Mark Cuban destroys the olympic committee...

[stalkerforlife]

"The (International Olympic Committee) is playing the NBA. The IOC is an organization that has been rife with corruption, to the point where a member was accused of trying to fix an Olympic event in Salt Lake. The IOC (pulls in) billions of dollars. They make a killing and make Tony Soprano look like a saint.

"The pros in multiple sports are smart enough to not play when they are eligible free agents. But teams take on huge financial risk so that the IOC committee members can line their pockets.

"The greatest trick ever played was the IOC convincing the world that the Olympics were about patriotism and national pride instead of money. The players and owners should get together and create our own World Cup of Basketball."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11301 ... ompetition

[christian1923]

Yeah I'd be mad if someone was making that much money off my product too

[Fawker]

the Olympics has been around for hundreds of years. It's a non profit worldwide event.

[kentatm]

the Olympics has been around for thousands of years.


the Olympics has been around for hundreds of years. It's a non profit worldwide event.

:biggums:

not really

no

[Beastmode88]

the Olympics has been around for hundreds of years. It's a non profit worldwide event.

Just because it's non profit doesn't mean they're all angels. Fiba is non profit, that shit is corrupted as fcuk.

[dreamwarrior]

USA Basketball determines who's invited to play on the team, not the Olympics committee. And anyone can choose not to play. It wasn't the Olympic committee that pushed for the original Dream Team

[Fawker]

:biggums:

not really

no
its a non profit event.

[Rose'sACL]

the Olympics has been around for hundreds of years. It's a non profit worldwide event.
Lol. Not anymore at least.

[kentatm]

its a non profit event.


:roll: :roll: :roll:

again

not really

no

[Fawker]

what athletes gain what?

[Dr.J4ever]

The NBA should put up an exploratory committee to study the feasibility of creating an NBA World Cup event, just like Cuban envisions.

The NBA could run it, do the marketing, and the US and the rest of the world will do it because the NBA will run it as a business and will be willing to share the profits. Good players from other countries, who aren't currently on NBA rosters, will want to join to showcase their skill to possibly be signed by an NBA team in the future.

Still, not everyone will buy it in the beginning, but if the NBA puts muscle behind this, they could make it happen.

Cuban has mentioned a model similar to this.

[Fawker]

the olypmpics can take place in any country but all athletes play for free. that's the stipulation of letting pros in.

[kentatm]

what athletes gain what?

:facepalm

athletes technically "not" getting paid doesn't make the Olympics non profit.

come on now.

athletes get swag bags filled with expensive shit like watches, electronics, jewelry, clothes, etc.

they get sponsorship deals with the Olympic sponsors, notoriety, and get to stay at the world's greatest orgy otherwise known as Olympic Village.

hell, most countries pay athletes for getting in and give them bonuses for winning medals.

:roll: at calling the Olympics non profit.

Do you know what other multi-billion dollar business has a BS non profit tag happily kept paid for via their enormous profits?

The NFL.

[kentatm]

[QUOTE]So what did our athletes walk away from registration with?

According to Salt Lake City based rewards and recognition company O.C. Tanner, the highlights were $600 gold rings they supplied and a Swiss watch from Omega, the official timekeeper of the Games, worth several thousand dollars. The five duffel bags each athlete received continued about 100 items, most from major sponsors like Ralph Lauren, Nike, Oakley, and P&G, with a total of nearly 100,000 free items dispensed to Team USA.

Clearly the most valuable swag was the Omega watch and the rings, which were sized for each athlete on site and in many cases customized with engraving or diamonds

[Fawker]

:facepalm

athletes technically "not" getting paid doesn't make the Olympics non profit.

come on now.

athletes get swag bags filled with expensive shit like watches, electronics, jewelry, clothes, etc.

they get sponsorship deals with the Olympic sponsors, notoriety, and get to stay at the world's greatest orgy otherwise known as Olympic Village.

hell, most countries pay athletes for getting in and give them bonuses for winning medals.

:roll: at calling the Olympics non profit.

Do you know what other multi-billion dollar business has a BS non profit tag happily kept paid for via their enormous profits?

The NFL.
those are swags you like. watches and wallets and shit like that . those are kibbles to millionaires. the olymics and fiba are square as ****.

[gts]

"The (International Olympic Committee) is playing the NBA. The IOC is an organization that has been rife with corruption, to the point where a member was accused of trying to fix an Olympic event in Salt Lake. The IOC (pulls in) billions of dollars. They make a killing and make Tony Soprano look like a saint.

