Like so many of you, I am a fan of basketball. Like many of you, I also am now too fat and slow to create good basketball on my own, and have clung to the NBA in a desperate and semi-pathetic attempt to hang on to my youth, as well as out of love for the game. If anyone in the world has watched as much basketball in the last three years as I have, this message is for you: may God have mercy on your soul. Also, how about a little honesty? I feel like the real issues in basketball go undiscussed in public due to obvious marketing reasons, such as the NBA would abandon ESPN if the announcers bad mouthed the officials or players on national TV.
But this is not national TV. It hopefully won't become a bash session either, but in reality it should become a place to come discuss the realities of what is going on in basketball. Like so many things in the world, the people most vocal about them are those least informed, so I guess I'll just have to continue on my course of watching every game possible.
Leave Kobe alone...he is a selfish immature adult who happens to be gifted physically and challenged emotionally. Go to bed each day and be happy your name is not Phil and that you are not his wife.
If this is not NBA basketball why are their only NBA players from USA playing then?
You make a good point about Kobe, and I AM glad I'm not Phil Jackson.
The reason that FIBA basketball isn't NBA basketball has nothing to do with the players participating, it has to do with the rules and the way the game is played.
I think it would be safe to assume that the best ball players in America are in the NBA, so assembling such a group seems like the best method to bring home gold.