The NBA isn't global. Few would dispute such a clear fact. David Stern is doing his best to change that. But the subject is basketball, not the NBA. Basketball is a very global sport.
I'm not exactly sure you're entitled to judge if I've moved my "line" or not. You're basing your entire baseless argument from a few words from a paragraph that I wrote, yet you feel as if you know more about what ideas I conveyed than I do. As I said before, the page of back-and-forth bickering you and I have done leads me to believe that my assumption of you making rash judgments was correct.
There's a reason why tall players don't play well in tennis, it's harder to dig balls out of the ground being so tall. Why do you think the players crouch right before a serve?
OK, whatever, as long as we understand basketball is a global sport right now. Blabber all you want and try to make an issue of HOW I debated it, which obviously isn't up to your lofty standards. But the SUBSTANCE is clear: Basketball is global. The end.
I think Basketbal is defenitly a global game. The most global game of all the US big sports (Football, baseball and hokey). However i think the fanbase of tennis i bigger, I also think more people play tennis world wide than Basketbal. To add to the discussion of who is a better athlete. It takes different type of athletes to play the two games. For example I'm the type aof athlete who is more suited for basketbal then tennis (I'm 6"7 relativly athletic) I played both games. Tennis isn't suited for big guys that is why you see so few big players in Tennis. It is much more difficult to get your racket under the ball if you are over 6"7. The idea that Lebron James would dominate at tennis is laughable at best. He isn't build in the right way. Especially in mens tennis strength isn't that important. I think this question is impossible to answer. More interesting would be who dominated his sport most. And I think that would be very close. Both dominatd their sport for some time. Both are considered by many as the best of their sport ever. However i believe with Federer it is more clear that he was indeed the best ever in his game. With Jordan I believe there is more debate.
Federer is the greatest all-time in a sport that takes great athleticism. In a sport that sees bodies break down in their mid 20s, Fed is still going strong at 28. He makes it look easy. Add that Federer has done something no player has accomplished before him in a sport that has been played professionally for over 120 years.
