Comments on: Becky Hammon: Traitor or following her dream?

By: Mike Black

Mike Black — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:34:59 +0000

Complete traitor !!!!!!! period.. she should stay in Russia

By: brynne

brynne — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:15:00 +0000

Anne Donovan is right, of course she is a traitor. Even worse, she is a cry baby. She was not good enough to make her country’s team. Period. So she sold out her country for her own good. Shame on her. And double shame on her for not having the stiff upper lip to hack the complaints that she surely should have expected.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:35:48 +0000

My country tis of thee . . .

By: Jim Allen

Jim Allen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:20:34 +0000

Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag’s meaningless to me
Look around, we’re all people
Who needs country’s anyway?

Dead Kennedys

By: Twosetter01

Twosetter01 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:07:48 +0000

Anne Donovan should just shut up. She didn’t want Becky to play for her team.
Way to go Becky for finding an alternate way to get to the Olympics as a competitor, How many people actually get that chance as an athlete.

Anne, wouldn’t you have done the same thing if you were in her position?

By: Theodaddy

Theodaddy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:14:01 +0000

honestly, it’s the Olympics. When was the last time anyone really cared about them? The Olympic ideal was destroyed decades ago.

By: blueraider

blueraider — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:42:01 +0000

Hakeem Olajuwon played for one of the “Dream Team”s. No???

I’m certain that he could have put a Nigerian hoops squad into the Olympics all by himself had he tried.

Traitor!

By: Joe Guckin

Joe Guckin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:51:05 +0000

Samuel Dalembert of the 76ers was born in Haiti but grew up in Canada. He became a Canadian citizen to play on the Canadian basketball team in the Olympics.

My thought is she’s certainly not a traitor. If there’s a problem, the problem is with the Olympics and who is allowed to qualify for a country. If an athlete is able to qualify for citizenship in a way that non-athletes aren’t, there’s a problem.

By: Enigma

Enigma — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:12:17 +0000

She’s no traitor. If Anne Donovan is so angry about Becky Hammon joining Russia, then maybe she should have considered her for her own team.

At the end of the day, Hammon had an opportunity to play in the Olympics for two nations because she holds dual citizenship… the American team denied her a spot on the team, the Russians wanted her so really, there’s no problem.

By: sportinlife

sportinlife — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:47:37 +0000

You go Becky! The USA has at least eight foreign-born likely Olympic competitors, one of whom got help from Bush himself to become a citizen in time to compete in the Beijing Olympics.

Who are we to criticize her?