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Germany beat Japan 104-83 in a men’s Olympic basketball warm-up game Friday when the women’s team lost 75-62 to France. Japan’s men, ranked 26th in the world, will face the third-ranked Germans next Saturday in their Olympic Group B opening game. Germany, the World Cup winner last summer, was led by Brooklyn Nets guard Dennis Schroder in Berlin, while Japan only hit around 30 percent from three-point range. Los Angeles Lakers forward Rui Hachimura led Japan with 19 points. But having sat out the team’s domestic warm-ups, Hachimura did not exactly click with his teammates. “It would not have be…

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