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Stephen A. Smith and Marcus Spears discuss the importance of Team USA winning gold at the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
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Who's here after they lost to Germany
Dennis S. is The Worlds Greatest Basketball in the WORLD lolol
Ayyyy
Aged like milk. 😂
Here after Lithuania, Germany and Canada. 🤷♂️
Chuck thinks that Australia, Finland and Japan are third world countries 🤦♂
Well at least he’s spot on bout those big ‘ol San Antonio women.
Was thinking that. Really hoping he doesn’t get cancelled. Love Chuck.
Australias wild life might make it a 3rd world country their wild life is scary
Chuck has low iq
@@bigda6407what does wildlife and thrid world problems have to do with this dummy
FIBA World Cup winners are the World Champions of Basketball. That's how important it is.
Well, if they do win it then they can actually scream "World Champions."
Nobody calls the NBA champions "World Champions" this has all been manufactured off of lies.
@@Neofilmcriticthey used to
@@agentcodybanx8909before you was even born 😂
You do know that any relevant FIBA team is stacked with current/former NBA players lol
in the world of the NBA, they're champions therefore World Champions. I mean when someone tells their wife "you're my world" they don't mean she's planet sized or you duel someone and you're at a disadvantage and they say "you're in my world now". Also most of the WORLDS best players play in the NBA minus a few I can count with my hands because they didn't want to play in America for no matter the amount of money. LeBron ain't playing in Europe but Jokic is playing in America, Jokic doesn't even like being in America but is because of the NBA, that's how worldly the NBA is. Until some other league starts stealing NBA players in their prime, NBA is THE world championship. These tournaments aren't a gruelling 82 game season followed by a best of 7 post season. Now Soccer/Futbol can have that argument, no single European league is a "world championship"
Who is here after USA didn't win any medal at all?
🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️
Keep that same energy when they sweep 🧹 the world in the Olympics no one cares about FIBA
If Team USA wins gold, they would be 'WORLD' champions.
Exactly, the Denver Nuggets are not WORLD champions.😂
And yet, nobody in the world, outside of the nba would stand a chance vs the Denver Nuggets
@@nydibs and yet, nobody in the world, outside the champiosnleauge, stand a chance against manchester city, and they STILL dont call themselves world champions.
@@gick1000what country does Messi play on?
@@gick1000lmao because I don’t even know soccer but I know those guys stand a chance forsure
Man, respect to Stephen A for publicly apologizing. Calling Lyles "ignorant" for speaking absolute truth was not cool, but you have to respect the self awareness
He a grown man Stephen A knows what he said and only apologized cause of the backlash.
Because there is alwaus something, an after-thought lol.
Man u not cool 😂😂😂😂
NAAHHHHH STEVEN A thinks he knows it all. He was the 1 being ignorant. How does Denver beat Sacramento, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Miami to become WORLD champion? World champion status is obtained by competing in a world competition
@tsemlesentimental6051 well when the world considers nba to be best of the best it is "the world" bur if u dont like dat argument we actually have to let our NBA players play for other countries so those country's can stand a chance so yeah we best in the world
"With that head and that dome"😂😂😂😂
Stephen A. living his best life lmaoo
SAS defff getting slurped 😂😂
I came here for this 🤣🤣
This is why I’m here.
Nobody questioned the importance the FIBA gold medal that's world championship medal, what people are questioning is naming a national league champion a world champion
Yep this is really the ignorant part. And it has nothing to do with arguments "LBJ or Jokic is the best player in the world" or "the Nuggets can beat any other national team". It is a competition between countries, and there is always a chance to lose, even when you have the best team. Furthermore we are not 100% sure that USA always have the best team.
For international players FIBA is important that is the FIFA of Basketball. That's make european very supportive to their athlete, for them sports is a religion.
Dr. James Naismith is the inventor of basketball, who was born just outside of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He first devised the game while he was a professor at the University of Montreal, although he did finalize the rules of Basketball while he was a professor at the University of Kansas, and later he became an American citizen, so it was a collaboration between Canada and America in many ways.
Which is da only 2 countries dat participate n da league's country games😂😂
Thanks 🫥
But it is based on netball which is British.
PLEASEEEEEE…….. THEY WERE PLAYING BALL WAY BEFORE HIM!!! GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT BS🙄🙄🙄
Thank you
Noah lyles was speaking facts. What I can't understand is why Track and field don't get more coverage and i am talking about the USA team
I think Canadians can take pride in the fact a Canadian invented basket ball, and Americans can take pride it was "raised" in America.
USA and Canada are homies.
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Nah, y’all are Americans. I just call y’all the Deep North
BOTH WERE BRITISH, MEXICAN AND FRENCH OWNED@@A1._.-_-
@@A1._.-_-only 2 countries with nba teams
Those men will return some of the best basketball players in the world. Their collective games will level up, and they will all add to their bags. If they win the gold medal they will also know how to win a championship.
Usually players come back better after playing for USA.
Good Point 👍🏾
I can’t wait to see AntMan, Reaves and Halliburton. They will have huge impact for their teams.
