{"id":485944,"date":"2024-08-03T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485944"},"modified":"2024-08-03T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:28:34","slug":"team-usa-demolish-puerto-rico-104-83-to-make-it-3-out-of-3","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/team-usa-demolish-puerto-rico-104-83-to-make-it-3-out-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA demolish Puerto Rico 104-83 to make it 3 out of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a slow start, Team USA shifted into a higher gear in the second quarter and ultimately secured a 104-83 victory over Puerto Rico (25-29, 39-16, 23-14, 17-24) in their final group stage game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Team USA secures the No. 1 seed as they defeat Puerto Rico \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BbHjdBxwKV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BbHjdBxwKV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1819781858965823786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With this win, the USA topped Group C and earned the highest seed in the group stage, setting up a quarterfinal clash against Brazil, who finished third in Group B.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> led the American team with his best performance of the Olympics, scoring a game-high 26 points on 11-for-15 shooting, along with 3 rebounds and 3 assists in just 17 minutes of play. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a>, who was benched in the previous game against South Sudan, contributed 15 points on 6-for-14 shooting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a> had an all-around game, recording 10 points, 6 rebounds, and 8 assists, while <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> added 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>For Puerto Rico, Jose Alvarado was the top scorer with 18 points on 7-for-13 shooting. Aleem Ford and Ismael Romero each added 10 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a slow start, Team USA shifted into a higher gear in the second quarter and ultimately secured a 104-83 victory over Puerto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485946,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17669,17662],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19982,21110],"acf":{"announce":"Anthony Edwards was the top scorer with .. points","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\/485944"}],"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=485944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485947,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485944\/revisions\/485947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485944"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485944"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}