USSR v USA | | FIBA Basketball World Cup Final 1986 - The Admiral V Sabonis

[Hedgie]

Found this full game on youtube, figured some of you guys would get a kick out of seeing it

https://youtu.be/o_26HbESLTY

Fuck it. Dont know how to embed, so thats the link.

[i'm_still_beta]

Prime Sabas :worthy:

[lefty]

Prime Sabas :worthy:.

Jordan dodged a bullet

Fucking politics

[Play Boban]

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Jordan dodged a bullet

Fucking politics
Imagine how much of a footnote that arrogant pos would’ve been if Sabonis was in the nba. pos would be lucky to win one title tbh.

[Thomas82]

Prime Sabonis in the NBA would have been GOAT-level.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Prime Sabonis in the NBA would have been GOAT-level.

In that interview Tony recently did regarding playing with TD, he was asked to give his international all-time starting 5 and he had Pau Gasol at center. I laughed. Gasol was great in his prime, but not anywhere near the Sabonis level of great.

[Russ]

What Sabonis did to Big Dave (and other collegians) in the '88 Olympics was even worse -- it actually led to the creation of the Dream Team in '92.

[lefty]

In that interview Tony recently did regarding playing with TD, he was asked to give his international all-time starting 5 and he had Pau Gasol at center. I laughed. Gasol was great in his prime, but not anywhere near the Sabonis level of great.
Generational gap bias probably, my guess is that Tony has never seen footage of young Sabonis

[KobesAchilles]

It’s funny bc David looks like a little child against Sabonis and Dave’s a legit 7 footer. Russia screwed over Sabonis big time and stupidly ruined their own basketball legacy since now the greatest Russian NBA player is Andre Karalinko :lol

[lefty]

It’s funny bc David looks like a little child against Sabonis and Dave’s a legit 7 footer. Russia screwed over Sabonis big time and stupidly ruined their own basketball legacy since now the greatest Russian NBA player is Andre Karalinko :lol
:lol damn

[lefty]

Another what if


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFKZEgM1j90




Team USA had Robinson :lol and guy wearing 9 is Russell Westbrook I think

https://www.usab.com/~/media/bfa189850caa45a4acc50abe387f6a68.ashx?h=472&la=en&w=800

[Russ]

It’s funny bc David looks like a little child against Sabonis and Dave’s a legit 7 footer. Russia screwed over Sabonis big time and stupidly ruined their own basketball legacy since now the greatest Russian NBA player is Andre Karalinko :lol

Sabonis ain't Russian in any event.

(If you wanna piss him off, just call him Russian.)

[KobesAchilles]

Sabonis ain't Russian in any event.

(If you wanna piss him off, just call him Russian.)
Shows how much I know. I saw him play for the Russians and assumed that he was Russian, completely forgetting that the USSR broke off into like 40 different countries. My bad :lol

[Thomas82]

In that interview Tony recently did regarding playing with TD, he was asked to give his international all-time starting 5 and he had Pau Gasol at center. I laughed. Gasol was great in his prime, but not anywhere near the Sabonis level of great.

Say what???? I guess it's understandable given the fact that Tony is not old enough to have seen Sabonis in his prime.