Team USA was saved by the stars who defined a generation.
Fighting back from a 17-point deficit, Team USA avoided an all-time upset by riding the brilliance of Steph Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant toover Nikola Jokic and Serbia in the Olympic men’s basketball semifinals, setting up a showdown with host country France in Saturday’s gold-medal game.
Since the Dream Team was conceived to avenge the country’s collegian-led failure of 1988, Team USA has been a near-unstoppable superpower, entering every Games with the expectation that gold is a given. Anything less is a tragedy. Team USA basketball, constructed of gods who are worshiped worldwide, who trek down from Mount Olympus to join the mortals every four years, can never travel that path.
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