LONDON (AP) — LeBron James says it doesn’t matter that the U.S. men’s game against Argentina on Monday is largely meaningless in determining whether the Americans clinch the top seed in their pool.
The 6-foot-8 James says the U.S. didn’t come to the Olympics to lose.
He says the Americans “don’t have time to waste and say, ‘OK, well, since we have the tiebreaker and all that, we can just go out and just lollygag.'”
Not to mention the Americans have too much history with Argentina, too much respect for Manu Ginobili and Luis Scola, and too much to clean up after a close call against Lithuania, to think they wouldn’t be focused in the final game before quarterfinal play begins.
The last step before the knockout stage promises to be a rugged one.
