ANON12
Years ago

Stern on Flopping and the Olympics

Just read this article on the NBA website. Interesting on Stern's views about the Olympics. If FIBA adopted the idea/rule how would it affect the rest of the basketball world?

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/05/30/stern-lottery.ap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

Apologies if I have incorrectly shown link.

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Vart  
Years ago

The Olympics issue is going to get interesting, especially now that FIBA have altered the year in which the Men's World Championship (now World Cup) will fall. The next World Cup is 2014, but from then on it will move to 2019, and remain the year prior to the Olympics. If the NBA owners are making noise now about their players, it's only going to get louder if they're expected to play in major tournaments two summers in a row.

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ANON12  
Years ago

Just found on the NBA website. This is a video interview about the Olympic's issue.

http://www.nba.tv/nbatv/video/channels/nba_tv/2012/05/30/20120530_silver_intl_play.nba

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rjd  
Years ago

What rubbish Stern speaks. The international players will feel relieved if the rules were changed so that they could attend a maximum of 2 Olympics, after becoming ineligible once they turn 23 years of age? Really? So there are plenty of veteran players who are attending the Olympics this year only due to feeling pressured? Oh, what a kind heart Stern has being concerned about those poor multimillionaire sports stars feeling pressured into an event that is not all about money.

Stern and his aptly named deputy Silver just want the least interference with NBA as possible. The football model appeals to them only for that reason.

The main advantage of changing the Olympics to under 23 basketball is to not overshadow the newly emphasised "world cup" of basketball.

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