The only Olympic Games in which Team USA did not medal in men's 5x5 basketball was in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when the U.S. boycotted the Games over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

The United States’ men’s basketball players were dejected when the Soviet Union was declared the winner of the gold medal game at the 1972 Olympics after receiving a do-over on a final play.

They called that game on tape, to be played if any technical difficulties had occurred for the USA-Soviet Union prime time broadcast. "Think about how ridiculous that was," Michaels said.

The U.S. has powered its way into an Olympics record and reached a milestone of 3,000 medals with its latest wins at the 2024 Paris Games — the first country ever to do so. Headed into this year ...