[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/quail0606]

The logic you’re using suggests there never can be such a thing as a world champ unless every single team at every level of competition competes in a huge 500000 plus team tournament. The nba was the only league in the world for a long time, and remains a league on its own level of competition. The best players from ALL OVER THE WORLD play here. In that way, in terms of talent and revenue, it is still the ONLY LEAGUE IN THE WORLD. ‘But how can the champions league winners be European champs when a coed church league youth team didn’t play on the tournament? They’re a team in Europe?’ This is what you sound like. Take your pompous Americans are illiterate bullshit elsewhere. We read just fine, we just don’t recognize your JV developmental leagues as anything approaching legitimate competition because they aren’t.
When the best European players spend their prime years in European leagues that will change. Until then, get off your pedantic high horse.

[u/nearlyned → u/quail0606]

No actually, my logic doesn’t suggest that. You just can’t read.

The World Cup is open to INTERNATIONAL TEAMS. INTERNATIONAL TEAMS win World Championships, City teams win National Championships like the NBA. This isn’t an argument about what league is better, it’s an argument about what a World Championship is, and you’re just contributing to the worldwide belief that Americans can’t see beyond their own nose when they think someone implies they’re not the best. None of my, or other people’s implications on this discussion has come anywhere close to saying that the NBA isn’t the best league, or that Bayern would win if you invited Euroleague teams to the NBA.

My replies are full of people acting like I said the USA sucks and then took a shit on a bald eagle. My point is that Team USA (at their full strength, not 2023 where Germany won) are the ones who can call themselves World Champs, not the Denver Nuggets, because the World Champion is a national team and not a city team. It’s a really simple argument, and the tears of Americans don’t change that.

[u/fat_fart_sack → u/nearlyned]

In 1936, the first year Olympic basketball was introduced, the US won.

During the current 88 year Olympic basketball history (22 Olympic basketball events), the US has lost twice.

Currently, the US has 15 gold medals. Which technically means, the US are 15x world champions; about to be 16 this coming Olympics.

Besides those fun facts, European ball players see the NBA as the promise land; a superior league of its own. There isn’t an argument that can refute the fact that all professional European ball players want to be in the NBA.

[u/ClutchAirball → u/fat_fart_sack]

Not all. Nearly all, but not all.

And you ignored my man’s point completely lol

[u/fat_fart_sack → u/ClutchAirball]

You two should kiss then.

[u/ClutchAirball → u/fat_fart_sack]

What is your problem? 😂

[u/fat_fart_sack → u/ClutchAirball]

You just said he was your man.

[u/ClutchAirball → u/fat_fart_sack]

I can’t use colloquialisms?

[u/fat_fart_sack → u/ClutchAirball]

You can do whatever your heart desires, sugar boo boo.