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Originally Posted by Party Elephant
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.
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In soccer it is the reverse. Your play on the national team is a ticket to big clubs not the other way around. So you owe the country for development. Plus there are 200 countries.
plus there are many big soccer leagues and clubs and just one NBA.