Ten years later, Carmelo Anthony still remembers where he stood.

He points to a spot between the 3-point arc and the sideline, recalling the position from where he watched a celebration some teammates couldn’t bear to face.

“Everybody was walking off the floor. There was confetti, things on the court,” Anthony said. “Everybody was celebrating and I stayed, I stayed right there on the court. I just wanted to see it and kind of feel it.”

The Americans haven’t felt it since.

The U.S. had just lost to Greece in the semifinals of the 2006 world basketball championship, a team coached by Mike Krzyzewski and led by likely future Hall of Famers LeBron James, Anthony and Dwyane Wade falling to a team that had no NBA players.

That 101-95 loss in Japan is the only defeat in 76 games since Krzyzewski took over in 2005.