So who is actually going to play for Team USA in Rio?

[bdreason]

Guys who aren't going to play;

Harden
Curry
Westbrook
Durant
LeBron
CP3
Kobe
Griffin
Beal
Wall
Aldridge

Returning Team USA finalists;

Davis
Melo
Barnes
Butler
Cousins
Drummond
DeRozan
Faried
Gay
DrayGod
Hayward
Klay
Iggy
Irving
Jordan
Leonard
Lillard
Conley
George


Most likely guys from the USA select team;

Jabari
McDermott
Turner
McCollum
KCP
Winslow


My guess;

PG: Lillard, Irving, Conley
SG: Klay, Butler, Iggy
SF: Leonard, Hayward
PF: Davis, Melo, DrayGod
C: Cousins, Drummond

[Spurs m8]

Barnes and Iggy?

the team is that desperate?

Curry is such a f*cking p*ssy

[Akrazotile]

Tbh I dont understand why any of these guys would wanna spend their vacation playing more basketball.

[senelcoolidge]

The incoming draft class should play and other collegiate players.

[bdreason]

Barnes and Iggy?

the team is that desperate?

Curry is such a f*cking p*ssy


That's just wishful thinking on my part. Barnes probably won't play because he's in a contract year.

Team USA is going to want a calming, veteran presence though. So if Iggy makes himself available, he's gonna be on the team.

[bdreason]

Tbh I dont understand why any of these guys would wanna spend their vacation playing more basketball.


To win an Olympic Gold Medal.

[FireDavidKahn]

Maybe some of these people want to have a baby someday?

[ForcedToRegiste]

USA going in as underdogs this time. Nothing brings the country together like shamelessly cheering for something you know nothing about because everyone else is doing it.

USA! Greatest upset in Olympics history about to happen. :eek:

[Jameerthefear]

would be funny if AG somehow got in

[FireDavidKahn]

Maybe this has something to do with it....

http://www.businessinsider.com/medieval-brazils-sewage-system-is-comparable-to-london-or-paris-in-the-14th-century-2015-9

[QUOTE]Rivulets of waste crisscross the labyrinth of alleyways that serve as 5-year-old Kaike de Oliveira Benjamin's playground, forming dark, fetid puddles and gurgling streams of refuse and trash.

It's little better inside the tiny, one-room apartment he shares with his mother, two little brothers and infestations of roaches and rats.

When it rains, the basement apartment floods ankle-deep with a mixture of rainwater and sewage, and drinking water often comes out of the tap looking and smelling contaminated.

Rio de Janeiro's lack of basic sanitation is in the headlines because Olympic athletes will compete in polluted waters during next year's games, but it's hardly news in areas like the Rocinha slum, where contact with untreated waste is an everyday reality for the Benjamins and tens of thousands of other families.

The consequences are not fleeting. They reverberate for decades, dooming many children exposed to this filth to lives stunted by illness.

One public health expert calls the sewage system in Rio largely "medieval," comparable with London or Paris in the 14th or 15th century.

And it's not just Rio. Fewer than half of households nationwide are hooked up to sewage mains, meaning that much of the waste generated by about 100 million people runs through open-air ditches that bisect neighborhoods like Kaike's across this continent-sized nation, befouling streams and rivers that in turn contaminate lakes and lagoons, beaches and bays.

From Kaike's slum

[FireDavidKahn]

[QUOTE]For residents of Rocinha and other Rio slums, this is not just a one-time event. They come into contact with such filthy water day after day, week after week, year after year.

Public health experts say children exposed to sewage fall ill more often, are less likely to attend school regularly and fully develop intellectually, and ultimately end up getting significantly lower-paying jobs than people from similar socio-economic backgrounds who grew up with basic sanitation.

Already, Kaike's 18-month-old brother, Rafael, regularly suffers from stomach problems, and last year Kaike was hospitalized for two weeks with acute vomiting and explosive, bloody diarrhea that doctors attributed to a water-borne bacteria or virus.

The boys' mother, Marcele de Oliveira Franca, can't afford to move and so can't protect her children.

"There's no way to avoid it," said Franca, a 21-year-old single mother who cobbles together odd jobs as a maid to make the $86 monthly rent. "Sometimes I think I should get them out of here, but there's no way."

