Wise old heads

 The U.S. men's basketball team won the Olympic gold medal for the fifth straight time Saturday, and in other news, Donald Trump is an odd duck. Which is to say, even though France had a lineup stuffed with NBA players, the U.S. had better NBA players, and therefore did what everyone from here to Alpha Centauri knew it would do.

Even less surprising was who led the way.

LeBron James. Steph Curry. Kevin Durant. You know, the senior citizens.

The Golden Years Three thoroughly tapioca-ed Victor Wembayama, Rudy Gobert and the rest of the French, or some other tortured metaphor. LeBron finished with 14 points, six rebounds,10 assists, two steals and a block, playing ten years younger than his 39 years and like a man who simply was not going to let the Americans lose. KD, meanwhile, got the start after coming off the bench for much of the Games, and scored 15 points including a triplet of 3-pointers.

And Curry?

After a slow start he went incandescent down the stretch, hitting eight threes in 13 attempts including one back-breaker over a double team that kept half the country awake trying to figure out how he did it. He was, in other words, Steph Curry doing Steph Curry things, and how he wasn't named the tournament MVP over LeBron also kept half the country awake trying to figure it.

Some numbers: In the last two games of the tournament, when first Serbia and then France threatened to upend the Americans, Curry scored 60 points. He made 17 threes in 27 attempts. He more than anyone dug the U.S. out of a 17-point hole against Serbia; he more than anyone helped stave off the French in the gold medal game, 98-87.

It was Curry's first Olympic gold medal, LeBron's third, a record fourth for KD. That's a 36-year-old, a 39-year-old and another about-to-be 36-year-old if you're keeping score at home.

The wise old heads can still bring it, in other words. Who's got next?