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Yukihito Taguchi/USA TODAY Sports LAS VEGAS (AP) — These games don’t count. Right now, that is the only saving grace for USA Basketball. And for quite probably the first time in 29 years of NBA players suiting up for the national team, they heard boos when a game ended — on home soil, no less. Patty Mills scored 22 points and Australia held the U.S. without a field goal for the final 4:34 on the way to beating the Americans 91-83 on Monday night, dropping the three-time defending Olympic gold medalists to 0-2 in their five-game slate of exhibitions leading up to the Tokyo Games.

“Just goes to show that we have to play better,” Tatum said. The Americans had gone 39-0 in their last three Olympic seasons – including pre-Olympic exhibitions – on their way to gold medals and had been 54-2 in major exhibitions since NBA players began playing for USA Basketball in 1992. Plus, they’d beaten Nigeria by a combined 127 points in their last two meetings, one at the 2012 London Games, the other a warm-up for the 2016 Rio Games. Nigeria lost to the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics by 83 points. Lost to the Americans again four years later in an exhibition, that time by 44 point...

Team USA promotes Saddiq Bey, Darius Garland, Keldon Johnson from Select Team for exhibition games play Meet the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team (1:41) Check out highlights from all 12 members of Team USA's basketball squad ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. (1:41) Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books With just nine available players, Team USA promoted seven players, including three NBA players, from its Select Team for five exhibition games over the next week. In the event one of the national team players can't make it to Tokyo -- three players are currently competing in t...

USA adds Bey, Garland, Johnson for exhibitions By www.espn.com - NBA Jul 9, 2021 | 11:27 PM With just nine available players, Team USA promoted seven players from its Select Team for five exhibition games over the next week. '); } return false; }); $('#comments .commentlist .comment-content a').attr('target','_blank'); });

From a Busy Rookie Year to Team USA Training Camp, Patrick Williams is Soaking it All in If Erik Spoelstra’s comments about Patrick Williams’ development aren’t enough to spark excitement for Year 2, then maybe Williams’ own words will be. The 19-year-old is currently the youngest player at Team USA training camp. The Bulls No. 4-overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft got an invite to participate on the Select Team, which is a 17-man roster created to help train the official 12-man roster that will head to Tokyo later this month. For the first time since the end of the offseason, William...