Spain comes away with the silver medal and Argentina beat Lithuania 87-75 for the bronze medal.

An interesting note on the game is that Lisa Leslie and Teresa Edwards have both been on all four gold medal teams for the US. Which also makes them the only basketball players to ever win four gold medals.

If the US team let’s it guard down it will be looking at the silver medal. However, it sure looks like they will be taking home Gold medals.

MSNBC is broadcasting a full day tomorrow, as well, including women’s tennis, women’s handball, women’s basketball, women’s water polo and women’s volleyball. (Incidentally, U.S. women’s water polo is pursuing their third straight Olympic gold medal.) Men’s badminton (where U.S. competitor Raju Rai may actually have a chance), weightlifting and men’s archery are also available for viewing.

CNBC will be showing men’s beach volleyball, boxing, and women’s softball.

USA is broadcasting women’s beach volleyball, rowing, men’s tennis (featuring Wimbledon champion Rafael Nedal), women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball.

Oxygen will be covering gymnastics and equestrian.

Online, you can see archery, badminton, basketball, fencing, handball, field hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, tennis, water polo, weightlifting, and wrestling.

Your local NBC affiliate will be showing men’s volleyball overnight. Then, from 1-5 a.m., you can see a replay of tonight’s primetime. Tomorrow morning, you can see the U.S. basketball team against China. Also in the morning, rowing preliminaries, women’s cycling and men’s water polo. In the afternoon, check out men’s beach volleyball and more cycling. In the evening, cycling finishes up and there are swimming prelims. Primetime brings Michael Phelps going for a second gold in the men’s 4×100m free relay. There’s more swimming, with the women’s 400m free, men’s 100m breast, and the semifinal of the women’s 100m back stroke. The U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team starts their quest for gold, and the first diving gold medals of the Games will be awarded. Late night, you can check out women’s volleyball.

On MSNBC, you can watch men’s soccer: Italy vs. South Korea, women’s field hockey: USA vs. Argentina, and men’s handball: South Korea vs. Germany. In tennis, Roger Federer of Switzerland plays Dmitry Tursunov of Russia. Also, men’s volleyball, men’s water polo, badminton, men’s handball, and the men’s trap shooting gold-medal final.

CNBC will feature tennis and boxing.

USA is showing men’s basketball, women’s badminton, equestrian team eventing dressage, women’s tennis, men’s soccer, women’s archery team final, women’s weightlifting 53kg final, and the gold-medal final in men’s 56kg weightlifting.

Online, you can watch archery, badminton, basketball, cycling, equestrian, fencing, handball, field hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, tennis, water polo, and weightlifting.

During primetime Saturday night, you can watch men’s gymnastics qualifying rounds, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh doubtless trouncing a Latvian beach volleyball team, and gold medal rounds in the men’s 400m free, the women’s 4×100m free relay and the men’s and women’s 400m IM. Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff will be Americans to keep an eye on in the swimming.

Online, you can watch women’s archery, badminton, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s cycling, equestrian, fencing, handball, field hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, women’s soccer, tennis, water polo and weightlifting.

You can also watch several events online tomorrow, including badminton, basketball, equestrian, fencing, handball, judo, shooting and weightlifting, which will actually be after the opening ceremony in Beijing (I think), but before it airs on television here. Having an Olympics on the other side of the world makes those of us trying to cover it feel like we’re living in multiple dimensions I have a hard enough time remembering what day and time it is here without trying to keep track of what day and time it is in China.

The US did manage to win the game 87-76, but they played like it didn’t matter (and it didn’t really). Dwayne Wade said that they were playing “lazy” basketball. My guess is that they are tired of the exhibition games and just want to start the “real” olympic games.

Anyway, if you missed last night’s game here are some video highlights I found on youtube:

Anyway, here is the final 12 man roster for the United States Olympic basketball team:

Kobe Bryant – Los Angeles Lakers

LeBron James – Cleveland Cavaliers

Dwyane Wade – Miami Heat

Carmelo Anthony – Denver Nuggets

Jason Kidd – Dallas Mavericks

Tayshaun Prince – Detroit Pistons

Carlos Boozer – Utah Jazz

Chris Bosh – Toronto Raptors

Dwight Howard – Orlando Magic

Chris Paul – New Orleans Hornets

Michael Redd – Milwaukee Bucks

Deron Williams – Utah Jazz

One of the most notable players missing from the team is Allen Iverson. Iverson played on the 2004 team that won bronze. Even though it was a disapointing team, Allen was one of the few big name players to play for the 2004 team. It seems to me like he deserves to play for the 2008 team, because he was willing to put himself out there in 2004. Not to mention he has exerience in the Olympics. I understand the whole chemistry idea, but what about Dream Team 1 and Dream Team 2, did they have a lot of role players or stars?

What do you think? Should Allen Iverson be on the 2008 US Olympics Basketball Team?