There was no Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Anthony Davis or Chris Paul, among others, but that didn’t stop the United States from dominating Serbia in Sunday’s gold-medal game at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 96-66.
The Americans went a perfect 8-0 at the Games, but the program’s managing director, Jerry Colangelo, didn’t hold back when an international reporter asked him about the wide margin of victory in Sunday’s contest, per Sam Amick of USA Today:
I’m all for raising the bar for global basketball. The more interest in basketball on all levels, I’m for.