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Quentin Daniels

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The arrogance of today's NBA and NBA player
Who said anything about egos?
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GMUgemini

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Weird idea I just had that will never happen but would be interesting:

Move basketball to the winter olympics. It's a "winter" sport in most places and takes place 100% inside, so you can really play it whenever. Then in olympic years just do what the NHL does and skip the all star game and give people 3 weeks to go be in the olympics.

I have no other upsides, nor have I thought about this any further. But it certainly would be interesting. I always like how the NHL players take the olympics so seriously...I feel like as the NBA gets more international we could develop a similar feel instead of telling players they need to sacrifice a huge chunk of the offseason to go play.

They could do what men's soccer does and turn it into a U23 tournament. The only reason why that happens in soccer, though, is because FIFA holds all the cards in that situation and clubs don't have to release players for the Olympics in the same way they do for FIFA competition (ahem, World Cup -- also, this is why the U.S. has failed to qualify the last three times, does Chelsea really release Pulisic, or Bayern really release Reyna to go play in Olympic qualifying? Hell no.).

So I'm guessing this would never happen, because the IOC wouldn't want one of their big draws all of a sudden become less of a draw.
 

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Are you shocked? The roster left off way too many NBA All-Stars like Antetokounmpo, Doncic, Jokic, Embiid, Sabonis, Simmons, Siakam, Porzingis, and Gobert.

I don't know what were they thinking!

They also probably don’t play enough games together to institute more than isolation ball either.
 
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US beats Spain 95-81 to advance in medal play. Will play the winner of Australia vs Argentina next.
 
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Australia 97 - Argentina 59. So, the US will play Australia in the semis on Thursday at 12:45 AM. Gotta love the times! Or not......
 
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