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@Nexta12321

10 ай бұрын

Lol, the NBA champs can't be world championship because they don't represent their country. Wildes saying Denver would win but their best player is nit American 😂😂😂😂

@FEARNoMore

10 ай бұрын

If all our NBA stars actually cared about the World FIBA Championship, we would destroy this tournament. Stop it Broussard. It's better they don't. Individual countries haven't caught up yet, this way is more fair and will grow the game more worldwide.

@robertmugabe2905

10 ай бұрын

@@Nexta12321 you meant best 2 players. Murray is from Canada.

@robertmugabe2905

10 ай бұрын

@@FEARNoMore our players are getting soft and have no post presence.

@MrPalex1

10 ай бұрын

Denver Nuggets would win this tournament? REALLY? HOW? Their two best players are canadian and serbian. There is no way Nuggets could win without Murray and Jokič, because those two would have played for their own countries.

I love Brou's fire and passion for team USA basketball. It's entertaining but also true. Hit the paint kids. You get a lot of easy buckets down there and it makes those 3s a whole lot easier.

@jobunaga4178

10 ай бұрын

brou has a point about team usa. your best ability is availability and the "top" american nba stars aren't available, it's as simple as that. nobody gets crowned champion because they had the "potential" to be the best.

@blowc1612

10 ай бұрын

But we sent the C team not the Ateam not even the B team.

@blowc1612

10 ай бұрын

​@@jobunaga4178it's not that they aren't available it's that they don't want to play the Fiba and team USA tend to go younger on Fiba in order to give them experience. Team USA next year is gonna go through the Olympics without a sweat

@patoupatrickpcc6377

10 ай бұрын

💯% Brou is becoming one of my best Basketball analysts.

@diallo1347

10 ай бұрын

Brou was preaching! He is 1000% right.

Thank you Chris Broussard for saying that loud and clear. We need the post game back in the NBA. We need dominant big men in the post. Like a Shaq, Demarcus Cousins, Dwight Howard, etc. Having big men in the game helps the game it doesn't hurt it.

@limitedbom2206

10 ай бұрын

"we need dominate big men in the post" then you throw out demarcus cousins, and dwight howard.... You might as well throw in draymond green.

@Noonz2311

10 ай бұрын

Thats the nba rules causing that

@Howdidhenotseeme

10 ай бұрын

@@limitedbom2206 Dwight is a first ballot hof. Boogie was the best center in the league before his injuries. You dont know ball.

@williamgazca6641

10 ай бұрын

The game got too S.O.F CAPITAL T.

@limitedbom2206

10 ай бұрын

@@Howdidhenotseeme I know when I think of Dwight and Boogie, I don't think of post play. I think of high pick and and roll with dwight or pick and pop with boogie. They were not a sit on the block and back the defender down. YOU don't know ball.

This take from Nick shows exactly what Noah was saying. Man City can beat any nation in the world. But unfortunately, Man City is a domestic club not a national team. To compare Denver Nuggets with countries shows how shallow Nick's opinions can be at times.

@Abadhalha

10 ай бұрын

To add to your point also , how does Denver best any international team when their best player is Serbian and second best player is Canadian?

@mrsunshinesa

10 ай бұрын

@@Abadhalhawell said!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@arturharper6549

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, Nick lost a lot of my respect on this one

@cookiemonster64

10 ай бұрын

Why are you idiots still bringing up Noah lol

@khalxd1991

10 ай бұрын

Not the same . Man City doesn’t win 90% of champions league’s dominantly . Other clubs in other countries like Bayern , Real Madrid , juventus, ac Milan , Barcelona , pay have big names and attract the best talent just like the premier league at bear equal skill lvl if a bit less popular. However in basketball all the best global players go to nba not anywhere else . Different countries players skk have end goal of nba

I don't get what's hard to understand about the NBA not being the world championship. Europe has BY FAR the best soccer teams. And yet, when you win the Champion's league you're not declared world champ. And then the winning club goes to play the world championship, they usually play the substitutes, and they usually still win. It doesn't matter that you're better, you still have to win the games.

@fighterck6241

10 ай бұрын

Excellent point. And this is exactly the point that Chris was trying to make. Sure the NBA will still win 80-90% of the time but every now and then they will lose one to Real Madrid or someone from Turkey, just like when Chelsea lost the CWC.

@munaali840

10 ай бұрын

yes they need a club world cup for basketball for the teams. as the rest of the world never took basketball that serious the olympics was always America's to lose, more countries play basketball now

@One.Zero.One101

10 ай бұрын

🔖This is just American arrogance. The champion of the Premier League doesn't call themselves the World Champions, they call themselves the English Champions. The winner of the European Champions League doesn't call themselves World Champions, they call themselves European Champions.

Love Nick but Brou is 100% right on this. It’s not to say the U.S. wouldn’t win. The point is, we can’t just say we did win a world championship when we didn’t 😂 how is this even an argument?

@Isaiah880

10 ай бұрын

NBA champion would destroy the other champions not even a conversation

@ShroomDoggyDogg

10 ай бұрын

Right. Making assumptions are for statisticians. The NBA is an American League

@superbrownbrown

10 ай бұрын

*The NBA is the Shine Box of professional sports.*

@kdubs928

10 ай бұрын

The denver nuggets would violate any 3rd world country teams you can find

@SergioFernandez-cj4mt

10 ай бұрын

The NBA is the #1 basketball league in the world. Hence, it’s NBA champion would defeat any other champion in any other league in the world. For goodness sakes, we have our JV squad playing in this FIBA tournament 🤦🏻‍♂️

As an American with family in Europe who consistently watches the Euroleague I can tell you Brou does have a point. Obviously the NBA champs would still beat the best teams there, but if you play under FIBA rules on neutral grounds with their fans in attendance, they wouldn't get steamrolled.

