text: why isn't allen iverson going to be on the olympic team?   ok, long answer. basically, i just saw this on t.v. by the way. when you throw all the big stars on 1 team (lebron james, dwayne wade, kobe, etc), they are all good players, but that doesn't necessarily mean there as good or function as good as a real team. a player can be as good as he wants, but you need teamwork, and teamwork takes a while to develop you see.  the idea behind the olympic team is they want to get the whole team as a bunch of young guys (lebron, kobe, wade), so that in 4 years these same guys can play in the olympics again, therefore building teamwork in the process because they would have played together before you see. they specifically didn't want older players because who knows where these older players will be in 4 years (iverson, think of any older player, probably will not be on olympic team)