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Team USA's 58-Game Winning Streak Snapped By France, Twitter Reacts

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Team USA’s 58-game winning streak in FIBA and Olympic Competition while using NBA players has been snapped. The shaky squad comprised of some of the NBA’s “best” was handed an L by Team France.

Team USA’s 2019 men’s basketball roster comprised of Kyle Kuzma, Kemba Walker, De’Aron Fox, and more didn’t sound like a Gold Medal-winning squad. Today (September 11) France led by Frank Ntilikina, Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, and Nicolas Batum confirmed that belief. They handed the Gregg Popovich led squad an embarrassing 89-79 loss.

With this loss, the best Team USA can do in the FIBA tournament in China is placing 5th, knocking them out of medal contention. Despite Donovan Mitchell’s best efforts, Team USA failed to score down the stretch. France went on a 15-2 run to seal the deal ending the USA squad’s hopes of winning its third consecutive third cup.

Up until today, Team France was 0-9 in competitions against Team USA with most of the affairs being lopsided. Welp that will no longer be the case with France moving on in their quest to bring home the gold for their country. As you can imagine, some on Twitter are not shocked this JV Team USA squad that actually has Harrison Barnes on it lost. Others are using the opportunity to absolutely clown the team.

Losses like this usually build character, just ask the 2006 Team USA squad who sadly had to settle for a Bronze Medal. That team had LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, and Chris Bosh on it. Looks like another “redeem team” is on the way…we hope. Anyway hit the gallery below to see the reactions to France embarrassing Team USA below.

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The NBA has long been the global standard of elite basketball, but that perception was shifted radically Friday when Team USA lost to a game Team Australia in a stunning turn of events. As a result, the Gregg Popovich-led squad snapped its 78-game winning streak to a squad that features a standout player Pop coaches for the Spurs in Patty Mills.

ESPN reports:

For the first time in nearly 13 years, a U.S. roster of NBA players played an international game — and lost. Patty Mills scored 30 points, and Australia rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half to stun the Americans 98-94 and snap a 78-game U.S. winning streak that started with the bronze-medal game at the 2006 world championships.

“They wanted it more than us tonight,” U.S. guard Kemba Walker said. “Lesson learned for us.”

It was the first loss for the U.S. in a major international tournament or exhibition since the 2006 world championship semifinals against Greece. The Americans won the bronze there, then were unbeaten through the cycles for the 2007 FIBA Americas, 2008 Olympics, 2010 World Cup, 2012 Olympics, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

The Aussies have a few NBA players on their team including the aforementioned Mills who plays for San Antonio, Joe Ingles of the Utah Jazz, Andrew Bogut of the Golden State Warriors, Matthew Dellavedova of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Aron Baynes of the Phoenix Suns.

The FIBA World Cup of Basketball begins next weekend with all eyes on Team USA going forward.

THEY DID IT.

The @BasketballAus Boomers have beaten @usabasketball for the first time ever in front of 52,000 people#BoomersUSA #GoBoomers pic.twitter.com/emod2mFa3Z

— NBL (@NBL) August 24, 2019

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