To bad it didn’t happen sooner. Time to go back to sending the ellite college players, at least they would want to be there unlike their riched NBA counterparts.
Whether the world caught up or the Americans paid for not sending their best NBA players is up for debate. But this much is fact: Team USA will not medal at the 2002 World Championships. Yugoslavia made sure of it, dropping the U.S. team 81-78 on Thursday in Indianapolis. It marked the second straight defeat for an NBA-powered U.S. team after its 58-0 run.