US Basketball Men in Unfamiliar Territory
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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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New talk of adding European teams to the National Basketball Association within a decade has some appeal to the league's European stars, but they want to see the details.
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The start of the men&#39;s basketball bronze medal game was delayed more than a half-hour Saturday night after both the United States and Lithuania arrived wearing white uniforms.
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Many menâs basketball programs are moving to Division I in the hope of gaining exposure, money and a bit of glory.
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The U.S. men's national team faces a new set of hazards in World Cup qualifying, as the Americans are largely unfamiliar with most of Panama's players as well as the setting at 20,000-seat Estadio Rommel Fernandez.
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Many of college basketball's traditional powers feature lineups full of freshman who may have otherwise jumped from high school to the NBA.
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The U.S. men's basketball team can console itself with two things: third place and the highest point total of the Olympic tournament.
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The question of what&#39;s up between coach Larry Brown and nailed-to-the-bench young forward Carmelo Anthony is not, to be sure, the most important one facing the United States men&#39;s basketball team. The team&#39;s poor shooting -- after going 3-for-17 in ...
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Give the USA basketball team a break. After all, these are the nice guys, the ones who came. There are a lot of other players who couldn&#39;t find time in their busy summer schedules for the Olympics. And you know what? The Americans may yet ...
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The United States men's basketball team lost to Puerto Rico, 92-73. The loss could put the American gold medal hopes in jeopardy.
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The Knicks have discovered how to be competitive. They just have not figured out how to make the plays that matter most.
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The dirty little secret about this US men&#39;s basketball team is that it has played harder than any team in the Olympics and has been superior at doing anything that required plain old-fashioned effort.
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ATHENS, Greece - While the U.S. men's basketball team fell short of its gold-medal goal, the bronze it won Saturday night helped the American delegation reach a bigger goal - it was the 100th U.S...
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They used to be known as the "Dream  Team" but these days the men's U.S. basketball team could  justifiably be dubbed "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight."
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LAS VEGAS -- There are two unmistakable plotlines as USA Basketball gets ready for next month's Olympic qualifier. One is, "We learned from last year." The other is the presence of Kobe Bryant. The two are not unrelated.
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ATHENS - The US men have a basketball medal, but there is little consolation in the prize. Third place fell a couple of steps short of expectations, but the Americans had nowhere else to go Saturday in what
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ATHENS, Greece - Written off after their opener and branded failures back home, Stephon Marbury and the Americans are showing signs that they just might be the team to beat after all. Marbury set a U.S...