Team USA went back home without a medal, but with tons of love and admiration from Filipino basketball fans, who
“Thank you, Manila , it said on its Facebook post. “Your love for the game is unrivaled. #USABMNT out .”
It was a slight improvement from their 7th-place finish in the 2019 World Cup in China, but it was still a big letdown for fans back home, expecting more from an all-NBA squad in the biggest basketball showpiece topped by Germany. The most magnanimous of them all, however, was Slovenian Luka Doncic, who threw his pair of shoes to the fans at the lower level and later gave his Player of the Game trophy to the ecstatic parents of a kid who was named after the Mavericks’ star.
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