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With 17 days' worth of basketball in the books, it's time to take stock of the Olympic tournament beyond the headline story of these Games: the emphatic reassertion of U.S. men's basketball supremacy.

"People say NBA players are arrogant, selfish," Kobe Bryant began, smiling slightly, minutes after singing along as the Star Spangled Banner was played in tribute at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Stadium.

Chris Bosh wasn't looking so much for redemption as he was a reward when he agreed to sacrifice his time and game for the U.S. Olympic team.

The Raptors' Chris Bosh celebrates the American gold medal victory Sunday afternoon at Beijing's Olympic Basketball Gymnasium.

A twinkle enters his eye and he is ready to share some scuttlebutt floating around the U.S. basketball team about his prized forward and franchise player.

All the way, we were waiting for somebody to give the United States basketball team a game.

Being that the Raptors are the NBA's lone international team it truly is fitting that they are very well represented in this year's Olympics.

The adolescent squeals, the squeaking sneakers, the timeout horns that made the gym sound like a clogged Manhattan intersection -- this was the grating ambience in which Jermaine O'Neal worked late last month.

Chris Bosh e-mails Fanhouse : I'm so excited to get started it's killing me because I want to win that Gold medal so bad and it's still a few days away.

LeBron James, left, of the U.S. gets ready to dunk as Greece's Konstantinos Tsartsaris looks on during their preliminary- round basketball match at the Beijing Games on Thursday.

For the past two years, it was not clear that Chris Bosh belonged on the United States basketball team.

BEIJING -- Thanks for the memory. Greece will always have one night it can treasure forever after stunning the U.S. in the 2006 World Championships, but that was then and this is now.

BEIJING _ Chris Bosh may be a long way from home, but he knows what people are writing and saying back in America.

The "Redeem Team" lived up to its name on Thursday. Kobe Bryant and Chris Bosh each scored 18 points as the United States cruised to a convincing 92-69 victory over Greece in Group B. Dwyane Wade added 17 ...

"You can hardly turn around here without running into something with a picture of Yao Ming on it: a poster, a placard, a building.

American forward LeBron James goes in for a dunk against China during their Group B preliminary game on Sunday.

If Yao Ming is the biggest sports star in China, Kobe Bryant must be a close second.

"They still create awe among the masses but gone are the days when they could create the same wonderment on the basketball court.

Undefeated, but no longer unchallenged. The U.S. Olympic basketball team wrapped up its exhibition schedule with its toughest test, pulling away to beat Australia 87-76 yesterday in its final game before ...

Which New York borough is LeBron's favorite? Will he sign with the Nets because of Jay-Z? Will he be tempted to flee to Europe if Olympiakos makes a big enough offer? While most of the talk regarding the NBA's ...