I see I'm late to the game: Everyone has noted how trivial and obvious it is that there's a business enterprise behind the NBA players who make up the US team. In China, no less! And that someone was probably paid for coming up with the phrase "Redeem Team." Who knew?

I had hoped that this article would be about some *sports-related* objection to calling them the Redeem Team -- like, there's an actual reason they don't deserve it. But seeing how Spain, Argentina, etc. all have rosters full of NBA players, what the USA team did was pretty impressive.

To read this article, one would think these guys are the only ones in the Olympics to have a marketing campaign being wrapped around them.

What a truly inane article.