{"id":38386,"date":"2024-07-11T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38386"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:22:28","slug":"usa-beat-canada-86-72-in-pre-olympic-mens-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/11\/usa-beat-canada-86-72-in-pre-olympic-mens-basketball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Beat Canada 86-72 In Pre-Olympic Men\u2019s Basketball Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USA senior men\u2019s basketball team began their preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic basketball tournament victoriously after defeating Canada 86-72 in an exhibition game in Las Vegas, Completesports.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>The game played in the early hours of Thursday, July 11 [Nigerian time] saw Anthony Davis lead the way for Team USA, finishing the game with 10 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 4 blocks, and a game-high 22 EFF.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Steph Curry added 12 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, and 16 EFF to secure the win for his team.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA began the first quarter on a slow start losing 14-21 but stepped up in the second quarter with an 8- margin gap, 41-33.<br \/>\nThe Americans finished the third quarter on a 9-0 run to gain a 15-point lead (69-54) while throughout the fourth quarter, Team USA maintained a safe lead and celebrated a convincing victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA senior men\u2019s basketball team began their preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic basketball tournament victoriously after defeating Canada 86-72 in an exhibition game in Las Vegas, Completesports.com reports. The game played in the early hours of Thursday, July 11 [Nigerian time] saw Anthony Davis lead the way for Team USA, finishing the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-38386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38388,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386\/revisions\/38388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}