Basketball is a numbers game but these are player stats of a different kind.
This is Paris by Numbers.
1 Australian basketball team will debut in Paris: the Gangurrus 3x3 team.
3 Stars will become five-time Olympians at the 2024 Games. Lauren Jackson, Patty Mills and Joe Ingles.
5 The number of Opals and Boomers who weren’t born when Lauren Jackson played in her first Olympics in Sydney, 2000. Josh Green (born November, 2000) Josh Giddey (2002), Jade Melbourne (2002) Dyson Daniels (2003) and Isobel Borlase (2004).
6 Paris marks Sandy Brondello’s sixth Olympics for Australia. She played in four (1988, 1996, 2000, 2004) Games and coached in Tokyo in 2020 with Paris her second leading the Opals.
8 Tokyo Olympians will suit up for the Boomers in 2024. Patty Mills, Joe Ingles, Matthew Dellavedova, Dante Exum, Josh Green, Nick Kay, Jock Landale and Duop Reath.
9 members of the team that won a bronze medal at the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup will compete in Paris: Tess Madgen, Steph Talbot, Cayla George, Lauren Jackson, Marianna Tolo, Ezi Magbegor, Kristy Wallace, Sami Whitcomb and Anneli Maley.
13 The number of Olympic basketball debutants across the Boomers, Opals and Gangurrus. They Are Josh Giddey, Dyson Daniels, Jack McVeigh, Will Magnay, Isobel Borlase, Jade Melbourne, Kristy Wallace, Sami Whitcomb, Amy Atwell, Anneli Maley, Lauren Mansfield, Marena Whittle and Ally Wilson.
17.97 points per game scored by Lauren Jackson at Olympic Games tournaments.
19 The age of Isobel Borlase: Australia’s youngest basketballer in Paris.
98 The amount of assists that Matthew Dellavedova has at Olympic Games tournaments – the all-time leader in this category for the Boomers.
501 the amount of points Patty Mills has scored in Olympic Games, seventh on the all-time men’s list.
575 points has Lauren Jackson at the top of female all-time women’s Olympic scorers list.
