PARIS — The ball bounced off the rim five times.
Five!
Stephen Curry came off that brick-house screen from Joel Embiid late in the fourth quarter, with Serbian guard Ognjen Dobrić running into the wall as if he were Wile E. Coyote and crumpling to the floor, and the greatest shooter of all time fired a shot from up top that might as well have landed on a craps table.
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With just 144 seconds left to play in this FIBA-style game where the clock is no one’s friend, it fell through the net to give Team USA a lead for the first time since midway through the first quarter. Eventually, Team USA
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