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Is the international game really better?

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Monday, I advocated four steps NBA commissioner David Stern should take in response to yet another disappointing performance by Team USA in international competition. I received hundreds of e-mails from readers in response to the piece over the past 24 hours. On average, about 70 percent of the Insider readers felt that some or all of the changes I talked about needed to happen. However, there were a number of people who sharply disagreed with the assessment that there was anything wrong with ...

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