{"id":489539,"date":"2025-02-18T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489539"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:24:51","slug":"kyrie-irving-wants-to-compete-for-australia-at-the-2028-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kyrie-irving-wants-to-compete-for-australia-at-the-2028-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving wants to compete for Australia at the 2028 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a> leader <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a> revealed he wants to compete for Team Australia and would be happy to gain eligibility in time to represent Australia at the upcoming Olympics in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, answered questions during All-Star Weekend about whether he wanted to play for another country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, that\u2019s what\u2019s going on at the moment,\u201d the Mavs star answered. \u201cRight now, I need to see what&#8217;s going to be the best route for me to be able to represent Team Australia. A lot of things must happen before that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie (32) played for Team USA at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and won the gold medal in Brazil. But Irving was not part of the past 2 rosters of the USA basketball at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>For Irving to be part of the Boomers, he must get a positive answer from USA Basketball, FIBA, and Basketball Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas guard added that the USA Basketball Association must make a decision and that he hoped that, in the end, he would be able to compete at the Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving wants to play in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, but not for Team USA.<\/p>\n<p>After the All-Star Game, he revealed that he was in talks with Basketball Australia about switching national teams.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Man, we&#39;re in the process of that right now, just trying to figure out the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1FeQ2TP06e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1FeQ2TP06e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1891876578696851563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks leader Kyrie Irving revealed he wants to compete for Team Australia and would be happy to gain eligibility in time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":489540,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16721,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17975,18742,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Mavs guard wants to play for Australia at the LA Olympics.","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\/489539"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489541,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489539\/revisions\/489541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489539"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489539"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}