Gregg Popovich may have a problem on his hands.
Team USA dropped its second straight exhibition game on Monday night, falling to Australia 91-83 in Las Vegas.
The Americans fell to Nigeria 90-87 on Saturday. It was the first of five exhibition games they’ll play before making the trip to the Tokyo Olympics, where they are -600 favorites, according to BetMGM, to win the gold medal. The team has lost four times since the 1992 Dream Team, and were 54-2 before the back-to-back losses.
Team USA has lost two straight games only twice before since 1992, once at the 2002 FIBA World Cup and at the 2019 Basketball World Cup.