"The Dream Team"

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While I am very disappointed with our men's BB team in the Olympics, I find it even more appalling that polls show that a slight majority were rooting for USA to lose! I had come across some at work that felt the same way. Now I have no love for the NBA and I do think the product has gotten stale and yeah some of these guys characters are very questionable (as if other pro athletes are so pure), but these guys that went wanted to play for USA. The guys that need to be called out are the likes of Shaq, Kidd, Ray Allen, R Hamilton, Wallace, Garnett and others that had better things to do.
But back to our own country rooting against the USA. Some try to water it down by saying I am not "rooting against USA, but against these overpaid athletes". No you rooted against USA! Yeah we could have picked a better team or did some things different in the selection process, but this was our team and many wanted to see them fail. Hope everyone that rooted against them is happy now. The other countries are chuckling at us and having a good ol time taunting the Americans over there.
With this kind of support back home, why would anyone want to go to China in 2008? Don't think some college kids will go over there either and compete. They will get destroyed faster than Charles Barkley could take out an Angolan!