US gold medal basketball team tells media to act like Americans

Fox News:

Newly crowned Olympic gold medalist Kevin Durant and Draymond Green fired back at the media on Saturday for a lack of support in Tokyo following a rough start, telling the critics: "You are an American, too. Act like it."

Team USA narrowly defeated France 87-82 in the gold medal match to earn America’s fourth consecutive gold in the event. The U.S. has long dominated the sport, winning 16 titles in 19 appearances, but Tokyo hadn’t started off the way the American’s had hoped.
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"Everybody who said we were going to take the L . . . They had some power rankings out. They had us fourth behind Slovenia. Come on, man," Durant said on his Instagram stories. "Talking about they're catching up to us, like, are you serious? This skill is unmatched, you dig?

"Kendrick Perkins, you talk a lot of s---. A lot of s---," Green chimed in. "Act like you're American."
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The athletes who were proud to be Americans at this Olympics were the real winner.  I have been a Kevin Durant fan since he played at the University of Texas.  I am glad to see him and the others come through with the gold.

Too many sportswriters think their job is to be a critic instead of telling the story of the game and the people who played.  Talk radio is infested with that on the sports side.