Jeremy Lin 2016 Olympian

[mrveggieman]

Do ya'll think Jeremy Lin will wear the red, white and blue in 2016? Also who do you have playing for team USA in 2016. Here is my starting 5.

PF Thomas Robinson
SF Harrison Barnes
C Andre Drummond
SG Austin Rivers
PG Jeremy Lin

BTW I am not including anyone who has already played in the olympics or more than likey will be playing this summer. It's time for some fresh blood on team USA.

[Joncamburn]

I think there are a lot of better choices for PG than Lin, by 2016 Linsanity will be over, he is a good player, but I don't think he would be picked as a starting USA PG.

[magic_bobcat]

I think Lin will be wearing red but no white or blue. I don't think he's good enough to get into your Olympic teams. I think he will play for China.

I see Kyrie Irving is trying to decide wether to play for Australia this summer. I couldn't blame him for wanting to play in one of the greatest competitions in the world in one of the greatest cities (ha) but I doubt Australia will ever win the gold, but if he holds on for Rio in 2016 and goes for Team USA he has a much better chance!

[mrveggieman]

I think Lin will be wearing red but no white or blue. I don't think he's good enough to get into your Olympic teams. I think he will play for China.

I see Kyrie Irving is trying to decide wether to play for Australia this summer. I couldn't blame him for wanting to play in one of the greatest competitions in the world in one of the greatest cities (ha) but I doubt Australia will ever win the gold, but if he holds on for Rio in 2016 and goes for Team USA he has a much better chance!

I can't see Jeremy Lin playing for China. I understand he is of Chinese decent and has fam over there but he was born and raised in California there but I would think that he would want to be recognized as an american first.

[magic_bobcat]

I can't see Jeremy Lin playing for China. I understand he is of Chinese decent and has fam over there but he was born and raised in California there but I would think that he would want to be recognized as an american first.

Yeah I understand it would be weird having been born and raised in Cali to pledge allegiance to another country but Joakim Noah, Chris Kaman, Roy Hibbert and Renaldo Balkman have all done it. Maybe its just a big man thing haha. But didn't he get selected by the CTBA to play in a 2011 tournament?

Anyways if you didn't think you could ever make it into the USA team and got offered to play in the Olympics for another country that you had legitimate ties to would you turn it down? Maybe its just me, after all I am a MASSIVE Olympics fan. Roll on July 27th got opening ceremony tickets wooooooo!!!

[mrveggieman]

Yeah I understand it would be weird having been born and raised in Cali to pledge allegiance to another country but Joakim Noah, Chris Kaman, Roy Hibbert and Renaldo Balkman have all done it. Maybe its just a big man thing haha. But didn't he get selected by the CTBA to play in a 2011 tournament?

Anyways if you didn't think you could ever make it into the USA team and got offered to play in the Olympics for another country that you had legitimate ties to would you turn it down? Maybe its just me, after all I am a MASSIVE Olympics fan. Roll on July 27th got opening ceremony tickets wooooooo!!!

Yeah it happens all the time just look at WNBA player Becky Hammond who was born and raised over here, with no known ties to Russia except for playing pro ball over there durning the winter and all of a sudden she is playing on the russian olympic team. Call me old fashioned but I think that if you play in the olympics you should play for the country that you grew up in. However the olympics is nothing more than an a marketing arm for FIBA and the NBA so this type of stuff is going to happen more and more often.

[Tamtalizied]

Jeremy Lin will probably NEVER play for Team China. His family is from Taiwan, so if he is determined good enough to play for a team then, and he is not playing with Team USA, it would be for the Chinese Taipei team, and not Team China.

[magic_bobcat]

wow wow wow the Olympics is plenty more than an advertising arm of FIBA and the NBA it is the pinnacle of sport for many people around the world. Unlike when people win the NBA or NFL and are declared world champions you actually are world champions when you win an Olympic gold medal!

and Tamtalizied I agree with you that he probably never will play for China and in my op i meant Chinese Taiwan not China, sorry was rushing my post on my lunch break. But Taiwan as far as I'm aware is like England/Wales/Scotland in that it may be internationally recognised as an individual country but it is also part of a larger internationally nationally recognised state such as the People's Republic of China or Great Britain/United Kingdom etc. This means that all English people are also British but not all British people are English, if you get my drift. So it would be plausible that someone of Chinese Taiwan decent could legitimately be considered Chinese for the purpose of international sport, i think. And anyway if he hasn't played internationally for any state all China would have to do is offer him dual nationality so he can play for them like Nash has or Ibaka

[jordan23]

Might make the all-star game which is based on popularity, but i highly doubt USA team.

[angel0430]

In 2016 youa re going to have CP3. Griffin, Rose and probably Wade and LBJ...they are still young and I am pretty sure that some of those names are going to be on that team