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AFP: USA dominate Canada in Olympic basketball warm-up

Posted by Tosh Meston on Sat, Jul 26

"I think the thing that is special about this team is that it has been a three-year commitment. It's not just about this year, but it's about what we've done in the past to get to this point."

-- Chris Paul

Team USA played an exhibition game against Canada at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas this evening as a tune up for Beijing. I have to say I thought it was a little rough in the first. The US was up, but it wasn't an immediate blow out and I thought Canada held pretty tough, but then the game was on. The talent we've come to know over the past two summers showed itself and the US ran out to a 120-65 win.

The next exhibition game is on the 31st against Turkey on ESPN2.

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NEWS

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