Tokyo Olympics Basketball: Kevin Durant, U.S.

Tokyo Olympics Basketball: Kevin Durant, U.S.
Beat Spain.
Kevin Durant takes his fair share of flack.
There’s his insecurity on social media.
His decision to join the 72-win Golden State Warriors, as a free agent, back in 2016, in order to chase championships.
(He won two.) Many hoops fans will never let him live that one down.
Sure, he’s a beautiful scorer.
But he’ll never be as all-around great as LeBron James.
Enough.
After the Tokyo Summer Olympics, we might just have to give Durant proper credit for serving his country so well.
Team USA beat Spain, 95-81, on Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo.
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Durant, who in a preliminary round game against the Czech Republic became Team USA’s all-time Olympic scorer, finished with 29 points to lead the team into Thursday’s semifinals, where the U.S.