The Olympic Roster

[Kingdom]

ESPN - U.S. men's team announced, with high hopes of regaining gold - Olympic Basketball


C Dwight Howard
PF Carlos Boozer
PF Chris Bosh
SF Lebron James
SF Carmelo Anthony
SF Teyshaun Prince
SG Dwyane Wade
SG Kobe Bryant
SG Michael Redd
PG Jason Kidd
PG Chris Paul
PG Deron Williams



Personally, I'd trade Kidd in for Chandler or a specialist like Mike Miller or something. The young point guards murdered him last season, I expect the foreigners to do the same.

[browntown653]

James + Paul = gold

[realmofotalk]

Gasp, none of Isiah Thomas' 100 million dollar payroll Knicks are on the list!

[Kingdom]

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[Doro]

I too like the roster except Jason Kidd. Hes on the backend of his playing days and can't shoot worth a crap. I would have liked another shooter in his spot.

[Kingdom]

Yeah, he offers only experience of winning the Gold, otherwise anything he would contribute is taken care of by Williams and Paul. They pretty much do what he used to do in his prime, possibly even better (Williams shoots 50% the field no less). USA really needed some size, I don't like Boozer against the Euro's. Paul-Kobe-Lebron-Howard will mask a lot of deficiencies, I don't see any defense keeping up full throttle with those.

[Porter]

They need another big man like Chandler or Kevin Garnett

[DirtyKash]

Reporter: What's that gonna be like Sunday, some people are saying it might be the most watched basketball game ever.

Carmelo: Yeah, it might. I think it is. I think it's close to 3 billion people gonna be watching that game? That's a lot of people.

Reporter: Well, I don't know about 3 billion, but....

Carmelo: That's what they say.

Reporter: That's like 60 percent of the world.

Carmelo: That's what they say, they say 3 billion, that's what I hear.

Reporter: Where'd you hear that from?

Carmelo: You've got to ask Coach K, man. That's a lot of people, ain't it?

[Kingdom]

Sounds like a conversation you had with Leo.

[DirtyKash]

Sounds like a conversation you had with Leo.

I try to converse as little as possible with Leo now, because I'm afraid it ends up in a nitpicking quote war.

[Kingdom]

or are you afraid daniel jumps out of your screen slobbering on you while wearing a bengals carson palmer wife beater?

[DirtyKash]