I’m not saying he’s going to become an all star or anything yet, but its a step in the right direction, thats for sure, plus he’s not 35,

sure agree with your comments on the nba vs the international…wear and tear thoughts….i think it’ll really help him or wear him out, my guess is the first, we’ll see.

As I understand this the select team is a practice squad that will only really play with the main US team this week. The experience Robin gets battling Dwight Howard and Chris Bosch will only help him as a player and as Kerr noted in the EV Trib article, Robin needs to work on his conditioning anyway.

As for being picked, the fact that he and Love are the only rookie big men selected is nothing but a good sign especially considering the other big men that could have been chosen. Like Brook for example who was in Vegas watching his brother play all week.

mixing seeing different teams from all over the world and doing what you love to do, and playing with some top nba young players and coaches, too much too gain I think, but…..on the other hand, I do think it hurt amare some, and I’m glad he (Amare) decided against doing that team for this round.

The nba needs to focus on having fun once in a while, I’d love to see 5 games a yr where they play hard, but do something silly, like one game where all the suns players have fake goatees that look like skinners, or one game where they all wear hair like lopez’s (big perm/afro). One game where you have 4 players and your mascot, one game with 1 wife of any player….etc etc

never happen, but if done right, could be fun

Final thought on Lopez, we’re going to see how tough he really is, with all that banging etc, we’ll see how he holds up, injury is my biggest concern with the international play