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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
The shot heard 'round the arena took place when the U.S. played Argentina earlier this week, a confusing and appalling scene when Carmelo Anthony was, to select a local metaphor, punched in the crown jewels by Argentina's backup point guard. He...
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The Hartford Courant
| 10 months ago
So, no, Nocioni's manic intensity hasn't changed a bit from his Bulls ' days...Expect Nocioni, whom the Bulls traded to Sacramento in February 2009 after 41/2 seasons as a fan favorite, to be in the thick of things as usual. The hyperactive forward...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
ments Kobe Bryant awakens in Team USA's win over Australia The Americans, after beating the Aussies in the men's basketball quarterfinals, will face Argentina once again for the chance to go for the gold. By Christopher Hartman, Contributor / August...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
With a different superstar finding his scoring touch in every game, the US Olympic NBA Dream Team has made an unbeaten run into Friday's semi-final against familiar foe Argentina look relatively easy. But the defending basketball champions are...
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Herald Net
| 10 months ago
As the shot fell through the net, Kobe Bryant held up three fingers on each hand. It was his third straight 3-pointer in the fourth quarter, enough for the U.S. men's Olympic team to finally put away stubborn Australia. Yes, all's fine with Bryant,...
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Sun Sentinel
| 10 months ago
Olympic record held by Phil Ford, Leon Wood and Michael Jordan . -- He completed the triple-double in just 30 minutes of action. -- And he did it on just seven shots. The NBA 's regular-season and Finals Most Valuable Player is now two...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Kobe Bryant is all the way across the Atlantic Ocean from the fans and media pundits back home, but he knows what they've been thinking. He knows they were wondering when he was going to break out of his scoring doldrums, when he was going to live up...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
Holders United States and Spain are one step away from a rematch of the 2008 gold-medal game after recording quarter-final victories in the Olympic men's basketball on Wednesday. The U.S., getting a lift from Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, eliminated...
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ESPN
| 10 months ago
Anthony Davis doesn't get many minutes or questions on this summer internship with the most feared band of ballers on the planet, but he was ready when someone asked him about the head-spinning year he's having. If you can add a gold medal to your...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
25 Australia exited the men's Olympic basketball competition in a spirited 119-86 loss to the United States in their quarter-final encounter at North Greenwich Arena. The Boomers were down 84-70 at three-quarter time, having earlier trailed by three...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
For the third straight Olympics, the United States faces Argentina in the semifinals of the men's basketball tournament. Argentina beat the Americans en route to the gold medal in Athens in 2004. The U.S. took revenge four years later in Beijing,...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Kobe Bryant scored all of his 20 points in the second half Wednesday to push the United States into the Olympic semifinals with a 119-86 win over Australia. The quarterfinal victory came after the Australians had clawed within 3 points less than 2...
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ESPN
| 10 months ago
Down to a precious fews days together, Argentina's "Golden Generation" still glows. Luis Scola scored 17 points, Manu Ginobili and Carlos Delfino added 16 apiece and Argentina held on down the stretch for an 82-77 quarterfinal win over Brazil in the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
The U.S. men's basketball team booked their expected place in the semi-finals of the Olympic tournament on Wednesday but were given a good game by Australia before Kobe Bryant put on a fourth-quarter show in a 119-86 win. Bryant drilled four three-...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
Argentina must play a perfect game against the latest United States ' Dream Team to reach Sunday's final of the Olympic tournament and even then it may not be enough, Argentina's coach and team leader said on Wednesday. "The odds are against us. We...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Argentina's Manu Ginobili (C) grabs the rebound with teammates Luis Scola (L) and Juan Gutierrez during their men's quarterfinal basketball match against Brazil at the North Greenwich Arena in London during the London 2012 Olympic Games August...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 10 months ago
The Sports Network The United States will meet Argentina in the semifinals of the men's Olympic basketball tournament for the third straight Olympics after taking down Australia, 119-86, on Wednesday. LeBron James had a triple-double with 11 points,...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Oi!'' at their sporting events, but it was American fans probably thinking Oy!'' as the second half of the Olympic men's basketball semifinal got underway late Wednesday night at the North Greenwich Arena. The Aussies reeled off an 11-0 run to close...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
Argentina overcame a sluggish start and a late Brazilian rally to beat their South American rivals 82-77 and claim a berth in the Olympic men's basketball semifinals on Wednesday. It is the third successive trip to the Olympic semifinals for...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
Up by just eight points late in the third quarter, after an 11-0 start by the Australians, the United States closed the game out with a mighty 45-20 run that included a barrage of long shots by Kobe Bryant, who led the Americans with 20 points. AMD,...
