SAITAMA, Japan — Yvonne Anderson knew playing in the Olympics for the U.S. was a longshot at best. “That’s a long list of players right there.” Anderson isn’t the only women’s basketball player to take this alternate route to the Olympics. Serbia’s Marina Maljkovic coached Anderson in a Turkish league, and the Serbia national team coach wanted to know if …
Damian Lillard scored 19 points and Johnson added 15 in an 83-76 victory Sunday night in the final pre-Olympic game for both teams before they head to Tokyo. He had a very, very good night.” This was the US team’s fourth exhibition in eight days in Las Vegas. “They are dangerous if they play as a team.” US women earn …
LAS VEGAS — Nneka Ogwumike and Elizabeth Williams have filed appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a last-ditch effort to play basketball for Nigeria in the upcoming Olympics, said two people familiar with the situation. The two WNBA players would need to have FIBA’s decision overturned by Sunday’s registration deadline for the Olympics or have the Court …
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