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i'm buch album of the detroit pre press i'm mike lupeka m lb dot com in the new york daily news and i am bob ryan of the b Free Press. I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I'm acquainted with those chaps.

And we do get together in this fashion each Monday and Thursday.

And we are in the midst of a controversial unparalleled Olympics for several reasons. And at the highlight of it for the Americans,

at the present moment, is the fact that, yes, indeed, our basketball lads will play for the

gold medal on Saturday, and they will be playing the French, who beat the Slovenians by one

point in a thrilling finish after the American after the Americans had

not thrashed, they were down by 15, but came back and, and defeated Australia.

So there's going to be a USA-France rematch.

And I'm glad, frankly, guys, for our sake, I'm going to put on my red, white, and blue garb right now. I'm glad for our sake that we going to put on my red white and blue uh garb right now i'm glad for our sake

that we are playing france who had beaten us because i don't think there'll be the slightest problem

of taking france uh not taking france quite seriously you know what bob and mitch i i'm happy

for kevin durant i am i i think this is a great moment for him. And I think sometimes because of

everything that's happened with the injuries and moving around and all the controversy when he went to

Golden State, we lose sight of the fact. And Bob, I know I'm preaching the choir on this. This is

one of the greatest players to ever live. He is one of the most gifted players because of his shooting touch and because of his size.

And nobody would have attacked him if he had chosen not to come to Tokyo after the crushing disappointment of what happened to him against the bucks in the playoffs.

And he has, as they say, risen to the occasion.

I think it's a very cool sports thing.

He is truly our lone indispensable man.

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