that was a lot of fun watching that game, spain really made it interesting. That 17yr old point guard was pretty awesome, great shooting by so many spain players, good thing the usa woke up and shot well also. Gasol was great, wade won this game for them, no matter what they say about kobe. If kobe hadn’t missed so many shots early, it would’ve been a different game.

I also wondered what Amare was feeling watching this, this usa team (as you said) celebrated like kids, they were so happy! Very cool!! I can understand though why amare didn’t play, with the injury and the suns not winning the championship, still, I would’ve jumped at the chance to play, especially to win back the title….

You know……new developments in the world…..I’d say soccer was the largest sport (most popular) world wide in the 90’s and some of this decade, but with basketball so big now in china (1.2 billion+) and in europe and the usa…i wonder if it’s moving into the #1 slot? Just a thought..

With Nash, as much as I like the guy I’m glad he wasn’t playing for canada in the olympics, of course I don’t think they made the olympics anyways…but you get the idea….
(thinking of yao, ginobili (injury)…etc).

did I mention Wade was awesome?

Howard (as phxsun said above) shot free throws as poorly as shaq did/does/and will.
Nice to see this pay off for colangelo

My favorite part though was the dunk by Rudy Fernandez. The Trail Blazers are so lucky to have gotten him! I also truly enjoyed watching D. Wade swiftly steal the ball a few times from Spain. USA! USA!

wow! I didn’t realize, but we’re close to 30 days away from the start of the nba!!!