One Olympic Sport Every Team USA Member Would Dominate

From Deion Sanders to Bo Jackson to Michael Jordan (sort of), people seem to love versatility in their players. Whenever a professional athlete migrates from one professional sport to the next, we marvel at their raw athletic ability and transcendent skill set. If they can pull off being successful at it, they're immortalized in legend and folklore for as long as the Internet will allow it. 

NBA players already have a nice advantage in learning other sports because their profession requires impeccable footwork and elite hand-eye coordination. Picking up a new sport shouldn't take too long for these incredible athletes.

So which members of the current installment of Team USA might be able to move to another Olympic sport and have success? Click on through to find out.  

Kevin Durant: Archery

KD is used to thrusting daggers into his opponents whenever a game gets tight in the fourth quarter. It couldn't possibly be hard for him to pick up slinging arrows into a stationary target.

Only three players managed to shoot at least 49 percent from the field, 38 percent from three-point range and 86 percent from the free-throw line last season. Kevin Durant was one of them.

Would much change if Durant is shooting arrows at a stationary target? How often does he miss when he's wide-open? There's nobody getting in the way of him firing off an arrow at his intended bullseye. Whenever you give Durant loads of time to line up a shot, he typically wins. Really, he usually still wins even if he's not given time to get his shot off.  

LeBron James: Pentathlon

For the player that can do it all, the pentathlon seems perfect for LeBron James. He loves cycling to games, did a commercial about training in a swimming pool and is one of the fastest players in the NBA. He also seems to rarely get tired because he's probably a cyborg. Wait, can cyborgs swim?

LeBron's reach and strength are rarely matched in the NBA, so pulling himself through the water could almost be the NBA equivalent of Michael Phelps-ian. We already know he likes to get out and run because that's where the majority of his highlights on the court come—especially with dunks and chase-down blocks.

Throw him in the pentathlon and he'd even get to wear his beloved headband most of the time. It's a win-win. 

Kevin Love: Beach Volleyball

Forget the accusations of Kevin Love not being able to jump; he became a volleyball player in the offseason because... well... he was probably pretty bored. Nobody understands positioning around a net like Love does and he has the experience with the sport to excel. He loves getting out into the sand, digging out spikes and sending them home when given the chance. 

We also know he isn't afraid to step on the competition (was that joke as forced as it seemed?). Until Chase Budinger gets called to the Olympic team, Love is the guy for this sport. 

Kobe Bryant: Fencing

It's hard for me to imagine Kobe Bryant not winning a sword fight. Not many people have the same level of focus and dexterity as he does, so handling a sword wouldn't be something hard for him to pick up. He has a long reach, quick feet and he'd master the step-back parry within a couple of duels. 

Considering he took the nickname he gave himself from the movie Kill Bill, it's not ludicrous to assume he's studied some form of fencing. I would have picked him for boxing, but I heard Chris Childs might be competing this year. 

Andre Iguodala: Boxing

Andre Iguodala has trained in boxing before and we all know he'd be able to defend himself. With his quick footwork that allows him to successfully slide his feet defensively in a league that no longer allows hand-checking, I think it's safe to say he'd be able to move around the ring much quicker than his opponents. Not to mention, his reach has to give him a good advantage.

The only question is can Iguodala connect on long shots and win the favor of the judges? He hit a career-high in three-pointers last year with 39 percent so maybe he'd be more comfortable keeping his opponent away from him with long jabs before coming inside for an uppercut.

But we've also seen judges in the past award his opponent (Nate Robinson) when it was clearly Iguodala's competition to win. 

Russell Westbrook: 100m Dash

You can argue that Ty Lawson, John Wall and Derrick Rose are faster on the basketball court than Russell Westbrook, but there's very little doubt that Westbrook is the fastest guy on the team. The only one that could challenge him is LeBron James, and we've got him in the pentathlon. 

There's really no such thing as being reckless in a sprint. He typically has very good balance when he's speeding up the court, and cracking 9.7 seconds seems like something he could do. Westbrook's end-to-end speed is blazing and he wouldn't have to slow down to worry about being under control on layups or dunks.

All he has to do is run through the finish line. 

Anthony Davis: Rings

Tell me you're not at least a little curious to see Anthony Davis show off his wingspan by pushing the rings on a gymnastics floor to different zip codes. He wouldn't even have to do a whole lot once he's up there. The judges would be dazzled by his infinite reach and he could do any kind of movement imaginable once he's up there.

In fact, forget the rings competition at the Olympics. We need to get him involved with American Gladiators. He would dominate their ring game. Sure his upper body strength isn't completely there yet, but his arm length already allows him to defy what seems impossible. Letting him use it in this display of physical activity can only lead to great things. 

Chris Paul: Table Tennis

Chris Paul is an incredible thief when it comes to NBA basketball. He's led the league in steals five times in his career. He's led the NBA in steals per game four times in his career.

If he keeps up his usual pace of roughly 180 steals every season, he'll be close to cracking the top 50 all-time in total steals after next season. And obviously he's one of the top assist men in the NBA year in and year out. 

You have to have pretty quick hands to pull both of those accomplishments off, which would serve him perfectly for table tennis. We already know he has fantastically quick reactions to just about any situation on the court, so he should be able to pull off finding the ping pong ball coming at him and send it back with incredible accuracy.  

James Harden: Skeet Shooting

James Harden was one of the more accurate shooters last year. He almost crept into that Kevin Durant FG/3FG/FT range by tossing in 49 percent on field goals, 39 percent from the three-point line and 84.6 percent from the free-throw line.

He was second in the NBA in True Shooting percentage with 66.0 percent. His TS% was only the seventh time during the three-point era in which a guard had a TS% of 65 percent or better while attempting at least 500 shots on the floor. 

Given Harden's accuracy, it seems like a shooting competition is something his eyes would be trained to do. He'd be able to adjust to the moving target fairly quickly and regain a shooting ability that inexplicably left him during the NBA Finals. Assuming he hasn't contracted Nick Anderson syndrome, of course.  

Carmelo Anthony: Wrestling

Put Carmelo Anthony in the post and he'll bully your team. He has incredible lower body strength that helps him get leverage. He understands how to use his positioning to get an advantage, spin behind a defender and get to wherever he needs to go.

Sure, he doesn't utilize this as much as he utilizes never-ending jab steps before throwing up a 20-footer, but when he wants to dominate in the post, he's quite good at it. 

Throw him on the wrestling mat and I think he'll feel pretty comfortable. When he gets a grip on the basketball, he rarely lets go until he's ready to shoot. You think he's going to loosen his grip when he has an opponent in a full-nelson? He's also pretty seasoned at wrestling with trade rumors and management. I assume it's kind of the same thing.