2008 Team Usa Roster

2008 United States men's Olympic basketball team The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. They qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The team was nicknamed the "Redeem Team", a play on the "Dream Team" name for the 1992 U.S.

Olympic team, and a reference to the fact that the United States came away with disappointing bronze medals during the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 FIBA World Championship. Former Phoenix Suns chairman and CEO Jerry Colangelo was named managing director of the national team program by the USA Basketball Executive Committee in 2005.[1] Kobe Bryant was named the team captain and Mike Krzyzewski was named the head coach of the 2008 team.[2] An ESPN program, Road to Redemption, followed the team's preparations.

Additionally, a Netflix produced documentary titled The Redeem Team was released in 2022.[3] The United States defeated Spain 118–107 in the final to win the gold. Dwyane Wade was the leading scorer for Team USA, averaging 16 points per game.[4] After the 2004 Olympics, USA Basketball initiated a long-term project that saw players committing to play for the team long before the start of the 2008 Olympics, instead of hastily accepting invitations merely weeks prior to the start of the tournament.

Many 2008 Olympians participated in the 2007 Americas championships, where the US won gold, thus qualifying for the Olympics.[5] In September 2025, the entire team was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, with two of its members, Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard, also being inducted as players at that time.[6] With the Hall of Fame inductions, six players (Anthony, Chris Bosh, Bryant, Howard, Jason Kidd, and Wade) and two coaches (Jim Boeheim and Krzyzewski) have been inducted individually into the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Record [edit]Preparation Matches: USA Basketball International Challenge [edit]Preliminary round [edit]The team competed in Group B of the preliminary round. Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. (H) Hosts Tournament bracket [edit]Roster [edit]The following is the United States roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[7] References [edit]- ^ "USA BASKETBALL ANNOUNCES 12-MEMBER 2008 MEN'S SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM". teamusa.org. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. - ^ Sean Gregory (July 24, 2008). "1.

LeBron James - 100 Olympic Athletes To Watch". Time. Time Magazine. Retrieved November 18, 2018. - ^ The Redeem Team (Documentary). - ^ "2008 Stats - United States". - ^ Schwager-Patel, Nischal (April 6, 2025). "USA's Beijing 2008 'Redeem Team' inducted into Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame". Olympics.com. The International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on July 31, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025. - ^ "Bird, Moore, Anthony, Donovan top '25 Basketball Hall of Fame class". ESPN.com. Associated Press (via ESPN). Retrieved April 5, 2025.

^ "2008 Olympic Basketball Men (FIBA) – United States roster". FIBA. Archived from the original on June 2, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2012. External links [edit]- USA Basketball, official site - The Redeem Team, 2022 Netflix documentary

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