United States 95-91 Serbia (Aug 8, 2024) Final Score - ESPN (2024)

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Serbia led for more than 35 minutes of a 40-minute game, but the U.S. held the advantage when it counted. The final period belonged to Team USA, which outscored Serbia 32-15 to come back and take the lead for good on a Stephen Curry 3-pointer with 2:24 remaining in the 95-91 victory.

PARIS — The U.S. was in trouble against Serbia, and its streak of consecutive Olympic gold medals looked like might at end at four. Then, the U.S. tightened its defense, found scoring at the right time and overcame a 17-point deficit to beat Serbia 95-91 in an intense and semifinals game Thursday.

Red, white and blue basketball games took center stage at the 2024 Paris Olympics. But it wasn't the host nation that triumphed in either gold medal match. Instead, Team USA men's and women's basketball both topped France to secure gold in what marked historic final matchups.

Olympics basketball: USA 98-87 France

Stephen Curry scores three breathtaking shots from beyond the arc to seal Team USA's fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal in basketball.

Team USA stages furious rally to defeat Serbia

PARIS — Stephen Curry exploded for 36 points, Joel Embiid lived up to his potential in the middle of Team USA's star-studded lineup and the Americans overcame extraordinary odds to defeat Serbia 95-91 on Thursday and reach the Olympic gold-medal round.

Curry scored 36 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:16 left, and the U.S. beat Serbia 95-91 in a semifinal classic on Thursday night.

The Serbia men's national basketball team (Serbian: Кошаркашка репрезентација Србије, romanized: Košarkaška reprezentacija Srbije) represents Serbia in international men's basketball competition, and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. Serbia is currently ranked fourth in the FIBA World Ranking.

Nikola Jokić, Bogdan Bogdanović, Boban Marjanović and Vasilije Micić are current NBA players, as well as Nikola Jović, Aleksej Pokuševski and Tristan Vukčević (not pictured).

Gold Medal Game set at the Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024. Find the pairing and schedule for the Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Gold Medal Game here.

The 1972 Olympic men's basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the US in Olympic play, ranks among the most controversial events in Olympic history.

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And in the ultimate moment, he made sure that medal would be his. The U.S. is atop the international men's basketball world once again, after Curry scored 24 points — all on 3-pointers — and led the way to a 98-87 win over France in the final at the Paris Games on Saturday night.

Stephen Curry has said for years he wanted to win a gold medal, and he is now an Olympic champion for the first time. Curry ended the night with eight 3-pointers and 24 points -- four of them in one two-minute stretch in the fourth quarter -- hitting his famous "night night" pose after the dagger.

Team USA men's basketball is on the verge of capturing five straight Olympic golds. Since settling for bronze in 2004, the U.S. won gold in Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, which was delayed one year due to the pandemic.

The team's loss to Puerto Rico was just the third in U.S. Olympic men's basketball history. Their two previous losses were both to the Soviet Union (1972 and 1988), with six having been the largest margin of defeat.

Germany and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria squeeze pincers on Serbia at the city of Nisch. Germany and Austria-Hungary began their joint invasion across Serbia's norther border on October 6, 1915.

The country had diplomatic relations with the United States up to the start of World War II. During World War II in Yugoslavia, the United States initially supported the Serbian royalist Chetniks over their rivals, the communist Partisans.

The war ended with Croatian victory, as it achieved the goals it had declared at the beginning of the war: independence and preservation of its borders. Approximately 21–25% of Croatia's economy was ruined, with an estimated US$37 billion in damaged infrastructure, lost output, and refugee-related costs.