BEIJING — USA forward Chris Bosh ran out and blocked Greek guard Vasileios Spanoulis at the 3-point line as the buzzer sounded to end the first half of the USA-Greece men's basketball game on Thursday.
That was about the size of it for Greece at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium.
The Americans were too quick, too athletic, too determined to avenge a 2006 loss in the World Championships to let the Greeks get away with much in a 92-69 victory at the Beijing Olympics.
BEIJING - The U.S. beat China 101-70 in Pool B play for the Beijing Olympics at Wukesong Indoor Stadium late Sunday night. It hardly mattered, not when an appreciative, boisterous hometown crowd came to show their appreciation for the Chinese national team.
The Chinese took the floor and the crowd went wild. Yao Ming made the first bucket, a 3 from the wing, and the crowd went wild.
Chinese Landry Clark look-alike Zhu Fangyu - that's a Friday Nigh Lights reference for all you non-believers - made two 3's in the first quarter and the crowd went wild. Dwyane Wade scored several fastbreak buckets - he led all socrers with 19 points- while keying a second-quarter spurt for the U.S. and the crowd went wild.
You get the picture. Basketball is alive and well in China. Time for the NBA to move in.
