JohnnySack
Years ago

Basketball World Club Championship...

Many moons ago there was the McDonalds Cup which was played every 2 years (i think) between the club champions from the various Basketball Confderations of the world... I would love to see this - but being as the NBA pays only lip service to internationalizing the game - it won`t happen... Back then the NBA teams could send their second-string and summer league outfits and still dominate (the Suns played such luminaries as Jerrod Mustaf, Negele Knight, Joe Courtney - and gave them serious PT - AND STILL WON)... Do that now and you would be caned by any decent Euro team... And of course - how would it look if the NBAs self proclaimed "World Champions" were beaten by a team of spics and so called "NBA rejects"???

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JohnnySack  
Years ago

Anyway - my point was this would be great to see (just like the Toyota Cup for Football in Japan)... And it would show basketball up to be a true world sport - even though the Americans would ##ss and moan about the refereeing being unfair and the rules not being the way they "play" the game...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

You made me think....why do US NBA winning teams call themselves 'Champions of the World' when they didn't win the World Championships?

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DB5  
Years ago

Because they are American...and if it is good enough to be played there, it is a world championship..

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Nick  
Years ago

Yeah i agree DB5, you win any tournament or league in the US and that automatically make you WORLD championship.

I would love to see these championships, thats why it's a part of my last post. We really need this back.

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