Several general practitioners who work in the public health clinics in Rocinha and other Rio slums estimated that up to 40 percent of all the cases they treat are caused by exposure to sewage. Among their patients, gastroenteritis, hepatitis A and fungal skin infections are the most common.

Young children are the most affected, the doctors said, probably because most people build up antibodies by adolescence.

Not one of the physicians in these government-run clinics would speak on the record, however, for fear of losing their jobs. The issue of sewage has become a hotly contested political issue as it becomes clear that Rio's state and city leaders will not be able to cleanse the waters in time for the Olympics.

A radical cleanup of the city's blighted waterways was meant to be one of the main legacies of the Olympics, used as a key selling point in the city's official bid document. But with less than a year before the games begin and little improvement, authorities have dialed down expectations. Rio Governor Luiz Fernando Pezao recently pushed back the deadline for cleaning Guanabara Bay, where the Olympic sailing competitions are to be staged, from 2016 to 2035.

Fernando Garcia de Freitas has written several reports tracking the health, financial and public policy fallout from Brazil's sewage woes for the pro-sanitation organization Trata Brasil.

"We're talking about nearly 100 million people who are subject, in varying degrees, to this sort of underdevelopment," said Freitas, the expert who called the current sewage system "medieval."

"The effects of our backwardness in sewage treatment goes far beyond the most obvious and easily perceptible one

[FireDavidKahn]

Brazil is the world's seventh-largest economy, but ranked 84th for access to water and sanitation in last year's Yale Environmental Performance Index of 178 countries, trailing such nations such as Turkmenistan, Moldova, Albania, Syria and nearby Chile.

Rapid urban growth in recent decades, poor planning, political infighting and economic instability are largely to blame, experts say.

In Rio, for example, a fiscal crisis that shook Brazil in the 1980s largely froze sewerage investment for two decades, and it took another decade for regulations divvying up responsibility for those investments between the federal, state and municipal governments to make their way through Brazil's notoriously sluggish bureaucracy.

During that time, the metropolitan area's population mushroomed from around 9 million in 1980 to 12 million today, with many of the new residents settling off the grid of basic public services, in the city's more than 1,000 "favela" slums.

Authorities insist they will ensure the safety of the water at the Olympic venues, possibly by using such palliative measures as bioremediation, a waste management technique that uses microscopic organisms to break down contaminants. But experts say the measures planned will do virtually nothing to combat the disease-causing viruses that are rife in the waters.

And the Olympic promises offer little comfort to Rio's slum-dwellers.About 3,000 of Rio's poorest citizens live in Mandela, a sliver of a slum wedged between two sewage-blackened rivers that flow into nearby Guanabara Bay. Residents are crowded into rough-hewn homes built up to the very edge of the rivers, where clods of waste float sluggishly by. The surface bubbles with escaping gases and a sulphuric stench envelops everything.

Cristiane Candido, a 37-year-old housewife, said her five children were always sick when they were little. Now, it's her grandchildren's turn.

"It's diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea all the time," she said.

"Nothing gets better here, nothing," she said. "It just gets worse."

Brazilians are truly some nasty people:biggums:

[bdreason]

Maybe some of these people want to have a baby someday?


The virus lasts like a week. As long as you don't sleep with your wife/gf during that period, she's not going to get it.

People acting like Zika is HIV or something. :oldlol:

[bdreason]

And NBA players will be staying in nice hotels, not living in the ghettos. Ya'll been listening to way too much fear mongering media.

[bdreason]

would be funny if AG somehow got in


He's on the US Select team. There's definitely a chance.

[FireDavidKahn]

And NBA players will be staying in nice hotels, not living in the ghettos. Ya'll been listening to way too much fear mongering media.
It's endemic to the entire country...

What about all the swimmers and shit that actually have to swim in these waters, which btw still wont be cleaned up in time.:biggums:

These people are greasy AF

[bdreason]

It's endemic to the entire country...

What about all the swimmers and shit that actually have to swim in these waters, which btw still wont be cleaned up in time.:biggums:

These people are greasy AF


We're talking about male basketball players. Try and stay on topic.

