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NBA commissioner David Stern has been vague on the league’s motivation for pushing to enter an under-23 team for future Olympics and shifting the sport’s biggest stars to participation in the world championships, but the change of course is largely motivated by financial benefits, league and international sources told Yahoo! Sports.

For months, the NBA has been discussing an end to the Olympic basketball Dream Team movement and delivering its superstars to a proposed rebranding of the world championships called "The World Cup of Basketball."
For the use of its most marketable players, 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 constituted now, the International Olympic Committee has control of the Olympic basketball tournament and most of the revenue it generates.
Stern says the NBA will take time to deliberate how it will proceed 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. The NBA has long wanted to best protect its financial investments in players by better controlling the medical and training staffs used in international competition.
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 lobbied for much more complete control of the tournament. He sees no reason to partner with FIBA or anyone else. He wants the NBA to own, operate and profit on a global tournament using the league’s stars.
"The question is: Why would we partner with a current tournament rather than start our own?" Cuban said. "If done correctly, it can be NBA-owned and operated and have the potential to be just as large as the World Cup of soccer. That is a product, in my opinion, we want to own, not share.
“I don’t know what the NBA plan is, but the above is what I will be pushing for."
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--n...ue-with-world-cup-of-basketball-proposal.html
 
I've always wondered, why not send the NBA champion to the Olympics? Send the fucking Heat.
 
Mark Cuban thinks he can cut FIBA out of an international basketball event?
 
It's selfish and doomed to fail. FIBA will just win the Olympics every 4 years, and the NBA will hold its own event in between, I guess. Why not just do this at the Goodwill Games.

Wade said he won't play because he should be paid. Cuban practically forces his players not to play and blogs that he would free them if he were reimbursed. We're going back to the days of no gold medal at the Olympics.
 
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 lobbied for much more complete control of the tournament. He sees no reason to partner with FIBA or anyone else. He wants the NBA to own, operate and profit on a global tournament using the league’s stars.
"The question is: Why would we partner with a current tournament rather than start our own?" Cuban said. "If done correctly, it can be NBA-owned and operated and have the potential to be just as large as the World Cup of soccer. That is a product, in my opinion, we want to own, not share.
“I don’t know what the NBA plan is, but the above is what I will be pushing for."
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I agree completely with this idea. The NBA would do it better than some random governmental organization.
 
KingSpeed said:
I've always wondered, why not send the NBA champion to the Olympics? Send the fucking Heat.
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Seems unfair to the Heat to have their entire team play the entire playoffs, then play all summer as a team.
 
jlprk said:
It's selfish and doomed to fail. FIBA will just win the Olympics every 4 years, and the NBA will hold its own event in between, I guess. Why not just do this at the Goodwill Games.

Wade said he won't play because he should be paid. Cuban practically forces his players not to play and blogs that he would free them if he were reimbursed. We're going back to the days of no gold medal at the Olympics.
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Because the Goodwill Games haven't existed in 11 years?
 
PapaG said:
Seems unfair to the Heat to have their entire team play the entire playoffs, then play all summer as a team.
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If Stern were smart he would have college kids do it to gain some much needed experience since they come out after their freshmen year.
 
Mediocre Man said:
If Stern were smart he would have college kids do it to gain some much needed experience since they come out after their freshmen year.
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But how do you stop other countries from sending their best? I understand owners like Cuban's objections to the olympics. Sending college kids won't help him, when Dirk is playing in it, though. Or us with Batum, etc.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Isn't this already called the olympics?
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NBA owners want to privatize the basketball part of the Olympics, to find a new profit source. But the rest of the world will refuse to participate in the sideshow. National teams are busy in Olympic summers, and as I posted, timing it in between years won't work either because of Goodwill Games.

The selfish owners want yet another repeating event and to cut FIBA out. Europeans aren't stupid and Stern is dreaming.
 
RR7 said:
But how do you stop other countries from sending their best? I understand owners like Cuban's objections to the olympics. Sending college kids won't help him, when Dirk is playing in it, though. Or us with Batum, etc.
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Who cares. Underdogs would be fun
 
Mediocre Man said:
Who cares. Underdogs would be fun
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Low TV ratings for Olympic basketball, and a lack of global exposure for NBA stars, won't be, though.

I find it funny that Dwyane Wade, who has made a living playing for titles with much better players, would be whining about being paid to give up his summer.

The 2012 US Olympic team doesn't need him at all.
 
jlprk said:
NBA owners want to privatize the basketball part of the Olympics, to find a new profit source. But the rest of the world will refuse to participate in the sideshow. National teams are busy in Olympic summers, and as I posted, timing it in between years won't work either because of Goodwill Games.

The selfish owners want yet another repeating event and to cut FIBA out. Europeans aren't stupid and Stern is dreaming.
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I don't want Euro-zone types running anything.
 
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