I understand this topic has been done to death, but it seems completely asinine that this discussion has been reduced to pure semantics since the US’ triumph.
It comes across as completely obtuse to say there is any material difference between the FIBA World Cup and Olympics outside of the name. I mean, if you really want to get into the weeds of it the World Cup is a QUALIFIER for the Olympics so clearly it shouldn’t be held in such high regard. It just seems some are going out of their way to completely ignore the obvious hierarchy of basketball internationally in order to keep their pride intact.
The whole debate reminds me of that scene in ELF with the “World’s best coffee”. It’s a silly argument from both sides, but the matter of the fact is that the NBA champion being the World Champion is a self proclaimed moniker. That’s it.
Yes it’s insane people care this much. Go outside OP
Re-watched Elf a few months ago and it gets better every time. I catch something new that’s so clever.