Australia won the bronze medal. (Photo: AFP)
The men’s basketball team from Australia won the bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this Saturday by beating Slovenia, 107-93, with a remarkable performance by Patty Mills, the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets point guard, who sum 42 points.
The Olympic gold had been for the United States that shortly after midnight got the medal by beating France 87-82 in the final, which featured forward Kevin Durant, who scored 29 goals, at the Saitama Sper Arena, adding 16 gold medals in 19 Olympic appearances, four in a row.
Australia, who beat Argentina in the quarterfinals by 97-59, had Mills at an unbalanced value with 42 points, followed by Joe Ingles, forward of Utah Jazz, with 16 points, and Jock Landale, pivot of San Antonio Spurs , with 14.
On the side of Slovenia, which in the first match in the games beat Argentina 118 to 100 with an unforgettable task from Luka Doncic, from Dallas Mavericks, adding 48 points, had its scorer precisely at the base with 22, followed by Klemen Prepelic with 18 and Mike Tobey with 13, both from Spanish Valencia.
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