@Mariii2xx

10 ай бұрын

curry booker bron kd ad ky dmitch ant tatum embiid would def steamroll😂😂

@De3dSh0t

10 ай бұрын

@@Mariii2xx Firstly, those guys don't play on the same team. It would have to be an actual NBA team, the NBA champs, for example the Nuggets. Secondly, even if we use your example, the US sent most of its very best players to the Olympics 2 years ago, and they didn't steamroll any of the good teams.

@De3dSh0t

10 ай бұрын

@@Mariii2xx And also, Embiid ain't even American😂

@ryedye335

10 ай бұрын

You’re missing the point… every countries best players all play in the NBA, the nba is a global brand. If you aren’t good enough to play in the nba, you play professionally elsewhere. The MAIN reason for this, is the nba pays more than any other professional basketball team. Zero reason from the top global players to not play for the NBA.

@De3dSh0t

10 ай бұрын

@@ryedye335 I didn't even argue that point, I was just arguing the point Brou made about the best team in the NBA competing with the best team in Europe in neutral circumstances under FIBA rules wouldn't end in a whitewash like most think. I agree with everything you say.

“What American posts up?!” That’s gotta be one of the funniest things Brou’s ever said 😂

@MG-yj6lo

10 ай бұрын

And its true. Even Nicks starting center doesn't want to play center 😂

@TheMissiIe

10 ай бұрын

​@MG-yj6lo and the backup, Bam, doesn't post up much either

@philipquist771

10 ай бұрын

Bam I'd undersized

Nick doesn't realise that putting the best 5 number one options on NBA teams in the same team doesn't automatically work. Guys roles will have to change and not many will easily adjust to having fewer touches or minutes. Ingram is struggling currently while role players like Josh Hart are thriving.

@dillonsparks115

10 ай бұрын

That's what I tell people if u send just stars who the bleep is taking a back seat I know curry can do it but who els will probably nobody and I don't think Bron wants to do the Olympics anymore

@coops1992

10 ай бұрын

Tatum+ Booker+ Ja Morant@@dillonsparks115

Finally some basketball 😭 haven’t checked this for months

@exclusiveman5

10 ай бұрын

It’s football time now. The basketball talk is just bron Celtics with a hint of warriors.

@Grievous_

10 ай бұрын

@@exclusiveman5 Basketball is a far superior sport over American football (notice how I said AMERICAN football, because the REAL football ⚽️ is far better, but that’s another story for another day)

@mattsmith4589

10 ай бұрын

Facts😭 idk what it is but the football is kinda boring

@dbeasley122

10 ай бұрын

@@Grievous_ hope you don’t expect us to care

@DizzyPunch

10 ай бұрын

​@@Grievous_Stop stating your opinion as fact. You're making the conversation around your point actively more toxic

When the San Antonio Spurs went to the finals back to back in 13 and 14, they had 10 players born outside of the United States, including its big Three Tim Duncan (St. Thomas), Manu Ginobili (Argentina) and Tony Parker (France)

@YUSUKESAIHA

10 ай бұрын

The Foreign Legion :)

@nathan-sg7cu

10 ай бұрын

Duncan played for the US.

@Jtyonbronruss

10 ай бұрын

Y’all don’t realize that y’all’s argument that NBA teams that have players outside the US literally proves the point that the best of the best are playing in the NBA, can you get 15 nonNBA players to beat the champions each year??? I mean think about it lol

@tjr2312

10 ай бұрын

@@Jtyonbronrussthat’s a dumb argument lol

@randygram9310

10 ай бұрын

And Denver's two best players were not born in the U.S.

Before saying that Nuggets could win this tournament, remember that Jokic and Murray probably would play for their own countries.

@Scrapluv

10 ай бұрын

^This part.

@anddanny2263

10 ай бұрын

they literally arent playing for their own countries right now tho and denver isnt in the tournament

@baller0724

10 ай бұрын

He said put the Champs in every league against one another. If jokic is playing for the nuggets how can he also play for the euro league Champs as well if he's not in that league.

@randygram9310

10 ай бұрын

The point is that their two best players are NOT Americans. They have a Slovenian on the team as well in Vlatko Cancar but he didn't play much in the playoffs.

@baller0724

10 ай бұрын

@@randygram9310 1 there's a reason that other countries best players come to the NBA to play. 2nd they're arguing that the NBA Champs isn't the world Champs so to test that theory you would need to put the NBA Champs against champions of other leagues not national teams. Which any time the US send the BEST players they ALWAYS win. This national team is like c level players they are NOT the best and they only lost by 6. What you think will happen if it was A level players playing for team USA.

The thing I've noticed about this Fiba cup, is that it is way more physical than the NBA, they call travel, and the phasing of these games are just way faster. Ball movement is also excellent. But with their style of play, they don't really feauture just one player alone so the marketing of stars is not going to be what we are used to with the NBA.

@Chessbox09

10 ай бұрын

Tup, even Luka and Jokic have said this.

