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Sunday, September 5, 2010

NBA News 2010: Turkey beats France 95-77

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ISTANBUL (AP)—Turkey used a 21-4 run spanning the second and third quarters on Sunday to eliminate France from the basketball world championship with a 95-77 win.

Phoenix Suns forward Hedo Turkoglu scored 20 points and Sinan Guler added 17 for Turkey, which played its first tournament game in the new Sinan Erdem Dome. A nearly capacity crowd of 15,000—including 22 members of Turkey’s national football squad sitting courtside—watched the home team make shoot 35 of 55 from the field in the round of 16 game.

Turkey’s reward is to play Slovenia on Wednesday in the quarterfinals.

“Everybody knows the fans in Turkey are loud,” France’s Boris Diaw said. The red-clad masses didn’t disappoint in this one, constantly cheering their team from before the tipoff through Guler’s layup at about three minutes left in the first half to put Turkey up 32-24.

Diaw, who plays for the Charlotte Bobcats, scored 21 points. De Colo added 15 for France, which had started strong in the preliminary round with three straight wins but fell to its group’s fourth-seeded spot after losing its last two games. Collett said he wished France could have played other teams from Turkey’s preliminary round group.


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Sunday, August 29, 2010

NBA News 2010: Kevin Durant scores 22 to lead U.S. past Slovenia at worlds

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ISTANBUL -- An arena that was nearly covered in Slovenian green grew louder with every U.S. miss.

Playing a rare early game, the United States had stalled after a quick start, and a double-digit lead was down to five as halftime approached.

Then, every time the Americans needed them, Kevin Durant seemed to get on the scoreboard and Kevin Love was on the backboard.

Kevin Durant got Team USA off to a fast start against Slovenia. So why did he take a seat halfway through the first quarter? Chris Sheridan asked Coach K that very question. Story

Durant scored 22 points, Love added 10 points and 11 rebounds in a gritty 13 minutes off the bench, and the Americans beat Slovenia 99-77 on Sunday in an opening-round game.

"They did a great job of fighting, getting stops and making plays, and we know that we can't go out here and blow every team out," Durant said. "We had to make this a grind game and we did that, and a good job of keeping our composure."

Rudy Gay finished with 16 points for the Americans (2-0), while Russell Westbrook and Andre Iguodala each had 11. Durant shot 8 of 13 before sitting out the fourth quarter and Love always seemed to be around the ball -- even when a Slovenian player tried holding his arm so he couldn't get it.

"We're used to that playing in Spain and Greece, so it was cool," Durant said. "I think we had to do a better job of holding onto the game and keeping them quiet by making plays, and I think we did that."

Durant ripped the ball away on Slovenia's opening possession and raced in for a dunk about 20 seconds into the game. Nachbar answered with a basket, but the Americans ran off 10 straight points, with Durant nailing a 3-pointer before throwing down another dunk for a 12-2 lead.

The Americans made eight of their first 11 shots from the field and led 23-11 after one quarter, then suddenly went cold in the second.


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