USA Triumphs Over France in Epic Olympic Men's Basketball Final
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00:00what a scene it was on Saturday for the gold medal match between the United
00:07States and France in men's basketball one of the games that we will remember
00:13for a very long time including the semi-final dramatic comeback victory
00:17over Serbia the United States prevails 98 87 France as they did in the women's
00:24gold medal game covering as close to a 16 point underdog but it will be a
00:29game remembered for what Stephen Curry can do behind the three-point line eight
00:34triples and somehow some way making shots that should not have gone down
00:39over Victor Wembenyama and every single French defender 24 points for Steph the
00:46chef and his only Olympic games goes home a gold medalist yeah it was a
00:51really good game and a fun game to watch and also coming off the heels of knocking
00:54off Serbia coming back you get the you know roundhouse punch from France they
00:58still are standing there at the end of the game only for Steph Curry to put on
01:03a mini Olympic show all by himself when you knew every time he was trying to
01:07work open here running off of those picks and those screens we allowed the
01:11clutch and grab and knock him off and it's not like he's six seven six eight
01:14like LeBron James here 250 pounds he's a smaller guy but still able to get open
01:19and knock down three-point shot after three-point shot after three-point shot
01:22monster shots this is what we love too because coming into the games did we
01:26expect the US to win the gold medal absolutely but also sometimes you're
01:29just asking for the best players in the world to have a little bit of adversity
01:32they had that in the past two games and they showed up absolutely golden in that
01:3798 87 game so much fun I don't think there's anybody on the planet that
01:41wasn't watching that game down the stretch knowing that you were watching
01:44greatness here and expecting Steph Curry to put the nail in the coffin for France
01:48and he did put them to sleep baby I loved watching it love to see you know
01:53what Ben it was really nice because everybody at that time frame in the
01:57middle of the afternoon on a Saturday was able to watch and those record
02:00numbers were a bonanza and rightfully so so much fun to watch the best in the
02:05world at the highest level you got that out of the men's team