Filed under: FIBA, USA Basketball, FIBA World Championship
ISTANBUL -- Two nations with a longstanding contentious relation met on the basketball court for the first time in a significant competition.
But that didn't mean much to the participants.
"I didn't realize it really until after the game,'' big man Kevin Love said when asked about any possible significance attached to his American team facing Iran on Wednesday at the World Championship, a game it won 88-51. "We were just so focused on winning the basketball game. ... (The Iranian players) were getting knocked down. We were getting knocked down, and we helped each other up. At the end of the day, it was just basketball. I'll let CNN talk about that stuff.''
Team USA center Tyson Chandler said he will "leave politics to the politicians.'' And Iran guard Mahdi Kamrany said, "It was a normal game. For me, it was just very normal.''
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