Australian Boomers can win basketball gold medal, declares NBA star Josh Giddey [Video]

The Boomers can win an Olympic basketball gold medal in Paris and have assembled a squad strong enough to challenge and beat the United States.

That’s the view of NBA star and Australian sensation Josh Giddey, who is supremely confident the men in gold can better their bronze medal from the Tokyo Olympics three years.

“This is probably the realest chance we’ve ever had to win a gold medal in Australian basketball,” Giddey said at a press conference in Paris on Monday. “We’ve got the pieces to do it. We back ourselves against anybody in the world. We’re not worried about who we’ve got to face.

“The guys, long before I was here, have been banging on the door for a while to get up on that podium, with the gold medal around the neck. You get that sense that these guys have that burning passion inside …