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.

  • BramptonBatallionBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    the NBA champion cannot be the world champion until they play that one game against the EuroLeague champion and other continental competition winners

    They also have to play the dudes at the Y. Sure, they may win 99.999999999999 % of the time, but we can never know for sure.