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He has a point ... world champion means u have faced or took place in a tournament that includes other countries

If that's his point I agree lol
 

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I'm a big basketball fan but, I don't ever recall the NBA calling themselves World Champions after winning the title. I've always heard NBA Champions as a reference, only on 2K have I heard an NBA champion being referred to as World Champions 🤷🏾‍♀️ seldom ever heard the phrase NBA World Champions compared to NBA Champions.

I think Lyles is jealous of the players because despite him being a Gold Olympic Medalist winner, not many people know who he is 🤷🏾‍♀️ At least to my knowledge, his name isn't popping like a few of the other track runners and this is his way of getting his name out there.

He'll gain new supporters who despise American athletes (or just America in general) on top of the already critical NBA haters (y'all know who they are) in America, he kinda gives me Jonathan Issac (from the Magic) vibes.
 

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They should really have each championship team from all the international leagues, play against each other for a "World Championship" title.

We need a power ranking of all basketball teams in the world

Have a tournament so we get a true world champion:blessed:

Please stop before Adam silver hears you. :snoop:

As Gil pointed out in that vid that would be a colossal waste of time.

It’s such a sign of the times that we overreact to something no one was even thinking about, all bc it went viral
 

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Please stop before Adam silver hears you. :snoop:

As Gil pointed out in that vid that would be a colossal waste of time.

It’s such a sign of the times that we overreact to something no one was even thinking about, all bc it went viral
A waste of time... How?

The revenue for that would be crazy
 

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I'm a big basketball fan but, I don't ever recall the NBA calling themselves World Champions after winning the title. I've always heard NBA Champions as a reference, only on 2K have I heard an NBA champion being referred to as World Champions 🤷🏾‍♀️ seldom ever heard the phrase NBA World Champions compared to NBA Champions.
This
 

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A waste of time... How?

The revenue for that would be crazy

That’s exactly why Adam silver can’t stop fukin with shyt. The game is being overrun by casuals and :mjpls:

A 4 point shot would probably increase revenue too let’s go for it ….midseason tournaments, target score, let shave then play in soccer jerseys (low key they tried that) …let’s just rename it to La Liga:snoop:
 

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That’s exactly why the game is being overrun by casuals. Why Adam silver can’t stop from fukin with shyt

A 4 point shot would probably increase revenue too let’s go for it ….midseason tournaments, target score, let’s just rename it to La Liga:snoop:
There's a big ass world outside of the United States.
Capitalize on the fact that people are tribal as fukk.
They gonna support the team from their city hard as fukk.
And they are gonna support a team from their own country just as hard.

It don't matter if your a Lakers fan, warriors, Knicks, or heat fan...
If the NBA champ Nuggets had to play teams from all over the world to be crown World champ, that shyt would be crazy. Everyone would watch and support
 

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There's a big ass world outside of the United States.
Capitalize on the fact that people are tribal as fukk.
They gonna support the team from their city hard as fukk.
And they are gonna support a team from their own country just as hard.

It don't matter if your a Lakers fan, warriors, Knicks, or heat fan...
If the NBA champ Nuggets had to play teams from all over the world to be crown World champ, that shyt would be crazy. Everyone would watch and support
No, they wouldn’t. The same way ratings wise no one is watching Team USA right now

And we have decades of muscle memory. When the champ is crowned after the finals, bball is over. It’s summer time. Done.

Also, time differences. No one is waking up at 4am to watch the nuggets play Panthalonas.

And as Gil pointed out, people are conflating individual teams with the sum of international basketball. These individual teams are not good fam. Their best players can’t make the league!

This whole argument was never about that. He made a common sense factual statement, but NO ONE has EVER, asked ‘well the NBA champs won but who’s best in the WORLD’. That’s NOT what anyone is saying

Hence why I keep saying it’s frightening our society is so geared for debate and pettiness that people are automatically getting defensive and this whole thing went left
 

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No, they wouldn’t. The same way ratings wise no one is watching Team USA right now

And we have decades of muscle memory. When the champ is crowned after the finals, bball is over. It’s summer time. Done.

Also, time differences. No one is waking up at 4am to watch the nuggets play Panthalonas.

And as Gil pointed out, people are conflating individual teams with the sum of international basketball. These individual teams are not good fam. Their best players can’t make the league!

This whole argument was never about that. He made a common sense factual statement, but NO ONE has EVER, asked ‘well the NBA champs won but who’s best in the WORLD’. That’s NOT what anyone is saying

Hence why I keep saying it’s frightening our society is so geared for debate and pettiness that people are automatically getting defensive and this whole thing went left
That bolded is true on both sides tho bro.
Our teams are good but how are good are they not stacked with all star talent like the Olympic teams.

The Miami heat just went to the finals with g League dudes
And the best player in the finals is an international player.
The rest of the other players aren't necessarily super stars

I don't care that no one ever brought it up.
It should have been brought up a long time ago because by now you would have a world championship tournament with a lot of parity.

The same way we recruit young dudes internationally. International teams would be doing the same thing to us. Offering better contracts to dudes out of highschool and college.
Making their championship teams more competitive. Because now there's more to play for on a yearly basis
 

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I'm a big basketball fan but, I don't ever recall the NBA calling themselves World Champions after winning the title. I've always heard NBA Champions as a reference, only on 2K have I heard an NBA champion being referred to as World Champions 🤷🏾‍♀️ seldom ever heard the phrase NBA World Champions compared to NBA Champions.
 
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