Powered again by Kevin Durant, the U.S. beat France to win the gold medal in men’s basketball at the Tokyo Olympics
SAITAMA, Japan—The U.S. men’s basketball team was still wondering what had just happened after it lost its opening game of the Olympics to France. But coach Gregg Popovich was barely surprised by the result that seemed to shock everyone else. He understood that the rest of the world had spent decades catching up to Team USA—and they were already here.
“I think that’s a little bit of hubris if you think the Americans are supposed to just roll out the ball and win,” he said. By the next time the U.S. played France, for the gold medal on Saturday, they did a little more than roll out the ball. They brought in a dialed-in Kevin Durant and a group of his teammates who had been steeled by a series of near disasters throughout this tournament.
And after scraping by at times in Japan, the Americans returned to a familiar place. They were golden again. Durant scored 29 as the U.S. beat France, 87-82, to secure its 16th men’s basketball gold and its fourth in a row. The U.S. once again overcame a wobbly beginning and once it had the lead managed to come through with timely hoops whenever the French narrowed the margin.
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