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Biggest threats to USA gold medal campaign
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The college season is long gone, the NBA Playoffs have been over for almost a month, and now even NBA Summer League has wrapped up. We're just about out of basketball.
But wait -- the Olympics are around the bend. Rio will have 12 teams competing for gold. And there's a college basketball angle to this.
Of the 144 roster spots on the 12 teams, 40 players have played NCAA college basketball. More than half of those players are represented on two squads: USA and Nigeria -- although some rosters, such as the 12-man Nigerian team has not officially been decided.