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First off he said Spurs, so that includes Manu. Secondly he said seven game series, not that 1 and out BS. Thirdly the Spurs are the best team in the World that plays for ant league, and they proved that by winning in the hardest league in the world.
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The Spurs are watched and have fans in many countries. They are just pandering to their audience.
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When the Association started, how many international leagues were there? W/out the NBA there are no Manus, he'd be playing soccer right now.NATIONAL Basketball Association
Have the Lakers' and the Pistons' banners been changed, too? Have all the other Championship banners across the league from the last however many years (since they started reading "World Champions") been changed? If not, why not? And when WILL they be changed? Why were they changed? Whose idea was it?
Interesting.
Jerry Jones, like Tagliabu, is an uninformed asshole. The lot of them are really turning me off to the NFL.
Six reasons (and just a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things):
Manu Ginobili
Tony Parker
Fabricio Oberto
Sean Marks
Rasho Nesterovic
Beno Udrih
A good comparrison of what the US fielded for olympic play would be if you took the Argentinian team and removed 5 of their best players and replaced them with other national players. That's the difference you have, and it's very significant. I say this not to slight what any team did in the olympics, but let's get the facts straight if we are going to make comparrisons like these.
Start of NBA: 1946
Start of FIBA: 1931
For some reason, America likes to call their sport champs, World Champs. Their World Series, Superbowl and NBA Finals winners have been called "World Champs" for a long time. I think it has to do with the concept that for many Americans, America=World because wgaf about foriegners (this concept has been expressed mny times in this frum by our village idiot).
I find this "World Champions" claim very funny. Specially in Football, given that it is only played in America, and the players are 99% Americans.
F that. If someone else in the world wanted to challenge the Spurs last year to a seven game series, bring 'em on.
YEAH!
Then for American football that claim shouldn't be a stretch.
I support the change.
Is the champion of the MLS (soccer) also called "World Champion"?
It's done from a marketing standpoint.
If you can find a team worldwide that could beat the Spurs, then they'd be world champs.
Also, the NFL Champion is the World Champion for the same reason above.
National BasketBall Association World Champions sounds dumb. Glad they changed it.
The point is to be The World Champions, you have to prove it. Hypotheticals don’t count. If there were to be an American Football or NBA rules basketball championship, that included the best teams from around the World, then the winner of such a tournament would be the World Champion.
This kind of tournament exists in other sports (at the club level) such as soccer, and it exists at almost every sport, at the national team level.
I believe there is going to be a baseball world Championships (National teams) next March. That tournament will determine who the World Baseball Champion is, not the MLB Champ.
No way any MLB team would win a World Baseball le. Not if the Dominican Republic or Cuba or Japan is invited.
NBA championships and World Compe ions are different les and therefore the banners should be different.
there is no international team out there that could even contend with the damn hornets....or bobcats let alone the Spurs.
The point is you can be the World Champion at the two levels: Club and National team, but you have to compete against the World.
Whoever wins the Baseball Championship to be played in March 06 will be the World Champion at the national level. Unfortunately there is no Baseball World Championship for clubs, so we will never know who the Baseball World Champ at the club level is.
With Basketball, it’s tricky because of the different rules. There are tournaments that involve the best teams in the World (Olympics and World Championship) but the US does not send their best players.
I always thought it was dumb to call the finals of the MLB, “World Series”. Same thing with NBA World Champs. I’m glad the NBA is changing it.
That is not the point.
In any case, did't Maccabi beat the Raptors, who are better than the Hornets and the Bobcats.
NBA's bests > Foreign teams best
Too bad it sucks that almost all of the NBA's best players refuse to play in the Olympics. Until we get our best players out there, like the original Dream Team, we aren't World Champs.
It's no wonder foreigners don't like Americans- so darn y.
As true basketball lovers, shouldn't we be happy that the world is embracing and in many cases excelling in the sport?
What does all the ignorant smack talk accomplish that is good for basketball? Nothing!
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