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The Miseducation of the 2004 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team

Draymond Green isn't the only NBA superstar who started recruiting immediately following a huge loss on one of the world's biggest stages.

It was the first—and so far, the last—time the USA men's basketball team had not won gold in the Olympics since the legendary 1992 "Dream Team" introduced NBA stars to international competition.

Athens. 2004. LeBron James. Carmelo Anthony. Tim Duncan. Allen Iverson.

The national team of Argentina, whose 2017 FIBA AmeriCup team lost a gold medal to the USA this weekend after blowing a 20-point lead in the championship game, turned that 2004 American march to gold into a now-infamous bronze-medal conquest.