{"id":485492,"date":"2026-02-17T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485492\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:52:12","slug":"team-usa-nba-stars-reveal-they-were-drinking-every-day-during-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485492\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA NBA stars reveal they were drinking every day during Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2016 Team USA stars Carmelo Anthony and DeMarcus Cousins revealed that the entire team drank every day during the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite dominating the competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Team USA stars <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/players\/135-carmelo-anthony.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carmelo Anthony<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/players\/7299-demarcus-cousins.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeMarcus Cousins<\/a> revealed a shocking detail about their run in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The former NBA All-Stars said that during their Olympic campaign, the entire U.S. squad was drinking every night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We was getting lit. We drank every single night,&#8221; Cousins said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/7PMinBrooklyn\" rel=\"nofollow\">7PM in Brooklyn podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2023557556489093328\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had an open free bar,&#8221; Anthony explained. &#8220;We had all the wine in the world and all the Jameson&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never drank that much in my life,&#8221; Cousins said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Team USA squad went on to comfortably win the gold medal, defeating Serbia and a young Nikola Jokic in the final at the 2016 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_4\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Like what we are doing? Support us by becoming BN+ member.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2016 Team USA stars Carmelo Anthony and DeMarcus Cousins revealed that the entire team drank every day during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-485492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485492","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=485492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}