{"id":4591,"date":"2024-08-10T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2024-08-11T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:31:48","slug":"curry-shoots-down-french-as-u-s-takes-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=4591","title":{"rendered":"Curry shoots down French as U.S. takes gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world of basketball caught up with the United States a decade ago. Numerous Europeans, Asians and player from Australia are sprinkled among NBA teams and when Olympic Games come around they play on their national teams and more times than I like they give our national team fits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;This summer it was Serbia and France who were the most trouble, Our national team overcame a 17-point deficit to defeat Servia 95-91 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Today, they beat a talented French squad 98-87 for their fifth straight gold medal and 16<sup>th<\/sup> overall that highlighted in the final two minutes and 11 seconds the best shooter to ever play the game, Steph Curry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France pulled within 82-79 and then wilted to the amazing shooting ability of Curry. It was Curry who was a perfect four-for-four from long distance that did it. His last three, an off-balanced shot under close guard swished through the net just like his others and finished off a gallant effort by the Frenchmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;He then blocked a shot, got the ball and the clock ran out, starting a big celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Curry finished with 24 points on eight of 13 from three and the aged-wonder, LeBron James, majestic in his play, nailing behind passes to teammates for easy scores and adding 14 points, six rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Steph-Curry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Steph-Curry.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4596\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of basketball caught up with the United States a decade ago. Numerous Europeans, Asians and player from Australia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mosher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}