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Olympic questions and answers

By Ric Bucher
ESPN the Magazine

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Proposing to create a non-NBA national team as the answer to our dissipating competitiveness in international basketball generated a larger-than-usual windfall of comments and alternate suggestions. Here are some of them, followed by my response, when necessary. (Perk of the job: always getting the last word.) Do you think there's any chance of this actually happening? Todd Kelly Jackson, Miss. The first option the NBA will try is selecting more wisely, beginning with putting more shooters on ...

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