Look at what we have here, the death of the summer Olympics basketball, FIBA and International Olympic Committee.

David Stern and NBA owners are mulling over the opportunity of starting the "World Cup of Basketball" Tournament, a similar concept to the World Cup of soccer.

It looks like the NBA has finally had enough of FIBA, USA Basketball, IOC and everybody else wanting a share of the global basketball market.

The key component here is control? the NBA wants more control but the old boys don't want to let it go. But the question to ask is how will summer Olympics be without the Top NBA players?

Hmmm. back to the drawing board, we got decisions to make.

More importantly how will this affect national governing bodies?

Many have long complained that national federations like USA Basketball, Canada Basketball etc. often only benefit their own initiatives which generally means FIBA and the IOC.

Stern says the NBA will take time to deliberate how it will proceed in the future, but multiple league and international sources insist there’s little chance the league will ever send its best players to the Summer Olympics beyond the 2012 London Games. The NBA has long wanted to best protect its financial investments in players by better controlling the medical and training staffs used in international competition.

He sees no reason to partner with FIBA or anyone else. He wants the NBA to own, operate and profit on a global tournament using the league’s stars.

"The question is: Why would we partner with a current tournament rather than start our own?" Cuban said. "If done correctly, it can be NBA-owned and operated and have the potential to be just as large as the World Cup of soccer. That is a product, in my opinion, we want to own, not share.

“I don’t know what the NBA plan is, but the above is what I will be pushing for."

"I do know that USA Basketball should have no say in the matter," Cuban said. "It’s completely separate from the NBA. They are a different financial entity. They would just be another country that could play in our tournament. Just like FIFA does the World Cup, the NBA could do a global tournament.

"There’s no more reason to deal with USA Basketball than there is to work with the Peruvian Basketball or Kazakhstan Basketball Committee."