The only argument that your side has is that maybe you think World Champion means country against country. That is an opinion, but very valid. Any other reason that I’ve heard is simply not true though

Premier League is the best football ( soccer ) league in the world. They don't say they are the world champions, they are the English champion. Even the champions League champions don't say they are world champs. Only on USA there is the term " world champs". Noah Lyle is 1000000% correct and accurate

@@jucavazcarvalho994 Do 100% of the best players in the world play in the Premier League. Because 100% of the best football and basketball players play in the NFL and NBA. And 98% play in the MLB.

@@MarkdfadfGenuinely yes, the best players go to the Premier League and typically do well in every competition barring a few hiccups. It’s the best league in the world, and the most recent winner of the league won the best three trophies available to them being their respective league title, the FA Cup consisting of teams all over the country spanning all divisions of English Football, and the best competition in Europe the UEFA Champions League.

@@kenlemonspankerfromutah9640 See. A quick Google search show you are wrong. And wildly wrong at that. Google tells me Bundesliga, LaLiga, Serie A and Ligue I are all very good as well. On the other hand any league that isn't the NBA is shit. There is no superstar or very good player who isn't in the NBA. There are clearly a lot of quality players in the competing soccer leagues I just mentioned.

I dunno, it's pretty stupid but at least they named it according to their delusion, NBA actually states its a national association in its title, then goes international all of a sudden

MLB is even funnier since Japan showed them they're not the only best league.

The World Series itself is older then every other league in the world. Why would they change the name now

@@vogel2499japan played the best players we didn’t.

MLB eventually got it right. They know that the only way to determine who is best, is via the World Baseball Classic. Everything else is FIBA / FIFA / PGA / Formula 1 / etc.

so is the olympics the world champs? cause the USA has won 16 gold medals, out of 20 ever given for basketball. Name a higher level of play than the NBA

😭🤣😂🤣😭 u fell for the banana in the tale pipe too!

@@braylen8444yes the Olympics gold medal means you are a world champ. An NBA trophy does not.

Of course the State of Denver is the world champion. Look at aliens in Hollywood movies, they only visit the USA coz they are the World. 😁

​@@BM-qn6fgno it doesnt. It makes you the best in the world but not a world champion because the competition is not called a world championship.

Exactly! Same applies for Premier League or La Liga, arguably two of the best and most competitive football leagues in the world, you never see any of their champions calling themselves “World Champions”, not even the “Champions League” winners called themselves that.

they should and would if it was played world wide and was as popular as bball

@@hebra8642 thats because the world cup overshadows them. Nuance is hard for you people huh? The nba championship is the main championship for its sport. It has the best players, the best quality of bball and the world watches it the most. The world cup also has those qualities which is why they are world champs and premier league isnt. The world remmebers world cup winners it forgets premier league winners. The world remembers and counts championships for the nba. MJ has 6 ans so on. They hardly mention his gold medals. See the difference?

@@Waywardbiscuit All of what you said applies to football. Especially champions league is universally recognized as the highest level competition, higher than the world cup by a mile. And even premier league and la liga are way more competitive than the world cup. Saying 'The world cup also has those qualities' is simply ignorant. The world definitely remembers both world cup winners AND premier league winners, except non-fans in the US such as you. The very fact that americans don't think fiba gold medals are a big deal is a testament to the arrogance that goes along with calling themselves 'world champions', and now you are using it as a piece of evidence against it. How ironic and pathetic.

​@@Waywardbiscuitno they would not. Unlike America, some countries and regions use common sense. It is a very simple logic. World includes countries of the world, simple done. NBA is domestic/national. I don't care how it sounds, that is just what it is. Applied to MLB and NFL as well.

Nba is made up of players all around the world. Best players in the world go to play in the nba. It's just semantics I think

Yeah, it's unbelievable they can even really dispute what is obviously true. But Yanks hate being criticised, and especially being called out on the arrogant assumption that being the best in America means best in the world.

