(Original Caption) Dejected. Munich, West Germany: Dejected members of American basketball team sit on their bench after losing close game to USSR, in Olympic basketball final here. Russia won match, 51-50, on a layup shot by Aleksander Belov, but one of the two referees said the thought time had run out before the shot and said he would protest the outcome. Players include (LTR): Jim Brewer, Bob Jones, Dwight Jones, and Mike Banton.
10 SEPT 1972: The US basketball team shows their frustration to the decision of the officials giving the gold medal to the Soviet Union in at the Olympic games in Munich, West Germany. The final score was 51-50...Photo: © Rich Clarkson / Rich Clarkson & Assoc.
View of action between the Soviet Union (in red) and United States teams (in white), with American Mike Bantom (#7), surrounded by Soviet players, about to shoot during the final of the Basketball event at the 1972 Summer Olympics inside the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, West Germany on 9th Septenber 1972. The Soviet Union team would go on to win the game 51-50 to win the gold medal with the United States awarded the silver medal. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
View of action between the Soviet Union (in red) and United States teams (in white), with James Forbes (#10) and Mike Bantom (#7) of the United States in the air, in the final of the Basketball event at the 1972 Summer Olympics inside the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, West Germany on 9th Septenber 1972. The Soviet Union team would go on to win the game 51-50 to win the gold medal with the United States awarded the silver medal. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
10 SEPT 1972: The US basketball team shows their frustration to the decision of the officials giving the gold medal to the Soviet Union in at the Olympic games in Munich, West Germany. The final score was 51-50...Photo: © Rich Clarkson / Rich Clarkson & Assoc.
