After missing the United States men’s basketball team’s 104-83 victory against Puerto Rico, a win where Jayson Tatum registered the first double-double of his Olympic career, producing ten points and as many rebounds, Jrue Holiday returns and will start on Tuesday vs. Brazil.
The two-time All-Star missed Saturday’s victory to cap group play due to an ankle injury.
Holiday will start alongside Stephen Curry, Devin Booker, LeBron James, and Joel Embiid.
Besting Brazil would move Team USA, the top No. 1 overall seed in knockout play, two wins from capturing a gold medal.
Reaching the top of the podium would make Tatum the seventh player in five decades of USA men’s Basketball to win an NBA title and Olympic gold medal in the same year. Derrick White would, of course, join him in doing so. Holiday would accomplish that feat for the second time.