Took offense while completely missing the point of his statements makes it even more hilarious

​@paddymeboy y'all are slow nba players play in the Olympics and the nba has the best players from the world dont matter where they play Jokic isn't American the 450 best players from around the world plays in the nba and if you look at the Olympics the best players on non American teams guess what league they play in the NBA he chose the wrong sport to make his point where the league is located don't matter its the competition that matters American nba players are always playing against international players track does not only certain occasions

He told the truth! They just hating!

thank you

He comes off as a clown because if that’s what bothers him to the point where he can’t talk about his accomplishments, it’s stupid.

bro r u stupid? we have best nba and best nfl by far. of course the kc cheifs and mahomes r world champions. of course the denver nuggets and joker r world champions. u guys think kansas city should play the french football team after they win the super bowl?

The best players in the world play baseball, basketball, football, hockey, here in the US.

Setting aside the point he is trying to make, he sounds like an illiterate.

Exactly, they’re called “Champions of England”. Even the Champions League winners are called “Champions of Europe”.

Stop comparing soccer to basketball!!! It's not the same! The Premier League and Champions League are not more Prestige than The World Cup! All the best players in the world play in ONE Tournament! One! You don't need to play everyone in the world to be a world champion! You just need to beat the best in the world to be a world champion. Don't let that go over your head. Basketball is a country-dominated sport. Just like Table Tennis for China, Judo for Japan, Archery for Korea, and Water Polo for the Hungry. Not every country has elite athletes to compete. With that being said - what tournament in the world is more prestige than the NBA? No country in the world can challenge ANY NBA team. NO ONE! So if there is no one to challenge you and you competed against the best in the world and won - are you not the world champion. bro, this is common sense. Like does Lebron really have to come play against you to be considered one of the greatest players - come on bro.

​@shawnsmith6531 you missed the whole point of what Stephen a Smith said to justify.. using his quote is what the OP did.. read again..

@@shawnsmith6531Counterpoint… You’re wrong. Done.

​@@shawnsmith6531it's called football 😅😅

Hes completely wrong

@@elishahwillock2934 no he’s right

NBA players are too "sensitive," period. Far and away my least favorite of the four major American sports leagues. 👎 They cry about EVERYTHING.

he’s wrong, basketballs top league IN THE WORLD is the NBA. Not china, not france, not anywhere else. People come from other countries to play in the NBA. Only reason other countries make it far in olympics, is because they have NBA players on their team!

The way he said it is a classic hater moment. Dude is hating on NBA players because they get more shine. It's so obvious.

Nobody cares bro

So you basically had no clue who he was before he made that dumb statement lol

Kinda of stupid you become a fan of somebody due to a dumb statement.

​@@cookiemonster64dumb statement? My friend some of you Americans are so brainwashed that this reality check Noah Lyle crushed your brains😂😂

Yes, I’ve noticed that people that don’t know sports, casuals. Or if you just wanna call them morons I’m fine with that. Agree with you.

No he isn’t they compete against 1/3 of nba athletes who are from 6 different continents. How does that not represent the world?

Not exactly. Olympic gold medalists are not world champions, they are Olympic champions. World champions are teams or individuals that win at the world championships. It just to happens that the Olympics are more important than the world championships. But yea Noah is right

@@kylebenjamin358 it doesn’t matter who plays for who. If the NBA championship game is Denver vs Miami it’s not a world event.

​@@oscargarzon7153If your position is that an Olympic champion is not a world champion, but Olympic events are more important than world (sporting) events, it's high time to put the damn phone away for the night because you're just arguing for argument's sake.

@@kylebenjamin358Lyles is correct. Last I check Spain won FIBA. So Spain is the current world champions!

