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The Blues have achieved a historic feat by beating for the first time in competition the mythical US team (89-79) in the quarter-finals of the 2019 World Cup, Wednesday in Dongguan (China). A victory that the American press welcomed with disappointment.
While the New York Post evokes an "embarrassing" defeat, the New York Times describes it as "staggering" by claiming "France overthrows the United States".
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The American media have found in chorus: the 58 consecutive American victories have now ended. But questions remain. "Who's to blame?", In other words, in French, "Qui is responsable?" Asks the Bleacher Report , a reference sports site in the United States.
For many media, the culprits are absent: the American stars of the NBA who have dried the World Cup, like Lebron James or Stephen Curry. "When playing with a C team, what did you expect?" In this regard, a commentator of CBS has been annoyed.
But, the American media also keep hope. The Daily News claims, for example, that "the stars will come back next summer for Olympic gold and the rest of the world will be much less fortunate."
The revelation Frank Nilikina
At the end of this match, the Blues accomplished another feat: they agreed the big tabloids New York, including the Daily News and the New York Post . The two enemy brothers salute the performance of young Frank Nilikina, player of the New York Knicks. This great hope of French basketball has so far been disappointing in the NBA. The Knicks even tried to get rid of it. But after this match, the tabloids are more encouraging and ask him a second chance.