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Team USA rebounds for bronze

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider

Saturday, September 2, 2006

Saitama, Japan -- When they finally received their bronze medals after the best game they had played during the entire World Championship, the players on Team USA held their heads high and raised their arms to the crowd to acknowledge their cheers. They were not ashamed. They were proud. LeBron James even cracked a big huge smile as the photographers snapped photos of what will be remembered for the next two years as the world's third-best team. We report that fact not to mock them, but to thr ...

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