USA Basketball

Best of the Tokyo Olympics: 17 stunning photos of USA women's basketball winning its 7th-straight gold medal

Insider spoke to three of Getty Images' photographers for insight into capturing photos of USA Basketball's historic Olympic gold-medal run in Tokyo.

Breanna Stewart won another championship just days after securing gold in Tokyo — and 'proper recovery' was the key

The WNBA star told Insider "recovery is one of the most important things in my routine" after a devastating injury threatened to derail her career.

A WNBA superstar teared up about feeling 'unvaluable' following her highly-discussed Tokyo Olympics snub

"They always say that in trials, you grow stronger, and that what is inside of you is exacerbated," Nneka Ogwumike said at a Sparks press conference.

Megan Rapinoe gave a tearful mid-game interview about her fiancée, Sue Bird, then kissed her on air after she won Olympic gold

After earning bronze in Tokyo with the USWNT, Megan Rapinoe raved about fiancée Sue Bird and watched her win a fifth gold medal with USA Basketball.

The 39-year-old women's basketball GOAT teased an Olympics comeback in Paris after winning her record fifth gold medal

"I like Paris! It's one of my favorite cities," Taurasi said, before her best friend and teammate, Sue Bird, accused her of "dangling that carrot."

The US men and women's basketball teams are both gold medal favorites in Tokyo, but their salaries are vastly different back home

The sum of USA Basketball's men's players' annual NBA salaries is a whopping 128 times higher the combined WNBA earnings of the entire women's team.

A 3x3 basketball star won Olympic gold exactly one year after walking for the first time following a traumatic injury

A star for the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, Kelsey Plum tore her Achilles tendon just one month before the Olympics were initially set to begin in 2020.

Hundreds of Team USA athletes sang happy birthday to Kevin Durant at the Olympics even though his birthday is still 2 months away

Kevin Durant's USA Basketball teammates seemingly coordinated the prank while Team USA was at Olympic Stadium for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony.

Sue Bird learned she'd be Team USA's flag bearer for the Olympics opening ceremony in a surprise speech from her best friend

Fellow five-time Olympian and four-time gold medalist Diana Taurasi surprised the point guard with the news after a Team USA practice in Tokyo.

Diana Taurasi is still competitive at 39 and vying for an Olympic gold medal record with her BFF

"When you get to five [Olympic games], the motivation is larger than getting to the Olympics or winning a gold medal," Diana Taurasi told Insider.

Diana Taurasi says Team USA vs Team WNBA in this year's WNBA All-Star Game is 'really a crapshoot'

"That All-Star team is loaded!" Diana Taurasi told Insider. "Neither team will have any practice, so it's really a crapshoot of who'll win that game."

A WNBA superstar was cut from the US Olympics squad despite winning MVP of the qualifying tournament and leading scoring in 2020

After Nneka Ogwumike was left off Team USA's Olympics roster, her sister — fellow WNBA star Chiney Ogwumike — said the 2016 MVP was "snubbed."
Sports 2020-09-17T19:43:21Z

WNBA superstar Breanna Stewart hoped she had broken her ankle after sustaining an injury considered a 'kiss of death' for professional athletes

"I was like 'I think I just ruptured my Achilles,'" she said on Kelley O'Hara's podcast. "I could only feel the heel. I couldn't feel anything else."

Shock, disappointment, anxiety, relief: As the original 2020 Olympics dates pass, Team USA's top competitors reveal how they're coping with the year-long delay

Tobin Heath, Colleen Quigley, Katie Ledecky, Sue Bird, Ryan Murphy, and Christen Press spoke about coping with the year-long Olympics delay.

The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to be this week. Here's how 7 big names from Team USA are training and spending their free time.

Tobin Heath, Christen Press, Kelley O'Hara, Katie Ledecky, Ryan Murphy, Colleen Quigley, and Sue Bird spoke to Insider about the Olympics delay.
News 2019-09-11T13:35:10Z

Team USA hit with stunning loss in the FIBA World Cup that comes with a worse fate

USA Basketball saw a 58-game international winning streak with NBA players come to a close with a shocking loss to France in the 2019 FIBA World Cup.
News 2019-09-03T19:48:35Z

NBA star Jayson Tatum injured as Team USA barely survives in OT against Turkey at FIBA World Cup

Team USA won their game in nail-biting fashion on Tuesday, but might have lost Celtics star Jayson Tatum in the process.

3-on-3 basketball is now officially an Olympic sport — here's how it will work

Team USA took silver in the FIBA 3x3 World Championships in 2020.
News 2016-09-16T13:23:00Z

Coach K explains why he relates Gregg Popovich taking over the USA Basketball program to their military experience

As Mike Krzyzewski passes the torch to Gregg Popovich, he said, much like in the military, he wants to leave the unit in better shape than when he found it.
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