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The Mercury News
| 11 months ago
Luis Scola scored 17 points, Manu Ginobili and Carlos Delfino added 16 apiece and Argentina held on down the stretch for an 82-77 quarterfinal win over Brazil in the Olympic men's basketball tournament on Wednesday, setting up a probable rematch with...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 11 months ago
The Sports Network Luis Scola had 17 points and Argentina held off Brazil, 82-77, in the men's basketball quarterfinals. Carlos Delfino and Manu Ginobili added 16 points apiece for Argentina, which finished third in Group A during the preliminary...
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ESPN
| 11 months ago
As the competition moves from the ghostly white structure they call The Marshmallow in Olympic Park to the state-of-the-art O2 Arena, every final-eight matchup features an established basketball power trying to repel the challenge of an up-and-coming...
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Chandler Republic
| 11 months ago
After the Olympics, the basketball world will look to the West...Word will begin to spread, just like it did in Phoenix in 2004. What will Steve Nash do for the Los Angeles Lakers? "He's the setup man," Team USA star Kobe Bryant said. "He's the...
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Miami Herald
| 11 months ago
The U.S. men's basketball team that Mike Krzyzewski is coaching in these Olympics boasts a dazzling array of talent. But there is one crown jewel that shines above all others the player who is going to will this American team to victory, one way or...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Kobe Bryant has played the role of NBA ambassador perfectly at the Olympics, conducting interviews here in English, Spanish and Italian. He watched Usain Bolt win the 100 and saw the women's basketball team win its 39th straight game. Bryant even...
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China Post
| 11 months ago
Renaldas Seibutis led a fourth-quarter comeback and Lithuania rallied to beat Tunisia 76-63 Monday to clinch the last quarterfinal spot in Olympic men's basketball. Seibutis hit two consecutive 3-pointers to open a 63-56 lead with 4:45 remaining in...
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Associated Press
| 11 months ago
Defiant and defensive, Mike Krzyzewski hardly sounded like he coaches the best team in the world. He's tired of the criticisms of the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, fed up with questions about why it isn't as easy for the Americans as it used to...
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Japan Times
| 11 months ago
Though the Olympic basketball tournament can't measure up to the NBA playoffs, when Durant scores 28 points in 22 minutes against Argentina, a respectable foe, like he did on Monday, the only appropriate reaction is this: Wow...From what I saw,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Members of the US basketball team ride the public transport system. Photo: Instagram If it is good enough for the paying public it is good enough for the mega-rich, mega-famous Team USA basketball stars, or so it seems. Rather than be chauffeured to...
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Miami Herald
| 11 months ago
There's nothing like a little international intrigue and a punch in the groin to liven up the men's basketball tournament at the Olympic Games. First, there were whispers that Spain tanked its preliminary round group B game against Brazil to avoid...
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Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
August 7, 2012 Kevin Durant scored 28 points, including 17 in the decisive third quarter Monday, to help Team USA rout Argentina 12697. During that fateful quarter, the United States turned a one-point halftime lead into a comfortable 26-point...
