We've got four teams and roughly 10 times that many intriguing storylines left in the men's basketball portion of the Rio Olympics.
It's elimination time now. A loss at this stage means bronze is the best-possible outcome, and nobody wants to come this far for that. Spain and America square off in half of the Friday bracket, while Serbia and Australia will do battle in the other. The winners advance to the gold-medal game.
The stakes are high, and Team USA's somewhat surprising vulnerability (don't get too caught up in that blowout win over an overmatched Argentina team in the quarterfinals) means the competition is a little more open than most would have expected.
Spain is rolling, Australia's offense is humming, Serbia just keeps surviving and the U.S. still has more than its share of kinks to work out.
This is going to be good.
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