Kevin Durant led the outfit with 25 on 10-14 shooting with six assists and two steals in, while DeMarcus Cousins added 17 points and five rebounds in limited minutes as the Mike Krzyzewski-coached group rolled.
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High-flying DeMar DeRozan provided a spectacle for the fans on hand with two monster dunks.
It has been reported that the US women’s basketball team will also be aboard the luxury ship, and regardless of how others may feel, the country’s best athletes will be safer on the Silver Cloud.
They went 5-0, averaged 102.8 points and overwhelmed their opponents by 43 per game.
DARIO SARIC, CROATIA. The “will he or won’t he join the 76ers” questions were as frequent as the losses previous year in Philadelphia, but the team got good news in July when the former lottery pick signed with the 76ers.
“It wears me out”, he said.
They play again Monday against Venezuela, another team they beat easily in exhibition play. “I’ve been with her for a very long time now and people who are close to me know that”. They’ll probably start five National Basketball Association players. Spain meets Lithuania in a rematch of the 2015 EuroBasket championship game, and Brazil and Argentina renew a fierce rivalry that’s seen one knock the other out of the last three major worldwide tournaments. “It goes up, and we have to react accordingly”.
That was the high point for China, the last and only time they would lead, as the USA clinically rolled to a 59-30 halftime advantage, leaving a flat atmosphere inside the packed Carioca Arena.
The men will be attempting to win a third straight gold medal.
“So we’re not as good as we’re going to be, and that’s kind of the way it’s been for us at the Olympics”, Auriemma said.
“We’ll have a chance to get a few days of consistent practice now”, said first time Olympian Elena Delle Donne, who made a few headlines when she talked openly about her fiancee Amanda Clifton in an upcoming story in Vogue magazine.
DeMarcus Cousins (center), and Carmelo Anthony, of the United States men’s basketball team, board the Silver Cloud cruise ship.
“Over 20 percent of the National Basketball Association is worldwide now and so there’s a deep respect for the game, for the global game, and we hope that we’ll be able to show that respect in the matter in which we play here in Rio de Janeiro”.
But the Americans didn’t come to Rio de Janeiro for fun and sun.
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“I think there’s a level of comfort now that you can tell that we have from our first game to our last warmup game”, Maya Moore said.
