It’s an Olympic year – again! The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are set to take place July 23-Aug. 8, 2021. With 2020 in the rearview, USA Basketball looks onward and upward in what it hopes to be a healthy, golden year for basketball. Here are marquee events on the USA Basketball 2021 calendar and notables to keep your eyes on: 

Rhyne Howard was named MVP at the 2018 FIBA Americas U18 Championship and to the all-tournament team at the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup.

Behind a MVP performance by JBM (19.5 ppg., 7.0 apg.) in the finals, the USA earned a pair of hard-fought games in the best-of-three grand finals to claim a 2-0 lead over Dominican Republic and earn the FIBA Esports Open II North and Central America Conference championship

The inaugural USA E-Team was selected on Nov. 9, has been practicing and scrimmaging at least five days a week since then and is ready for the competition to begin.

The USA Basketball E-National Team, which averaged 85.0 points to its opponents’ 48.0 points per game and finished the first day of competition in the 2020 FIBA Esports Open II North and Central American Conference with a 4-1 record and in a good position to advance to the finals.

When playing a little word association with John ‘JBM’ Mascone, he said the athlete he considers to be his GOAT was tennis legend Roger Federer.

Ramo “Ramo” Radoncic began his long road to becoming a member of the inaugural USA Basketball E-National Team playing Power Rangers on his cousin’s Sega Dreamcast, and he's enjoying the journey.

As with all USA Basketball national teams, the 2020 USA E-National Team was presented with official team gear and a backpack with a luggage tag that has their name on it.

The victory assured the United States its berth into the FIBA AmeriCup 2022.