The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has announced it will send a 613-member team to compete at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here.

Team USA is ready," said USOPC chief executive Sarah Hirshland."

H91iAYdwgd— Katie Ledecky (@katieledecky) July 13, 2021Four athletes have won four medals, including basketball

The commitment from Team USA athletes and the National Governing Bodies never wavered, and for that we

Kim Kardashian West's company Skims has been announced as the official underwear designer of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).

I am honored to announce that @skims is designing the official team USA undergarments, pajamas and lounge

football gold medallist Alex Morgan.Reigning women’s 400m hurdles Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad, basketball

Two-time Olympic champion Kevin Durant is the headline name in the United States' men's basketball team

 Other experienced names such as six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Damian

Versatility and athleticism are trademarks of this group," said USA Basketball managing director Jerry

The United States secured back-to-back International Basketball Federation Women's AmeriCup titles with

#GoldHabits x #AmeriCupW pic.twitter.com/LZmhN9luda— USA Basketball (@usabasketball) June 20, 2021The

 "These are professional women's basketball players that you're going to play against, and we're

The Olympic and Paralympic Games are meant to be the ultimate test for competitors from around the world, and so it has proved with the mental strength of would-be Olympians and Paralympians challenged as never before by the incursions of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Women's basketball point guard Manami Fujioka is another Japanese athlete for whom the Tokyo 2020 timing

 Australian basketball player Andrew Bogut said continuing was "just not worth it" as his body was

Australian basketball player Andrew Bogut, who had planned to compete at his fourth Olympics

been a strong critic of what she sees as the inadequate preventative and restorative measures taken by USA

United States continued the defence of their International Basketball Federation Women's AmeriCup title

Semi-Finals are set: Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA head to FIBA Women's World Cup 2022 Qualifiers?

Argentina have been eliminated from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's AmeriCup after

being the primary consideration, the decision was made not to play Argentina games vs Venezuela and USA

Argentina will lose these two games by forfeit and according to the official basketball rules, if in

The remaining four teams of Group B, USA, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic will advance

NBCUniversal (NBCU) has announced that it plans to broadcast more than 7,000 hours of content on several channels during the rearranged Olympic Games in Tokyo - its most ever.

NBCOlympics, while cable sports network NBCSN will show more than 440 hours of programming, with USA

Network offering over 380 hours.In addition, the Olympic Channel will show Team USA competitions, including

July 23 and conclude on August 8.Coverage will include primetime broadcasts of the men and women’s basketball

The best 3x3 basketball national teams in the Americas will compete for continental supremacy when they

This new International Basketball Federation (FIBA) event will mark 3x3’s return to Miami nine years

I became a part of the FIBA family in 2001 through my experience playing with USA Basketball," said Vaunt

chief executive and former National Basketball Association player Roger Mason Jr.?

goal is to align opportunities at the intersections of sport, technology, content and competition, my basketball

court in front of the same fans.The 3x3 format, involving two teams of three players in opposition on a basketball

top four finishers at the 2018 World Championship have been drawn together in the men's wheelchair basketball

set to be joined by Germany and Algeria after the draw was conducted by the International Wheelchair Basketball

medallists Germany are in Group A with Australia, Britain, Canada and Japan.The #Tokyo2020 Wheelchair Basketball

The GB Men's team will face USA??, Australia??, Germany??, Algeria?? & Iran??

being moved to England because of COVID-19 restrictions.The IWBF had been threatened with wheelchair basketball

Games by the International Paralympic Committee following a classification dispute last year.Wheelchair basketball

USA Basketball has added another 15 players to its player pool for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with Atlanta

Thompson and  Marcus Smart have been removed from the pool of players due to injury.Leading National Basketball

continue to remain flexible and consider all players who can contribute to our efforts to field the best USA

team possible," said Jerry Colangelo, managing director of USA Basketball.Zion Williamson, still only

20, could be the youngest US Olympic basketball player since Anthony Davis at London 2012 ©Getty Images"These

players competing at Tokyo 2020 , with the NBA playoffs potentially not finishing until July 22Men’s basketball

American basketball star Kawhi Leonard hopes to be reunited with old boss Gregg Popovich later this year

a successful seven-year spell working under Popovich at the San Antonio Spurs, winning the National Basketball

now playing for the Los Angeles Clippers.Spurs boss Popovich is set to lead the United States' men's basketball

people were in for 2020, but just the pandemic pretty much killed everything," added Leonard.Last month, USA

Basketball proposed to set up a pre-Games bubble in Las Vegas for the US, Australia and Spain to train

play exhibition games against each other ahead of the Olympics.Jerry Colangelo, managing director of USA

exhibition games against one another before leaving for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is being proposed by USA

Basketball.

With National Basketball Association (NBA) players expected to make up the core of all three teams and

environment would allow players to limit travel and possible exposure to COVID-19 before going to Japan.Team USA

On the surface it makes a lot of sense," USA Basketball’s managing director Jerry Colangelo told 

Basketball proposals come to fruition ©Getty ImagesColangelo added that USA Basketball has petitioned

days before the US is scheduled to play a first Olympic game, Colangelo is calling for changes.Team USA

USA Basketball has reportedly sent out invitations to 60 players interested in competing at this year's

all of those who had expressed an interest at competing at Tokyo 2020, including many of the National Basketball

 A pool of between 40 and 50 players will likely be revealed by USA Basketball in the coming weeks.The

Games.Bam Adebayo of Miami Heat is thought to be among the players sent an invite for Tokyo 2020 by USA

Basketball ©Getty ImagesThe late start of the 2020-2021 NBA season could cause a selection headache

for US basketball coach Gregg Popovich, however.

Renowned country music star Randy Owen has been named as an honorary co-chair for the Birmingham 2022 World Games.

Owen will share the role with fellow Alabama native and Olympic basketball champion Charles Barkley.The

He’s a national treasure for the USA and for the State of Alabama.