2010 FIBA World Champiosnhip
The 2010 FIBA world Championship ended as expected; with USA topping the basketball betting onto the sports bookmakers and sports betting websites, the advantage was also demonstrated onto the basketball court as Team USA Vs Turkey tackled the World Championship final match with extreme tension. With the 2010 FIBA Basketball world chmapionship game ending by 81-64, USA finally claimed its 1st basketball world championship title since 1994. The success was mainly due to Kevin Durant who led the team’s scoring machine all along the Turkey 2010 basketball tournament.
At 21 years old of age, Durant is expected to star in the NBA 2010-2011 season under the NBA jerseys of Oklahoma Thunder; the new VIP awarded player will be featuring into the Team USA for a long period of time given that his basketball stats, basketball skills and the power to lead are ones of the best in the NBA.
By smoothly getting past his defenders, Durant was able to score from various spots and different areas; the American youngster scored 28 points against Turkey, of which 20 dots in the openning half time.
It was Durant who gave Team USA the lead of 42-32 versus Turkey basketball team; with 3-pointers being hit one after the other, the USA basketball jersey number 5 was at the top of his performance aside team mate Russel Westbrook who contributed with 13 points, 3 assists and 6 rebounds.
After the game, Durant was caught stating to the basketball live TV channels and to the basketball news reporters that: "I am happy to come home with a gold medal and I was blessed for such a coach as Coach K".
Note that coach Krzyzedwski stood behing the managing of team USA during the 2008 Olympic gold medal in Beijing.
Further more in the interview with Durant, the American added that "I was put in a great position to come here and be one of the main players, I took the challenge and it was a tough task to prepare for the international game. Calling us a B-team was great motivation because it (that label) was coming back from the United States.
Referring to the NBA experts and basketball predictions, Durant is expected to emerge as one of the best NBA players; with players like Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade missing on wearing the Team USA basketball shirts, it was a chance to Durant to step up and carry the American Flag into Turkey 2010.
Los Angeles Lakers centre Lamar Odom was able to hit 15 points aside 11 rebounds. FIBA stats showed that the success of the United States of America was due to the grab of 42 rebounds while forcing the Turks of Turkoglu to commit 14 turnovers.
The forward of the Phoenix Suns, Turkish Turkoglu, had to walk into the dressing room due to a collision that was rapidly treated; the return onto the basketball court was crafted with a strapped knee that didn’t stop the Suns player from leading his basketball squad with 16 points and 7 rebounds.
Given the fact that USA was superior to the Turkey basketball team from various aspects like the individual basketball skills, Focus, Planning and the ability to hit from different areas, the Turkish had plenty to applaud for especially after securing a podium finish on the home soil’ based FIBA basketball world championship… we couldn’t avoid mentionning the fact that Turkey’s appearance in the World Championship is only the 3rd so far in basketball history.

