London 2012 Olympics: burnout fears spark NBA idea of Games basketball using football's under-23 format This year marks the 20th anniversary of the original United States 'Dream Team', the squad featuring Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird that won gold in Barcelona in the first year NBA players took part, a team widely credited with helping spark the global popularity of the sport. The game's biggest stars - including Team GB's Luol Deng - are in line to play at the London Olympics this summer, but it could be the last Games in which they feature. Plans floated by commissioner David Stern and his deputy Adam Silver at a press conference on Wednesday night ahead of the draft lottery would see Olympic basketball transformed in to a youth tournament, because of fears over player burnout. Silver said: "Owners have raised repeatedly the issue of our players playing in essence year round when you add the Olympics to our newly renamed World Cup of Basketball (formerly the FIBA World Championship). So when you have the Olympics, the World Cup of Basketball, we are taking a very close look at whether it makes sense from an NBA standpoint and a global basketball standpoint for the top players to be playing at that level on a year-round basis, and somewhere [every] summer. Silver said the NBA is planning talks with USA Basketball and FIBA following the London Olympics to discuss the matter. Olympic football squads are made up of under-23 players, with a maximum of three 'over-age' players in the group. Video: the 1992 Dream Team in action