For the second straight Olympic Games, former Duke basketball star [autotag]Jayson Tatum[/autotag] walked away with a gold medal.
The United States took down France, the host country, in Saturday’s gold medal match by a score of 98-87.
NBA legend Steph Curry put the American team on his back down the stretch, making four 3-pointers in the closing five minutes to finish with 24 points. Tatum added two points, his lone basket coming on a runaway dunk in transition, and three rebounds to the victorious effort from the bench.
The U.S. also beat France in the gold medal game back at the last Olympics in Tokyo. Tatum played a much larger role in that 2021 triumph, coming off the bench again but adding 19 points and seven rebounds in 21 minutes.
Tatum also notched his first Olympic double-double against Puerto Rico earlier in this year’s Games. The second gold comes less than two months after he won his first NBA title with the Boston Celtics.