USA Basketball Vs. Brazil: Americans Storm Back To Win

Mission (Eventually) Accomplished: USA Wins, And Obama Survives The Kiss-Cam

Team USA survived Brazil on Monday night, and President Obama had some tests of his own. Relive USA Basketball's final tuneup before the Olympics with some notes from the night in Washington D.C.

USA Basketball Is No Dream Team, Yet

Why compare Team USA to a squad from 20 years ago when the 2012 Americans haven't even proven they are as good as the 2008 edition yet?

USA Basketball Vs. Brazil Final Score: LeBron James Leads Team USA To 80-69 Win

USA Basketball opened its final domestic exhibition before the 2012 London Olympics about as slowly as a team with LeBron James on it can open anything. And then Team USA found its speed and cruised past Brazil for an 80-69 victory.

James led all scorers with 30 points, and dominated Brazil's undersized forwards and too-slow bigs with his combination of size and speed. He was also the tip of the spear in the U.S.'s fearsome transition attack, which seems likely to be the most unstoppable aspect of a team that is the gold-medal favorite in London.

And, in other news, Barack Obama did finally kiss Michelle, so true love and romance are still alive or something.

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President Obama Favors '92 Dream Team, Gets Denied On Kiss-Cam

USA Basketball Vs. Brazil: Americans Build On Lead In Third Quarter

Team USA failed to fully pull away from Brazil in its Monday night exhibition scrap at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. The U.S. outscored Brazil 22-19 in the quarter to extend its lead to 59-51 entering the fourth quarter.

Marcelinho Huertas has helped keep the Brazilians close with an assortment of crafty moves to get floaters and lay-ups to go, but the Americans' superior speed and depth has proved to be the difference so far, as on the two-man fast break run to perfection by Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant that produced the final basket of the period.

In an extension of the game's running subplot, President Barack Obama told ESPN's Mark Jones in a halftime interview that he thinks the 1992 "Dream Team" would beat 2012's Team USA.

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USA Basketball Vs. Brazil, Halftime Score: U.S. Roars Back With 20-5 Second Quarter

It seemed at first like Team USA might have some trouble with Brazil in its last exhibition on this side of the Atlantic Ocean before the 2012 London Olympics. A throttling in the second quarter has the Americans back in control and up 37-32 at halftime, however.

USA Basketball ripped off a 16-2 run that wrested the lead back from Brazil in the second quarter, and fueled it with suffocating defense that led to multiple steals and easy lay-ups off of them. Team USA outscored Brazil 20-5 in the quarter, turning a double-digit lead for Brazil into a deficit in short order.

LeBron James leads all scorers in the game with 13 points, and threw down a couple of thunderous dunks in the period.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were featured on the Verizon Center's "Kiss Cam" early in the second quarter. They did not kiss.

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USA Basketball Vs. Brazil: Americans Trail, 27-17, After First Quarter

LeBron James and Co. haven't been able to do much against Brazil early on in another Olympic tune-up for Team USA.