Americans don't care lol

​@@HoneySwtDrmslike the world cares about the americans lol

@@countertenorflor2107 We know 😂

​@@HoneySwtDrms For not caring about America and our sports they sure complain about them enough. I don't know how many comments I read people saying "IT's NOT CALLED SOCCER! REEEEE"

Except many of these "insecure" nba players have more gold medals than he does 😂

@@88jaspersimmons Noah has 6 World Golds, 1 World Silver, and 1 Olympic Bronze so your comeback on the number of Golds is incorrect. *(At the upcoming Olympics in Paris, it's looking like Noah will be picking up additional Gold medals as well)*

@@tonyesquire5308 Wow that's crazy. I stand corrected. I still believe that NBA championships are more impressive than Olympic Golds for basketball. So I respect them as world championship caliber. But I was clearly uneducated about this man's accomplishments. Respect 💯

@@88jaspersimmons NBA championships are indeed valuable. I enjoy the smoke as Noah was just trolling these dudes to bring attention to track & field. 😂

@@tonyesquire5308 And thats the thing. For all that he has accomplished, I didnt even know about him until he made that comment. He certainly succeeded at garnering attention for track and field. Lowkey, it was a brilliant move.

you are so right the nba is a domestic competitions, people forget that

The real issue is the title of the league...the NBA is NOT a domestic league. The NBA is a GLOBAL league where the world's best come to compete...there is no difference from the world championship track meet and the NBA. They both bring the world's best together for competition. The NBA is just a sports busniess that is headquartered in the US

​@@optiKalismonba is a club competition. World championship is the term used when competitors represent their countries.

@@optiKalismo where the team from africa? where team from asia? where team from europe? if they bring world best player, its not mean you are the best in the world. its called best league in the world bro! but they are not champions in the world if they didnt compete with other team from different country, like football, they have europe leage, america league, and then every club from different continent have to play againts eachother and finally, they concider be the best in the world!

"US" does not mean the world. The US Track & Field and other US teams are national organizations with world affiliation. Moreover, many "foreigners" represent the country.

And very wrong. But Americans in their bones are very arrogant, somehow. But you can solve certain grade of arrogance, being just a little competent and with the use of our brains right... Lol... just saying. I'm not even from this country l, and English is not my first, nor second language and even I understood what Noah was saying. Totally right and congrats to one of the most dominant athletes of this sport in his generation. That type of athletes needs to be more supported and compensated and not that much the cry babies of today NBAs "players". Damn it, i miss Kobe.

Probably because the US was obliterating international competition with nothing more than their college players for decades. That argument was settled on the court in Olympics after Olympics, and when the Soviets started wrecking everyone in the 80s with pseudo-professional players like Sabonis, the US sent their best in 1992 and destroyed teams by an average of 40 points a game.

Doesn't matter. You can't be a world champion competing for a club. Flawed logic!@@cmc5394oparva

every football league...

_"where the NBA champs could play against the Euroleague, South American, Asian, Oceanian and African champions and beat them all to easily to get the title"_ Just to put this right, that already exists for soccer/football called *FIFA Club World Cup* , where the winner will end up as "Club World Champion", but hey, still *NOT* World Champions bc that's another competition.

​@@agn855Club World Champions still a World Champions coz they have beat other clubs from around the world.

It not that deep

That's why they are called NBA champions. It's not that hard.

So were WLAF champions called world champs? 🤣

I didn't know that. Thank you very much for telling me.😂 they will beat every foreign team by 40 points. World champions is understament.

yep so true

When these leagues started there were no other leagues around the world. Baseball and basketball are American born sports. Hence world champions. You understand now Einstein 😂

@@drexlspivey3047 American born spots IS world CHAMPS 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 This is plain American egocentrism

@@drexlspivey3047Soccer is also a british made sport yet they don’t call themselves World champions when a team from England wins their domestic league.

The difference is the NBA has ALL of the best basketball players in the world. Yes they aren't technically world champs, but using NBA players calling themselves world champs as an example of americentrism is a bit of a stretch

I'd like you or Noah Lyles point out an example of a person that matters in the NBA calling the NBA champions "World Champions". I'll start off: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbNpjdiqtpm8ZJs.html

Fast physically but slow mentally.

He’s very smart

That's how it should be, americans simply can't understand that.

