The USA men's basketball team almost saw their gold medal dreams disappear on Thursday ... as the Red, White and Blue narrowly escaped an upset in a nail-biter against Serbia in the Olympics semifinals.
America was playing catchup for the majority of the game ... with Nikola Jokic and Bojan Bogdanoviu0107 ballin' out for Serbia. The Joker finished with 17 points and Bogdanoviu0107 led the squad with 20 of his own.
But in the waning moments of the contest, Stephen Curry, LeBron Jamesand the rest of Team USA found enough in the tank to erase the lead and pull out the dramatic victory -- punching their tickets to a finals matchup with Team France and Victor Wembanyama.