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Running out to a 10-0 lead to start the game, the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s U16 National Team (1-0) left no doubt early that it was the dominate side and cruised to an eventual 130-31 victory over Mexico (0-1) to open play at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Maldonado, Uruguay. En route to the win, the U.S. set or tied three FIBA Americas U16 Championship and four USA U16 team records, including tying the highest point output in the two previouys U16 tournaments (2009 and 2011) held to date.

The Pan American Games men’s basketball competition gets underway Wednesday, exactly 13 days after the USA Basketball men’s group assembled in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The U.S. squad is comprised for the first time in Pan American Games history by professional players who are under contract to play in the NBA Development League in 2011-12. Serving as the USA Pan American Games head coach is Tulsa 66ers mentor Nate Tibbetts. The 2011 USA Pan American Games Team consists of Blake Ahearn (Erie BayHawks/Missouri State ‘07); Brian Butch (Injured for 2010-11 season/Wisconsin ‘08); Justin Dentmon (Texas Legends/Washington ‘09); Jerome Dyson (Tulsa 66ers/Connecticut ‘10);...

EDITORIAL - You take the coach that just won the NBA title and supposedly you give him the greatest players in the world and what do you get? Stupid ego-driven streetballers who have embarrassed all of us in the sport that we Americans invented. Dr. Nasmith must have been turning over in his grave to see the thugs like Iverson work so hard to look so awful. Let little punks like Marbury, and Iverson talk smack all they want...Christian Laetner at least won the gold medal... And don't give me that lame line about him being on the same team...