Steve Kerr is the head coach of the U.S. men's basketball team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris next month, and he won't be the only UA graduate competing for gold in the sport.

Former Wildcats Josh Green (Australia) and Dusan Ristic (Serbia) will compete for spots with their countries' respective national teams that have already qualified for the Olympics, while three other former UA star players will compete in qualifying tournaments with their home countries this week.

Deandre Ayton trying to lead the Bahamas to its first Olympic Games, while Nico Mannion (Italy) and Azuolas Tubelis (Lithuania) want to give their countries their 14^th and the eighth Olympic bid.

Ayton, the former No. 1 overall NBA draft pick who was the Pac-12 Player of the Year and the 2018 Freshman of the Year with the Wildcats, is in his sixth NBA season and his first with the Portland Trail Blazers. The Bahamas will play in the qualifying tournament in Valencia, Spain, and will face Poland in the group stage on Wednesday and Finland on Thursday.

Mannion, a second-round pick by Golden State in 2020, played 30 games with the Warriors as a rookie following his season at the UA. The 23-year-old then headed overseas and played two seasons for Virtus Bologna in the Italian league before spending the 2023-24 season with teams in Spain and Italy.

Italy finished fifth at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and has won silver twice, in Athens (2004) and Moscow (1980). The country will take part in the qualifying tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it will face Bahrain on Tuesday and Puerto Rico on Thursday.

Tubelis, who played for the Wildcats from 2020 to 2023, just completed his first professional season and was named MVP of the Lithuanian Basketball League with Neptunas Klaipeda. Lithuania is aiming to return to the Olympics for the first time since 2016 in Brazil, where it finished seventh.

Lithuania, which will take part in the qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico and will face Mexico on Tuesday and Ivory Coast on Wednesday, won three bronze medals in a row in 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta) and 2000 (Sydney).

The winners of the four qualifying tournaments will join the eight teams that have already secured a place at the Olympic Games in Paris.

Green is one of 22 players on Australia's Olympic training squad, which will be reduced over the next few weeks. He was part of the team that won bronze in Tokyo, which qualified Green for the UA's Ring of Honor.

Green was selected in the first round by the Dallas Mavericks in 2021 and started 33 games for Dallas last season, appearing in all 22 games on the Mavs' road to the NBA Finals.

Ristic is one of 16 players competing for a spot on the Serbian national team. He has played the past six seasons in Europe since winning a school-record 118 games with Arizona from 2014 to 2018. He played between two Spanish professional clubs last season and recently got married.

Serbia, participating in only its second Olympic Games, won the silver medal in 2016.