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David Stern wants to ruin the Olympics

May 30, 2012 by Chris Sheridan

NEW YORK — Our best vs. your best, and let’s see who can win the gold medal in men’s basketball at the Olympics.

That was the idea that spawned the Dream Team, and now NBA commissioner David Stern sounds as though he wants to change it.

Stern on Wednesday endorsed a discussion of limiting the Olympics and the World Cup of Basketball (formerly called the World Championship) to players 23 and under, bowing to pressure from NBA owners who have complained that their prized assets are loaned out for free each summer to international federations.

“In some ways, because of a certain tradition that’s out there, the players that have it the most difficult and the pressure is the greatest on is the non-American players; that there’s an expectation. And if we change the rules so that they can only be expected to play in two Olympics, I think that would relieve them more than they will say publicly, and their teams,” Stern said at his news conference prior to the NBA draft lottery. “And that’s an idea, and as (deputy commissioner) Adam (Silver) said, that’s good to discuss with the (competition) committee. We’ll see where that goes.”

Until 1992, American professional players were barred from the Olympics under the arcane “amateur” rules that allowed professional players from Communist-bloc nations to field older teams, while the United States played with teams comprised of college players.

After the United States lost in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) opened the competition to professionals, and the greatest team ever assembled, the original Dream Team, made a such a splash at the Barcelona Olympics that it led to the global growth of the game.

The Americans won gold in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2008, with the 2004 team losing three times and finishing with the bronze medal.

Team USA is heading to London this summer with a team that may rival the original Dream Team in terms of talent.

But will it be the last time we see America’s very best take on the very best from other countries?

From listening to Stern and Silver, it seems quite possible.

“We think international soccer has an excellent model and in the case of soccer, of course, there’s the World Cup of football, which is the biggest sporting event in the world every four years, and then in the off-years, for the World Cup, they play, in essence, with some exceptions, a 23-and-under competition at the Olympics,” Silver said. “And there’s a recognition, certainly Mark Cuban, other owners have raised repeatedly the issue of our players playing in essence year round when you add the Olympics to our newly-renamed World Championship of Basketball to our World Cup of Basketball.

“So when you have the Olympics, the World Cup of basketball, we are taking a very close look at whether it makes sense from an NBA standpoint and a global basketball standpoint for the top players to be playing at that level on a year round basis,” Silver said. “So what we have told FIBA, and what David has announced several times, is that we are all in through the London Olympics, and then post-London Olympics, we want to step back together with USA Basketball, led by Jerry Colangelo and Patrick Baumann in FIBA and … we need to take a long-term view of what makes sense both for the NBA and for the game.”

 

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Filed Under: News, Olympics Tagged With: 2012 Olympics, Adam Silver, David Stern, FIBA, Jerry Colangelo

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  11. simeon says

    June 10, 2012 at 11:04 am

    not sure if chris reads his comments, but yes. he completely missed a huge part of stern’s plan. U-23 only for olympics. WBC open to all ages.

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  12. Darin says

    May 31, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    As long as they don’t mess with the FIBA World Cup, I’m cool with it. Other countries place more importance on that than the Olympics.

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  13. mowe says

    May 31, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    Chris, you missed an essential point of Stern’s idea. Only the Olympics would be under-23. The (now called) World Cup of basketball will still be open to all ages and be the premier basketball tournament. I’m kind of surprised you missed that.

    This is exactly what soccer does and it works really well because the Olympics don’t take focus away from the grand prize: the World Cup.

    The only “problem” is that USA takes the Olympics more seriously and the biggest stars would rather play in that. But to the rest of the world the World Cup is the more prestigious tournament.

    Stern wants to make it so that the best players only have to play in the World Cup which is a great idea. NBA teams wouldn’t have to lose their best players to two summer tournaments in four years (plus qualifying tournaments for each). Players don’t have to play year-round, teams have less injury risk, and one tournament is the undisputed grand prize. Win-win for all, except the USA players who only want to play in the Olympics and don’t care about the World Cup, but they’ll get over it.

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  14. Jim says

    May 31, 2012 at 8:29 am

    I’d have no problem with serious reform to NBA players playing in the Olympics. The Bulls will not only be without Rose for most of the year next year, but because Loul Deng is delaying wrist surgery until after the Olympics the Bulls will be without him for at least the first month as well. I know Deng was a good soldier and played with intense pain about half the year, but the Bulls are the ones paying his salary, his priority should be to them.

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  15. San Antonio Stern says

    May 30, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Stern just did this to Team USA:

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