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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
This is pathetic from the "golden age" of Canadian basketball players. Freak Gianis is playing for Greece and he's still going to sign his monster deal.
Turds like Wiggins, Murray and some other have their max contracts. They're set for life, yet they don't want to play the country.
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No kidding. We've been hearing for years about all this great basketball talent coming out of Canada, Steve Nash has revamped the program, etc and it's all fizzled out so fast.
NZ has a similar problem with their one star player, Steven Adams. Every time a tournament comes around theres a stir of "will he wont he" in the media, and the answer is always no.
I think it sucks that FIBA is trying to raise the profile of international basketball but the NBA seems indifferent to it. Imagine how crappy the FIFA world cup would be if all the big money superstars just passed on it for all the various excuses these NBA players give time and again.