Another game, another blowout for the U.S. at the Basketball World Cup
Hollis-Jefferson has tried to fashion his game — not to mention his current haircut, it seems, since there is a striking similarity — after Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, even wearing No. 24 on his jersey for Jordan this summer.
If this was his audition to get back to the NBA, after not playing in the league since June 2021, it wasn’t bad. He had 66 points in Jordan’s first two games at the World Cup, then shot 6 for 16 on Wednesday. Hollis-Jefferson had previously gone up against all four coaches on the U.S. staff — head coach Steve Kerr of Golden State and assistants Erik Spoelstra of Miami, Tyronn Lue of the Los Angeles Clippers and Mark Few of Gonzaga.
His Arizona teams went 2-0 against Gonzaga, and in the NBA, Hollis-Jefferson’s teams had a 1-7 record against Golden State when he played, a 3-7 mark against Lue’s teams and a 6-10 record against the Heat.USA: The U.S. also won all its group games by at least 20 points at the 2014 tournament, when there were five games in that round and not three. …Jordan: It was the first time Jordan played the U.S. in a senior men’s competition. U.S.
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