other countries always allowed their pros. I don't watch the basketball but I would find it difficult to actually root against them. I know it's not unique to the U.S., but that doesn't change my opinion about it. And no, it's not hard to root for Lithuania or Argentina to upset a team of multi-millionaire NBA hot-shots yeah because those other teams are only half multi-millionaire NBA hot shots well the influx of Europeans into the NBA happened well after the 1992 "Dream Team"