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YouTube Gold: A Rising Young Star?

Before and during the Olympics, we talked a lot about how the cores of various national teams either had or were aging out of their prime.

Argentina, Lithuania and Spain have all seen their greatest teams fade away and France may be about to as well.

Or maybe not.

We’ve also said that basketball is overdue for the next great big man. The NBA went from the Bill Russell/Wilt Chamberlain era to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Bill Walton to Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Ralph Sampson and Hakeem Olajuwon to Shaq, Yao Ming and Tim Duncan to, well, not so much lately.