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totally veering away from the topic, but don't you think owners have a right to decide whether a NBA player should enter the olympic team?
Yes, unpatriotic. however the owners are the ones who signed the player to an nba contract and they are the ones taking the risk if the player gets injured. let's say bynum makes the nba team and his knee injury is worsened during the tournament and is expected to lose a large amount games for his recovery. not only will this affect the lakers record, but sales of merchandise, fan support and make the owners lose money. i know the lakers organization is filthy rich and would probably make a lopsided rigged trade that would send lebron for steve blake and they wouldn't miss bynum. but imagine if kevin love was injured during the olympics? kyrie irving? byron mullens (lol)? what would that do to the small market teams that need these players to sell? not only does the team become much worse but the owners lose potential sales and ratings. the owners have a right to the final say befor sending one of their players to olympics.
mark cuban also made this point when he was addressing this fact about the potential of losing dirk to injury because of the olympics (which would a HUGE potential loss)
Yes, unpatriotic. however the owners are the ones who signed the player to an nba contract and they are the ones taking the risk if the player gets injured. let's say bynum makes the nba team and his knee injury is worsened during the tournament and is expected to lose a large amount games for his recovery. not only will this affect the lakers record, but sales of merchandise, fan support and make the owners lose money. i know the lakers organization is filthy rich and would probably make a lopsided rigged trade that would send lebron for steve blake and they wouldn't miss bynum. but imagine if kevin love was injured during the olympics? kyrie irving? byron mullens (lol)? what would that do to the small market teams that need these players to sell? not only does the team become much worse but the owners lose potential sales and ratings. the owners have a right to the final say befor sending one of their players to olympics.
mark cuban also made this point when he was addressing this fact about the potential of losing dirk to injury because of the olympics (which would a HUGE potential loss)