US Basketball Olympic Dream Team Coming to an End?
US Basketball Olympic Dream Team Coming to an End?
NBA commissioner David Stern wants the U.S. to join an under-23 team in future Olympics. The NBA has been deliberating an end to the Olympic basketball Dream Team movement and sending its superstars to a proposed rebranding of the world championships called "The World Cup of Basketball."
The league office and many NBA owners are determined to create a financial partnership with FIBA for a World Cup that would allow the NBA to significantly share in the windfall of revenues.
"The owners would be a lot more comfortable letting star players play internationally if they’re sharing in the revenue," one league source told Yahoo! Sports.
As of now, the International Olympic Committee has control of the Olympic basketball tournament and most of the revenue it generates.
Stern says the NBA will discuss how it will be managed in the future, but multiple league and international sources insist there’s little chance the league will ever send its best players to the Summer Olympics beyond the 2012 London Games.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told Yahoo! Sports he isn’t aware of the NBA’s specific intentions in possibly moving its star players to the rebranded World Cup, but says he has requested for much more complete control of the tournament.
The NBA started the Dream Team concept in 1992, insisting it was at the request of the rest of the world’s desire to compete against the NBA’s best players. Though, in reality, it was a reaction to USA Basketball failing to win a gold medal in the 1988 Seoul Games, and an understanding that America’s college players could no longer compete with professionals around the world.
NBA commissioner David Stern wants the U.S. to join an under-23 team in future Olympics. The NBA has been deliberating an end to the Olympic basketball Dream Team movement and sending its superstars to a proposed rebranding of the world championships called "The World Cup of Basketball."
The league office and many NBA owners are determined to create a financial partnership with FIBA for a World Cup that would allow the NBA to significantly share in the windfall of revenues.
"The owners would be a lot more comfortable letting star players play internationally if they’re sharing in the revenue," one league source told Yahoo! Sports.
As of now, the International Olympic Committee has control of the Olympic basketball tournament and most of the revenue it generates.
Stern says the NBA will discuss how it will be managed in the future, but multiple league and international sources insist there’s little chance the league will ever send its best players to the Summer Olympics beyond the 2012 London Games.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told Yahoo! Sports he isn’t aware of the NBA’s specific intentions in possibly moving its star players to the rebranded World Cup, but says he has requested for much more complete control of the tournament.
The NBA started the Dream Team concept in 1992, insisting it was at the request of the rest of the world’s desire to compete against the NBA’s best players. Though, in reality, it was a reaction to USA Basketball failing to win a gold medal in the 1988 Seoul Games, and an understanding that America’s college players could no longer compete with professionals around the world.
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Andre Monohan
on Monday June 25 2012, 2:45 AM EDT.
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