When the US wasn&#39;t watching, basketball&#39;s world changed
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ATHENS - So now it&#39;s official. Right there in black and white and bronze. Well, maybe not even bronze. But the facts of life are now stark and simple for US men&#39;s basketball in the Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece   LeBron James has finally made a positive impression on coach Larry Brown, while Carmelo Anthony is on the other end of the spectrum. Guess who helped the United States defeat Australia? And guess who didn&#39;t? &quot;We ...
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ATHENS, Greece -- Things are clearly far from perfect for the US Olympic men&#39;s basketball team. But now, perfection isn&#39;t important. Victories are. Against anybody.
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A confident American team enters the playoff rounds of the World Basketball Championship on an impressive run but some familiar faces are blocking the US path to reclaiming the global throne.
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I&#39;m no longer accepting the popular - and lame - excuse that the United States men&#39;s basketball team failed to win Olympic gold because its best players didn&#39;t show up.
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ATHENS - LeBron James and Tim Duncan sparked a fourth-quarter rally to lead the beleaguered US men&#39;s basketball team to an 89-79 win over Australia yesterday at the Helliniko Indoor Arena, but once again the Americans had to come from ...
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The NBA enters unfamiliar territory in its first season after the breakup of the Los Angeles Lakers, unquestionably the league&#39;s marquee team for the past five years.
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ATHENS -- For a team that hasn't lost an important international game in a decade, the United States women are fast becoming what we all thought the US men would be -- undisputed worldbeaters.
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When it comes right down to it, basketball is still a shooter&#39;s game. Especially international basketball. And on Friday, the US once again simply didn&#39;t shoot the ball well enough, succeeding on only 32 of
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SAITAMA, Japan -- As the United States was rolling through play in the world championships, Dwyane Wade couldn't help but notice that something seemed missing.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Look at it this way: At least the US basketball team won&#39;t be asked to give back its gold medal. On a day that was Olympic in scope both for its shock value and its intrinsic weirdness, the
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The days of U.S. domination of the  Olympic basketball tournament are over and so, it appears, is  the fans' love affair with the American Dream Team.
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The US men&#39;s basketball team is in the unfamiliar position of trying to look forward after backing into the quarter-finals of the Olympic basketball tournament.
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There was a time when winning the Davis Cup wasn&#39;ta goal for the United States -- it was an expectation. After recording a 3-2 win over Russia in the 1995 finals, the US was well
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It&#39;s almost old news now. Even those who don&#39;t follow the game of basketball have watched video clips of the now infamous Nov. 19 melee during a game between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers.
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ATHENS Serbia-Montenegro is shockingly out of medal contention in Olympic men&#39;s basketball, and the team&#39;s head coach doesn&#39;t have many admirers left at home.
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SAITAMA, Japan -- This experience was not the disaster so many uninformed Americans undoubtedly think it was. To put it in Belichickian terms, the USA basketball situation is what it is.