BEIJING - Marc Gasol looked to the sky as confetti fell, some sticking to his massive shoulders, and then cradled and kissed the giant golden chalice that goes to the World Cup champions.
The Toronto Raptors centre becomes just the second player to win an NBA title and a Fiba world gold medal in the same year, joining Lamar Odom - who did it for the Los Angeles Lakers and the United States in 2010. Australia, who led for most of the game, failed again to win any medal in a major international basketball tournament. The Boomers are 0-4 in Olympic bronze-medal games, and now 0-1 in the World Cup - previously known as the World Championship.
But they only cut the Spain lead to 19, and by then the Argentinian fans - who stood in the stands a few rows from their team's bench, singing and chanting for much of the game - were relatively quiet. The day belonged to Spain. And the year belongs to Gasol.
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