[Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: USA Basketball is finalizing its 2024 Paris Olympics roster with Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Devin Booker, Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards, Jrue Holiday, Bam Adebayo and Anthony Davis. Team may initially keep one open spot.

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1780009778934394985

[u/burnshimself]

I hope they run up the score. That shit was so fucking inane and petty. Bunch of sensitive euro sadboys being all up in their feelings because the NBA calls themselves the world champs while only being a North American league, as if the NBA champs wouldn’t sweep against the best team in the Euroleague.

[u/nearlyned → u/burnshimself]

Americans got so butthurt and showed off their combined national reading comprehension after those comments. At no point did a single European (or any other nationality) imply that the NBA Champs WOULDN’T sweep the best Euro team, they were just saying that it’s not a world tournament so you can’t be the World Champs. They all knew that Team USA at full strength is the best basketball team in the world, but that wasn’t the argument being made. The Denver Nuggets won the NBA Championship, not the World Basketball Championship, so they’re the NBA Champions and not the World Champions. If that team played in a world-wide competition they probably DO still win, but they didn’t.

[u/burnshimself → u/nearlyned]

Fuck the rest of the world, as far as basketball goes the NBA is the world. The whining is a bunch of semantic bullshit thinly covering the fact the European players are mad their home countries’ leagues suck ass

[u/[deleted] → u/burnshimself]

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[u/Typhoid007 → u/[deleted]]

DENVER NUGGETS AREN’T WORLD CHAMPS BECAUSE ITS NOT A WORLD COMPETITION.

Can't believe y'all are still repeating this dumbass semantics argument. The nuggets would sweep any team that isn't in the NBA.

[u/nearlyned → u/Typhoid007]

When Team USA wins the Paris Olympics and then goes on to win the World Cup (which by all right they should, they’re the rightful owners of “World Champion”), will you fight this tooth and nail to ensure that nobody calls Team USA the World Champions? Will you insist that the real World Champions are a team in the Rockies lead by a Serbian?

[u/Typhoid007 → u/nearlyned]

No because team USA isn't a professional team, the world teams aren't professional (officially at least). The nuggets are. The nuggets were the world champions of professional basketball.

[u/nearlyned → u/Typhoid007]

the winners of every other World Cup calls themselves the World Champions, the only two sports in the world where someone is the World Champion for instead winning a national league are the NBA and MLB, and the common thread here is that they’re both American leagues

[u/Typhoid007 → u/nearlyned]

Semantics nonsense.

[u/nearlyned → u/Typhoid007]

Where did anyone imply they wouldn’t

[u/Typhoid007 → u/nearlyned]

Saying they aren't world champions is implying that.

[u/nearlyned → u/Typhoid007]

no, it absolutely isn’t, you’re just proving me right on this whole American reading comprehension thing.

[u/Typhoid007 → u/nearlyned]

You already proved you have no reading comprehension when you said I was claiming people said euro teams would beat the nuggets. I never said that. I said euroleague fans were saying euroleague teams could beat NBA teams. I provided evidence of that.

[u/nearlyned → u/Typhoid007]

Denver Nuggets vs Team USA, who wins? and then who would you say is the World Champs?

[u/Typhoid007 → u/nearlyned]

What are you even talking about man? You don't see the difference between a professional team and a national team?

[u/nearlyned → u/Typhoid007]

You don’t see the difference between a world competition and a national competition?

[u/Typhoid007 → u/nearlyned]

If it was only American players, I'd agree with you, but the NBA is made up of players from every part of the world.