The 2008 U.S. women's Olympic Basketball team roster:
1) Seimone Augustus
2) Sue Bird
3) Tamika Catchings
4) Sylvia Fowles
5) Kara Lawson
6) Lisa Leslie
7) DeLisha Milton-Jones
8) Candace Parker
9) Cappie Pondexter
10) Katie Smith
11) Diana Taurasi
12) Tina Thompson
2008
As of August 17, 2008- no medals have been awarded yet for basketball.
0.Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, the Australian men's basketball team has never won an Olympic medal.
USA team won the women's basketball gold medal in 2004 Olympics.
Kobe Bryant.
At the 2008 Games in Beijing, the women's basketball team of New Zealand won 1 game and lost 4.They defeated Mali and lost to Spain, United States, China, and Czech Republic.
If you're talking about men's national team, it is Jason Kidd who wears jersey #5. Seimone Augustus wears jersey #5 for women's national team. Updated after 2008 Summer Olympics.
The men's team won the bronze medal and the women's team won the gold medal in basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
The Olympic basketball team for Lithuania in 1940 was referred to as the "Grandfather of Lithuanian Basketball" and it had 88 Soviet basketball team who were from Lithuania, playing for a nation that annexed their homeland in 1940.
68 total 2008 olympic team members
"The Dream Team"
At the 2008 Games in Beijing, the women's team finished 4th and the men's team finished 8th.