USA Basketball's thrilling gold medal win had analyst Dwyane Wade unable to sit: 'My pants are a little tight'

Dwyane Wade won a gold medal with the U.S. men’s basketball team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was part of the team that unfathomably took bronze a the 2004 games in Athens.

So you can understand the personal investment he had in the USA-France gold medal matchup on Saturday in Paris before you consider the close relationships he has with a number of the current players on the squad.

That made it understandably difficult for Wade to keep his cool as the color analyst on the NBC broadcast of the game. As Stephen Curry’s lights out shooting down the stretch delivered the United States a fifth consecutive gold, Wade couldn’t even get himself to sit down.

“I apologize,” Wade hilariously said to broadcast partner Noah Eagle as the final seconds ticked away. “I can’t even sit down. My pants a little tight.”

Wade can exhale now — thanks in part to this ridiculous Curry dagger from behind the arc — as the Americans defeated France, 96-87.

Or as Curry said, “Night, night”.

"THE GOLDEN DAGGER!"

Steph Curry that is utterly ridiculous. #ParisOlympics | NBC and Peacock pic.twitter.com/8hIN8tgmfK

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