USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo refuses to apologise for the Americans’ dominance of worldwide basketball and says it is on other nations to raise their games in order to challenge them.
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“A combination of all of it”. “You didn’t hear me saying don’t shoot”. “People are talking about Canada, people are talking about Australia, they’re talking about Argentina losing their (older) players. Basketball is the No. 2 sport in the world, (but) we just need to see these other countries get their acts together and become more competitive”. But being a part of Team USA’s quest for a third consecutive gold medal allowed him to stay on the court and avoid being continually asked about his controversial decision to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was also an assistant coach for the gold medal-winning Dream Team in 1992 and a special assistant for the USA team that won gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“We’ve been helping in basketball around the world for 50 years”.
He had also scored 30 in the 2012 gold-medal game, after he poured in a US -record 38 in one game en route to the MVP of the 2010 world basketball championship. We’ve taught their coaches, players – look at the number of (international) players in the National Basketball Association, look at the number of global players in college today, in the states. “He said, ‘I want to see that guy again, ‘ ” Durant said.
Colangelo was brought in to the United States of America basketball fold to rehabilitate a program that took bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player led the way with 30 points as the United States overcame a sluggish first quarter by dominating the second 33-14 en route to a third gold in a row and 15th gold overall in the sport. I’m a lifer in the game. Just because it’s ‘Melo, I would love to pass him.
In winning the last gold medal of the Games, Team USA finalizes its dominance of the Rio Olympics, sitting atop the medal table with 46 gold medals and 121 overall, more than fifty more than the next closest country, China, who earned seventy medals.
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“You see guys who like to play, he loves to play”, Colangelo said of Durant.
