USA Basketball Would Not Benefit Losing Pop

 Without Greg Popovich, Professional Basketball in this Country would be viewed as Incoherent. That is not new news, but, what is is Pop Retiring to Desk Duty.

The Spurs have downgraded from Family Team to Rookies of the Year. That is a Problem, because since David Robinson, the Spurs have been a Family Team and Not a NBA Outpost. 

Without Pop, the Promise of Wemby and his 5 More NBA Banners will go to waste. That is not an act.

I wouldn't want the Spurs to degrade to Lottery Regulars, which is not a compliment in the NBA Community. Even though they don't have the problem of G League Commitments with NBA Dollars, but, it shows when they fall off of contention.

The USA Basketball Loss to France is All Them!

 I feel USA Basketball Loss to France is All Them! It is not 1972, 1988 or 2004, and they'd have the Bad Bars Stick Out and Reinforce their Culture. The reality is, this is the Flagship of Basketball and Professional Basketball and I am not okay with a Narcolepsy Series of Losses!

I'd feel I would change having to double and redouble our efforts at Gold Medals. I don't think the Soviets are Going to Get their Drug Tests Right, China is not going to get their Act Right and most of our Peers that don't have Craven Issues is going to try to Buy their Way to Gold to Make Up for Russia, but, the legit feelings are they'll be at the expense of the economy.

Olympic Heroes in lesser Nations would be paid more than the President and more recognizable. I feel that I would want to see the Focus on an American Revolution rather than spending our way into another 2008.

I don't want to see Gold Medals be everyone else's Rich Man's Sport, and that causes pain and consternation to everyday people. I don't like envisioning having to wait a Year and a Half for the Olympics only to flop out of Medals.

The way some of our Sports Media talk about us, we'd be more Tanked than Every Single Year of the Vietnam War. I feel that we've suffered in silence as opposed to making a Military/Olympic Service Gold Medal Commitments.

I Swear Up and Down that the NBA All Star Game had unreal scoring like a 6 Player Basketball Game

I don't mean necessarily to eloize to the point that my annual Late Winter Diatribe, going hard for 4 Years, that I swear up and down that the NBA All Star Game wildly aped the 6 Player Basketball Game, like that was a compliment, but, I feel disheartened the NBA is not doing an ambassador role right.

And, I think selling out the All Star Saturday Night is not a good image, either. Even though I think, too, the League is not in a good place, and I am not the only one sadly troping that out. And, what is beyond sad to inner-city relations, is there should be no trades All Star Weekend. None. And, even if they had to blow by blow extend the trade deadline to the NHL Trade Deadline to have an active continent of trade winds and interstate commerce, but, certainly, it has to be above just playing anyone like we need Women's Basketball to be the Centerpiece of Women's Sports again.

And, rebadgering the D-League to the Gatorade League is well played, but, do we have a better way to have Minor League Basketball? And, the WNBA is getting lowered if there is more money for our pros to go overseas and evade the safety of a US Women's Basketball League, which is exactly why we have a league or leagues for Women's Basketball here at home!

If we had a WNBA D-League, would we promise we'd have enough Women's Basketball Interest? I mean, I know people do what they'd do, but, I really, really, want to see a return to the actual Basketball Product again like it should be.