Men's Basketball Trumpenfreude

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Basketball coach Gregg Popovich is best known to readers for being a ho-hum, run-of-the-mill, Trump-hating celebrity.

Now we can add to his resume the title of Worst Coach of the USA Men's Basketball Team.

Hahaha.

Oh I love it.

He finally got a shot this year at coaching the international team, after a rather successful career in the NBA.

And under Popovich's coaching, the team broke a 78-game winning streak, but that loss did not count against their winning streak in tournament games.

Popovich broke that streak this week, and lost again to set up a 2-game losing streak.

NBC Sports reported, "U.S. men’s basketball team loses again for worst-ever tourney result."

The story said, "The U.S. men’s basketball team lost for the second straight day at the FIBA World Cup, ensuring its worst-ever major international tournament result. It will be seventh or eighth place.

"The Americans, whose 58-game, 13-year tournament win streak with NBA players was snapped by France on Wednesday, suffered another defeat in a consolation-round game Thursday in China.

"Serbia dumped the U.S. 94-89 in a rematch of the Rio Olympic final. Serbia led 32-7 after the first quarter. Serbia advances to a fifth-place game on Saturday. The U.S. plays for seventh place on Saturday."

If this self-anointed "USA Team" loses, it will fall to 8th place.

Not having NBA players is no excuse. A nation of 320 million lost to Serbia, population 7,186,862.

But Popovich does not have to worry about a White House invitation. He didn't earn one. Maybe Hillary will have him over for her favorite meal.

Chardonnay.