LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, and Anthony Davis are part of an almost unbeatable dream team. If it is not the best possible team in the NBA, it is because some of the best players in the best basketball league in the world are not Americans.

The only American of the two quintets who has not made the selection is Damian Lillard. And the only one of the 12 on the national team who was not selected for the All Star is Jrue Holiday. There are three veterans who are in the final phase of their careers after having proven everything. For James, 39, it will be his fourth Games. He won a bronze medal in 2004 and achieved gold in 2008 and 2012. The team is perhaps the most talented since the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. The gold medal of the men's basketball competition at the Paris Olympic Games almost has an owner. Steve Kerr, the coach, will have a choice to revalidate the gold achieved in 2021 in Tokyo.