++ [ originally posted by Torkel ] ++
LeBron?! But he went, and hardly played! And Ray Allen wasn't asked to go? I just assumed that he didn't want to. Who picked the players who went?
And when Lebron did get a chance to play, he was excellent. He helped create space in the zone defense by breaking it down and kicking it out to the wing men for open looks, or able to dish it down low to Duncan so that his sloth-ass didn't have to take 10 seconds to get a post up move started.
And LeBron, unlike that little punk Carmelo Anthony (you b!tch), actually wanted to be there and showed that he cared.
You know why Ray Allen, Brent Barry, Ron Artest, Paul Pierce didn't go, or weren't invited?
I'll be more than glad to tell you why.
How many people do you know that would run out and buy an Olympic jersey with Ray Allen, Brent Barry, or Ron Artest on it?
If you said Zero, give yourself a round of applause. team USA looked at this as an opportunity to sell more product, and nothing more than that.
Oh yeah, add Jermaine O'Neal to the list of players I mentioned earlier.