Team USA’s Top 10 Most Followed Athletes On Instagram At The 2024 Paris Olympics

Sportscasting.com has gathered and analyzed the data for the top 10 most followed Team USA athletes on Instagram at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Key Highlights:

• LeBron James has the most Instagram followers (159 million) out of the 590+ athletes on Team USA.
• Men’s basketball players occupy seven of the top 10 spots.
• Simone Biles is Team USA’s most followed female athlete on Instagram with 7.5 million followers.

Hundreds of athletes in the United States will gather in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The festivities kick off with the Opening Ceremony on July 26.

Team USA consists of 592 athletes — 278 men and 314 women — competing in 34 sports. Some of these athletes, especially in basketball and gymnastics, are the best in the world.

With success comes fans. Many of Team USA’s athletes are global superstars with large social media followings, especially on Instagram. Here are Team USA’s top 10 most followed athletes on Instagram at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Team USA’s Top 10 Most Followed Athletes On Instagram At The 2024 Paris Olympics

Athlete Sports Instagram Followers*

LeBron James Basketball 159 million

Stephen Curry Basketball 56.6 million

Kevin Durant Basketball 13.4 million

Joel Embiid Basketball 7.6 million

Simone Biles Gymnastics 7.5 million

Jayson Tatum Basketball 7.1 million

Devin Booker Basketball 5.5 million

Nyjah Huston Skateboarding 5.1 million

Anthony Edwards Basketball 3.5 million

Sha’Carri Richardson Track and Field 3.4 million

*Followers on 7/25.

LeBron James, USA Basketball Dominate The List

James is the most popular athlete on Team USA, and it’s not close. “King James” has 159 million followers on Instagram, the most of any American athlete.

No one who plays basketball for a living has more Instagram followers than James. Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Virat Kohli, and Neymar are the only athletes with more Instagram followers than James.

If Team USA men’s basketball wins the tournament, it will be James’ third Olympic gold medal.

Coming in at No. 2 is James’ teammate, Stephen Curry. The Golden State Warriors guard boasts the second most Instagram followers on Team USA with 56.6 million.

Curry is a four-time NBA champion and two-time MVP. However, 2024 marks his first appearance for Team USA in the Olympics.

Five more Team USA men’s basketball players are in the top 10: Kevin Durant (13.4 million) at No. 3, Joel Embiid (7.6 million) at No. 4, Jayson Tatum (7.1 million) at No. 6, Devin Booker (5.5 million) at No. 7, and Anthony Edwards (3.5 million) at No. 9.

Simone Biles One Of The Top Followed Athletes At The Olympics

Like James in basketball, Simone Biles is the most popular gymnast in the United States with 7.5 million followers. Biles’ popularity transcends the sport, as her popularity continues to rise thanks to her Netflix docuseries, Simone Biles: Rising.

Regarded as one of the greatest ever, Biles enters Paris tied with Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals by an American gymnast.

Biles currently has four gold medals. If she wins two more golds, she passes Anton Heda for the most Olympic gold medals for an American gymnast.

The other two non-basketball athletes in the top 10 are skateboarder Nyjah Huston (5.1 million) at No. 8 and sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson (3.4 million) at No. 10.

Huston is attempting to medal in street skateboarding for the first time. Huston participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but did not wind up on the podium.

On the track, Richardson was set to compete at the 2020 Tokoyo Olympics before being suspended for THC use. Now, Richardson is back at the 2024 Olympics and has an excellent chance of winning the women’s 100m.