Should Olympic Basketball follow model for Soccer

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It appears with the close game of today that, from now on the US teams needs to send its absolute best players or they will not come back home with a gold medal.

This trend of having the best players will wear off after a while and we will soon find many stars not wanting to take on the burden of injuring themselves for a gold medal. Id say this team being put together was an exception from the norm. Everyone talks a good game bout how they want back in 2012 but I don't see that happening. These players will be expected to compete in 3 straight summers for the National team if they want back in for 2012. Playing 82 games plus the playoffs will severely limit their energy level.

Should Fiba follow soccer like rules and limit the participant to be no more then 23 years of age for the Olympics?

This way NBA owners will have less at stake with multimillion dollar assets and vile governments wont force 26 year old Centers with bad knees to play in a tournament no competent doctor would clear them for?

If soccer has an age limit then why not FIBA for the Olympics.

You can still have the World cup of basketball having all the greats but that would only be once every four year.

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