Team U.S.A Basketball Takes Over NYC
U.S.A Basketball Day / Photos: Bradley Carbone
The NBA superstars that will represent the U.S.A this summer in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics assembled in NYC today for a daylong Nike-sponsored event (they were showing off the gear that Nike cooked up for the summer games) that included a boat ride around the East River and their first introduction to the public at Rockefeller Center.
Joined by the league’s M.V.P Kobe Bryant, basketball’s best players like Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwayne Wade cracked jokes in between serious Q&As, where they stressed that they’re focused solely on bringing home Olympic gold to the United States—something that hasn’t been done since 2000. Complex snapped some flicks of the squad throughout the day, and zeroed in on some of the footwear they’ll be wearing this August, like the newly-introduced Jordan Olympia and Lebron’s special make-up Olympic joints. See the pics after the jump.
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