TOKYO – The United States men’s basketball team has done it again.
Despite all the obstacles of building a roster following a COVID-19 impacted NBA season, despite early struggles in exhibition games, despite even a rare loss in the group stage, the end result was the same as it’s been for the previous three Olympics: Gold.
Team USA finally did Saturday what it could not do when it played France nearly two weeks ago, closing out a 87-82 victory with some well-timed jumpers after France had cut the deficit to just three points with 5:40 left.
But unlike their first meeting, when France left the Americans shell-shocked after an 83-76 victory, the U.