Reasons Why Warriors is Not Guaranteed A Championship

Three Reasons why the Golden State Warriors are not guaranteed a championship:

1. They have a completely new team, their bench is gone and there will definitely be chemistry problems

2. They will have to go through the Spurs, possibly in the WCF. The Spurs have added Pau Gasol, and they are capable of beating the Warriors.

3. If they make the Finals, they will (probably) have to go through the Cavs again, but the Cavs have kept their team and chemistry the same, and also are capable of beating the Warriors in a 7 game series.

Allen Iverson Top Players Of The All Time

Allen Iverson is being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame next month, and recently sat down with rapper Jadakiss for a wide-ranging interview including his top five players of all-time -- though Iverson was hard-pressed to settle on a fifth.

"Mike [Jordan], Shaq [O'Neal], Kobe [Bryant], LeBron [James]. [The fifth one] could be a lot of dudes," he said.

Rather than pick one last player to fill out his roster, Iverson listed five active players in addition to James who impress him today, choosing Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony. Iverson's preference for scoring point guards is no surprise, given that he averaged 26.7 PPG in his career, the seventh-best scoring average in NBA history.

USA MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM WINS 3RD STRAIGHT GOLD MEDAL.

USA basketball team wins 3rd straight Olympic Gold medal. USA men's basketball team advances to Olympic finals with an 82-76 win over Spain. It beats Serbia with 96-66 and won the Gold medal. When won the 2016 Rio Olympic Finals, It wins the 3rd straight Olympic Gold medal. 

TEAM USA, TWO WINS AWAY FROM A GOLD MEDAL

Team USA, two wins away from a gold medal, will play Spain in the semifinals at the 2016 Olympics Friday afternoon. Tipoff is at 2:30 p.m.

The Americans cruised past Argentina on Wednesday, 105-78, in the kind of rout many expected from Team USA (6-0) when the Summer Games opened up.

Spain (4-2) has won four straight games after a slow tournament start. It easily moved past France in the quarter-finals, securing a 92-67 win.

Pau Gasol, the sixth leading scorer in the Olympics, averaging 17.0 points, leads the way in what could be his final Olympics. He is joined by NBA players Nikola Mirotic, Jose Calderon, Ricky Rubio and New York Knicks 2015 second-round pick Willy Hernangomez, who scored 18 points in Wednesday's win against France.

Friday's matchup is a rematch of the last two Olympic gold medal games, both won by the United States.

The winner on Friday advances to play the Australia-Serbia winner for the gold medal.