Running the score up was just a symptom.
My bigger problem is with the entire "Dream Team" concept. There's no doubt in my mind that the best of the NBA are going to be the best players in the world. And that if they get hot, etc., this kind of one-sidedness is going to happen. That "best players in the world" is the reason that, as professionals they make tens of millions of dollars a year. It's the same reason the pro tennis players in the Olympics get paid what they do.
But, again, the Olympic ideal is not "best professional." It is "best amateur."
Or at least it used to be.
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Or at least that used to be America's position. Everyone knew the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc cheated. But we were supposed to be different.
But we're no more entitled to Olympic gold than Kruschkhev, Brezhnev, Ulbricht, Hoenecker, and Ceaucescu.
We're just a bunch of spoiled rich kids able to afford Tiffany, Rolex, and Hennessy Paradis.
And I effing hate spoiled rich kids, especially wrapped up in the flag.
Originally Posted by: Wade