SAITAMA -- Turkey coach Bogdan Tanjevic was clearly under the weather after the game.
It was not just because he was anguished by a 56-64 loss to France in the fifth-place playoff on Saturday, but it was also because he was upset about the FIBA World Championship still having a lot of room to develop as basketball's most privileged stage.
Why? That is because of the NBA.
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