LeBron James is caught leaving trendy Paris restaurant at 3am after hanging with Team USA's Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis and Bam Adebayo

LeBron James and respective different Team USA hoops stars were caught leaving an exclusive Paris successful nan early hours of Monday greeting contempt facing an imminent training convention up of Wednesday's crippled against upstart South Sudan. 

James, Durant, Anthony Davis and Bam Adebayo were seen leaving done a backmost entranceway of Siena, an Italian edifice adjacent nan Tuileries Garden on nan northbound slope of nan Seine. Durant near good earlier James, who was pictured exiting astatine 3am section time.

A group of mysterious women were each seen exiting nan edifice arsenic umbrellas were utilized to shield nan personage guests and immoderate different friends from lingering photographers. It's not known if nan women were portion of nan aforesaid group arsenic nan NBA stars.

Pictures from earlier successful nan nighttime person besides surfaced, showing Team USA's Devin Booker, Jayson Tatum and moreover erstwhile San Antonio Spurs prima Tony Parker hanging pinch restauranteur Mehdi Abdelhedi.

The photos followed Team USA's triumph complete Nikola Jokic and Team Serbia earlier connected Sunday.

The timing of nan shindig was made each nan much funny by Team USA's upcoming schedule.

With each 12 teams having been successful action connected either Saturday aliases Sunday, everyone successful nan men's tourney astatine Pierre Mauroy Stadium sewage Monday off.

For some, that provides a chance to regroup and practice. For others, for illustration nan U.S. — which rolled past Serbia successful its opener, led by Durant's superb return from a calf rumor — it brings a time to relax, retrieve and spell beryllium Team USA fans.

'It's huge,' U.S. coach Steve Kerr said Monday. 'And it's besides important for america to let our players to bask nan Olympic experience, for them to beryllium capable to spell and watch immoderate of nan different sports, beryllium pinch their families. It's a immense portion of this. That's what coming is about, and past we'll fastener backmost successful tomorrow.'

Translation: teams that spell 3-0 successful group are decidedly in, teams that spell 2-1 successful group are almost surely safe barring immoderate chaotic tiebreaker scenario, teams that spell 1-2 successful group will request immoderate thief but could still move connected (two specified teams did beforehand astatine nan Tokyo Games 3 years ago), and teams that spell 0-3 successful group are going location early.

The U.S.-South Sudan matchup is 1 that everyone will beryllium watching, particularly aft nan upstart squad from Africa astir knocked disconnected nan Americans successful London earlier this period successful a 101-100 crippled that cipher saw coming. The victor of that crippled will fastener up a travel to nan quarterfinals.

Serbia-Puerto Rico isn't an elimination game, but nan victor has a overmuch amended changeable of advancing to adjacent week and nan loser will beryllium doing a full batch of hoping.

South Sudan has made nan astir truthful acold of its Olympic debut successful men's basketball. The African federation topped Puerto Rico 90-79 connected Sunday successful its first game.

'We're not a concealed anymore,' South Sudan coach Royal Ivey said afterward.

Next up is simply a rematch pinch nan U.S. connected Tuesday. The 2 met successful an accumulation crippled and South Sudan astir pulled disconnected a stunning upset. South Sudan qualified for nan Olympics by kindness of its capacity astatine nan World Cup past year, finishing arsenic nan champion African team.

The nationalist federation is led by erstwhile NBA subordinate Luol Deng.

Furthermore, caput coach Royal Ivey is an adjunct pinch nan NBA's Houston Rockets who spent 10 years successful nan NBA arsenic a player. The New York autochthonal started coaching successful 2014 successful nan NBA developmental convention earlier having stints pinch nan Knicks and Nets. He sewage nan South Sudan occupation successful 2021 and has led them ever since.

The squad has a fewer erstwhile NBA players connected it. Wenyen Gabriel concisely played with  James and nan Lakers successful 2022 and Carlik Jones bounced astir pinch a fewer teams including Dallas, Denver and Chicago. 

Jones had a triple-double successful nan one-point accumulation nonaccomplishment to nan U.S.