Does anybody else find it ironic that people from Germany, China, and all sorts of other places all over the globe are logging on to an NBA team website in order to explain why the champ shouldn't be called the world champion?
It is quite obvious that the mere fact that people from different countries are interested in a sport that is practiced in another country (a fact which you, Sham Fisher, seem to resent) does not at all mean that a club team whose players do not represent the same country when playing for the club team should be called "world champion". However, it is neither surprising nor ironic that Samuel Fisher is unable to understand this.
A world champion (representing his country in the beard and moustache contest): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3234029.stm
I don't really want to weigh in on whether this is typical American arrogance or other nations feelings of inadequacy, but the NBA is not a national league, by definition, since it has teams from more than one country. Maybe they should change the name to World Basketball Association, and then everyone would be happy!
By having a Toronto team doesn't make it a world league by any stretch of imagination. You can call it a North American League if you want to though.
Hell, European soccer leagues can't even pick one champion, with the tournament champion and the regular season champion. Do you call the UEFA tourny champ the champs or the cup winners cup champ the champs?
There is only one Champions League. One could argue that the strongest players in the world play in it. Nobody would have the audacity to call the Champions League Winner "World Champion", though, since it does not make sense. The winner of the cup winners cup is the winner of the cup winners cup. Don't know what you mean by the "tournament champion".
then i'm gonna have to ask FIFA to stop calling it the World Cup until i see some Antarctic representation in the field.
apples and oranges people!! nba is club competition. international is more an all-stars nations. i am truely convinced that no other club in the world could be the pistons in 7 game series. better yet i am convinced no club could beat any of the western conference playoff teams in a 7 game series. don't forget that most of the good euros would play for there club responsiblities in such a matchup. most of them are on nba rosters, hello!!!! check yourself -
I think it's ironic that the German and Chinese fans are posting here saying that the NBA champ isn't the World Champ - when the best German and Chinese basketball players in the world both play in the NBA. Also - the soccer analogies don't work because the world-wide league structure of soccer is massively different than for basketball. In basketball, there is one dominant league that is where the best players go to play - in soccer there are at least four to six that could be called top-notch leagues.
seems this discussion comes up every few months Just because they likely would beat any other team, doesn't make them world champs any more than it makes them Australian champs, German Champs, South American champs or otherwise -- even if we all agreed they'd beat those teams too. You actually have to invite a couple of other nations, before you should claim world supremacy. Not a big deal -- but kind of funny.
Thank you, bnb. Puedlfor - usually also a voice of reason - seems to ignore the simple logic of a "world championship" being a competition between nations - on purpose...
It's the "NBA world champions" so then winner of the finals is the best NBA team in the world. NBA is a league and business. While it's unlikely, I think ot can become a world business. For example, if 20 rich foreigners decides to spend about 500+ million dollars each and buy 20 franchises, then vote to allow them to move the franchise to another city, even over seas, they can.
I find it funny that you think someone should lose sleep each night over something he is disgusted. Do you have something that disgusts you? Do you lose sleep over it every night?
