{"id":485932,"date":"2024-08-03T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485932"},"modified":"2024-08-03T04:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T08:20:21","slug":"usa-spends-over-15-million-for-basketball-team-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usa-spends-over-15-million-for-basketball-team-accommodation\/","title":{"rendered":"USA spends over $15 million for basketball team accommodation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Village in Paris is bustling with 14,000 athletes, but the stars of the basketball Team USA are absent. Since 1992, when the USA began sending NBA players to the Olympic Games, these athletes have never stayed in the Olympic Village and this tradition continues in Paris.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">USA Basketball\u2019s 2024 Olympic budget: $15 million to ensure LeBron and Co. have the most VIP experience Paris can offer. \ud83c\udfc0\ud83d\udcb8 Between hotels, security, and staying distraction-free, it\u2019s clear\u2014Team USA isn\u2019t just playing for gold, they\u2019re investing in it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicSplurge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OlympicSplurge<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grab Bag Gazette (@TheGrabGazette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrabGazette\/status\/1819393287121523054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Justin Birnbaum, the USA basketball team has opted for a different accommodation, renting a hotel in the city center with a capacity of 800 rooms. This hotel not only houses the men\u2019s and women\u2019s national basketball teams but also their families, professional staff, security personnel, managers, and NBA representatives.<\/p>\n<p>This luxurious setup in Paris comes with a hefty price tag of around $15 million. This amount covers not just the hotel expenses but also charter flights, equipment transportation, and all other necessities for the players in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the USA allocates between $218,000 and $327,000 to cover all expenses for 20 rowers at the Olympic Games, highlighting the significant investment made for the basketball teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Village in Paris is bustling with 14,000 athletes, but the stars of the basketball Team USA are absent. Since 1992, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485933,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17662],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18357,21110],"acf":{"announce":"The NBA stars are not in the Olympic Village like everyone else ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485934,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485932\/revisions\/485934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485932"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485932"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}