@briancons

10 ай бұрын

NBA basketball is low iq and really bad, it’s just monkey put ball in hoop with travelling, carrying, diving and no defence

@cryptidian3530

10 ай бұрын

That's why the NBA would never adopt FIBA rules. It doesn't favour superstardom, but does favour team play. Which is horrible for business if you're living off sponsors and investors.

That’s a lot of American passion from bru’s rant. Great show.

No one argues with NBA being the best league in the world. But Lithuanian coach is a 4 time gold medalist. He actually knows what he is doing.

Rebounds are like Offensive Linemen. They don't always get the glory but they're definitely needed!

@Thegoldenchild415

10 ай бұрын

Rebounds are literally one of the 3 big stats. Are you high?

@imyourhuckleberry1058

10 ай бұрын

@@Thegoldenchild415 Yes!!! But name the last Rebounder to get his praise. Probably Rodman!!! You might want to think about getting high. I gave praise for rebounds.

@blackdragon6

10 ай бұрын

​@@imyourhuckleberry1058thas true

@Thegoldenchild415

10 ай бұрын

@@imyourhuckleberry1058 if that's ALL you CAN do. Then you're a situational player.

@imyourhuckleberry1058

10 ай бұрын

@@Thegoldenchild415 All teams are built on situational players!

Nick and wildes being in sync on that ROLL was hilarious 😂

Chris is right, this is what happens in football. Its a ‘world’ competition, not a domestic one

@kengy1991

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. That’s what the FIFA Club World Cup is all about. We should have the same with FIBA.

@thialhoinj1971

10 ай бұрын

​@@kengy1991the European teams take thier c team to that useless competition lol, but go 100% in the champions league everytime

@riadramsaroop8248

10 ай бұрын

@@thialhoinj1971 the point is they show up. NBA players and some americans dont want to even do that and expect to be given the title. What happened to earning things?

@Rosecain27

10 ай бұрын

@@riadramsaroop8248they earn it by winning the championship that is actually the most important in the world, the NBA title.

@obinnavictor3458

10 ай бұрын

​@@Rosecain27well the euroleague trophy is important to europeans

As a Canadian, I love that it was quietly said that Canada was one of the favourites 😍.

5:55... EXACTLY! Finally someone said it. You can post up AND shoot 3s, they literally go hand in hand. Imagine if a Shaq type player got the ball by the base line and when help defense comes, he kicks it out. Almost like what Jokic does except he starts from the elbow.

I mean, I know one thing. Lithuania shooting 52% from the field and 56% from three has nothing to do with modern NBA players not being able to play defense. Obviously, Lithuania was running some SUPER complex offensive schemes with SUPER skilled and elite shooters that the US's all-time great defense just didn't work.

@crzycolchris

10 ай бұрын

And won by 6 points... Run it back

@mannyneva1760

10 ай бұрын

Super complex huh? FOH 😂

@Pachinoo

10 ай бұрын

If you truly watched the game, then yes super complex, even after the second half, they only took OPEN 3's apart from a few exceptions. ALL COMPLEX STRATEGIES. @@mannyneva1760

@anniehopkins8470

10 ай бұрын

Facts... and I love your sarcasm. Kids in the US have no understanding or appreciation for the actual game.

@Unbothered92

10 ай бұрын

Bro it proves what most people already knew, teams over seas play a more fundamental form of basketball. Its not about being flashy or doing dunks. This is how the NBA should have been, coordinated like how fifa is.

I smell a new segment Wildes "Sober thought vs WILDE thought"

@ManUntdForever

10 ай бұрын

That would be great.

Chris is spot on ! Can’t believe this is even an argument.

Brou is absolutely right! Thank God someone like him is talking about it! In addition, Lithuania did not have their best team either, it is JV + a few Euroleague players and the rest of the squad are playing in lower leagues. So it is wild to say that LTU beat 3rd US team. Come on :)

@KoolKeithProductions

10 ай бұрын

lol and you think the US had THEIR best team? 😂😂😂

@Eraviruss

10 ай бұрын

Where did I say that? ;)

@ClareAmel

10 ай бұрын

@@KoolKeithProductionsThat person you replied to may not even have English as their first language and they still know it better than you. They acknowledged the US didn’t have their “best team,” they were just saying LTU didn’t either.

@nephhhhhh

10 ай бұрын

Team US was playing with their 80 Overalls 😂

I actually love Brousard’s idea of a world championship tournament from the best team in all the top leagues around the world.

@almosteverythingisalie2610

10 ай бұрын

Make a basketball champions league

@Yusufsanad

10 ай бұрын

Thats a champions league And it's 3 from each best leagues

@tk80mufa5

10 ай бұрын

There is a matchup between international club teams called *FIBA Intercontinental Cup* (look it up on wikipedia) However I doubt NBA owners and the league would sign on to this. Their players and their insurance money.................................................. I don't know, but definitely would be an idea, however both NBA & FIBA have slightly different courts and rules, would they be able to agree? Also how to split the revenues? Currently not even EuroLeague take part in this, only second best European teams and also *NBA G League teams* . This is due to FIBA and EuroLeague and their unresolved dispute.... Recently they have started to include teams from Africa and Asia. "The champions of the Basketball Africa League (since 2022) and the FIBA Asia Champions Cup (since 2023) also receive a place in the tournament. FIBA has in the past announced plans to expand the tournament to possibly include the champion teams from the Australian National Basketball League (NBL), and possibly the NBA, at some point in the future."

