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Team USA basketball eliminated from World Cup medal contention with 89-79 loss to France
Team USA basketball eliminated from World Cup medal contention with 89-79 loss to France
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Team USA eliminated from World Cup medal contention with 89-79 loss to France
By Matt Bonesteel
September 11 at 10:00 AM
Team USA saw its 58-game winning streak in international tournaments featuring NBA players end Wednesday with an 89-79 loss to France in the quarterfinals of the FIBA World Cup in Dongguan, China, ensuring USA Basketball cannot medal.
Team USA’s last loss with NBA players on its roster came against Greece in the semifinals of the 2006 world championships. The Americans rebounded to win gold at the Beijing Olympics two years later and also won the two Olympic tournaments that followed. They already had qualified for next year’s Summer Games in Tokyo.
The composition of Team USA’s roster at those Olympics remains to be seen. Virtually all of the NBA’s top American stars elected to skip the World Cup, which FIBA moved to an odd year for the first time since the 1960s. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern called that move “a mistake.”
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Matt Bonesteel spent the first 17 years of his Washington Post career writing and editing. In 2014, Bonesteel pivoted from the newspaper to online and now he blogs for the Early Lead and other Web-based products owned by The Post. Follow https://twitter.com/MattBonesteel
Team USA eliminated from World Cup medal contention with 89-79 loss to France
By Matt Bonesteel
September 11 at 10:00 AM
Team USA saw its 58-game winning streak in international tournaments featuring NBA players end Wednesday with an 89-79 loss to France in the quarterfinals of the FIBA World Cup in Dongguan, China, ensuring USA Basketball cannot medal.
Team USA’s last loss with NBA players on its roster came against Greece in the semifinals of the 2006 world championships. The Americans rebounded to win gold at the Beijing Olympics two years later and also won the two Olympic tournaments that followed. They already had qualified for next year’s Summer Games in Tokyo.
The composition of Team USA’s roster at those Olympics remains to be seen. Virtually all of the NBA’s top American stars elected to skip the World Cup, which FIBA moved to an odd year for the first time since the 1960s. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern called that move “a mistake.”
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Matt Bonesteel spent the first 17 years of his Washington Post career writing and editing. In 2014, Bonesteel pivoted from the newspaper to online and now he blogs for the Early Lead and other Web-based products owned by The Post. Follow https://twitter.com/MattBonesteel