Team USA looking like a gold medal bunch

Team USA looking like a gold medal bunch
Team USA played its best game to date in a 119-82 drubbing of Spain. Charley Rosen says that’s bad news for the competition.NBA/~4/366752403″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

Report: Gordon refuses to sign Bulls’ offer
Chicago Bulls guard Ben Gordon won’t sign the club’s one-year qualifying offer of $6.4 million, setting the stage for a possible departure from the team, The Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.NBA/~4/366613339″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

U.S. routs Spain, stays unbeaten in Beijing
Four down, four to go. The U.S. men’s Olympic team is halfway back to the top of the basketball world. And not even the world champions - on paper anyway - could give the Americans a game. Unleashing a lethal 3-point barrage for the first time in Beijing, the Americans turned the marquee matchup of the preliminary round into another romp, beating Spain 119-82 Saturday night to clinch the top seed in their group.NBA/~4/366680746″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

Top five overrated NBA players
Too much media attention or one great shot can make a player bigger than he should be. Yardbarker lists five overhyped players.NBA/~4/366803486″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

Pargo to play in Russia (Yahoo! Sports)
Hornets free agent guard Jannero Pargo agrees to a one-year deal with Moscow Dynamo worth $3.8 million.

Williams might be the difference in Cleveland
Cleveland is overstocked at guard, but Mike Kahn says Mo Williams is the shooter LeBron needs to get back to the Finals.NBA/~4/365835382″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

Hawks Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Did the Hawks learn nothing from their most recent public relations disaster?

If you hadn’t heard, the Hawks became the first team in NBA history to lose a young, restricted free agent to a team from another country. Josh Childress left the Hawks last week for a three-year, $20 million offer from Olympiacos in Greece.

Slow-paced negotiations with Childress’ representatives cost the Hawks in that deal. And a similar negotiating tactic could have cost them the services of fellow restricted free agent Josh Smith, too.

This time, the Memphis Grizzlies—not a team overseas—gave Smith an offer sheet, and the Hawks, as is their right, quickly matched it. So he’s not going anywhere.

Hawks general manager Rick Sund, who had taken plenty of the heat for…