t lose a game, you know, no matter who’s on the team.
So I think expectations is always gonna be there.
I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s definitely a deeper team that I think I’ve played on deepest team I’ve played on since I’ve been with USA B uh from top to bottom.
Everybody is the guy on their team.
You know, I think we had a lot of last couple, last year.
I mean, the last Olympics we had a couple of younger, you know, role players in the league that grinded their way up in camp and got that opportunity, which was cool, but they wasn’t like the best players on it.
You know what I’m saying?
Like these guys are Hall of Famers, all star, you know, so I’m excited about this.
You know, I think the experience of 21 help the culture of USA B and what, what type of team we need to be if we want to continue to dominate?
And I think we’re kind of, we’re bringing that into this group, which is gonna be fun.
Will it be different playing with Steph playing for Steve Kerr?
Just the dynamic, the familiarity that you guys have.
Do you think it’ll be any different?
I think, I think it’ll be, I think it’ll be a seamless, easy transition since we did it before, you know.
Um I know, I know what Steph likes the ball.
I know his game, he knows my game.
Steve knows my game as well and I like, I know what he wants out of his players too, so I think it’ll be easy.
