A far more intelligent commentary on the Olympics, from Rudy Gersten on NationalReview.com. Gersten says what everyone should be thinking: the NBA players who are hiding from the Olympics are cowards. They claim security concerns are why they stay at home, which if true does make them cowards. The rest of the world and the other U.S. athletes are showing up, telling terrorists they will not be cowed. The reality is that these guys can't be bothered. The NBA does play a long season and for players like Shaq and Rasheed Wallace, they just finsihed their season not too long ago and start agin soon. They are more afraid of injury and losing their big paychecks that they are about terrorism and security.
Despite all of this, even the team that did bother to go to Athens is head and shoulders above any other team in the world, even those that sport one or two NBA players. Out ream has nothign BUT NBA players, and should nto lose even a siblge game. The worts part about it is that I don't think that most of these players even care that they are losing and shaming American basketball. It is time to go back to college players, send Duke or Kentucky or the NCAA champion to play. At least they know how to shoot the rock, pass the ball and play defense as a team.
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