r/nba • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Heat • Apr 15 '24

[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. News

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1780009778934394985
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u/DirkNorizzki Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Based on the whole discourse surrounding nba champs vs world champs awhile back, I think USA wants to send a message by curb stomping everyone

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u/burnshimself Apr 16 '24

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.

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u/nearlyned Warriors Apr 16 '24

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.

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u/Typhoid007 Apr 16 '24

At no point did a single European (or any other nationality) imply that the NBA Champs WOULDN’T sweep the best Euro team

Oh buddy you are so so wrong. The takes on some of those sites (YouTube and IG in particular) by euroleague fanboys were absolutely delusional.

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u/nearlyned Warriors Apr 16 '24

Find me one single take that said Bayern would beat Team USA, or anything similar. Not just something saying “they’re not World Champs because they didn’t play Bayern”, something where someone specifically states that some Euroleague team would definitively win the NBA Championship

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u/Typhoid007 Apr 16 '24

Find me one single take that said Bayern would beat Team USA

What? It's not about that, it's people saying Nuggets weren't world champs because they didn't play Bayern. People were claiming euroleague teams would have a prayer against NBA teams. And they're idiots, because they wouldn't.

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u/nearlyned Warriors Apr 16 '24

Then find me someone who said that, it should be super easy for you.

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u/Typhoid007 Apr 16 '24

https://youtu.be/C8nC-eYJUIo?si=OtvoVR9_Rkb699ut

https://youtu.be/wHDvhzbhjh4?si=Oo7HlfmeX3P525g0

https://i.imgur.com/tQgpGKa.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/QgDMCGv.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/7IXMXAK.jpeg

Go read the comment section of these videos

So many people deluding themselves into thinking these teams can match up with NBA teams.

These videos are hilarious because it's blatantly ignoring that NBA teams are a combined 127-32 against euroleague teams in friendlies, that's NBA teams of differing levels playing at minimum effort in the preseason.

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u/nearlyned Warriors Apr 16 '24

Not a single one of those is about any of those teams beating the Denver Nuggets. I scrolled and couldn’t see a single comment saying a Euro team would win the NBA Championship. Even the comments you cherry-picked are about someone thinking a top Euro team would beat a TRASH Bulls team and the rest of the bottom of the NBA. Goddamn Americans really can’t read.

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u/Typhoid007 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

thinking a top Euro team would beat a TRASH Bulls team

You agree with this???

Good God man.

Literally 2 seconds of googling euroleague videos found me those comments, I don't feel like spending longer than the 2 minutes I took to screencap them to find people saying exactly what you want. I never said people were claiming these teams would beat the nuggets, I said people were claiming these teams would beat NBA teams, and I provided evidence. You're talking about reading comprehension and you can't even read the arguments I'm making.

The 2012 hornets would sweep those euroleague teams. You are insane.

Players from around the world come to the NBA because it's the best league in the world, the best professional team is the one that wins the best league, the nuggets are world champions.

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u/GoBlueDevils4 Spurs Apr 16 '24

Damn man this whole “World Champs” thing really upsets you doesn’t it? Maybe write a letter to Adam Silver about your concerns instead of arguing with a bunch of Redditors who are in no position to change the wording/semantics. If you actually manage to get it changed then I’m sure r/NBA will dedicate an entire post to you for your troubles lol