Bibby has declined to play for the US team in Athens this olympics. Personally, I hate the fact that we have to live in a time where not only can our athletes not feel secure enough to play for their country and have such a hard time filling a roster, but they have to make up responses about their reasons why.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MR_SAC_KING:</div><div class="quote_post">^What does this say about sports in general???</div> It sais that the (US) players as kids go to college and they go there as a one of the ways of making it big time onto the NBA and by time they don;t giva a shit about their National Team which is a very very bad thing and of course the teams play a major role in their decisions and don't let the players to play for the National Team which is disastrous...BUt what ticjks me is the new wave of European big guns refusing to play for their NT such as half of Croatian team and also some of the SCG which is new trend but also a very wrong one, another thing about the European guys is the fact that they gat drafted when they're 18 and make it into NBA with maybe 20 years and in their teams don't play a single minuta throughout the season (Milicic, Bagaric, Rentzias etc.) and simply are not useful for their National Team even i thay would want to actually play in it, but the draft and the young players sitting on a bench is a problem for maybe different forum....
