The NBA season came to an end less than a month ago and now we have the pleasure of watching the United States' best ballers compete in exhibition games before making it to the London 2012 Olympics.
On Thursday, Team USA showed they are going to be tough on international competition as they destroyed the Dominican Republic in a 113-59 routing.
Kevin Durant came out to play, outscoring the Dominican starters with 24 points going 5-6 from three.
This matchup was the first of five exhibition matches the US team will play.
Exhibition Game 1 took place in Las Vegas on Thursday. They will then play on Monday in Washington D.C. before leaving for practice and games in Europe.
This is what the rest of Team USA's schedule looks like.
Exhibition Game 2
Monday, July 16th at 8 p.m.
USA vs. Brazil at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.
Exhibition Game 3
Thursday, July 19th at 9 p.m.
USA vs. Great Britain at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England
Exhibition Game 4
Sunday July 22nd at 3:30 p.m. EDT (9:30 p.m. in Spain)
USA vs. Argentina at Palau Saint Jordi in Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition Game 5
Tuesday July 24th at 10:30 p.m.
USA vs. Spain at Palai Saint Jordi in Barcelona Spain
In between the exhibition the US basketball team will have practices.
They start their journey to gold on July 29th against France.
