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"FacebookPinterestGetty Images\n\nWhen USA Basketball released its list of finalists for the 2012 Olympics, Warriors guard Stephen Currya member of Team USA for the 2010 Worldswasn\u2019t on it. Curry is one of the good guys, a pure-shooting, NBA-pedigreed star who made his name during March Madness and put tiny Davidson on the map. He may even be overvalued as a player because of his boyish good looks and sparkling personality. Still, when Curry heard this news, he wasn\u2019t happy. And he didn\u2019t keep it bottled up inside. He was &amp;quot;very disappointed&amp;quot; and let it be known this week.\n\nI expected someone to come after Curry. After all, there\u2019s just not room for him on that team. Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, and Kobe Bryant all have claims on roster\u2019s guard spots; the roughly comparable Eric Gordon, another youngster who did much to establish himself in the Worlds, almost certainly won\u2019t make the cut. Lamar Odom, whose out-of-shape big body served him well in Istanbul, shouldn\u2019t be expecting anything. I suspect he was included just so something could go right for the guy. The 2012 Olympics will follow in the footsteps of the 2008 team. The dream of out-smarting the players by putting together a &amp;quot;team of pieces that fit&amp;quot; is dead, even after the fairly rag-tag assemblage that repped America at the Worlds, and the awful moral consequences of uniting superstars in a summer camp-like environment. The Worlds team happened because it had to, not as an ercise in top-down ingenuity. Next summer, it\u2019s on again.\n\nMaybe Curry should have demurely knuckled under, and said all the right things. Brand-wise, that might have been the smartest move. Then again, Curry is also known as a player who gives a damn. So he vented. Politely, but from the heart. There\u2019s a fine line between complaining and disappointment. Too often, it\u2019s in the eye of the beholder: we don\u2019t like to see athletes express dissatisfaction because we want them to blame themselves, then resolve to get better. Part of getting better, though, is motivation, and nothing motivates like disappointment. I\u2019m glad that no one jumped on Curry for his remarks. It proves that there is a space for athletes to be honest about (gulp) their feelings, even the prickly ones. And really, the more we see of this, the more we trust in them to consistently give a damn.\n\nThere is, however, a less-than-uplifting coda to all of this. Curry has been suffering from chronic ankle problems since the Worlds; a more bitter player might blame the Team USA experience for waylaying his actual NBA career. It\u2019s unlikely Curry felt he was owed a spot because of this; when asked about that summer\u2019s affect on his long-term health, he &amp;quot;didn\u2019t want to speculate&amp;quot;. From the outside looking in, though, we see Curry paying the price for LeBron and Wade\u2019s reluctance to play in 2010. Maybe he was paying his dues. Or maybe forcing guys to turn up for the entire cycle of international competition, as was originally the plan, could avoid the impression that even some stars are disposable."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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