United States 104-83 Puerto Rico (Aug 3, 2024) Final Score - ESPN (2024)

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United States 104-83 Puerto Rico (Aug 3, 2024) Box Score - ESPN.

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On 15 August 2004, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the Puerto Rico National Basketball Team became the second team in history to defeat the United States Olympic basketball team, recording only the third loss in an Olympic competition for the U.S. team, and the first since NBA players were allowed to compete.

Final: USA 104, Puerto Rico 83.

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The U.S. men's basketball team took about a quarter and a half to find fifth gear on Saturday, but once it did, it lit up Stade Pierre-Mauroy, leaving Puerto Rico in the rearview in a 104-83 win to cap off a perfect run through group play.

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In 1901, the US Supreme Court ruled on the status of the island territories that came under US administration after the Spanish–American War of 1898. Puerto Rico became an “unincorporated territory”; such statuses was given to territories that were not considered potential states.

In the early 1880s, Puerto Ricans (at the time under Spanish rule) began to work for independent government. They reached their goal in 1897; however, a year later, Spain ceded the island to the United States under the provisions of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

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