Team United States (Olympic)

Several members of the United States men's national basketball team modeled their new uniforms Thursday ahead of the upcoming 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

As seen in the following video posted on the NBA's official Twitter account, most of Team USA took part in a pre-Olympics photo shoot:

The #USABMNT show off their new threads! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ngvMwl4IGn

— NBA (@NBA) July 8, 2021

Among the biggest stars to show off the blue unis with white lettering and red trim were Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets, Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers, Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards, Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics.

Only three of the 12 members of Team USA were not present for the photoshoot, but they had a good reason.

Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker and Milwaukee Bucks teammates Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton are all playing in the 2021 NBA Finals.

Other players featured in the video include Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo, Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant, Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine and Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love.

With several top players such as LeBron James and Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers, Chris Paul of the Suns, Stephen Curry of the Warriors and James Harden of the Nets removing themselves from Team USA consideration, many members of the squad will be Olympic debutants in Tokyo.

Durant, Green and Love are the only members of head coach Gregg Popovich's team with Olympic experience under their belts.

Even so, the Americans will be heavily favored to win gold for a fourth consecutive Olympic Games when the 2021 Tokyo Olympics begin July 23.

The United States women's national basketball team roster for the Tokyo Summer Olympics was announced on NBC's Today on Monday morning. 

Lyndsey D'Arcangelo of The Athletic relayed the roster, which includes a pair of four-time Olympic gold-medal winners in Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi.

https://twitter.com/darcangel21/status/1406966913477988357

South Carolina women's hoops head coach Dawn Staley, who won three gold medals for Team USA as a player, will lead a roster in search of its seventh straight first-place finish at the Olympics.

Team USA's Olympic legacy is nothing short of remarkable, and this year's loaded roster will be the heavy favorite heading into Olympic competition.

As Richard Deitsch of The Athletic noted, Team USA is 66-3 in the Olympics since 1976 and 48-0 since the gold-medal run began in 1996.

Team USA dropped a hype video following the announcement, featuring comments from the players:

For the States. For the history. For the gold.

Our team to go for seven consecutive Olympic gold medals at @Tokyo2020

🇺🇸 #USABWNT x @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/2G0zrlXNLh

— USA Basketball (@usabasketball) June 21, 2021

Reigning WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson leads the talented group of first-time Olympians to Tokyo.

WNBA 2019 Rookie of the Year (and All-Star) Napheesa Collier, three-time WNBA All-Defensive Second Team member Ariel Atkins, four-time WNBA All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith, three-time WNBA All-Star Chelsea Gray and two-time WNBA champion (and All-Star) Jewell Loyd cap that list.

The Olympic returnees have legendary resumes.

Bird's laundry list of accomplishments includes four WNBA championships, two NCAA titles, 11 WNBA All-Star nods and five All-WNBA First Team honors, among many more.

Taurasi is a 10-time All-WNBA first-teamer who has also won three WNBA championships and three NCAA titles.

Tina Charles, a seven-time WNBA All-Star, five-time All-WNBA first-teamer and 2012 WNBA MVP, is looking for her third gold medal. Sylvia Fowles, a two-time WNBA champion, six-time WNBA All-Star and 2017 WNBA MVP, is going for gold medal No. 4.

Brittney Griner and Breanna Stewart round out the team.

Griner, a seven-time WNBA blocks champion who has also led the league in scoring twice, is going for her second gold medal. The center's resume also includes a WNBA title, an NCAA title and six All-Star appearances.

Stewart may be the GOAT by the time her career ends, as she already has an Olympic gold medal, four NCAA titles, two WNBA titles and a WNBA MVP on the record. The Seattle Storm star was also her team's Finals MVP after they beat the Las Vegas Aces in the 2020 WNBA championship.

This year's opening ceremony will take place July 23. The Games will run through Aug. 8.

United States Olympian Sakura Kokumai said she was the target of a racist rant from a stranger at Grijalva Park in Orange, California, per Jaclyn Peiser of the Washington Post.

The Japanese American karate athlete, who is preparing for the upcoming Summer Olympics, was interrupted during a recent training session by a stranger yelling at her. The man escalated his verbal attack, threatening Kokumai before directing multiple racial slurs at her as he got into his vehicle and left.

She recorded the man on her phone and posted it to her Instagram account.

"I was aware about the anti-Asian hate that was going on. You see it almost every day on the news," she told KTLA. "But I didn’t think it would happen to me at a park I usually go to to train."

Kokumai also noted the lack of support from others at a crowded park at the time.

"Yes what happened was horrible, but I don’t know which was worse, a stranger yelling and threatening to hurt me for no reason or people around me who witnessed everything and not doing a thing," she wrote in her Instagram caption.

Anti-Asian violence has been on the rise in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with close to 4,000 incidents reported over the past year, per Stop AAPI Hate, a group that tracks hate, violence and harassment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Kokumai, 28, is a seven-time national champion and will be the first American to compete in the Olympics in karate, which will debut this summer.