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.
This entire debate screams “look at me!!” From European basketball like we dont all know the celtics 4-0 any team in Europe
Call us arrogant all you want, but until any league outside the NBA can keep up, I don’t care if it’s “technically” wrong. It’s still functionally correct
It’s an argument in semantics for the sake of being argumentative. I really don’t give a shit that the NBA champ doesn’t waste their time sweeping the rest of the world basketball leagues