Who would have thought that sending a C grade team to a Basketball World Cup would backfire on the Americans?
With the likes of LeBron James watching from home, their quest to claim another trophy ended in disaster.
Every hoops fan from around the world is probably humming the French national anthem to themselves a little bit this morning after a huge upset in the quarter final.
The French stunned the heavy tournament favourites 89-79 meaning the highest the US can now finish is 5th.
It also means that one of France, Argentina, Spain or Australia will be crowned the new World Champion side.
It does lead to the question, if Australia wins, does that let the NBL call its winner the “world champion” instead of the NBA?
The 5th Ashes test gets underway tonight and with the Urn already booked on a flight back to Australia, both sides are making some changes for Lords.
Travis Head has been dropped from the side for Mitch Marsh while Peter Siddle will replace one of Pat Cummins or Josh Hazlewood who will be wrapped in cotton wool as the Aussies chase a clean series victory.
Over in the English camp, patience has run out with Jason Roy and he is going to be replaced by Ben Stokes who will only be asked to bat due to a shoulder injury.
Also dropped from the side is Craig Overton and in comes Sam Curran and Chris Woakes in an attempt to at least tie the series score up at two apiece.
It’s not exactly an ideal start to the Wallabies World Cup campaign but there are already a couple of injuries the team is being forced to monitor ahead of their opening pool game in Sapporo on September 21.
Lock Adam Coleman is nursing a sore thumb and centre Tevita Kurindrani are both on limited training at the moment but both are expected to be ready to go to face Fiji.
The news isn’t as good for 19 year old phenom Jordan Petaia who might have to wait until the second or even third pool game before getting out onto the field.