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Originally Posted by Kneel B4 Zod
interesting question
I imagine it's like most other events, countries will hold their own qualifying events, and basically any country can submit a team to compete in the Olympics? Many countries won't, but I'd guess that the format here will be able to support many teams. games are fast, you can play multiple times in a row, etc.
That's not how other events work. Not every country can submit teams/individuals for an event (only exception is the home country which gets to submit for every event IIRC). If this were the case, you'd see tons more teams in every event. For team events, they cap the number of entrants and then each has a governing body that determines which countries those spots go to (and how many spots each country can have).
The big wrinkle for this will be how the players on each team are chosen. For most team events, the country picks the team (which can be completely different from the team that qualified).
However, for a few events, you pick your own team and then qualify with those people - best example I can think of is beach volleyball, where every duo gets ranked based on performance in various qualifying tournaments, and then it's those two specific players that get Olympic berth).
I'd assume that for 3v3 it will be qualifying as a specific team, which will make it nearly impossible for NBA players to qualify (especially if qualifying tournaments run during NBA season).