The USA males’s basketball group superior in an exhilarating 95-91 win over Serbia on Thursday, erasing what had been at one level a 17-point deficit to keep away from what would have been a large upset.
The win sends them by to the finals the place they’ll face host nation France for a shot on the gold medal.
The trio of LeBron James, Steph Curry and Joel Embiid helped carry them through, with James having an particularly dominant displaying. It additionally put him into a really small and unique membership for Olympic males’s basketball.
James completed the sport with 16 factors, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, giving him a triple-double within the win. That’s his second triple-double in Olympic competitors. It was not solely simply the fourth triple-double in Olympic historical past; he’s the primary participant to ever accomplish it twice.
James’ first triple-double got here in the course of the 2012 video games in opposition to Australia.
