{"id":457233,"date":"2023-08-28T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457233"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:43:09","slug":"usa-trash-greece-without-giannis-at-fiba-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usa-trash-greece-without-giannis-at-fiba-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"USA trash Greece without Giannis at FIBA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Reave notched 15 points, and the USA defeated Greece 109-81 today to secure its place in the next FIBA Basketball World Cup round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Keep it rolling.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USABMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USABMNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinForUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WinForUSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMfJqPP7Wg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HMfJqPP7Wg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA Basketball (@usabasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usabasketball\/status\/1696168624602448015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> each netted 13 for the U.S., still undefeated in 7 matches overall since the beginning of the summer. Jalen scored all 5 of his shots, Bobby Portis finished with 10 points and Josh Hart grabbed 11 boards for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The victory, combined with New Zealand\u2019s 95-87 OT win against Jordan earlier today, means that the USA clinched a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round berth. The team led by Steve Kerr will finish the group stage with a clash vs. Jordan on Wednesday and then will face Lithuania and Montenegro on Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Georgios Papagiannis netted 17 points for Greece in the absence of its biggest superstar, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, who withdrew from the national team for the tournament, claiming he needs more time to recover from knee surgery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Austin Reaves takes home the Player of the Game award after USA&#8217;s dominant win over Greece \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cJ5WBZJ0gp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cJ5WBZJ0gp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1696173922490724556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Reave notched 15 points, and the USA defeated Greece 109-81 today to secure its place in the next FIBA Basketball World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":457234,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19062,21162,17437],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19063,21163,21164],"acf":{"announce":"The U.S. men\u2019s basketball team advanced to the 2nd round.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457237,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457233\/revisions\/457237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457233"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457233"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}