Team USA Notebook: No Slovenian Squabble at World Championship

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ISTANBUL -- The Americans won't be able to use guards on the opposing team fighting between themselves to their advantage Sunday.



You might recall the Slovenian Squabble during last spring's Western Conference finals between Goran Dragic's Phoenix Suns and Sasha Vujacic's Los Angeles Lakers, when the countrymen went at each other. After the deciding Game 6, which the Lakers won to advance to the NBA Finals, Vujacic called Dragic a "low human being'' due to allegedly insulting his family while Dragic said Vujacic was lying.



Perhaps it's good for Slovenia that only Dragic is playing in the World Championship here even if Dragic claims he would have been able to get along on the same team with Vujacic.



"We are professionals,'' Dragic said in an interview with FanHouse after scoring 16 points in an 80-56 win over Tunisia on Saturday, the day before his team faces the Americans. "We are playing for our national team. So if you have something against each other, we don't have to make this on the court.''

 

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