We felt we had to play a hard 40 minutes of perfect basketball to beat the United States. But in the end, we had to play 45 minutes to earn this tremendous victory.

Ron is one of the bright young coaches in the United States. He's done an excellent job as a head coach in our National Team Development Program over the last two years and we know our National Junior Team will be in more than capable hands with Ron as head coach.

This new rule will now give players the option of playing minor league professional basketball in the United States.

I'm sorry to see it. My great-grandparents came to the United States from Switzerland and farmed. We've been building on this land for 36 years.

We'd like to play the role of bridging between China and the United States and playing the role of pragmatic balancer -- to tell China there are ways to get out of this worsened relationship with the United States.

We hope that the United States government changes its position. But, if not, we propose that Group C play in Caracas. We don't approve of Cuba's exclusion.