"Buddy why are you sad? You have 35 pts don't worry about it. " Maybe because winning is more important than stats.

What Brou is saying is if the NBA and it’s fans want to act like the best then our national team needs to continue to dominate to prove that regardless of the NBA having international players

@jobunaga4178

10 ай бұрын

brou was saying that decades ago, the third string players that played for team USA were able to outplay the rest of the world. he rightly points out that that's not the case today. wright's comment about the nuggets is stupid. the best USA players from around the nba could be playing right now but chose not to. they CHOSE to lose by default.

@kingofpendragon

10 ай бұрын

Why do you Americans have to cheat by bringing in NBA PLAYERS WHEREAS NO OTHER COUNTRY IS EVEN PLAYING WITH PED LACED PLAYERS LIKE LEBUM JAMES? Use ORDINARY American players and they'll get SPANKED BY OTHER COUNTRIES.

@samuelwallace2782

10 ай бұрын

And I think he's missing the point. Saying that the NBA champions are world champions is not the same as saying that the US are world champions. It's just saying that the NBA is an international league featuring the best in the world, so winning team is the best team in the world.

@thetalkinggreenbox8948

10 ай бұрын

@@samuelwallace2782 exactly well said

@sardorrakhmanov252

10 ай бұрын

​@@samuelwallace2782 and it's wrong. The NBA champs can't be best in the world until they beat the best team from Europe. GSW were by far the better team in the NBA, but they didn't become champs. Phoenix in 22, 23, Heat in 11 and 14, and so on. Having the best players doesn't automatically make your team better as a while. It's been said many times - basketball is a team sport, and you don't win rings by just having best 2-3 players. Teamwork, chemistry and strategy are just as, if not more l, important to the team success. Lithuania just showed you guys that a very limited roster can win with good strategy and use of their advantages. Yes, it got close and the US team will probably win next time, but if you asked before the game which squad will win 99% would probably choose the US. So until the NBA champs beat a European champ they can't be considered world champs. It would be great to have an intercontinental cup, like in soccer, where different approaches could clash and everyone could benefit from it.

Absolutely loved this from Brou... straight facts ... while Americans argue that the NBA championship is the world championship, the rest of the world rolls their eyes in unison again

@StephaunLovelace

10 ай бұрын

Dwight Howard is overseas looking like Wilt right now. Stephon marbury was in China for like 10 years after he could not make it in the NBA anymore looking like Michael Jordan lol. Our washed up players go overseas and dominate. It's not really hard to fathom

@sedraopamp

10 ай бұрын

One thing is NBA and another thing is FIBA world cup. US will always be the favorite one but the other national teams are improving and investing in basketball too. The distance will be shorter in the future.

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

I just wish we actually tried in international competitions and the American players actually wanted to go and work together to create an all star team.

@dillonsparks115

10 ай бұрын

​@@loganleroy8622problem is if u only send the elit players who will take back seat rolls I know curry can but who els will put they ego aside

@baller0724

10 ай бұрын

If you think the NBA is not best in the world. Put the Champs of each league around the world into a tournament against one another and let's see which team from which league would win. Stop conflating league team with national team.

Thank you Chris broussard ..... but it's no shocker he knows more about basketball than Nick wright 😂😂

As a viewer from Spain really the only thing I can say is that calling World Champion the winner of a competition that only 1 country on earth is elegible to send their teams is the most american thing ever. And you make whatever you want with that. Travel more :)

@ShroomDoggyDogg

10 ай бұрын

100% Americans are self centered being fed the “greatest country in the world” propaganda all day..coming from an American btw

@its_princeakeem

10 ай бұрын

I’m not saying you’re wrong because it is weird to call it a world championship when only 2 countries can play in it. But quick question. Which team in Spain is beating the Denver Nuggets or the Milwaukee Bucks in a 7 game series? 😬

@kdubs928

10 ай бұрын

Find the greatest team Spain has ever seen and pls come lose to the Houston rockets🤣🤣🤣🫵🏾

@atlien1988

10 ай бұрын

Well, if you actually followed the NBA, you'd know that there two countries are officially represented in the NBA, not just one.

@Victor-jy8ko

10 ай бұрын

Yeah mb, including the Raptors changes everything sure@@atlien1988

Chris spoke facts from start to finish while the other two just tried to shake the bridge. Lyles is right too. If you want to be a world champion, you have to show up to a world title event and win it.

@cornbreadmilton5265

10 ай бұрын

If they win the Olympics next year I wonder what yall will say,Nobody ever called the NBA finals champs'World champions",yall heard a B.S narrative n went with it.

@lacyvalenti9523

10 ай бұрын

Nick was far more spitting facts. Broussard is ignoring that our best players aren't even playing in the tournament.

Brou is 100% Correct! Nick started screaming, & forced Brou to get louder... But Brou made better points. Numbers don't lie.

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

Brou is conflating being the best international team in the world with being the best club team in the world. Those are two different concepts and he’s mixing them together. The best club team in the world in Soccer is currently Real Madrid. The best international team is Argentina. It’s not the same.

