US basketballers arrive in China with gold in mind

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

MACAU (AFP) — Team USA chatted freely about winning gold at the Beijing Games and rejected suggestions of complacency as they jetted into Chinese territory on Monday to begin their Olympic preparations in earnest.

Star forward LeBron James, back to fitness after an ankle sprain, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony all expressed confidence about the big prize despite an international drought stretching back to Sydney 2000.

"I will be playing here in Macau and in Shanghai preparing myself to get ready for Beijing," said James of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

"We're going to use these matches to get better every day, every second we're on the basketball court, to come together to be the team we need to be to win the gold medal."

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