Does he have a point?
Longtime former Boston Celtics Hall of Fame small forward Paul Pierce considers All-NBA Los Angeles Lakers center/power forward Anthony Davis to be the single-most important player on Team USA in this year's Paris Olympics. It's a surprising move, considering that Davis has only started one of Team USA's group play games thus far, although he and Bam Adebayo are clearly the best centers rostered.
Appearing on Fox Sports' "Undisputed," Pierce explained why he believes Davis is the most valuable piece of Team USA's loaded attack this summer."To me, the most important player in all of this has to be Anthony Davis. I feel like he's the backbone of the defense. Offensively, you can go to a different guy every night. But I feel like Anthony Davis changes the game every time he starts, comes off the bench, or plays," Pierce said.
Davis is coming off perhaps his second-best season as a Laker, so it makes sense to a degree that he's been so good in his second Olympics.
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