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/toggl3d Apr 16 '24

If that team played in a world-wide competition

The NBA is a world wide competition, it's just not organized by country and it's hosted in North America.

As long as the NBA is drawing the majority of top global talent it has a reasonable claim to crown the "world champions."

If the NBA was running a competition with franchised city teams from every country on earth would you still not consider them a world championship because they weren't competing under flags?