U.S. Is Up to Its High-Tops in Olympic Hoopla

We will be left behind in a sport we perfected if we don’t field a national basketball team--one that is used to playing together under pressure and with a coach the players are familiar with.

If it takes the NBA champions, so be it.

The Olympics are games of professionals now, and it is time for us to wake up and get with it.

PETER BRITTAIN

Laguna Beach