@baller0724

10 ай бұрын

​@@loganleroy8622thank you!!! Idk how folks can't comprehend the difference between club team and national team

@TheRealNappyG

8 ай бұрын

@@baller0724 Americans don't comprehend it because we don't have that system of team categorization and soccer isn't really that popular beyond high school. The whole club team/national team thing and all the many different "leagues" you have is basically like the metric system to Americans. We know what it's about, but not how it works. Lol!

It's so crazy how nyles called USA arrogant, and here we have Nick handing out medals before the game is played and acting like when USA sent their BEST (recently) they rolled everyone, which didnt happen. Send the best or shut up about It.

@jadenhau

10 ай бұрын

how is nylles arrogant when spitting facts? it's so funny how you guys can be arrogant about this

@nephhhhhh

10 ай бұрын

Team USA with an A team lineup would win by 40… the 3rd stringers lost by 6😂

@xristosfarrow5425

10 ай бұрын

@@nephhhhhh Team USA with an A team lineup lost to Greece in 2006 World Championship 😎✌

Lol.. Brou having PTSD with his Rob Parker debates 😂😂 And im here for it

I love when Brou gets going! This was the best segment of the day, all because of Chris' EFFORT and analysis. Also Nick and Wildes' reaction is GOLD.

Soo funny😂😂 Greetings from Lithuania 💛💚❤️

Finally someone got it right. Yes USA have better individual players, but more often than not they don't play a team sport and lack in strategy. They don't have their best players, but they also have a population of 300 mil, while countries like Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Serbia have less than 10 mil. This isn't the first time USA lost an international game and it's happening a lot more often lately

3:45 and Lithuania is also a bit short handed, for example Sabonis isn't playing...

Lithuania got 16 more rebounds, shot 18% better from 3, 0.6% worse from the field, yet they only won by 6??? See, this type of thing shows you why you have to look past stats...

@MarioCindric

10 ай бұрын

It was 18 pts at one point. They cut the margine just to sugar defeat. That's why you must watch the game instead stats. They were demolished because they thought they already won the game, before it even started. And they didn't exist in first half.

@tankeater

10 ай бұрын

@@MarioCindric I was going through the BoxScore during the game... I saw the same thing you watched. What I was saying about the stat line! It shocked me when I actually looked at the final stats. Garbage time stat padding that shocked me.

Brou is right. The NBA Championship is basically the Premier League Championship of basketball.

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

No the NBA is basically the UCL. Where everyone knows the UCL winner is the best team in the world. The Europeans don’t even try during the club World Cup and they have lost one time since 2007.

@SirJimbo89

10 ай бұрын

@@loganleroy8622 No, the NBA doesn't even play other teams outside their own league, so the NBA cannot be like the CL.

Am I the only who noticed that it was Franz Wagner who was in Nicks Player pyramide not his brother Moe. Franz actually got hurt in game 1 of the tournament. And moe is the one playing well for germany right now.

@deliliankramo7520

10 ай бұрын

You are kinda right. Nick for sure was talking about Franz. But to be fair he had both brothers in his pyramid but he had Franz ranked higher .

It's hilarious how little Americans seem to value international competition.

@kdubs928

10 ай бұрын

Because we don’t want to waste our time 🤣🤣

@skipbayless4375

10 ай бұрын

Because as an american, winning the nba championship is far more valued than winning for USA

@yvans.

10 ай бұрын

@@kdubs928 no because that’s not in your culture to compete against other countries. Nothing to do with not caring. Americans live in their own bubble.

@jobunaga4178

10 ай бұрын

speaking as an american, it's because we americans are fat and ignorant. our citizens travel internationally the least but have the loudest mouths when is comes to american excellence. americans don't want to travel to europe or asia because they would actually have to walk around there and they hate exercise and hate that they can't stuff their faces with double bacon cheeseburgers. it's a disgrace.

@FEARNoMore

10 ай бұрын

Because we dominate in this sport. Why play our best stars when we just destroy the competition? It's not fair, the world hasn't caught up yet to the U.S. in basketball although they've gotten better. The best in the world play in the NBA. Until individual countries catch up to the U.S. it doesn't matter if the NBA is called World or U.S. Championship. It's a moot point. We don't call the MLS cup World Championship cuz we know we're not the best in soccer by a huge margin. Just like basketball is to other countries.🤷‍♂

Chris Broussard I missed you man!!! The best speaker in sports by my standards

NBA top 10 is filled with international players, and somehow you still can't believe that each one of those guys has country mates who also hoop really well

@aewisjericho8848

10 ай бұрын

Fr 😂 I am German and they probably think everybody besides Schröder or franz cant even hit a three here

Brou was spitting hard in this video 👏

@OffTopicKamah

10 ай бұрын

Spitting bs

Of course the US would dominate if there was suddenly a world championship, but if there was a super popular world tournament with lots of money involved, other countries would inevitably get much better.

@zolaeight7574

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. You need the World buy into the sport and invest in it to even have the chance to compete for a world championship. Being the best when most nations doesn’t even bother doesn’t make you world champs.

