Go win the Olympics and tell me you’re “world champs.”
NBA’s best can’t even make the gold medal game.
RE: NBA’s best can’t even make the gold medal game.
C’mon, we won the Olympic basketball gold medal in 2008.
I'm far from a basketball expert. But I'd guess if they really cared to, and played together for more than a few weeks, they easily could.
By your argument, the world series champs aren't really world champions, because they haven't beaten the Japanese or the Cuban nationals. But if the World Series champs played the best Japan or any Latin country had to offer, how do you suppose that would turn out?
A lot of the NBA’s best are foriegn nationals who play for their home teams for international competititon. So the NBA is playing against itself in many of those games.