The original Dream Team famously lost a practrice scrimmage to a bunch of college players, but this year's Team U.S.A. took things a step further losing to a Nigeria team that didn't even have its best eligible players.
There are currently 19 players of Nigerian origin on NBA rosters, which include top players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Oladipo, Deandre Ayton, and Bam Adebayo. None of those four were playing for Nigeria last night. In fact Adebayo was playing for the losing U.S.A. squad.
Here were last night's rosters:
The four scorers for Nigeria were Gabe Vincent, Caleb Agada, Ike Nwamu, and Ike iroegbu.