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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Because their employer wouldn’t let them go?
I can see sureloss’ point about them not making an issue of it during previous CBA negotiations, but there’s no guarantee the league would have agreed to it anyways without demanding for concessions the players didn’t want to agree to either.
Both sides could have potentially done things differently to ensure participation, but as it stands currently the league are the ones who are not allowing their players to participate, there’s no other way to put it.
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2006 and 2010 Olympic participation was explicitly guaranteed in the 2005 CBA.
Don't think it would have been too hard to extend that to further Olympics.
According to Bettman and Burke, the players didn't even bring up the Olympics in the 2013 CBA negotiations.
edit: The players allowed the Olympic participation guarantee to fall out of the CBA without a word.