Letters: Sep. 27, 2004

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YOU REPORTED THAT THE U.S. OLYMPIC basketball team was the first "NBA-stocked bunch not to win gold" [Sept. 6]. Next time, let the team that has last won the National Basketball Association title represent the U.S. in international competitions. Can you imagine the pride and the might with which the NBA champion Detroit Pistons would have performed in Athens? But instead of a well-coordinated team that knew how to control the ball and shoot well, we saw a hurriedly assembled group of NBA superstars who could not manage to play in a cohesive manner.

IME DAVID EKPO Phoenix, Ariz.

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