Getty Images/Ringer illustration Ant and KD are powering Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They're also forging a bond that seems like basketball nirvana. The second half of the U.S. men's national basketball team's final group-stage game against Puerto Rico on Saturday might as well have been a greatest hits compilation for Anthony Edwards: extra-mustard finger rolls, half-speed stepback 3s, hanging tomahawk dunks that keep the Ant-MJ comparison factories in business, and a picturesque breakaway windmill dunk that probably made fellow Olympian Chase Budinger proud. Team USA's 104-83 victory officially gave it the top seed for the rest of the tournament; the four quarterfinal games will be played on Tuesday, with the U.S. facing Brazil as the nightcap. Edwards's 26 points against Puerto Rico were the highest total of any U.S. player in the group stage, an I got next show of assurance for Team USA's ensuing years in an era of basketball fandom that invariably fixates on the past and future over the present. But Ant has a special way of capturing moments—and emanating joy—as they come. "It was incredible to watch him go to work," Kevin Durant said after the game. "Knock down...
The Intergenerational Bromance Between Anthony Edwards and Kevin Durant
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