[ESPN] Cuban: "Players and owners should get together and create our own World Cup of Basketball"

Les didn't have a choice rather he had a problem with it or not.

To increase their world wide brand. Some of these guys play pickup basketball all during the off-season anyway and this is a chance to help their global marketing so I can completely understand why they do it.

 

That's exactly what Cuban is saying. The only reason it was considered a Dream Team is because it had the best players ever to play in the NBA. NBA players create the popularity, not the international competitions. The other guys you listed, Parker and Yao, are also NBA all-stars. How much popularity and exposure does Yi Jianlian create by playing internationally? Or even Euroleague beasts like Juan Carlos Navarro and Rudy Fernandez?

If NBA players never played in the World Cup or Olympics the league would be fine. This isn't like football where the World Cup is the biggest event in the sport. Even the Olympics are just a measuring stick for how much better the USA is than the rest of the world at basketball.

 

He's a douche.

 

I can't speak for Navarro or Fernandez, but I was in China a good chunk of Yi Jianlian's relevancy. You're crazy if you didn't believe that him on the national team, which helped China greatly in international competitions during the Yao/Yi "twin towers" days, had no effect on NBA's in-roads into China.

 

I don't disagree the set-up is unfavorable for NBA teams. I simply disagree with you that there's no benefit to the NBA for their stars to participate in international competitions.

 

Back then it was seen as China letting the NBA lease their homegrown athlete (Yao) for the NBA seasons. His main gig was with the Chinese National team. Sucks cause he then had to play year-round.

 

Cuban should be happy. His golden boy might get to lay now.

 

It doesn't- it just allows players and owners to collect a premium for the risk which they currently assume without compensation in order to underwrite the lifestyle of various FIBA & IOC functionaries

 

He acts like a slave owning douche. His comments read like the players are HIS property. What they do outside the nba season is up to them. So sorry that someone else can make money and you do not get a cut mark slave owner Cuban.

 

Exactly. Larry Bird had more class. He said he supports players playing for national team, and the exposure it generates world wide for players and league.

And Bird's team actually lost something. Cuban is just whining not because a player got hurt but because he is not making more money while players play for national teams. Douche. Greedy douche. So sorry Mark that you make millions owning an nba team and your business actually has risk. Omg an owner of a business has risk. How horrible for Mr. Cuban. If only it had not been Paul George and had been Chandler the role player Parsons. parsons would still be set for life with his $40+ million just like George is with his $90m. I would have laughed if it was cp25. Laughed at greedy Cuban douche.

 

Cuban is only partially right. The players don't make money, but his argument that he should be the one making money is tenuous. His argument is akin to being a slave owner and players are the owners property. He just wants his cut.

 

Cuban is like

 

This is not correct. Implicit in cuban's view is that the World Cup league (owners and players) will control the revenues. That means players too bc they won't play if they know the owners are making money and they're not. The issue for Cuban is should our players risk injuries in events where neither the players or owners get any primary benefit? You could build an international league with the international owners and build exposure through international players playjg against each other without the IOC. I'd believe in national pride too but they could send college players who volunteer to go bc they think they will benefit from rising stock draft and experience. Would help if the IOC weren't so corrupt. It's similar (not exactly I know) to the BIG 12 holding a tournament and asking the SEC to send their teams but all profits to to the BIG 12.

 

Is that Freddie Mercury

 

Basketball isn't a world sport like Soccer is, there isn't nearly as many fans nor talent of basketball, to have a world cup type basketball tournament.

 

If you don't want your player playing in the FIBA/Olympic tournaments- forbid it in their contract. And if a player wants to play that badly for their natl team- then again have a clause in your contract. Let it be a part of FA negiotations like a NTC or a player option.

 

So he is saying that there is no reason for people to play basketball except to make him money.

I am going to enjoy rooting against the mavs next year.

 

They can't do that due to the NBA's agreement with FIBA.

 

Cuban faces a downside risk when FIBA gets to enrich itself off his players with no compensation.

He should be compensated or insured as should the players - if you want an efficient system

 

They're having one right now, and they've had one for 30 years (or more if you count the pseudo amateur era)...otherwise you're exactly right.