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Originally Posted by valo403
You just named 4 guys who have always been considered disappointments, be it in the NBA or elsewhere, largely do to their me first attitude. That said I don't recall any players passing on playing for the US due to being solely interested in their NBA contracts and sponsorships.
And I'm not sure what the issue is if they're still their to collect a gold medal, that's sort of the point isn't it?
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First, I'm going off memory, I don't want to spend all afternoon doing research.
But I seem to remember some US BB players being total dinks and wanting everything to go their way when with the US National Team. The kind of stuff you might expect when a bunch of pampered, self centered dbags are chosen to represent the country because they're talented, not because of their will to win.
Didn't the US end up not winning gold one year and it caused the US National Team to rethink their strategy? Instead of just bringing the 12 best US players, they left the dbags at home and brought guys who wanted to win.
So yes, they did show up expecting to coast through and simply collect their gold medal but they ended going home with nothing (or a ####ty bronze I think).
But thinking you can just show up and collect a gold medal is pretty far from the point. Last time I checked they don't hand out medals based on how good the individual players are, they hand out gold medals for actually winning the tourney, something the US didn't do because their players thought they could just show up and collect their medal. They needed to work for it.