With the group stages now over, Team USA is taking the opportunity to say goodbye to the Lille crowd and head to Paris to play the knockout matches.

For the moment, everything is going smoothly for the American team.

LeBron James and his teammates went to France as the big favorites for the 2024 Olympics and they have lived up to expectations so far with three easy wins in the group stages.

With a more affordable schedule than the competition, they will make it to the Olympic finals barring a huge catastrophe.

This also means that the US superstars will be saying goodbye to the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, where they played their first matches.

And the least we can say is that they were shocked by the crazy atmosphere in the north of France, starting with Kevin Durant.

Already impressed after the first match against Serbia, the Slim Reaper added another layer to the Lille public:

Kevin Durant impressed by the Lille atmosphere

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Since the start of the competition, the French public has turned the heads of athletes and the media with its fervor and that also applies to basketball.

The Lille arena was systematically packed, whatever the match and it was the same for the women’s orange ball.

The 2024 Olympics may be taking place in the capital of France, but it was the entire country that knew how to create an atmosphere.

Kevin Durant is used to NBA arenas and the American atmosphere, but what he discovered in France is radically different.

Even more so in a city like Lille where the double champion had never imagined setting foot until now!