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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3237186, member: 6927"] Certainly no one is guaranteed a spot, and injury is always the wildcard. Both Bird and Taurasi have taken multiple injury hiatuses in their pro careers but have always managed to be in great form for the Olympics. I think both are being extra cautious this summer so as not to jeopardize their one last hoorah with the national team next year. For all we know, they as well as Stewie will be good to go again while some of the younger presumptive Olympians who are currently healthy and killing it could suffer a most untimely injury that takes them out of the Games. It's no surprise this next Olympic team will look quite different than the last one, if nothing else because they were a fairly aging roster to begin with. Two of the 12 (Catchings and Whalen) have since definitively retired, and a third (Maya) may well have played her last game. That would already be 25% of the roster. Then you have question marks surrounding McCoughtry, Augustus, Charles, Stewie, Bird and Taurasi, whether due to injury or age or general form. The only returning Olympians who are currently healthy and playing great this summer are EDD, Griner and (to a lesser extent) Fowles. I do think the current WNBA season is less important than what happens between October and the naming of the roster next spring. Which players are rounding into form, and which are gelling with whatever team concept Dawn wants to build? [/QUOTE]