That was an all-timer from Brou lmao 🔥🔥

Brou is spot on! Does the winner of the English Premier League (the biggest competition of the biggest sport in the world) call themselves “World Champions”? No, the winner of the World Cup does. Does the winner of the Indian Premier League (arguably the biggest team-based competition for Cricket, the second largest sport in the world) call themselves “World Champions”? No, the winner of the World Cup does. Only in the U.S.A is the World Champion decided by which team won their league that year. This year’s Nuggets team probably would roll through the World Cup tournament, but their best player is currently playing for Serbia, so they probably wouldn’t even get out of the group stage. It is a world sport now, so to say that the U.S.A is automatically the best team because the NBA is American, is just ignorant and naive

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

You are mixing two different things. The Nuggets are the best CLUB team in the world. That’s not the same as the best international team in the world. There is a Club World Cup in Soccer. The current winners are Real Madrid, they are the club world champions. That’s why Man City can’t call themselves world champions, yet. FIBA doesn’t have a club World Cup for basketball yet. Until they do, the world champions of basketball will be the NBA winners.

@samcross6576

10 ай бұрын

If there is no club World Cup yet, then there is no club World Champion

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

@@samcross6576 Sure there is. It’s the NBA champions until proven otherwise since it’s far, far, far and away the best league.

@samcross6576

10 ай бұрын

@@loganleroy8622 I'm pretty sure "World" is a key part of World Champion. If ~96% of the competition is from one country, it can't be considered a world competition

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

@@samcross6576 The best players from around the world all compete in the NBA. This isn’t like Soccer where there are great players in the Spanish, French, English, German, Argentinian, Saudi, and Brazilian domestic leagues. The best 400 players in the world all play in the NBA.

I'm 100% with Chris. If USA doesn't wake up to the reality that they can lose to a lot of other countries and don't work hard to play better they're up to big trouble.

"We can still win the tournament" . Surprise, finished with NO MEDAL !

Pointing to the USA B team losing as a reason why the Serbian Lead Denver Nuggets isn’t the world champions has to be one of the worst takes Bru has ever had

In football (soccer only in America), they have a World Club Cup when the represantives of the continents play.

I like how they mention the Denver nuggets would win but not that their 2 best players are international.

Chris Broussard is correct here.

Brou told no lies…..people’s arrogance will not allow rational thought🤦🏾‍♂️ I love the idea of whomever wins in the NBA faces other teams best team in a world championship, it would be fun to watch n see what other talent is out there compared to what we’ve seen so far. Regardless of us spanking em or not…the competition would be fun to watch, also nba rules is different from international rules which could be a difference🤷🏾

The international team also have the luxury of practicing for more than a month and a half but together before they go out there with expectations of domination.

@mantaskatleris8261

10 ай бұрын

Every team starts their preparations at around the same time. But other countries ACTUALLY practice and not just CHILL in their hotels thinking they already champions

@crzycolchris

10 ай бұрын

And the international team plays years together.. team USA trots out a new 12 every da*n year!

"If If If If If If If" Nick Wright's argument for anything and everything

5:55 the way brou said America sounded like he was giving a political speech 😭😭

Brou out here with he facts today!! You can post up and shoot threes this is what's wrong with the game today

As a pelican fan this feels like a W😂.

I already knew that our biggest weakness was gonna be rebound just watching games before they gave up a ton of second chance points I was thinking if Kessler could just get more mins whenever we getting bullied

They don't get it, that you need a good TEAM to win and not a bunch of great players.

@catherineamadin1188

10 ай бұрын

Finally someone that gets it.. you can’t win without having great chemistry in team.. putting a bunch of elite players to play together doesn’t necessarily make them a good team- they all will probably have different playing styles and mindsets-and also a lot of pride.

For me, I predict that Team USA will win Silver at best! The competition overseas have grown exponentially since the 96 Dream Team days. Not to mention, post-2008 Redeem team have had rosters of iso players who are not fluent with team basketball

World champion is the national team that wins the world cup, it's not that complicated

"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers"

Brou said Mo Wagner instead of Franz again lmaooo 1:10

@kb4231

10 ай бұрын

Caught that too

To be a WORLD CHAMPION you have to win FIBA World cup. It does not matter if NBA is the strongest league in the world. No club sport can claim they have champions of the world. You have to represent your country or yourself, and not a club, to be a World champion. That is a difference between a league and a championship.

@9doggie12

10 ай бұрын

So the joker isn’t the best player in the world ?

@xcbaby123

10 ай бұрын

​@@9doggie12is he playing for a country when the nuggets win or a club?

@9doggie12

10 ай бұрын

@@xcbaby123 is he the best Player in the world

@mcmiscellaneous4706

10 ай бұрын

Sure, if you want to play semantics, I’ll agree with you. I’ll also unequivocally state that the Nuggets would run all of these teams (including USA) off the floor.

@9doggie12

10 ай бұрын

@@mcmiscellaneous4706 the current team USA yes

A team full of NBA players lost to a team with zero in Lithuania and just now to a team with only 4.. the best players do not all reside in The NBA.

No international team is beating a nba team in a seven game series

I am from Lithuania. I love Brou, but I feel he holds my national basketball team in higher regard than me, lol

@mashuduthidiela9643

10 ай бұрын

🤣

@a.r.t93

10 ай бұрын

He wasn't lying, you guys do have a GREAT man tho lol

@enigmeishn

10 ай бұрын

“Tikras“lietuvis.

