The United States team overwhelmed Puerto Rico with a 117-74 victory in their first “official” preparation game for the 2023 World Cup played in Las Vegas (Nevada), before traveling to Spain to participate in the Centenary of the Spanish Federation (FEB) together with Sergio Scariolo’s team and Luka Doncic’s Slovenia. The United States had lost in the first test they played against an NBA team just 24 hours after starting the concentration.
The team led by Steve Kerr, the Golden State Warriors coach, went into the break with a seven-point advantage (50-43), extended to 33 at the end of the third quarter (94-61) of the match, in which Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves) and Cam Johnson (Brooklyn Nets) were the top scorers with 15 points each.
Puerto Rico, which defeated the Dominican Republic 93-86 on the 4th in their first match to prepare for the World Cup, had its top scorer with 17 points and 5 steals in the figure of Tremont Waters, an American of Dominican descent.
The US team will continue its preparation for the World Cup with the Centenary Tournament of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), which will be held this week in Malaga, where they will face Slovenia on Saturday August 12 and Spain, champion of the last World Cup in 2019, on Sunday 13.
The World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia will be held from August 25 to September 10 and the United States is part of group C along with Jordan, Greece and New Zealand.
Spain is included in group G with Iran, the Ivory Coast and Brazil, and Slovenia in group F along with Georgia, Cape Verde and Venezuela.
Meanwhile, the watch brand Lotus has presented a special edition of the watch of the Spanish basketball team, which it seeks to honor on the occasion of the upcoming World Cup, a design with which it wants to “represent the spirit of the national team”.
The special edition includes an extra strap specially designed in collaboration with the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), which includes the team’s emblematic colors and the iconic engraved FEB logo. In addition, the watch is presented in a box specially designed for the FEB, which includes the strap change tool.
The watch is now available in select stores and online via the official Lotus website. The price of the new Lotus Connected special edition for the FEB will be 299 euros.
2023-08-08 11:38:22
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