Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast, special episode weekend edition.

We're going to talk about Team USA winning the gold in France, beating the home country, France, in the gold medal game.

LeBron James, big stuff for him. He becomes the Fiba MVP. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about

Step Curry going off again. We need to talk about that. We'll talk about Step

Curry going off again. We need to talk about Tyrese Halliburton winning the gold and

winning the internet. You guys are going to love this. Anthony Davis too had some comments

on the upcoming season and the Lakers also fired a coach. Lots of stuff to talk about on today's

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out the show all right let's dive right into it the u.sS. They win the gold. They got it done, beating France.

This was a fantastic performance from the United States. You know, you knew that France was going to

throw everything they had at the U.S. They've got the home country behind them, the crowds behind

them, the referees may be behind them a little bit too.

You knew there was going to be some home cooking with the whistle.

I think that certainly did happen.

But ultimately, the United States is able to walk away with a, I guess we could say comfortable,

9887 win.

It did get down to a three-point game at one point.

France tried to make a comeback, but the U.S. is going to walk away with the victory.

Now, you look across the stat sheet, and you can see, it really tells the tale of this game,

this was a team effort for the United States.

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