Last week we reported that each member of Turkey's basketball team had been awarded $1 million ($18.7 million for the squad) after it reached the final of the 2010 World Championship.
We now have a figure for comparsion. Each player of Team USA, which won the gold medal, received $25.000. Indeed, the Dream Team that won the 2008 Olympics had been awarded with the same amount of money.
Meanwhile, Serbia's 27-year-old pivot Nenad Krstic spoke to Jack McCallum from Sports Illustrated: "I wish I had come to this world as a Turk." Serbia was defeated by Turks in semi-finals.
As Turkey's captain Hidayet Turkoglu said: "Materiality is not our priority but we are awaiting support."
Nice work if you can get it, eh?