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A nickname NBA player Lebron James got after Team USA failed to win a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics.
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ATHENS — The reasons are aplenty, some legitimate, some exaggerated and others simply imagined, but the reality of the situation is chilling — a group of top NBA stars, albeit, not the very top, but still among the best — lost three games at the Olympics and isn’t even in the gold medal game.
The United States is no longer the invincible basketball power it once was. The world’s best players might be in the NBA, but the best team, for right now, at least, is Argentina.
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The U.S. men’s basketball team, hurriedly assembled and seriously flawed, was beaten with surprising ease yesterday by the more experienced, more cohesive Argentines, 89-81, in an Olympic semifinal.
The U.S. men’s basketball team, hurriedly assembled and seriously flawed, was beaten with surprising ease yesterday by the more experienced, more cohesive Argentines, 89-81, in an Olympic semifinal.When, after being engulfed by the victors’ joyful postgame explosion, the Americans walked off the Olympic Indoor Arena court in a long, sad line, they were guaranteed an ignoble spot in U.S. Olympic history.
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