[FireDavidKahn]

Who would want to both vacation and work hard as **** in one of the shittiest places on earth?

:biggums:

[Akrazotile]

To win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Meh. This is not a sport in which Olympic medals are the pinnacle achievement. These guys play in the premiere pro league in the world.

I mean good for them if they really wanna spend their off-time playing more basketball and competing for gold... It just surprises me so many of these guys go through with it, considering the USA basketball commitment is like an annual summer thing, it's not just once every four years when the Olympics come around. Id definitely want summers to relax and pursue other interests if I was in the NBA, but to each his own.

[STATUTORY]

you have to be a fool to risk your life with the zika virus abound

[bdreason]

Sacramento Bee reporting that DeMarcus Cousins will definitely be on the team.

[AintNoSunshine]

Maybe this has something to do with it....

http://www.businessinsider.com/medieval-brazils-sewage-system-is-comparable-to-london-or-paris-in-the-14th-century-2015-9


Damn...

Explosive, bloody diarrhea..

[FreezingTsmoove]

Wall confirmed hes not going

And yall dumb as hell. They going to be ****ing Rio bitches they dont want to catch Zika

[CarlosBoozer]

I honestly wouldn't want to go to Rio either, place is a mess.

But imagine the f*cking in the olympic village :dancin

[JimmyMcAdocious]

I honestly wouldn't want to go to Rio either, place is a mess.

But imagine the f*cking in the olympic village :dancin

Good point. With Kobe now gone, I wonder who takes over as the hottest piece there.

[kamil]

Maybe some of these people want to have a baby someday?

This.

Too bad most ISH basement dwellers know shit about current events.

[sd3035]

Who would want to go catch Zika in a favela

[bdreason]

This.

Too bad most ISH basement dwellers know shit about current events.


The Zika virus isn't a threat to male NBA players. It lasts about a week, and has mild or no symptoms. The only threat to a male athlete would be to his wife/gf when he returns from Brazil. This can easily be avoided by simply getting tested when they return, or waiting a week to have sex.

This thread is about who is going to play for Team USA. If you want make yourself look like an uneducated moron, do it somewhere else.

[Genaro]

The media is making a lot worst than it is. I don't even know anyone who had contracted zika and I'm not even worried about getting it. Yes, there are places where there isn't basic hygienically conditions in Brasil but truth is: players won't be going there. USA basketball players will be hosted in a boat from what I've heard. They will also bring their water and food, just like they did in China.

PS: About swimming, stop being retarded. The water is treated before anyone gets in. Not like the water is coming from the sewer.

[sd3035]

PS: About swimming, stop being retarded. The water is treated before anyone gets in. Not like the water is coming from the sewer.



It's Brazil, so it probably is. People there use the back of pickup trucks as ambulances, there are open sewers in the streets, and nearly the entire population has toxoplasmosis

[FireDavidKahn]

The media is making a lot worst than it is. I don't even know anyone who had contracted zika and I'm not even worried about getting it. Yes, there are places where there isn't basic hygienically conditions in Brasil but truth is: players won't be going there. USA basketball players will be hosted in a boat from what I've heard. They will also bring their water and food, just like they did in China.

PS: About swimming, stop being retarded. The water is treated before anyone gets in. Not like the water is coming from the sewer.
Did you even read the article?

They are swimming outside, in the water that has tons of sewage going into it...:facepalm

[bdreason]

Did you even read the article?

They are swimming outside, in the water that has tons of sewage going into it...:facepalm


Are they playing Basketball or Water Polo?

What does any of this have to do with NBA players traveling to Rio?



PS - Updated the list to show Wall is out. Team USA looking kinda thin at the PG spot now. :eek:

[FireDavidKahn]

Are they playing Basketball or Water Polo?

What does any of this have to do with NBA players traveling to Rio?



PS - Updated the list to show Wall is out. Team USA looking kinda thin at the PG spot now. :eek:
Because they might be tempted to go swimming

:coleman:

[FashionIssues]

the recruitment program is so vast. proven nba players in a fight for a spot is a turn off to them. it's easier to say **** it. dream teams are days of the old. there's no incentives for these millionaires neither.

get rid of tryouts and just call the necessary players

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVjTWA5yqQ

[bdreason]

Couple of updates.

