The second half of the U.S. men’s national basketball team’s final group-stage game against Puerto Rico on Saturday might as well have been a greatest hits compilation for Anthony Edwards: extra-mustard finger rolls, half-speed stepback 3s, hanging tomahawk dunks that keep the Ant-MJ comparison factories in business, and a picturesque breakaway windmill dunk that probably made fellow Olympian Chase Budinger proud. Team USA’s 104-83 victory officially gave it the top seed for the rest of the tournament; the four quarterfinal games will be played on Tuesday, with the U.S. facing Brazil as the nightcap.
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