The USA males’s basketball crew nearly noticed their gold medal goals disappear on Thursday … because the Pink, White and Blue narrowly escaped an upset in a nail-biter towards Serbia within the Olympics semifinals.
America was enjoying catchup for almost all of the sport … with Nikola Jokic and Bojan Bogdanović ballin’ out for Serbia. The Joker completed with 17 factors and Bogdanović led the squad with 20 of his personal.
However within the waning moments of the competition, Stephen Curry, LeBron James and the remainder of Staff USA discovered sufficient within the tank to erase the lead and pull out the dramatic victory — punching their tickets to a finals matchup with Staff France and Victor Wembanyama.
Curry led the U.S. with 36 factors, whereas LeBron led the group with 10 assists. Kevin Durant was an enormous help off the bench, incomes 9 factors.
Joel Embiid additionally had 19 essential factors in 27 minutes on the courtroom.
Many followers had been stressing out … and we take it Travis Scott — who was courtside in Paris watching the video games together with his personal eyes — was amongst these with sweaty palms within the closing minutes.
However it was again to being his traditional raging self after the ultimate buzzer … as La Flame, Quavo and Michael Rubin had been noticed shedding their minds in celebration.
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Now, Staff USA backers can breathe an enormous sigh of aid.
The squad could have a brief break … with the gold medal recreation slated for Saturday. Get your popcorn prepared!!
