- Americans lost opener to France but qualify for knockouts
- Kevin Durant now team’s all-time Olympic high-scorer
The US lost their first two exhibition games of the summer in Las Vegas, dropped their opening game at these Olympics and had a difficult time shaking free of the Czech Republic in their group-play finale. None of that matters now.
The Americans are headed to the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Games with a shot of being good as gold once again. Jayson Tatum scored 27 points, Kevin Durant added 23 and set a pair of USA Basketball men’s Olympic records, and the US defeated the Czechs 119-84 on Saturday to clinch a berth in the knockout stage.
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