Durant leads U.S. past France
LONDON — It wasn’t pretty, but it will do! The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team opened up with a victory over a French team that featured six NBA players including Tony Parker 98-71 in front of First Lady Michelle Obama.
Kevin Durant scored 22 points, LeBron James added eight assists.
“It wasn’t perfect,” James said. “We’ve still got room for improvement. We had too many turnovers, too many fouls and we had a couple of defensive rebounds we could have come up with. But overall, we played a pretty good game for as close to 40 minutes as possible.”
Ali Traore led the French with 12 points.
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Tony Parker nearly missed these Olympics. The 30-year-old recently underwent surgery after he was hit with broken glass during a nightclub fight in New York. Parker was not involved in the bottle-throwing melee between R&B singer Chris Brown and members of rapper Drake’s entourage.
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(written by Andrew Mitchell)
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