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Kevin Durant looks on as time winds down during Sunday's loss to France. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)

U.S. men’s basketball is out of wake-up calls after late-game collapse in loss to France

SAITAMA, Japan — When the U.S. men’s basketball team lost its exhibition opener to Nigeria this month, Coach Gregg Popovich said that he was “kind of glad it happened” and that it “could be the most important thing in this tournament for us.”  

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