USA Pre-Olympic Tours

The United States will play two practice games before competing at the Paris Olympic Games 2024 that start on July 29th at Lille, France. The Americans will play in a first-time partnership ever to play against their WNBA All-Star Team at the 2024 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game on July 20 at the Footprint Center, as part of the 2024 Women’s National Team training camp in Phoenix, Arizona. They will then travel to London, England. U.S. will then travel to London, England to take on Germany at the USA Basketball Showcase event on the 23rd of July.

The 20th incarnation of the WNBA All-Star game is the second time the tournament will feature an USA Basketball vs. Team WNBA format. This follows on from the two teams clashed at the start of July 14th, 2021 prior to Olympic games in the Tokyo Olympics. It was the WNBA All-Stars defeated the United States 95-93.

USA vs WNBA All-Stars Last Pre-Olympic Exhibition Game

The pair’s first and their most recent match in 2021 in 2021, in 2021, the WNBA All-Star team emerged with a victory over Team USA with a score of 93-85 with a 26-point effort from Arike Ogunbowale who was named The MVP at the All-Star Game. The game ended up being an all-time high for the United States’ sole loss in the race to win the gold medal at Tokyo which was the seventh consecutive win for the national team and ninth overall.

The 2021 game was an even game between the top teams each team shooting 47% from the field, with the Team WNBA having a slight rebounding advantage over the Americans 41-37. It was a back and forth battle till the WNBA All-Stars broke ahead for the lead at the end of the fourth quarter. As Team WNBA took the win in the highly competitive game however, the U.S. saw strong performances from Brittney Griner and Breanna Stewart who scored the 17th and 15th points respectively. Both will return to the team in this weekend’s match in the United States once again this Saturday.

A’ja Wilson and Jewell Loyd were both on the team in the USA last year and both return to the team for the second time. Napheesa Collier, Chelsea Gray and Diana Taurasi are as well returning players of 2021’s USA Basketball team that took part in the Team WNBA but Taurasi was not a part of the game.

The Redeemer TeamEntering in the 2nd-ever game against the WNBA with a 0-1 mark and a 0-1 record, the United States will look to stop the outstanding performances of the All-Stars Ogunbowale as well as Jonquel Jones who both recorded games-highs in rebound and points the last time around. It is the U.S. Women are 70-3 all-time in Olympic basketball, but are 7-2 in their exhibition games in 2016 — hoping to stand out against their WNBA opponents.

Dominant and Decorated:The 2024 USA National Team has a total of fifteen Olympic five-piece golds as well as 55 WNBA All-Star appearances among the 12 players on its roster. Each player on the team this year has one of an Olympic or World Cup gold medal -the team of Taurasi, Griner, Stewart, Collier, Gray, Loyd and Wilson all have at minimum one Olympic 5-x5 gold and Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young have 3×3 Olympic gold, and Sabrina Ionescu and Alyssa Thomas have World Cup gold. The squad is not just the best at international competition as well as it also dominates the WNBA has a strong roster, with the players together winning 8 WNBA Championships with three League MVPs.

Offensive Power:All ten of the most prolific scorers in the WNBA this season will play in this game, including seven players who will be on their place on the courts as part of the National Team. Wilson is currently leading his team in WNBA in scoring with an average of 27.2 points per game.

Running The Record Book Taurasi has the potential to break the USA Basketball record she already holds. The 42-year-old Phoenix Mercury guard boasts the record for Olympic games played. She has played in 38 games from year 2004 Olympics at Athens, Greece. Taurasi is also just 74 points less than Lisa Leslie’s record for the most points total for the total number of points in USA Basketball Olympic history, and is in the position to break a record. Taurasi is one of two Olympic basketball players to have won five Olympic gold medals, the record-breaking six appearances at the Olympics as Team USA competes to win gold could propel her to the top spot as the only most successful Olympic basketball player of all time.