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ESPN
| 11 months ago
Maybe this team gets sucked into launching the long ball too easily, maybe it gambles too much defensively and maybe, just maybe, it's too small to make it to the highest step of the Olympic basketball medal stand...The team USA Basketball has...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 11 months ago
U.S. men defeat Argentina, 126-97, in men's Olympic basketball 10:20 p.m. The U.S. men's basketball team keeps calling the Olympics a global game, espousing the importance of befriending opposing countries as much as possible...Tempers flared when...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 11 months ago
The USA men's basketball players are not merely Olympic athletes...Several took in Usain Bolt's gold-medal 100-meter sprint here Sunday...However, Durant said that his own 100-meter time was pretty good. "I'd say it was about eight seconds," he joked...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
Beyond the shoves and the elbows and the mutual disdain on Monday night, the latest men's basketball game/wrestling match between the United States and Argentina featured allegations of punches thrown...Lee/The New York Times Kobe Bryant scored 11...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
| 11 months ago
Bryant was spotted on Centre Court at Wimbledon, watching Roger Federer in the longest three-set match in the professional era. Durant spent some time trying to learn beach volleyball from Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings. Both Bryant and...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
LeBron James scored the first seven points of a 42-point third period Monday that sent the United States to a 126-97 win over Argentina in the Olympics. The Americans held only a one-point lead at halftime, but reached 100 points in the final seconds...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 11 months ago
It had been, oh, about three halves since the U.S. played solid basketball. But a strong 20 minutes came, finally, the U.S. emerging from a one-point halftime lead to win handily against Argentina, 126-97, in an Olympic preliminary game Monday. It...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
If barely beating Lithuania was a kick in the pants for the United States basketball team then blowing out Argentina was a shot to Carmelo Anthony 's groin. An otherwise meaningless final group game between two long-time rivals featured a vulnerable...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Argentina is the last team to win the gold medal, other than the United States. They took home the gold in 2004, defeating the U.S. on their way to a first place finish. Must Read Sponsorship Link Four current NBA players will try to upset Team USA...
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ESPN
| 11 months ago
If Argentina gives Team USA its toughest game in Group A of the Olympic tournament, as so many international basketball experts presumed at the start of these Games, Monday night's farewell to pool play will be some show. No opposing national team...
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The Mercury News
| 11 months ago
Font Resize Each day at the Olympics, I will preview the day's events and help you formulate viewing and reading priorities...The USA women's soccer team has reached the Olympic tournament semifinals, facing Canada today at Old Trafford stadium in...
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Sacramento Bee
| 11 months ago
After knocking off its first three foes by an average of 52.3 points, James and company barely got past Lithuania 99-94. And Lithuania shouldn't be confused with Argentina, today's opponent (2:15 p.m.), or Spain, considered the second-best team at...
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China Post
| 11 months ago
LeBron James provided the big plays down the stretch to help the United States escape with a 99-94 win over Lithuania and remain unbeaten barely at the men's Olympic basketball tournament Saturday. There was no such escape for Spain, silver medalist...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 11 months ago
After a huge weekend of competition, the pace slows a little (and we stress, a little) on this Monday at the Olympics. As usual, please note the early times for many of these events. Of course NBC will continue to pretend that they don't happen until...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 11 months ago
Scott Fowler is a national award-winning sports columnist for The Charlotte Observer. The U.S. mens basketball team just completed what coach Mike Krzyzewski refers to as the week before the week. Now it gets serious. Team USA has one more game in...
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Kansas City Star
| 11 months ago
Carmelo Anthony doesn't want to mess around against Argentina...The NBA's best players face another challenge Monday night when they wrap up pool play against the Argentines, who at 3-1 are not to be overlooked. Anthony acknowledged the Americans...
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GMA News
| 11 months ago
Coming off their toughest challenge of the Olympics, the US NBA Dream Team will face Argentina on Monday to decide a top seeding for the medal playoff quarterfinals that begin on Wednesday. The Americans, who held off Lithuania 99-94 thanks to a...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
If we win everyone is going to write that we won, we struggled, blew a few teams out...This is same story for me no matter if I'm on the Olympic team or on the Heat." James won his first NBA title last June and was named MVP of the Finals after the...
