Andre Iguodala is currently in London trying to win a gold medal for Team USA. While some of the NBA's brightest stars are playing abroad, business continued for the league as the Sixers' swingman was dealt to the Nuggets as part of a four-team deal that involved Dwight Howard being shipped to the Lakers and the Sixers landing center Andrew Bynum.

Phil Sheridan of the Inquirer checks in from London to offer his thoughts on the trade, as well as the final weekend of the Summer Olympics.

LONDON -- Here's a little numerology for you.

Carli Lloyd grew up in Delran. Jordan Burroughs is from Sicklerville. Those two towns are about 25 miles apart.

Wembley Stadium is about 20 miles from the ExCeL Center, where the wrestling competition is being held.

LONDON – Put an Olympic gold medal on the table and watch Carli Lloyd go.

Four years after scoring the gold-winning goal in Beijing, Lloyd of London outdid herself. The Delran native scored both U.S. goals in a thrilling 2-1 victory over Japan. The win earned the U.S. women a gold medal and payback for Japan’s victory over them in last year’s World Cup final.

On Wednesday, Lloyd was asked about teammate Abby Wambach’s prediction that somebody “will become a legend” with a big goal in the final.

LONDON – South Jersey made its presence felt right away in Northwest London tonight.

Delran’s Carli Lloyd scored the only goal of the first half of the gold medal game between the U.S. and Japan. Point Pleasant’s Christie Rampone helped make it stand up for an intense 45 minutes.

Lloyd, who scored the game-winning goal when the U.S. won gold in Beijing four years ago, cut in front of teammate Abby Wambach right in front of Japan’s goaltender. She leaned forward like a sprinter at the finish line, heading in a crossing pass from Alex Morgan in the eighth minute.

LONDON – It feels like nothing less than the hour before a Super Bowl starts. A sea of people flowed from Wembley Park tube station to the 83,000-seat stadium – festooned for the evening with Olympic banners and flags. The press box was packed early with some of the best-known sports writers in the U.S. (and probably Japan, too).

Abby Wambach wasn’t exaggerating when she said the Olympic gold medal soccer game was going to be a “great night for women’s sports.”

Why these same athletes can’t draw enough fans to sustain a major soccer league in the States is a story for another time. For tonight, it’s just a treat to be here, keenly anticipating a promising sporting event that happens to involve women.

LONDON – Without shame, I admit it: I have a bad case of subway envy. It is pretty common in Philadelphia, and for good reason.

Lord knows what our civic leaders were doing in the decades when the world’s great cities were digging intricate tunnels for massive subway systems. Probably the same not-much they’re doing nowadays. You can’t grasp how lame the Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines really are until you travel a bit.

You only have to go as far as New York to get the idea. Getting around Boston on the T is a blast. Washington’s Metro puts Philly to shame. Ditto Chicago’s system. It even had a band – they were the Chicago Transit Authority before they shortened it to Chicago – named after it.

LONDON – They are the unsung heroes of every Olympics: the volunteers.

Thousands of them, all issued the same shirts (purple, in this case) and khakis and a pair of gray Adidas shoes. You just know, when they signed up to work the Olympics, they envisioned themselves leading Usain Bolt to the starting line or making sure Jessica Ennis had a fresh bottle of water handy. Most of them, alas, end up like Mohamed and Mark.

They were assigned to man the bus stop outside the University of East London. All day, they check credentials and make sure only accredited media get on the buses to the Olympic Park.

LONDON – Glenn Ochal has a lot on his mind. He is in his first Olympic rowing competition. He and his teammates in the U.S. four have raced twice this week, earning a spot in Saturday’s gold-medal race.

His parents, Lee and JoAnne, are in London, checking out the sights and catching a night at the swimming venue. Oh, and the Phillies traded away Hunter Pence and Shane Victorino while he was here.

“It’s good,” Ochal, a Roman Catholic High grad and huge Philadelphia sports fan, said after Thursday’s semifinal. “Keep the pitching and build the bats. They need some youthful bats. Nate Schierholtz gives them a little bit of life.”

ETON, England – Zsuzsanna Francia stepped off the dock and made a bold and golden declaration.

“That is an American dynasty, baby,” the rower from Penn and Abington High said. “That was a great race. It was a little bit tough conditions, but there was a lot of power in that boat. Just happy to continue the legacy.”

With a stiff crosswind pushing them to the left, Francia and the U.S. women’s 8 crew did everything right to claim their second consecutive Olympic gold medal.