2000 United States men's Olympic basketball team

The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. They defeated France by a score of 85–75 in the gold medal game. Team USA won gold for the twelfth time in fourteen Olympic basketball tournaments.[2]

2000 United States men's Olympic basketball team
Basketball at the Summer Olympics season
Head coachRudy Tomjanovich
2000 Summer Olympics
Scoring leader Vince Carter[1]
14.8
Rebounding leader Kevin Garnett
9.1
Assists leader Jason Kidd
4.4

Roster
Name [3] Position Height Weight Age Home Town Club
Shareef Abdur-Rahim F 6'9" 230 23 Marietta, Georgia Vancouver Grizzlies
Ray Allen G 6'5" 205 25 Castle Air Force Base Milwaukee Bucks
Vin Baker F 6'11" 240 28 Lake Wales, Florida Seattle SuperSonics
Vince Carter G/F 6'6" 225 23 Daytona Beach, Florida Toronto Raptors
Kevin Garnett F 6'11" 220 24 Greenville, South Carolina Minnesota Timberwolves
Tim Hardaway G 6'0" 195 34 Chicago, Illinois Miami Heat
Allan Houston G 6'6" 200 29 Louisville, Kentucky New York Knicks
Jason Kidd G 6'4" 212 27 San Francisco, California Phoenix Suns
Antonio McDyess F 6'9" 220 26 Quitman, Mississippi Denver Nuggets
Alonzo Mourning C 6'10" 261 30 Chesapeake, Virginia Miami Heat
Gary Payton G 6'4" 190 32 Oakland, California Seattle SuperSonics
Steve Smith G 6'8" 221 31 Highland Park, Michigan Portland Trail Blazers

Withdrawals

Results

In the Preliminary Round, Team USA was undefeated (5-0), and qualified for the quarterfinals. In the knockout rounds, Team USA faced Russia (Quarterfinals), Lithuania (Semifinals), and France (Gold Medal Game).[4]

2000 Olympic Games final standings
gollark: We can piggyback on the existing interfaces.
gollark: Uuugh, crashes.
gollark: OR JUST DUMP THE EXISTING VOTE DATA AND START SPYING ON CHAT.
gollark: I MEAN WE COULD HOOK UP SOME GRAPHS MAYBE
gollark: Anyway, if it was me making this electoral system, it would be stupidly overdone, have a shiny web UI, and full transparency logs, but be made about 5 days late with code nobody can ever understand, and probably randomly crash.

References
  1. 2000 Olympic Games : Tournament for Men 17 Sep. to 1 Oct. 2000 - Sydney in Australia.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 22, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "2000 USA Men's Olympic Games Roster Archived 2010-01-03 at the Wayback Machine." usabasketball.com. Retrieved on April 23, 2014.
  4. Official Olympic Report Archived 2008-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 22, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.