2024 Olympics Basketball Tournament Draw: Team USA grouped with Serbia

The best basketball teams in theworld now know their opponents in this year’s Paris Olympics Gamesafter the groups were determined in the Olympic BasketballTournament Draw on Tuesday at the Patrick Baumann House ofBasketball in Mies, Switzerland.

A total of 12 nations willcompete in the Men's Olympic Basketball Tournamentin Paris, which is scheduled to runfrom July 27 to August 10. There are currently eight national teamsfrom five different continents that have already qualified eitheras the host nation or based on their respective results atthe 2023FIBA Basketball World Cup.

The remaining four tickets willbe punched by the winners of the FIBA Olympic QualifyingTournaments (OQTs) that will be held between July 2 and 7 inPiraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Valencia (Spain).

Aiming to win theirfifth-straight Olympic Basketball gold medal, undisputedfavorite Team USA is slated to be in Group C along with 2016silver medallists Serbia, Africa’s best finishing team in the 2023 FIBAWorld Cup South Sudan, and the winner of the OQT in PuertoRico.

Host nationFrance was drawninto Group B with FIBA World ChampionsGermany, Asia’sbest-finishing team in the 2023 FIBA World CupJapan, andthewinner of the OQT in Latvia.

Finally, 2021 bronzemedallists Australia, 2023 FIBA World Cup bronze medallistsCanada, andthe winners of the OQTs in Greece and Spain are grouped in Group A.

Women’s basketball legend PennyTaylor and NBA legend Carmelo Anthony helped in administering thedraw.

The Olympic BasketballTournament Draw had the teams divided into four pots based on theFIBA World Ranking. In each of the final three groups drawn, therewas a minimum of two and a maximum of three teams from Europe. ForAfrica, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, there had to be no morethan one team per continent in each group.

You can watch the full drawbelow: