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[Urbonas] Giannis: "The day they told me and asked me if I'd be willing to represent the country and be the flag barrier, my first response was, 'I want my captain, Kostas Papanikolaou, to do it.' He had more national team appearances than me. But it was like, 'No, we want you to do it— (cont.)"
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Brian Windhorst claims FIBA intentionally makes it hard for NBA players to participate in 3x3 basketball in the Olympics because they don't want the USA to win
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[Golliver] In passionate comments, South Sudan’s Luol Deng said referees treated his players differently than Serbia: “It’s a narrative and a stigma that’s out there that African players are aggressive… I don’t know why there’s no African referees in the Olympics. It’s 2024.”
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Bogdanovic on Jokic - "He’s great, but he only likes to talk to me. You know that in the NBA, if he doesn’t talk to media, he’ll get fined. But here (in the Olympics), there are no fines. So he says, ‘I don’t need to.’ No offense to you guys."
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