@Taj_Rahine

10 ай бұрын

They were good enough to beat team USA

LOL they are throwing all the names out here Lebron, KD etc. its literrally flexing look at us we are better than the team that is out here representing us. Lithuania that beat team USA had only 1 active NBA player, which is JV, only few play in euroleague and Karinauskas which trolled A. Reeves with his tongue out is actually playing in a local Lithuanian league earning a few thousand euros a month. (This was actually a good marketing trick for him tbh) And the whole debate mixing National teams to club basketball is just absurd. Talking about Denver Nugets in context of international basketball is just plain madness.... ok tell me which team is Jokic representing then... Serbia or Nuggets lol? Who gave these so called 'anlysts' a 'job'? 'Loud mouths empty brain...' That being said we all know that in order for Lithuania to win this game they had to play a perfect match and all the stars had to be aligned at the same time. To achieve this victory against such a talented USA team with 12 NBA players... It's unlikely Lithuania is gonna manage to repeat it again any time soon, but that is exactly the reason why everyone is hyped and celebrating at the moment in Lithuania after 7 years without wining any medals at internatiinal level. Even if Lithuania doesn't win medals this year it's still acceptable outcome for us since this date that we beat team USA is going to be remembered and marked as an achievemt in our basketballs history. Its hard to win at the highest level and yet the nation with less than 3 mil people beating the odds from time to time is remarkable if you ask me....

The reasoning from Wright is like saying: 'Well Manchester City won the Champions League and that is the best league in the world so they are world champions. If you sent ManC to the World Cup they would destroy everybody.' The thing is at a world cup you sent the best players from your country to play for their country. In the NBA you play the best players you can buy/pay just like Manchester City does.

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

In soccer there is actually a club World Cup though. Basketball doesn’t have a club World Cup yet.

@vortexathletic

10 ай бұрын

Therefore Wright’s reasoning would be correct! The best European team is the best team in the world! No European team has lost the Club World Cup since 2012; and that was Chelsea because they lost some of their players cause it’s played in the next season.

@myselfandeye3884

10 ай бұрын

@@vortexathletic No, because to decide if ManC is the best club in the world they have to play the club world cup against the champions of other continents to make that claim. The NBA is just American clubs with one exception against each other. It's more like the English Premier League or La Liga.

@myselfandeye3884

10 ай бұрын

@@loganleroy8622 No, but those are two different things. Team USA and FIBA world championship is about countries competing against each other. In that regard NBA champions can't claim to be world champions. Neither can they claim it for clubs because, as you rightly point out, there isn't a Club world cap in basketball.

@vortexathletic

10 ай бұрын

@@myselfandeye3884 that’s true; but basketball just in general doesn’t have a CWC unfortunately

Just signing the best players in the world, doesn’t automatically make you world champion.

Its hilarious they think Denver would win this tournament when the top two guys on that team are internationals.

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

You are conflating two different concepts.

@BurningMarmite

10 ай бұрын

@@loganleroy8622 They are. That is my point.

The USA sent literal Role Players to the FIBA World Cup and we only lost 1 game. Let’s be real here y’all 😭

@Wideout4

10 ай бұрын

So who does Lithuanian have?

@kb4231

10 ай бұрын

Besides Austin Reaves, Josh Hart, and Bobby Portis, no one on that team is a role player. Young? Yes.

@user-id4oi3hl7b

10 ай бұрын

@@kb4231Kessler & Johnson too

Ha.. Nick look like a James bond villain.. those luscious locks..

"You don't think the Denver Nuggets would win this tournament?" They wouldn't have Jokic OR Murray.

Let's go 🇱🇹

@bonanzahomer7512

10 ай бұрын

🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹👍

Never agreed more with Brou and less with Nick... well done, Brou!!!

Best debate show! Their chemistry is second to none

Thank you Chris Broussard.

If we’re fielding our actual best players, yes I believe team USA would destroy the competition. However, I do think the NBA champions are just that, the nba champions. Can’t be called world champion if the competition only comes from 2 countries. And this goes for the other sports as well.

@bigboner23

10 ай бұрын

Name one player not in nba who can actually make a difference in the nba? You cannot…..the nba champs are the world champs until the euro league or somewhere else becomes the best league

@SouthJerzVillains

10 ай бұрын

This argument makes no sense all the best international players play in the nba??

@richardthepastamancer6619

10 ай бұрын

@@bigboner23 stop it. for starters you should learn what what world champion means. Afterwards learn that in 1 game eliminations you can lose to anybody, ball don't lie. Lituania has a population smaller than chicago and you are still making excuses, look at the team USA 2006 and see what kind of players they had before being humbled by grece. Btw, your 1st overal pick in the draft, wemby, is from the euroleague, i call that a differencemaker in the NBA...

@bigboner23

10 ай бұрын

@@richardthepastamancer6619 yea u just made my point lol. Best players from around the world are in the nba for a reason. All the other leagues are trash for a lack of better words

@LembeckIsStaying

10 ай бұрын

​@@bigboner23 People like you are why we won bronze in '04 and needed a Redeem Team.

Noah Lyes is still wrong. The USA literally sent our C squad and people are losing their minds over one game…

@pfpchad2747

10 ай бұрын

Nyles is actually 100% correct. It doesn't matter if US players are the best. It's still not a world championship if you are limiting the competition to only 1 country. For it to be a true world championship, there would have to be a competition with every other country in the world.

@ZilvinasP

10 ай бұрын

But they are still 12 NBA players with solid roles on their teams, in LIthuania's team we have JV only this year, our best player by significant margin Domantas Sabonis is not playing on NT this year

Bravo, Broussard👏 You're spot on 👍

I love Brou idea for a Basketball Champions League like they have in soccer 😂🙌🏻

2008 Redeem Team beat Australia by 21, beat Argentina by 20, and beat Spain by 11. They may not have toyed with opponents to the level DT 1&2 did, but a 17.3 ppg margin of victory is't terrible.

