After Team USA demonstrated its global dominance in men’s basketball at the Paris Olympics earlier this month, superstars Kevin Durant and Steph Curry missed the locker room celebrations.
A cast of NBA stars headed to the French capital and found their way to the top of the podium without a hitch after beating the host nation, 98-87, in the gold medal game.
However, rising star Anthony Edwards revealed that he, along with Durant and Curry, were taken in for a drug test after stepping off the podium during the national anthem.
“I’m not going to lie, he and I (Durant) had a drug test,” Edwards told former player Jalen Rose on the Fanatic Fest podcast.
“We couldn’t really celebrate the win in the locker room because he, me and Steph had to take a drug test or something.”
Steph Curry and Kevin Durant missed Team USA’s locker room celebrations in Paris
Anthony Edwards revealed that he was subjected to a doping test after beating France
More than a week later, all three stars appeared to have passed the test after putting in stellar performances at the Games.
Curry led Team USA in scoring, averaging 14.8 points per game and playing a lethal role in the semifinal against Serbia and the final against France.
Golden State’s poster boy hit nine 3-pointers in a 36-point performance to lead the Americans on a comeback in the semifinal. He then scored 24 points and eight 3-pointers against France in the gold medal game.
Durant averaged 13.8 points and was the team’s sixth-leading scorer until the finals, where he started and scored 15.
Meanwhile, Edwards provided a spark coming off the bench and averaged 12.8 points per game.
Edwards scored 12.8 points per game as a reserve for the Americans at the Olympics.
Curry made nine three-pointers in the semifinal and eight three-pointers in the gold medal game.
Durant averaged 13.8 points and was the team’s sixth-leading scorer until the finals.
The United States team swept the tournament before beating host country France to take gold.
“Steph was No. 4, I was No. 5, Bron (LeBron James) was No. 6 and he, Durant, was No. 7,” the Timberwolves’ franchise player recalled. “Whenever they introduced Steph, the crowd went crazy. When they called my name, they were like, ‘ehhh.'”
“But then they would introduce Bron and they would go crazy, and then they would introduce him (KD) and they would go crazy again,” he continued.
“The fact that I was in the middle of them, I think that was the best moment of my life. My brother took a picture of that image and I thought it was the coolest picture I could have.”