The head of the sport's governing body said Saturday he doesn't foresee an age limit for the 2016 Olympics, tempering talk that the 20-year anniversary of the Dream Team would be the final appearance of the NBA's biggest stars. NBA Commissioner David Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver have said they may favor Olympic basketball turning to a model like soccer, in which teams are made up of players 23 and younger, with three roster exceptions for older players. Baumann said FIBA and the NBA are having ongoing discussions, and he wants to do whatever is best to continue the worldwide growth of basketball while also being respectful of team owners' concerns about the wear and tear their players face when playing for their national teams. NBA players made their debut in 1992 and were a spectacular success, with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird as the headliners of a U.S. team that stormed to the gold medal and triggered an explosion of popularity in the sport. James is unsure of his future plans, anyway, but said he definitely wouldn't take an exception because he wouldn't want to go without the rest of his teammates from the U.S. team that he played with in 2008 and are back in Sunday's gold-medal game against Spain.
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