Basketball
- Squad
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- Preliminary Round (Group A)
| Qualified for the quarterfinals |
| Team | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Tie |
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| United States | 5 | 0 | 522 | 345 | +177 | 10 | |
| Lithuania | 3 | 2 | 427 | 354 | +73 | 8 | 1W–0L |
| Croatia | 3 | 2 | 422 | 386 | +36 | 8 | 0W–1L |
| China | 2 | 3 | 360 | 502 | –142 | 7 | 1W–0L |
| Argentina | 2 | 3 | 351 | 396 | –45 | 7 | 0W–1L |
| Angola | 0 | 5 | 280 | 379 | –99 | 5 |
| July 20 | United States | 96–68 | Argentina | Referees: Gennaro Colucci (ITA), Stylianis Koukouleikidis (GRE) |
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| Pts: Robinson 18 Rebs: Hardaway 5 Asts: Hardaway, Hill 5 |
Pts: Espil 27 Rebs: Nicola 4 Asts: Milanesio 7 |
| July 22 | Argentina | 65–61 | Lithuania | Referees: Carl Jungebrand (FIN) Juan Figueroa (PUR) |
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| Pts: Espil 25 Rebs: Espil 6 Asts: Milanesio 6 |
Pts: Sabonis 30 Rebs: Sabonis 11 Asts: Marčiulionis 8 |
| July 24 | China | 87–77 | Argentina | Referees: Robert Barnett (AUS) Roman Ryzhyk (UKR) |
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| Pts: Zheng, Hu 22 Rebs: Zheng 9 Asts: Li 5 |
Pts: Espil 25 Rebs: Espil 5 Asts: Milanesio 8 |
| July 26 | Argentina | 75–90 | Croatia | Referees: José Piovesan Neto (BRA) Pascal Dorizon (FRA) |
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| Pts: Espil 17 Rebs: Osella 6 Asts: Milanesio 5 |
Pts: Komazec 28 Rebs: Kukoč 8 Asts: Kukoč 7 |
| July 28 | Argentina | 66–62 | Angola | Referees: Wieslaw Zych (POL) Kyoung Chong (KOR) |
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| Pts: Espil 21 Rebs: Villar 6 Asts: Osella 4 |
Pts: Dias 17 Rebs: Dias, Moreira 7 Asts: Ucuahamba 4 |
- 9th to 12th place classification
| July 30 | Argentina | 97–79 | Korea | Referees: Joe DeRosa (USA) Zhu Jiazhong (CHN) |
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| Pts: Espil 26 Rebs: Pérez 9 Asts: Espil 8 |
Pts: Jung 17 Rebs: Chun 8 Asts: Kang 8 |
- 9th place classification
| August 3 | Argentina | 87–77 | Puerto Rico | Referees: Davorin Nakic (CRO) Antonio Soares de Campos (ANG) |
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| Pts: Espil, Osella 17 Rebs: Milanesio, Oberto 7 Asts: Espil, Milanesio 7 |
Pts: Ortiz 21 Rebs: Ortiz 11 Asts: Travieso 5 |
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)