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08/08/2023 a las 17:22
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The team led by Steve Kerr played the first preparation match for the 2023 World Cup played in Las Vegas (Nevada)
The US team will continue its preparation for the World Cup with the Centenary Tournament of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), which will be held this week in Malaga
The United States team overwhelmed Puerto Rico with a 117-74 victory in their first preparation game for the 2023 World Cup played in Las Vegas (Nevada), before traveling to Spain to participate in the Centenary tournament of the Spanish Federation (FEB) together with Sergio Scariolo’s team and Luka Doncic’s Slovenia.
The team led by Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, sHe went into the break with a seven-point advantage (50-43), expanded to 33 at the end of the third quarter (94-61) of the match, in which Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves) and Cam Johnson (Brooklyn Nets) were the top scorers with 15 points each.
Puerto Rico, which on the 4th defeated the Dominican Republic 93-86 in their first match to prepare for the World Cup, had in the figure of Tremont Waters, an American of Dominican descent, his top scorer with 17 points and 5 recoveries.
Now heading to Spain
The US team will continue its preparation for the World Cup with the Centenary Tournament of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), which will be held this week in Malaga, where Slovenia will be measured on Saturday, August 12 and to Spain, champion of the last World Cup in 2019, on Sunday the 13th.
The World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia will be held from August 25 to September 10 and the United States is part of group C along with Jordan, Greece and New Zealand.
Spain is included in group G with Iran, Ivory Coast and Brazil and Slovenia in the F next to Georgia, Cape Verde and Venezuela.
2023-08-08 22:51:43
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