Aldridge out.

Conley and PG13 available.

Although I could see Conley not going because it's a contract year.

[nba_55]

Because they might be tempted to go swimming

:coleman:
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[B-hoop]

So much ignorance in this thread :facepalm

[bigkingsfan]

Send the Kings, we got this.

[rmt]

The virus lasts like a week. As long as you don't sleep with your wife/gf during that period, she's not going to get it.

People acting like Zika is HIV or something. :oldlol:

Nobody knows how long lasting the effects are eg. Ebola - long after patients have recovered it affects them.

Seems like it's gonna be 2004 all over again where the top players didn't go (maybe because of the unrest in that area).

[Jameerthefear]

Couple of updates.

Aldridge out.

Conley and PG13 available.

Although I could see Conley not going because it's a contract year.
Conley was hurt all season so highly doubt he'll do it

[lakers_forever]

Nobody knows how long lasting the effects are eg. Ebola - long after patients have recovered it affects them.

Seems like it's gonna be 2004 all over again where the top players didn't go (maybe because of the unrest in that area).

Ebola. :oldlol: Dude, Zyka, almost 100% of the time, is like a common flue for healthy people. No harm at all. It's only dangerous for people who would be in danger with a common flu, like cancer patients, really old people, preagnant women, hiv positive people and so on. Also, I'm Brazilian and I only know one person who caught Zykha. She's 31 and did not miss a single day of work. She got a light fever, her body itched a little for a couple of days and that's was it.

And people talking about favelas. Forget City of God, NBA players will not be near favelas. World Cup also happened in Rio and there was 0 problems with foreigners soccer players. Hell, I live in a big Brazilian city also and I don't know anyone who was murdered, raped, kidnapped or anything like that. Most major crimes happen in isolated and poor areas, which athletes will never visit.

Shite, cities like Baltimore and Detroit have higher murder rates than Rio...

[ForcedToRegiste]

So much ignorance in this thread :facepalm

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

[bluechox2]

lets send canada for us...

[kamil]

The Zika virus isn't a threat to male NBA players. It lasts about a week, and has mild or no symptoms. The only threat to a male athlete would be to his wife/gf when he returns from Brazil. This can easily be avoided by simply getting tested when they return, or waiting a week to have sex.

This thread is about who is going to play for Team USA. If you want make yourself look like an uneducated moron, do it somewhere else.

Someone's from Brazil.

[JtotheIzzo]

No one wants to go, saw the Canada roster for the pre-qualifier (for the teams who were one slot away from qualifying they have a tourney in the Philippines).

OUT:
Wiggins
Stauskas
Murray
Trey Lyles
Olynyk
TT
Sacre
Dalembert
Bennett (still good in FIBA)

Our only 3 NBAers are Cory Joseph, Tyler Ennis and Joel Anthony.

Not gonna beat France or Turkey (also in Philippines) with a bunch of mid-level guys.

Bummer

[bdreason]

Players dropping like flies... or mosquitoes.


Players out;

Leonard
Lillard
Hayward
Drummond
Iggy
Curry

Players in;

Butler
Jordan
Lowry
DrayGod
Melo
Durant


First page updated. Both Klay and Kyrie seem doubtful, but hopefully they play.

[bdreason]

Won't let me edit the OP, so I'll just post the list here.


Players confirmed OUT:

Harden
Curry
Westbrook
LeBron
CP3
Kobe
Griffin
Beal
Wall
Aldridge
Drummond
Hayward
Iggy
Leonard
Lillard

Returning Team USA finalists;

Durant
Davis
Melo
Barnes
Butler
Cousins
DeRozan
Faried
Gay
DrayGod
Klay
Irving
Jordan
Conley
George


Most likely guys from the USA select team;

Jabari
McDermott
Turner
McCollum
KCP
Winslow



If Irving and Conley don't play, we're only going to have Lowry at PG. :facepalm

[bdreason]

Klay is in! :applause:

[Trollsmasher]

pretty sure Durant is going?

[bdreason]

pretty sure Durant is going?

Still undecided. He's in a contract year though, so I don't think he goes.

[NBAGOAT]

Lowry is in.