LOL - I hadn't even seen this when I posted before. I just knew And you're contending it's not, based SOLELY on location of home arenas - which is laughable.
You're missing the point. The beauty of a title is in it's grandiosity. WORLD CHAMPIONS BABY WOOOO sounds a whole lot better than anything else you can come up with. As long as the best individual talent in the world plays for the NBA, it will remain that way.
Maybe it sounds better, but it is not correct. your argument that it sounds better, is not really strong. Saying I'm the most intelligent person in the world sounds better, but it isn't true. I might be missing your point. But apparently you are also missing my point. But please explain the me why should it be called world champions. maybe the best in the world play in the NBA, but it is not a world championship. So they are not the World champions. Like I said are they the best team in the world? Yes, but that doesn't make them world champions. Barcelona is the best soccer team in the world, they won the championship league, but they are not world champions unless they play a world championship.
North Korea didn't send a team to the last Track & Field World Championships. Can Usain Bolt claim to be the world champion at 100m since he didn't have to face North Korea's best athletes? Yes or no?
I prefer just NBA Champions, but the argument that an NBA team would have trouble beating the crap out a Euroleague team 8 or 9 times in 10 playing with full intensity seems silly. Barcelona over the Lakers is just as relevant a statement of the teams relative power levels as it was when Sporting Kansas City (then the Kansas City Wizards) beat Manchester United in a friendly. That said, the gap is narrowing and many NBA top draft choices from here on out are going to be foreign born, so kudos to the European lower level coaching, they are clearly doing a lot right.
NBA is the best league in the world. I'm pretty sure if the champion teams in the world had a tourney the Dallas Mavs would come out on top. It may be arrogant but its also correct. All the ones who object can't name a team outside of the NBA which can beat the Dallas Mavs...unless of course you're Ohmss.
So you're saying they're the best team in the world but they can't call themselves world champions simply because there's no world championship tournament? WTF, that's just semantics. If you care that much go to a language school and argue all day about word etymologies. That's like saying Ali is the best boxer in history but he can't call himself goat since he hasn't beaten every boxer who ever lived.
If you agree that: - the best players from the world play in the NBA - the Mavs would beat any other team in the world Then you are arguing just to argue.
It's almost a consensus that: NBA Champion > World Champion > European Champion > Regional Champion > and so on. Now, which one is Dallas again?
I think it also has to do with the fact that best players from worldwide play in this league. So why not call it World Championship, if the best players from all around the world are competing. Just makes logical sense.
The only problem I see is that it should be called the Universe Champions. Might as well. Also, are teams outside the NBA complaining about this self proclaimed title? I'm not sure if it's just us making a big deal out of it.
While it is pretty much true, all factors considered, these are the kinds of things that make the rest of the world think we are douchebags.
Dirk's wrong. I would love to elaborate, but I'm too busy preparing for the EURO-League draft. We're holding workouts for that Kyrie Irving kid. He looks like he could eventually be a backup point guard in the Euroleague. Europe is the best...don't know why Dirk, Parker, Manu, and Scola wanted to leave.
Someone mentioned in another thread that the Euro league don't call flops. Besides, why waste time in a superior Euro league when you can get paid playing in a far inferior league like the NBA. Am I doing this right?
While I agree with you, this analogy is a moot point. North Korea had the option of qualifying for the Olympics. They could have sent a Park Jin Su to the trials if he was good enough. Whereas FC Balthazar, the best the Sudanese league has to offer, never had a chance to make the NBA playoffs.
I can't believe I'm discussing this... The Dallas Mavericks are the world champions because they are the best the NBA had to offer in 2011. What do Ricky Rubio, Dirk Nowitzki, Brandon Jennings and Luis Scola have in common? They all agree with me - and only 1 is an American. You can debate the US being the best basketball team in the world but you absolutely cannot debate the NBA champs not being world champs when they suck dry all the talent from the major European leagues. As for Barcelona... check out this article from the most reputable news source in America. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576351850284985010.html Or how their shirts are marketed in England - http://www.uksoccershop.com/p-12262/2010-11-Barcelona-Home-World-Champions-Shirt.html Or most importantly, what the badge on their kits say: You're just being petty for the sake of it.
Yes, read the title of the tournament. Or you want to put an asterisk to that? It applies to Usain, it applies to the Rockets, it applies to Dirk.
