{"id":485537,"date":"2024-07-23T02:19:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485537"},"modified":"2024-07-23T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:20:00","slug":"usa-completes-exhibition-tour-with-perfect-record-ahead-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usa-completes-exhibition-tour-with-perfect-record-ahead-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"USA completes exhibition tour with perfect record ahead of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its final match before the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team USA managed to fend off a strong challenge from Germany, finishing its exhibition tour with a flawless 5-0 record.<\/p>\n<p>Germany held an 82-81 lead with under four minutes left in the fourth quarter, but the United States rallied, thanks largely to <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old, who is Team USA&#8217;s flagbearer and oldest player on the roster, scored the team&#8217;s final 11 points on 4-of-4 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>James ended the game with a game-high 20 points, leading the U.S. to a 92-88 victory. He also contributed six rebounds, four assists, a steal, and a block.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TEAM USA HOLDS OFF GERMANY, 92-88 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 LeBron: 20 PTS (11 PTS IN 4Q)<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd25 Embiid: 15 PTS, 8 REB, 5 AST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HwLq4DybN5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HwLq4DybN5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1815495797590618284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Five other U.S. players scored in double figures: <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a> with 15 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> with 13, and Anthony Davis and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> adding 11 and 10 points respectively. Overall, the United States shot 49.28% from the field (34-69), compared to Germany&#8217;s 35.8% shooting (29-81).<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s effort was led by Franz Wagner, the young Orlando Magic star, who scored 18 points and added seven rebounds, four assists, and three steals.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA&#8217;s next game will be against Serbia in the group stage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, scheduled for 11:15 a.m. ET on July 28.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vB-dUGMFV90?si=ZXPgjIgbGfz_XJxR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its final match before the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team USA managed to fend off a strong challenge from Germany, finishing its exhibition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16880,17669,17662],"news_category":[20292,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19351,19982,21110],"acf":{"announce":"The favorites for Olympic gold defeated Germany 92-88","video":["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\/485537"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485540,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485537\/revisions\/485540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485537"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485537"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}