Former Husker great Tyronn Lue helped the 2024 USA Men’s National Team to its fifth straight gold medal with a 98-87 win over France in the gold medal game.
Lue, who has served as an assistant coach with the national team staff since February of 2023, helped Team USA to a perfect 6-0 mark in the Olympics and an 11-0 mark during the summer of 2024. It continues an amazing career for the Husker great, who had previously won NBA titles as both a player and a coach.
Currently, Lue is the head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. He has guided the Clippers since 2020, taking the team to their first Western Conference Finals in his first season. He is 184-134 in the regular season with the Clippers and has led the franchise to four playoff appearances in his five seasons. Before arriving in Los Angeles, Lue held a 128-83 regular-season record in Cleveland. In his first season with the Cavaliers, he led the team to the 2016 NBA Championship becoming the eighth first-year head coach to win an NBA Championship. He guided Cleveland to three straight NBA Finals appearances between 2016 and 2018. In addition to his head coaching stints, he served as an assistant with Boston, Cleveland and the Clippers.
A native of Mexico, Mo., Lue was a three-year starter for the Huskers and totaled 1,577 career points to rank in the top 10 of the school’s all-time scoring list. He started 96 of 99 games and ranks in the top 10 in 13 career categories at Nebraska. Lue was a first-team All-Big 12 selection in 1998, when he guided the Huskers to the NCAA Tournament. His No. 10 became the fourth retired jersey in school history when it was retired in 2017. A first-round pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, Lue won two NBA Championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and spent 11 years in the NBA.
Lue was one of three former Husker basketball players in Paris as Jack McVeigh (Australia) and Keisei Tominaga (Japan) both played for their national teams. Nebraska was one only nine NCAA programs with multiple players in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
McVeigh averaged 9.5 points on 52 percent shooting and 3.0 rebounds per game in four games for Australia. McVeigh, who played at Nebraska from 2015-16 to 2017-18, shot 52 percent from 3-point range and averaged 2.5 3-pointers per game. Tominaga played in all three games for Japan, recording a basket against Brazil.
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