I really like that basketball is growing across the globe, but it’s straight up ignorant to insinuate the NBA championship isn’t the single biggest achievement in basketball. Maybe that will change, but it won’t be for a good while.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Yeah, if you're one of the best 100 players on the planet, there's exactly one place you're going to play, and it's the NBA. Winning whatever international exhibition you want is fine, but it's not where the best basketball is.
Exactly, and it dates to decades back when The sport was less popular around the world. But even with the popularity it enjoys today around the world, the NBA is absolutely the top league with nothing even remotely close to it. The NBA champ is the world champ.
yes! let's impose our vision on everyone else, we know better!
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FIBA champs are the world champs, period. I agree with Noah Lyles!
You are the World Athletics Championship champion because you won by competing against the best in the world, the same is true in the NBA.
I find the whole thing a strange debate. The USA Track and Field National Trials are known as some of the most competitive in the world and you might argue the competition is as competitive as an international competition. But it’s not. Nobody who wins Nationals would call themselves a World Champion.
The NBA Championship might contain the best players in the world but it is not an international competition. It is open only to American teams and to people who have work visas in America (minus one team in Canada). It’s the height of American ignorance to fall it a World Championship.
As far as I know this isn’t done in hockey. NHL players don’t call themselves World Champions.
I don’t really understand why this is controversial. It doesn’t invalidate the dominance of American basketball. It only serves to highlight how absolutely ignorant Americans are and their belief that the world centres around USA USA USA.
Let me get this right. You made up a league only open to American teams and Americans or foreigners with work visas in America. And then you call yourselves the World Champions? Does that sound weird?