@@666marchisio I’m an American. Relax a bit it’s not as serious.

@@666marchisiothe rest of the teams literally don’t belong on the court with an nba team. I don’t think you fully grasp the talent difference . A tournament like the one suggested here would be utterly pointless , it would just the nba champs winning year after year

​​@@mookiestewart3776Just like the World Baseball Classic, huh? It's all just rampant speculation until you can actually see the SPORT BEING CONTESTED. Hence: not world champions. Geez -- this really ain't that hard, guys...

@@Vic-Vega stop with World baseball classic man. Basketball has a World and Olympic event.

So you respect FIFA Basketball competition more than the NBA ? 🤣

​@@shawnsmith6531FIFA it's a international entity, NBA no

its arrogance. their argument is nobody can beat us, so we are world champions without even competing against others. Nobody was beating Usain Bolt at his prime. did that mean he could just stop attending the olympics and still call himself world champion without competing

​@@hasbulla6184That and a lot of people in the US don't understand that the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB are all domestic leagues that operate in the US and Canada alone. To them in their heads, having international players playing in the NBA makes it an international competition. Of course that notion is absolutely ridiculous but you just can't argue with stupid.

Haha does Noah know that??

@@TommyVercettiCB7 because he competed against people from different continents and different countries.. how many Chinese people are competing in the NBA

@@ghosuk5552 not that many Chinese but there is some international player that compete in the NBA. For example Jokic who’s is Serbian who was back to back MVP 21,22. Giannis who is Nigerian/Greek was also back to back MVP in 19,20.

@@ghosuk5552 man i forgot that Jokic won Finals MVP this past years and about Embid won MVP this past season and he’s from Cameroon. So that’s 5 straight MVP winners not from America.

@@TommyVercettiCB7 I forgot basketball was an individual Sports instead of a team sport.. how many Chinese players or Saudi Arabian basketball players are in the NBA.. I bet there’s a team in Australia that can win the nuggets in a one off series

If you look at how Lyles is able to slingshot himself when he comes out of the turn....poetry in motion.

People call ManCity the best team in the world all the time

Duh, they can't! Because there is an actual tournament where all the best in the world play - The World Cup!!! The World Cup is the highest level in soccer! There is no higher level than the NBA in the world. Did you just reference a pre-season Laker game match up? Aint no way you just did that. You do know for NBA players, preseason games are used to "get players in shape for the real season? These games are of NO-VALUE!!! These games are in October - NBA is not into full swing till Apirl. LOL!!! stop it

You have to be ignorant about the sport if you think that Champions League isnt the highest level of football. World Cup, js more prestigious, everyone cares so much about it, but it doesnt mean that Man city isnt the best team in the world or that they wouldnt hard gap every non european team. They dont call themselves the world champions because they only won an european cup and would be disrepectfull and stupid otherwise

@@RomeDCarlo no-one calls them the world champions , calling them the best team in the world is a fact , NBA is the best basket ball league but they are not world champions

Fact and d funny fact people coming from college in USA can't see that...

Lyles is right but MJ played in the Olympics and won 🥇 so he is legit. Now Tom Brady is questionable.

Michael Jordan actually was one of the best, ever. He did play in the Olympics.

Brady yes, Jordan no Jordan dominated other teams in the Olympics. Bad statement

MJ dominated the world too. Lets not pretend he didn't DOMINATE the world in the Olympics too

could say the same to you. The nba has the best players. Players from the world come there to play. IT has the best quality and competition. All while the world watches it the most. No other bball league has those qualities. The fiba cup is a joke. Americans dont even watch Olympic basketball. So Until one does then the nba champs are the best in the world aka world champs. #logic

@@Waywardbiscuit Yes, the NBA is the best in the world however it still doesn’t make it a world championship. Yes, players from all over the world play in the NBA buy it still doesn’t make it a world championship. Same applies to MLB, Premier league in England etc. It’s just simple logic.

