NEW YORK (AP) — In Rio and any other Olympics, broadcasters are frequently criticized for a concentration on a home nation's athletes that causes it to miss interesting stories involving others. Some of it is fair, much of it isn't.
So it's worth noting the time and care NBC took to acknowledge the core of the Argentine men's basketball team that has been together since winning gold in 2004 and will now split up.
That team got off to a fast start in a quarterfinal game Wednesday, taking a 10-point lead against the United States. But the U.