@michacarolus6571

10 ай бұрын

15 years ago, bro... that's hardly representative for today...

@MarioCindric

10 ай бұрын

Spain was in the game till last 2 minutes, you obviously didn't watch that game. Wade and Kobe hit some clutch shots to secure that win. Also 2 years earlier, that same team (minus Kobe) lost to Greece in Semi Final of World Cup. So no, neither American team came close to original Dream Team. And if you today send best players, A team, they would still have problems against teams like Spain, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia or Canada.

@n.dewayneb9258

10 ай бұрын

I watched every game. I said that Dream Team 1 and 2 toyed with their opponents, which by comparison, is different from how the Redeem Team fared in 2008. But I also felt that winning by an average of 17.3 ppg isn’t terrible. I did not comment on how the game played put down the stretch. I was focusing on the overall numbers.

NBA championship isn't a world championship... But team USA has shown time and time again we are the best not always but 80% of the times. I think Nick believes putting the most talented players on a team guarantees winning that is where I think he is clearly wrong. Since we have already proven when we had the most talent and still lost.

But people say today's era players are better than the 90's.

Brou is on point, the idea that you can call yourself a champion of the world without actually playing aginst and beating the world is hubris at best and lunacy at worst.

@loganleroy8622

10 ай бұрын

There isn’t a club World Cup yet. Once that happens they can’t call themselves world champions. Until then, they are clearly the best and deserve to be called world champions.

@tumomoremedi9865

10 ай бұрын

There is a world cup, it's literally happening right now! Lol. With your logic, any jamaican that wins their domestic sprint championships is a world champion. Or anyone who wins a domestic Kenyan marathon is a world champ. That makes no sense, even if you are better than someone, you still have to beat them to call yourself a champion. Otherwise you're just better than them. So yes, the Denver Nuggets can call themselves the best team in the world, but only the team that wins FIBA can call themselves world champions. @@loganleroy8622

The Americans also put their teams together last minute. The other teams for the most part have guys who play together a lot more, not saying they don’t also have their struggles or challenges but the US needs to rethink how and for how long before tournaments they put their teams together.

@Theinsideoutsider

10 ай бұрын

You're right but unfortunately the US won't ever be like the other countries. 1.The US care less about these non Olympic events . 2. Other countries only have only so many players that can make their squad so those same players are always on the team so they get continuity/chemistry 3. American players are rich & famous so they are less likely to commit yr to yr

@dragonmerchant

10 ай бұрын

lithuania fully collected only in august, a lot of best players isnt even here. its like a B team for us too

Nick and the NBA players want to become World Champions by assumption. You don’t become Worl Champions by “what if we send our best players”. You become a champion bu actually COMPETING!

The USA "Redeem Team" had 223 more points in 8 games, and their closest game was for gold, and they won by 11... lmfffaaaooo 🤡

I love Brou's fervor and patriotism in this segment.

I agree with Brou that the NBA needs the international influence. But the NBA is still lightyears ahead of every other league.

@ernestmuric6719

10 ай бұрын

Ummmm those losers are all NBA players. LeBron lost to Greece ( bunch old guys ) with the best allstars. NBA is light years ahead. Why do NBA guys keep losing. FUNNY HOW JORDAN NEVER LOST AGAINST BUMS FROM EUROPE.

@tjr2312

10 ай бұрын

All the top players are international stop this nonsense about nba being light years ahead

@conlanchastain3708

10 ай бұрын

@@tjr2312 This is exactly my point. Where do all of those international players play? Is it in the Slovakian leagues? Australian league? Even the euro league? Nope. They all went to the nba. To complete with and against the other best players in the world. The NBA is located in the U.S. but is not made up of only U.S. players. The NBA is an international league in terms of player and roster composition

It’s really weird that this is a controversial take. First off, it’s asinine to say that a team from a country’s national league should be considered world champion in the context of FIBA. However, there does exist a competition in which the most competitive teams from each league in the world participate, the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, to qualify you have to win a continental tournament first. Now, would an NBA champion win with relative ease, most likely, but have they done it of intend to do it? No, because they choose not to participate. So no, they aren’t world champions, they could be, but they choose not to be.

@jobunaga4178

10 ай бұрын

100%. you can't be the world champion if you didn't even play.

Nick: *start talking* “wait stop wait” Brou & Wilds: 👀

Brou be like "Get off my Lawn!"

If the best Americans actually showed up to these meaningless tournaments it wouldn’t even be remotely close

@superbrownbrown

10 ай бұрын

*They needed more rest days.* 😂 *The NBA is the Shine Box of professional sports.*

@mobrocket

10 ай бұрын

NBA should be 50 game season With a mid season tournament

@paranoia_xo

10 ай бұрын

why is it a meaningless tournament? when did a country known for its patriotism become so against competing internationally?

The other countries’ core players play together for YEARS. I’m not bothered that we only win 90% of the basketball tournaments with a new group thrown together

@kevenjean1954

10 ай бұрын

I’m not saying that you’re right or wrong but are we sure that these other countries core players played years and years together? I mean nowadays a lot of these “core players” are actually playing in the NBA so im not sure if your statement is still a valid point in 2023

2008 Spain squad had Paul and Marc two Hofers and DPOY