Because they know they not and they can’t compete with the NBA the proof is in the numbers 16 out of 20 gold medals for basketball in the history of the Olympics. We lost the years we sent our college players and rookies to play the worlds professionals

​​@@chuckblessthebest2004 says "hello." Learn yo history, BOI!!

​@@Umbrella_TVyou also lost in 2006.

@@Vic-Vega LOL, damn boy, you sure showed him with that one cherry you picked. Now list which current international teams would beat the Nuggets.

@@cmc5394oparva because it’s the league with most cash. Say if Doncic still played for real madrid. Players like Giannis, Embiid, Wemby, gilgeous-alexander, etc played in foreign leagues. Wouldn’t it be competitive?

Much respect to Iceland btw, a beautiful country with great people

I just want to go to Hùsavik and hear Ja Ja Ding Dong! 😂 Will Ferrel is the only American who can understand something beyond his own borders. I'm not sure what point I'm making, btw😅

Trust me: Noah Lyles is a much admired athlete in the rest of the world.

also not INTERNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Exactly. Trying to figure out what they want it to be called NBA sounds more professional.

And what’s to stop the Zimbabwe basketball league from calling itself the best league in the world? Nothing at all. There are world cups in sports so you get to find out instead of just having talking heads talk crap.

Waoooooo, every body knows that. Why the clown show by noha? Hope he wins every race.

People just need to have understanding and do a little research....the world series in baseball is called so because baseball, as an America invented sport, was previously only played in the US and thus the only league. Therefore it held the name the World Series. Baseball is much more wide spread but the mlb like the nba is a global league gathering the world's best for competition

Or "Invasion Ball", since that's the type of game, based on Sports science. ("American Rules Rugby" is the absolutely most correct one, though, based on its roots.)

Football split off into various forms in the 1800s. The first college American football match is also considered to be the first college soccer match in the US.

No he doesn’t. It’s called the national basketball association. Not the US basketball association. Some of the leagues best players are from out of country

Talk to LeBron, Iverson, Wade, Duncan, Anthony, etc. how it felt to lose not one, not two, but THREE games in the 2004 Olympic Games. Do you think they felt like "World Champions" up on the podium with a BRONZE medal? Moron.

@@jakesnake6842 he is correct. The nba is domestic league. Team USA is governed by the international basketball federation. Team USA can call itself world champions unlike the domestic league champions. The world consists of countries not franchises

@@andrewwood763 national basketball association 😂😂 the NBA is not even governed internationally.

Only Americans can’t see the point.

And the people that play for the Toronto Raptors are not even from Canada 😂

@@BowieBanks23 🤣🤣🤣🤣

NBA claims world champs cause no one else is better, no one else brings in international players like the NBA. NBA is superior to EVERY other basketball league in the world. Nevertheless, USA has won 16/20 olympic gold medals. Still proof that we’re the best

@@braylen8444 money 🤑

@@braylen8444 you are clearly mistaking the NBA for team USA 😂 🇺🇸 basketball association is governed by the international basketball federation 🥴 team 🇺🇸 can call itself world champions unlike the domestic champions

who decides that?

@@bjrnthebootybanditpeople that understand the game of basketball at a basic level

even if the olympics were the “highest level of play” the USA has won 16 gold medals, out of 20 to ever be given for basketball. It’s not even comparable

​@@braylen8444That's not the point, and even if it were, 80% =/= 100%, genius.

@@braylen8444 team USA can claim to be called world champions, but the NBA champions can’t

Nah

The truth sometimes hurts, and it's the truth

@@verawallace9055 nah

100% of the best players in the world play in the NBA. There are literally 0 top players who don't play in the NBA. Not even one. Jesus you are dumb.

