HisExcellency20BtoNBA•Gregg Popovich, 5x NBA Champion: “It doesn’t make sense for an NBA team to call themselves world champions. I don’t remember anybody playing against anybody outside our borders to get that title.”English
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2 months agoThis is the dumbest shit ever. The NBA, NFL, and MLB have official names for their champions. World Champions is just a nickname. And btw if the league decides to call them world champions then there’s absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. There’s no governing body on what sports leagues are allowed to call their champions. Hell you could call the winner of your fantasy football league world champions and Roger Goodell won’t come by your house with a cease and desist.
Like I said last year the 65 game minimum was completely unnecessary. If it didn’t exist Joel still would have received zero MVP votes because he played in a ridiculously low number of games due to injury. The writers have ALWAYS taken that into consideration.
So yeah, Gil is wrong here. Maybe if he said “if Joel doesn’t get hurt” but, ya know, he didn’t.