Things are starting to turn sour for Team USA.
Great favorites of the Olympics, as always, the men of Gregg Popovitch do everything well to fall from the top.
We summarize: first, the Worlds completely messed up last year.
Then, an incomplete team, three players out of twelve currently participating in the NBA Finals (the Bucks Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton and the Sun Devin Booker).
Suffice to say that they will arrive rinsed, and without any common training.
And probably miss the first match against France because of quarantine.
We add, just to gain confidence, two first completely lunar friendlies, with defeats against Nigeria and Australia.
And on that, a small positive test for Covid-19 for Bradley Beal, the All-Star point guard of the Wizards.
Package for the Olympics therefore.
Package also from Australian star Liz Cambage
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Jerami Grant, a strong winger for the Pistons, is also in Covid protocol.
In short, given the karma, we would not rule out the hypothesis that the whole team has caught the coronavirus and must forfeit… In the meantime, Team USA has canceled its friendly match against Australia.
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Another confirmed absence from the Tokyo Olympics basketball tournament is that of the star of the Australian women's team, Liz Cambage.
She explained that she suffered from a mental health problem fueled by the prospect of "terrifying" isolation in the anti-Covid health bubble.
Cambage suffers from "panic attacks, don't sleep or eat."
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