That's because basketball wasn't played anywhere but in the US initially, like the mlb (world series was the onky one in the world)...now the nba like mlb is a gathering of the world's best for competition...perhaps there should just be a name change to the leagues because they are in fact very much global leagues that are just sports businesses headquartered in the US. If the hang up is merely because they aren't literally playing against teams assembled solely in various countries with the name of their country on the jersey then ok yeah they aren't playing the world by those basic literal standards...BUT isn't that what the sports busniess is for? They evaluate and seek the best talent for competition...flags of the leagues are definitely world wide...I'm sorry but this is a pretty silly and base argument/complaint by Mr. Lyles

Basketball is the third most viewed sport in the world (behind soccer and cricket). The best players from around the world come to the NBA to compete and make up about a third of the NBA.

@@caseyjenkins7744 most European soccer teams are made up of foreign players. none of them claim to be world champions when they win either their domestic leagues (like winning the nba in the us) or the champions league. you have to compete against teams from the whole world and risk losing to be a world champ.

@@joesmiley5726 Your original comment focused on "the closed American sport system" not being global. I responded to that idea... Your response focused on a different subject, the title of "world champions". I agree that it is misleading to call yourself a world champion after winning a national title.

He might do 'the double' 100m and 200. Can't wait.

By Americans' logic, City is the World Champion, not Argentina.

OMG. They still mix up things. UEFA-CL is a *club* tournament. Therefore its champions are European *Club* Champions (ie Bayern München) . While European *National *Teams (ie. Germany) are playing for the UEFA European (Football) Championship/FIFA World Championship. Nuff said.

That's how they elect their presidents

Attack The Point He Made, Not The Person, U Can't Prove Noah Wrong So U Bring up Other Stuff. What He Said Was Facts, The NBA is National League Competition, Not a Global League Competing Against International Competition, So it Can't Be a World Championship, Noah isn't Mad Because NBA Players are More Famous Than He is, First of All Most NBA Players are Not Super Famous Around the World, U Might Not Know Who Noah is But Millions of Other People Do, He Has Performed On a Global Level in Track and Field, on The World Stage.💯

@@BossDogg88 I analyzed his statement. He said the thing that hurts him most is when NBA champions call themselves world champs. Why would that hurt him? The NBA is an unrelated sport that has nothing to do with him. No one even asked him about the NBA. He then continued and said “we are the world…We have almost every country out here fighting, thriving, putting on their flag to show they are represented. There ain’t no flags in the NBA”. All this while sneering and speaking in a dismissive tone. So a track star on the eve of his biggest accomplishment tried to uplift his sport by downing an unrelated sport. Instead of doing the natural thing and letting his accomplishments and performance do that for him. That’s hating man. You may not have the intelligence to actually analyze tone and intent in someone’s words, but the rest of us do. Edit* Your punctuation is horrible by the way. Here’s a tip. Periods mark the end of a complete clause which expresses a complete thought with a subject and a verb. COMMAS on the other hand separates words and clauses in a sentence. So a comma would tie together two related expressed thoughts. It wouldn’t tie together two completely unrelated sentences like you wrote in your answer. Also, one does not capitalize a word that follows a comma. Lastly putting 💯 at the end of a comment doesn’t make it valid or profound. Your point actually has to be those things. Not garbled nonsense.

Lyles is also factually wrong when he suggests that NBA players don’t play against the world. While the NBA may not hold tournaments where they compete against other basketball leagues, but they do in fact compete against them in other instances. If you watch the NBA preseason, you’ll see a few games where NBA teams compete against teams like the Adelaide 36ers, the Shanghai Sharks, Real Madrid etc. These teams are usually the winners of their respective leagues. Yet every year they usually get beaten by NBA teams who play their bench players against them for most of the game. It’s not hard to imagine that in a game where the NBA starters are out in full force, the international teams would lose handily. Secondly the NBA is an international league. The best pool of basketball talent in the world plays in the NBA. This means that the best players both within America and outside of it plays in the NBA. In international competition, the best players on every international squad are NBA players. So NBA players are in fact a global collective and do unlike Noah suggested “play against the world”. They accomplish this by playing against one another. They play against and within the best collection of worldwide talent in basketball. Lastly an NBA championship is the most prestigious title in basketball. The fact that it’s not titled the world title does not in fact take away from its prestige. The NBA champion is a team that is the best within an already elite collective. It’s a given that the NBA champion is the best basketball team in the world. Demeaning the competence and skill of the NBA champions like Noah Lyle tried to do because they don’t in fact play against factually lesser completion in organized international competition is ignorant of the actual reality of the sport of basketball.

