New age limit for 2016 olympic basketball

Really sucks for the players that are really good just not a spot for them yet that would make the team in 16 but will be to old by a year or two

Bring home one Bronze with those youngins and theyll change it back quickly

i'm confused by the OP and we need a damn link...is it a 23 age limit for ONLY USA or the whole world? because the way the first sentence in the OP is worded, sounds like an entire olympics age limit

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2010 after the 2006 bronze

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Winter Olympics FTW

What a terrible idea.

Ah I thought it would be imposed for all countries. I would be legit pissed off if the US was the only country to do it. Absolutely no reason for it.

American NBA players don't sign different contracts than foreign NBA players.

If the NBA accomplishes what it wants, no NBA players over 23 would be playing in the Olympics. Obviously the rules wouldn't apply to Spaniards playing in Spain, Greeks playing in Italy, etc. So the Spanish, Greek, and Australian teams would be weakened less by the rules by than the Americans, but everyone would be sending sub-optimal teams, except for the countries that have no NBA players to start with (Tunisia, Angola, etc).

And in theory, the FIBA World Cup will be the true championship, and it would run after the soccer World Cup on the calendar year, every 4 years. Stern wants to make Olympic basketball as meaningless as Olympic soccer, which shouldn't even be an event anymore.

There are a lot of scenarios possible, and no sportswriter has chosen to explore them yet. I guess they prefer doing mindless shite like arguing about whether LeBron can close without using any advanced statistics.

Right, that would still be a problem for the US, but a Spain team withuot Ibaka, either Gasol, Rubio, Rudy Fernandez, and maybe another player or two doesn't look that dangerous, right?

Sure they would have Sergio Rodriguez, Raul Lopez, and Juan Carlos Navarro (a great player), but I think the American U-23 squad could handle them.

The discrepancies would be even worse for Turkey, France, and Germany without their NBA players.

This is how Olympic men's soccer works except with an allowance of three overage players in each roster. It started as a compromise between FIFA and the IOC to insure that the World Cup remained the best international competition every four years. It also extended when professional clubs complained about losing their best young players during the first weeks of the season, in addition to the possibility of fatigue and injury. This is essentially the NBA's argument in this matter. Playing for Argentina worsened Manu Ginobili's persistant injuries.

It still makes Olympic soccer entertaining, because some of the best players in the world are under 23. Messi's current peak began when he won the gold medal with Argentina in 2008.

Olympic basketball would remain competitive with the American team remaining the overwhelming favorites. It might actually make it into a less imbalanced tournament. I love seeing the US win, but it'd be nice to see an actual competitive game featuring them every once in awhile. (Athens 2004 and 2006 World Championships debacles notwithstanding.)