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For the first time in 16 years and the fifth time in their history, Brazil won the continental championship of America, prevailing 55-47 over Argentina in Managua, Nicaragua. Point guard Yago Santos capped a brilliant individual tournament, leading Brazil with 14 points and 5 assists, as the team of Croatian head coach Aleksandar Petrovic won the event for the first time since 2009. Alongside their five championship trophies, the Verdeamarela also boasts three silver medals and four bronze.

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Brazil beats Team USA in semifinals of AmeriCup 92-77 [20-23; 18-29; 20-16; 34-9] after a crazy comeback in the last 10 minutes. Team USA was up by 20 in the 3rd, and had a 61-73 lead at the start of the 4th quarter, before Brazil pulled away a 32-4 run to finish the game.

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Bryan Fonseca: Team USA led Brazil 68-58 after three quarters. Brazil dominated the fourth, outscoring Team USA 34-9. Team USA will play for the Bronze tomorrow. Brazil awaits the winner of Canada vs. Argentina in tomorrow night's Gold Medal game.

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Ex-Bulls player Cristiano Felicio signed with Brazilian team Franca Basquetebol Clube for the 2025-26 season.

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The Bucks star forward Antetokounmpo had a frightening moment while in Brazil, a viral video showed on Monday. Antetokounmpo was in Rio de Janeiro to dedicate a basketball court in his name in the city. In front of the crowd that had gathered, Antetokounmpo decided to inaugurate the court with a dunk. Unfortunately for Antetokounmpo though, he slipped on the court as he was going up for the jam and took a pretty hard spill.

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Draymond Green: This is Team USA. That’s the best basketball team in the world. And Melo was the go-to scorer. And so I think—just even with that—I’ll never forget. We had a little situation in Brazil, and after that happened, we had like a two-and-a-half-hour meeting. I call Jerry Colangelo “Doc.” So Doc is up there, Coach K says something, and then Doc just keeps going on and on and on, man. And we’re all just sitting there, taking it on the chin. Whole team. Sitting there, quiet, taking it. Finally, after like two hours, Melo was like: 'Hey Jerry, we got it. We’re all grown men. Let’s move on now. If this happens again, someone’s going to have to go home. You’ll be kicked out of the Olympics.' And that ended it. That was it. That was the end of it.

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Draymond Green: I’ll be 100% honest. I would flex my muscle a little bit—I got two of them things—but I’ll keep it real. I’m not a part of some of the greatest Olympic teams of all time. I got on my first Olympic team because some guys didn’t want to go due to the Zika virus in Brazil. A lot of guys didn’t want to go. I’m like, “Oh, yeah, you’re going to have to roll with me.” So, I’m not going to sit here and act like one of my Olympic teams could compete. I’m looking at this team list, and no, I’m not even going to do that. We had a good team—a really good team—but I’m not sure we could compete with this team

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Brazilian team Esporte Clube Pinheiros has secured former Jazz player Raul Neto for the 2024-25 season.

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Former NBA players Scott Machado and Luis Montero signed with Brazilian team Minas Tenis Clube for the 2024-25 season.

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Chris Fedor: I had a source tell me that the Cavs were taking a look, not that they were going to sign him, but they were taking a look at Bruno Caboclo while he was playing for the Brazil National Team. That's the level of scouting that they do so it would make sense that they would have an interest in Guerschon Yabusele.

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Former Blazers player Didi Louzada signed with Brazilian team Franca Basquetebol Clube for the 2024-25 season.

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Ben Golliver: USA Basketball’s LeBron James sporting a small bandage over his left eye, where he received four stitches after taking an inadvertent elbow in quarterfinal win over Brazil pic.twitter.com/PNtZHTwgs7

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Ben Golliver: USA Basketball coach Steve Kerr said LeBron James got four stitches after taking an inadvertent blow to the head during blowout win over Brazil

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During the game between Team USA and Brazil for the Olympic Games quarterfinals, Kevin Durant became the all-time leading scorer in USA Basketball’s Olympic history, passing Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie. “Records are meant to be broken,” Durant said. He finished with 11 points as USA won 122 – 87. “So it’s going to come along.”

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