no they do say world champs

@@Mighty-ue7bt almost every American sports league does that

They literally have 'World Champions' on their Super Bowl rings.

pretty do say that and it ok because only USA plays USA football

Accept we consistently whoop the world Butt in basketball. 16 out of 20 gold medals in Olympic basketball history sounds like world champs to me 😂 not to mention the most recent win and when the best players EVERYWHERE else join your league…..I think world championship applies 😂

@@chuckblessthebest That means Team USA is the World Champions. That's not the NBA.

He’s semantically correct but he’s not being for real. When another country produces a league on the same level of play as the NBA, then I’ll develop an issue with the semantics of calling it a “world championship” but until that actually happens in real life I don’t care.

@@anthonyanderson9303 that’s the point isn’t it. It’s the NBA National Basketball Association. National meaning nation. When America’s basketball team win at the Olympics or FIBA that team can be called the world champions. Now that being said. America’s are so darn sensitive.

@@obvv7714right these teams in these others countries couldn’t beat the worst NBA team they all just want participation trophies because it would be a waste of time to watch Lebron backdown somebody who probably has a day job like me😂😂

I thought usa won last FIBA tournament but they did not

They don't call it world champs because of your second sentence. Jesus. 100% of the best players play in the NBA. There is no great player not in the NBA. The Premier League doesn't have 100% (or even remotely close) of the best soccer players. Hence not a world a championship. The NBA is a world championship.

And so the NBA with the best players makes them world champion.Which country they defeated in the finals?

Still doesn't make them World Champion until they compete for their nation on a global level. World Champion is reserved for the Olympic Basketball Team. NBA, NFL, NHL are National teams therefore can only be crowned National Champs. The best athletes in track n field across the globe attend college and compete. They become National Collegiate Champions. Many go home and compete against us in the Olympics..after I cheered for them in college 😂 Why? Because US has the hardest team to make in Track n field. 9/10 if you win US championship, you will win the World Championship.

Not true. I was in Athens when a team of NBA stars took bronze behind Argentina and umm, Italy? USA's record in Olympics (16 of 20) and World Championships (5 of 18) is far from perfect. Just looked that up BTW . . . did anybody know the basketball world cup is happening right now?

This is one of the americans that got hurt folks 😂😂

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Maybe - but the rest of the world doesn't take your sports seriously. They're peripheral.

Yeah that’s why when our really famous athletes travel abroad there are thousands of people outside their hotel rooms just to get an autograph ……stfu 🙄

The LLWS is a setup for the US. It’s not a true world championship unless all of the teams are seeded, and they play an elimination bracket. The US gets a bye into the finals. What would happen if they played, say, Taiwan in the first round?

Comprehension is lost on you

But they’re talking. He’s in a sport that rarely gets talked about in the US. Sometimes you gotta bark to be heard. I can’t remember the last time the sport was talked about on Dan Patrick and First Take

@@jjgreen5206 probably since before Usain Bolt retired

@@Umbrella_TV You just proved my point. After winning the FIBA the USA Will be then the World champ. The Denvers Nuggets are not World champs, they are national champs. You see...and it's not to Say the NBA players are not the best in the World

All the sports in the US take the best players from every country. Greek freak. Nikola Jokic. They aren’t American. It’s the NBA not the US basketball league. Look up what nba stands for. It just happens to the in the US.

@@jakesnake6842 Talent isn't the reason to be called "World Champion". Why does NBA, NFL have "National" in the names? They are domestic competitions, that's what people keep forgetting. The definition of World Champion "is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, or ability." The major sports in United States and Canada are domestic leagues than represent the city they are based in not a country, of course our talent base will always be higher than everyone else no doubt. But as long as the league is "National" they are a "National Champion".