{"id":485839,"date":"2024-07-31T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485839"},"modified":"2024-07-31T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:08:12","slug":"team-usa-secures-1-4-final-spot-with-103-86-victory-over-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/team-usa-secures-1-4-final-spot-with-103-86-victory-over-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Secures 1\/4-final spot with 103-86 victory over South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA continued their group play at the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, clinching a spot in the men&#8217;s basketball tournament&#8217;s quarterfinals with a decisive 103-86 win over South Sudan in France.<\/p>\n<p>This victory, crucial for advancing in the competition, came after a narrow 101-100 exhibition win against the same opponent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Team USA beats South Sudan 103-86 in convincing win \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Bam: 16 PTS, 7-9 FG, 7 REB<br \/>\nKD: 14 PTS, 3 AST, 2 REB<br \/>\nLeBron: 12 PTS, 7 REB, 6 AST<\/p>\n<p>2-0 in group play \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UxpSg6xIgp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UxpSg6xIgp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1818752044209242268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bam Adebayo led the charge for the Americans, contributing 16 points and seven rebounds off the bench. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> added 14 points, while <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a> tallied 12 points, six rebounds, and five assists. Derrick White chipped in with 10 points, and Anthony Davis had eight points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent from the game was <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/philadelphia-76ers\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a>, who had started in every game for Team USA up to this point. The coaching staff likely decided to rest Embiid, similar to their approach with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> against Serbia on Sunday. Embiid has faced boos from French fans throughout the Olympics due to his decision to play for Team USA over France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA continued their group play at the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, clinching a spot in the men&#8217;s basketball tournament&#8217;s quarterfinals with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485846,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17669,17662],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19982,21110],"acf":{"announce":"Joel Embiid got some rest, but continued to get boos from the French crowd","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\/485839"}],"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=485839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485848,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485839\/revisions\/485848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485839"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485839"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}