{"id":294652,"date":"2025-11-19T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294652\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:45:10","slug":"and-ones-lebron-curry-team-usa-2026-draft-beverley-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294652\/","title":{"rendered":"And-Ones: LeBron, Curry, Team USA, 2026 Draft, Beverley, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked by Steve Nash on the Mind the Game podcast<\/a> about the possibility of suiting up for Team USA at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, LeBron James<\/a> made it clear that\u2019s not in his plans, while Stephen Curry<\/a> indicated he\u2019s a long shot too, per Anthony Slater of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou already know my answer,\u201d James said. \u201cI will be watching it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod willing, I still have the choice and physical option where I could impact the team,\u201d Curry said. \u201cNever say never, but I highly doubt it. Highly doubt it.\u201d<\/p>\n

James and Curry teamed up for Team USA at the Olympics for the first time in 2024, defeating the hosts (France) in Paris in the gold medal game after pulling off a dramatic come-from-behind win in the semifinal against Serbia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t top what we just did,\u201d James said. \u201cHow we gonna top those last two games?\u201d<\/p>\n

We have more odds and ends from around the basketball world:<\/p>\n

Kansas guard Darryn Peterson<\/a> is the first player off the board in the first 2026 mock draft published by Jeremy Woo of ESPN<\/a>. Woo has BYU\u2019s AJ Dybantsa<\/a> at No. 2, Duke\u2019s Cameron Boozer<\/a> at No. 3, and Tennessee\u2019s Nate Ament<\/a> at No. 4, with UNC\u2019s Caleb Wilson<\/a> rounding out the top five.
\nMore details have emerged related to Patrick Beverley<\/a>\u2018s arrest for assault<\/a>, with TMZ<\/a> reporting that the former NBA guard is accused of punching his sister in the eye and choking her for between 20 and 30 seconds. Beverley, who has been out of the NBA since the 2023\/24 season, was arrested on Friday and was charged with assault of a family\/household member.
\nAfter parting ways with the Brisbane Bullets earlier this season for personal reasons, former NBA guard Javon Freeman-Liberty<\/a> reengaged with the team last week and has now re-signed with the Bullets for the rest of the 2025\/26 season, reports Olgun Uluc of ESPN (Twitter<\/a> links<\/a>). Freeman-Liberty, a former DePaul standout, appeared in 22 NBA regular season games for Toronto in 2023\/24.
\nWhile the Mavericks had hoped to acquire Dennis Smith Jr.<\/a>\u2018s G League returning rights, the Wisconsin Herd \u2013 the Bucks\u2018 affiliate \u2013 still holds those rights and is hopeful of having Smith join them soon, league sources tell Marc Stein (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked by Steve Nash on the Mind the Game podcast about the possibility of suiting up for Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[22564,64,63,726,169173,22566,22567,98057,35061,7896,22569,66055,85,7903],"class_list":["post-294652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-aj-dybantsa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-caleb-wilson","tag-cameron-boozer","tag-darryn-peterson","tag-dennis-smith-jr","tag-javon-freeman-liberty","tag-lebron-james","tag-nate-ament","tag-patrick-beverley","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}