{"id":3782,"date":"2016-08-22T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2016-08-22T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:04:28","slug":"kevin-durant-usa-blow-out-serbia-to-win-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kevin-durant-usa-blow-out-serbia-to-win-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant, USA blow out Serbia to win Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/durant.jpg\" alt=\"durant\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3783\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the win, Team USA \u2014 this 2016 version that was led by Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Paul George and all the rest \u2014 has won 52 consecutive games in FIBA play (24 in the Olympics).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t the Dream Team, or even the Redeem Team.<\/p>\n<p>But by the time Team USA\u2019s 96-66 win against Serbia was complete on Sunday and the mission for the third consecutive gold medal was complete, only one thing mattered more than all the comparisons that always inevitably come: this 2016 edition kept the Americans&#8217; sterling reputation intact.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years after their bronze finish in the Athens Games sparked so much change in the national program, and a decade after a bronze finish in the FIBA World Championship in Japan had Mike Krzyzewski\u2019s tenure as Team USA coach off to an inauspicious start, their run of perfection continues. With the win, Team USA \u2014 this 2016 version that was led by Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Paul George and all the rest \u2014 has won 52 consecutive games in FIBA play (24 in the Olympics).\/USA Today\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the win, Team USA \u2014 this 2016 version that was led by Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Paul George and all the rest \u2014 has won 52 consecutive games in FIBA play (24 in the Olympics). They weren\u2019t the Dream Team, or even the Redeem Team. But by the time Team USA\u2019s 96-66 win against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[516,517,484,483,166,292],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","tag-dream-team","tag-kevin-durant","tag-olympic-games","tag-rio2016","tag-serbia","tag-usa"],"views":1169,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}