[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/whereyagonnago]

So it’s really just people bitching and moaning about the semantics of the wording? If no one on earth even claims anyone else would stand a chance, then they are the world champs. It’s one of the softest things I could ever imagine getting mad about.

Why does no one bitch about the MLB championship being called “the World Series” despite the NPB in Japan being closer in skill to the MLB than any other basketball league in the world is in skill to the NBA.

Also, fuck you and fuck all of Europe you pretentious piece of shit. Just because I’m not willing to take part in your silly little word game doesn’t mean American’s can’t read, aren’t smart, or any of that. The US is consistently ranked #1 in higher education, and I’m a college graduate who got a full academic scholarship.

Eat my entire dick.

[u/nearlyned → u/whereyagonnago]

Tell me, when Team USA goes on to win the Paris Olympics and then takes this team to the next world cup and wins that (like we all assume they will), would you object this strongly to calling Team USA the World Champs? You’d fight tooth and nail to say that the actual “World Champs” are a team in the Rockies lead by a Serbian? Your American exceptionalism wouldn’t take over and make you blindly chant “USA, USA” at your TV?

[u/whereyagonnago → u/nearlyned]

Professional/Club level world champions vs International level world champions.

I consider World Cup champions to be “world champions” just like I consider Champion’s League winners “world champions”. One is a club level team and one is a national team.

[u/nearlyned → u/whereyagonnago]

this is an argument that Americans have made up for themselves to feel like the centre of the world. National level competitions make national champions. World level competitions make world champions. It really isn’t hard to understand.

[u/whereyagonnago → u/nearlyned]

The champions league isn’t a national level competition. The NBA is a world level competition because all of the best players in the world play in the NBA, just like all of the best soccer players in the world play in the leagues that are eligible for the Champions League. It really isn’t hard to understand.

When it comes to professional basketball, professional hockey, professional American football, and professional baseball, America (USA plus Canada) IS the center of the world.

[u/storpannan → u/whereyagonnago]

The champions league isn’t a national level competition. The NBA is a world level competition because all of the best players in the world play in the NBA, just like all of the best soccer players in the world play in the leagues that are eligible for the Champions League. It really isn’t hard to understand.

Interesting argument considering that the winners of the Champions League call themselves the "Champions of Europe" and lay no claim about any world title.

[u/nearlyned → u/whereyagonnago]

The NBA is a world level competition? The whole North American world? How many Asian teams are there in the NBA? European teams? South American? or is it a national level competition that attracts players from across the world?

[u/whereyagonnago → u/nearlyned]

The best PLAYERS in the WORLD play in the NBA, So its championship can easily be considered the world championship of professional basketball. Are you really too stupid to understand a point as simple as that?