{"id":486055,"date":"2024-08-06T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486055"},"modified":"2024-08-06T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:22:27","slug":"team-usa-trash-brazil-122-87-to-reach-the-olympic-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/team-usa-trash-brazil-122-87-to-reach-the-olympic-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA trash Brazil 122-87 to reach the Olympic semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is 1 thing <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a> has learned during the Olympic Games, it is that the home crowd can boo him, but no one here can stop him from being dominant.<\/p>\n<p>Joel\u2019s comfort level dealing with adversity mirrored that of the rest of his teammates today as the USA defeated Brazil 122-87 in a \u00bc final match and Steve Kerr\u2019s players are now 2 victories from a 5<sup>th<\/sup> straight gold medal and will face Serbia in the \u00bd finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEMIS SECURED \ud83d\udd12<\/p>\n<p>The men of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usabasketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usabasketball<\/a> will face Serbia in the next round.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ParisOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ParisOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1PD6pwdCS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s1PD6pwdCS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team USA (@TeamUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamUSA\/status\/1820931886413164796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> finished with 11 points for the victory, passing legend Lisa Leslie for the most points in the nation\u2019s Olympic history. Kevin\u2019s record total sits at 494.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The greatest scorer in U.S. Olympic basketball history.<\/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\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Basketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Basketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NICZfJBWqu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NICZfJBWqu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; USA Basketball (@usabasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usabasketball\/status\/1820924483093311805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Within 12 minutes in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, Joel had 14 points and 7 boards as Brazilian players didn\u2019t found a way to limit him as Embiid scored 5 of 6 shots, including 2 from the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s 35-point victory, the U.S. national team as won each of its 1<sup>st<\/sup> 4 matches by at least 15 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is 1 thing Joel Embiid has learned during the Olympic Games, it is that the home crowd can boo him, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486058,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16933,17662],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18357,19951,21110],"acf":{"announce":"Embiid laughs off jeers and leads the U.S. team to victory.","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\/486055"}],"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=486055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486057,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486055\/revisions\/486057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486055"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486055"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}