After dominating Argentina on Wednesday, Paul George and the United States men's basketball team will face a familiar opponent in Friday afternoon's Olympic semifinal round.
For the fourth straight Olympics, Team USA will play Spain in the knockout round. The two teams met in the gold medal game in each of the past two Olympics, with the USA winning 118-107 in Beijing in 2008 and 107-100 in London in 2012. The Americans also beat the Spaniards in the quarterfinal round in 2004 in Athens, coming away with a 102-94 win.
It seemed inevitable that these two countries — the top two teams in the FIBA World Rankings — would meet in Rio, but it's a bit of a surprise that their matchup comes in a semifinal rather than the gold medal game.