"The pros in multiple sports are smart enough to not play when they are eligible free agents. But teams take on huge financial risk so that the IOC committee members can line their pockets.

"The greatest trick ever played was the IOC convincing the world that the Olympics were about patriotism and national pride instead of money. The players and owners should get together and create our own World Cup of Basketball."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11301 ... ompetition

Still waiting for the part where he destroys the IOC...

[Sarcastic]

Mark Cuban needs to stfu already. The NBA has greatly profited from the Olympics through expanding into new markets and deeper talent pools from around the world.

[R.I.P.]

"The (International Olympic Committee) is playing the NBA. The IOC is an organization that has been rife with corruption, to the point where a member was accused of trying to fix an Olympic event in Salt Lake. The IOC (pulls in) billions of dollars. They make a killing and make Tony Soprano look like a saint.

[B]"The pros in multiple sports are smart enough to not play when they are eligible free agents. But teams take on huge financial risk so that the IOC committee members can line their pockets.

"The greatest trick ever played was the IOC convincing the world that the Olympics were about patriotism and national pride instead of money. The players and owners should get together and create our own World Cup of Basketball."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11301 ... ompetition

Really? I can think of ONE sport that doesn

[9512]

the Olympics has been around for hundreds of years. It's a non profit worldwide event.

The modern Olympics as we know have only been revived a little over a century ago. These modern Olympics are definitely being profited off of.

[GimmeThat]

translation

"she wanted a sweet sixteen birthday when she was thirteen years old"

[NumberSix]

:biggums:

not really

no
The Olympics have been around for at least 2,790 years.

[navy]

Mark Cuban needs to stfu already. The NBA has greatly profited from the Olympics through expanding into new markets and deeper talent pools from around the world.
:applause:

[magnax1]

Mark Cuban needs to stfu already. The NBA has greatly profited from the Olympics through expanding into new markets and deeper talent pools from around the world.
tru dat

[NumberSix]

Mark Cuban is a known liar.

[iznogood]

[QUOTE=R.I.P.]
Does the IOC also benefit financially? Of course. How many unpaid interns and volunteers does Cuban employ? Does Mark Cuban not benefit from the basketball talents of other people? Basically what he is saying is that it is okay as long as he can exploit the basketball talent of people. He just doesn

[kentatm]

The Olympics have been around for at least 2,790 years.

:coleman:

nope

[Nastradamus]

its a non profit event.

Lol, the NFL is labelled as a non profit too

[tomtucker]

just use different baskets , you dumb fukk cuban

[NumberSix]

:coleman:

nope
The earliest known olympic games were held in Olympia Greece in 776 B.C.

[played0ut]

Lol.

The NBA didn't want their players in the Olympics in the first place (they had nothing to gain). Neither did the International Olympic Committee-- those folks wanted it to stay amateur (even though pros in Europe were already playing).

Quoted from MacCallum's Dream Team:


FIBA’s rules at the time banned professionals from playing under the FIBA banner, and the rules of FIBA were the rules of Olympic basketball. So it was, so it had always been, and so, everyone thought, it would always be. The hypocrisy, of course, was that de facto professionals were playing anyway, since international basketball teams always comprised their country’s top players, even if they were officially listed as “soldiers” or “policemen.”
With the lone exception of Stankovic, there was no push to include American pros in the Olympics,


As he watched the pro stars of the 1970s on TV—among them Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, plus his two favorites, Walt Frazier and Pete Maravich—it began to gnaw at him that America’s best players would never participate in the Olympic Games. “The hypocrisy was what got to me,” said Stankovic. “And there was a practical side. My concern was trying to make the game of basketball strong, to grow it, and yet there was this separation. It became impossible for me to tolerate.”


Stankovic came back to Munich and told Jones that dropping the amateurs-only clause, thus clearing the way for America’s best players to compete in the Olympics, should be a FIBA goal.......The times might’ve been a-changin’, but not in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), where Avery Brundage—a loathsome individual, a clear number one on the list of tin-pot despots who have run sports over the centuries—held fast to the concept of shamateurism.

[kentatm]

The earliest known olympic games were held in Olympia Greece in 776 B.C.

The ancient Olympic games /=/ the modern Olympic games.

The ancient games in Olympia were only for free Greek speaking men from Greek city states and were eventually stopped in 393 AD once Rome took over and went Christian due to being a pagan celebration for Zeus. Participants competed naked and rubbed down in olive oil.

The modern Olympics started in 1894.

So no. The Olympics have not been around for 2,700+ years.