The FIBA World Cup is quickly approaching.
One week from Friday, the games will count and all the preparation will culminate with the international tournament that seems to matter to everyone else around the world except the United States — not that the U.S. is not sending a team capable of winning the tournament.
Unlike many of the other teams around the world, the U.S. is going to have to come together quickly to put all the bad memories of previous World Cups — they finished seventh in the 2019 version of the tournament — behind them.