A gutsy France in the end fell brief within the gold medal sport, however Guerschon Yabusele commanded the eye of the basketball world with an excellent show – highlighted by a monster slam on high of LeBron James.
Within the second quarter of a tense males’s basketball last, Yabusele turned the nook after exploding previous Devin Booker and had solely legendary veteran James in the important thing between he and the bucket.
Yabusele launched, prolonged his proper arm, and threw down a exceptional poster dunk as James went sprawling to the bottom.
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It was an unimaginable second for the person nicknamed ‘The Golden Bear’, a 28-year-old energy ahead who briefly performed for the Boston Celtics however had plied his commerce for Spanish membership Actual Madrid for the previous three years.
The dunk introduced again recollections of arguably the best in-game slam in historical past, which featured in a sport between the identical two opponents on the 2000 Olympics. On that event, it was USA nice Vince Carter leaping over Frederic Weis in what was termed ‘The Dunk of Demise’.
He nearly added one other spotlight slam within the fourth quarter, over each James and Steph Curry, however was fouled by the previous.
Yabusele completed with 20 factors to cap a terrific event, the place he emerged as France’s second-best participant behind recently-crowned NBA Rookie of the Yr Wembanyama.
Steph Curry’s late three-point flurry to steer the US to a 98-87 win within the last will seemingly be probably the most lasting reminiscence from the gold medal match, however Yabusele’s slam gained’t quickly be forgotten.