Fiba tournament and a nba championship are two completely different roads
Well eventually. Not all of them will win a championship tho. Let’s be real. Unless they all decide to team up, at least one of them are gonna come up short
Fourth place was pretty good for the young US team. They should use it as experience. Let's see what they bring to the Olympics
Lmao like Ant and DPOY Jaren Jackson Jr., right? You mean young team like Steve Kerr with 9 rings, right? 😂
They severely underperformed. They are the only team composed of entirely NBA players and they got beat by teams like Lithuania which only has 1 NBA role player.
Thanks for these exclusives videos
Oh man, this aged well
And then team usa became world champions of fourth place.
Thank you for mentioning Cricket...... I love this show
Canada may be tough to beat, but add Jamal Murray who was going to play needed more recovery time from playoffs and injury concerns certainly must have been on his mind. Andrew Wiggens could not commit but would have also contributed to their depth.
Still not enough for 🇺🇸
I mean, Canada can only do so much at the moment. Shai can't win every game for us. Jamal and Wiggin's would, ofc, add much needed depth, but... still 3/4's of the NBA are American players. Until the world has about half of that at the very least, the US will probably still be the best team, provided they unite the Avengers, Light the Beacon so to say. But, honestly, I don't care. Many of their best players are at or approaching the wrong side of thirty and Canada has a decent amount of promising young players that can be added to our depth and more Canadians are entering the NBA at a consistent basis, pretty much annually. Shai, Jamal, Wiggins, Barrett, Brooks, Dort etc are all 20 somethings and with someone like Zach Edey potentially entering the association next year, he'll be a nice addition, given that our front court needs some work. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if we have 50+ strong in the NBA within a decade or two. Not bad for a country that's only had an NBA team for a few decades. The rest of the world will continue to produce MVP's and NBA Champs. So, America will have a lot of competition in the coming FIBA and Olympic games. They won't dominate for much longer. 😁😁😁
Yo we just beat Spain somehow, went crazy watching it lol
@@hannahcox8270how old are your best players
Lithuania are tough to beat
So this is it !! Germany win over USA ! 🤩
NBA are world champion of the United States... 😂😂😂
I Agree with Stephen A. We Should Always Win Gold Medal But Competition Is Good 👍🏾🏀 for Basketball
NBA are not only from USA ,but USA play 10 or more of NBA ?!
Other Country have 1 or 2 NBA & Could win this year they will but not every years!🔑🏀🏅🏆
Imagine playing in a competition where your opposition didn't play it's best players. It would make a mockery of the whole thing. The fact that the best US players don't play for their national team sends the message that they don't take the comp seriously - which is bad for all teams involved.
They dont
@@shamusenright5387but it’s not dummy because all of these players on team USA are better than anyone anyways on every Second rate euro team besides a couple exceptions
The only thing most people forget about is that this American team has very young players playing against the adulthood of their counterpart competition. Where are the 'supposed' mature superstars of America? Vacationing!! Spilled and not respectful to their hometown fans like those players from abroad. Where is their honor? Is it money instead of pride? Lebron who?
Saying an individual player in the NBA is the best in the world isn't from the standpoint where they went and competed on the world stage and accomplished all the accolades, it's from a standpoint where people think the player is an exceptionally talented player in the NBA... still remains in the context of the NBA and it's something that is opinionated among fans of the sport, just like the goat debate!!
Straight fact
I love these CZcams clips 👌🏾
LOL now both US and Canada have to fight for bronze xDDDDDD.
The Champion league is championship between teams in different countries in Europe, no one called the World Championship league. There are more players from different countries participating in the Champions league than there are in the NBA. African players are well represented, South American players are well represented, Asian players, even players from the United States are represented, but no one call it a world championship.
As Korean if we don’t win Gold medal in taekwondo 🥋, it definitely leaves a disappointment and disturbance to us. It’s similar with Basketball for US.
ITF or WT? At least in ITF Argentina has been stealing gold medals like crazy
Exclusive CZcams episodes yeah 😮
I watch first take in the morning then at noon I go out and watch trains after that
Molly says it best: the NBA is very international but technically it is not a world championship.
NBA is the premiere league as it pertains to basketball
Which means technically it is a world championship.
It is ok to say that Nuggets is the best team in the world, but it would be very cringe if NBA officially label it "World champions"
@@SojiRo23 Certainly not, have you seen the winner of the best soccer league in the world (UEFA Champions League, with players from all around the world) being called World Champion? No. Why is it so hard to understand for some american sports that a World Champion is the winner of a World Championship, why? Nobody in any other country is doing that even is they have teams that might be the best in the world at this moment.
Manchester City won the Champions League last season in soccer, they (and the league and other people) never called them World Champion.
Go ask Giannis or Jokic, who won NBA titles in the last seasons, if they are World champions? they will say "no, we are NBA champion" and have to win the World Championship with their national teams to be World Champion
Reaves & Edwards have surprised me a lot
I appreciate the love they showing to CZcams
Before u r self proclaimed World Champ 🏆. Now is a must to win gold in FIBA
What a disaster FIBA for TEAM USA, Canada beat them by large margin. With an OVERTIME game 😢
Lionel Messi became a world champion last December because he won 🥇 the World Cup with Argentina 🇦🇷
American soccer sucks. American basketball is dominant
Winning the FIBA makes the world champion
Canada is really where basketball was born and bred 🇨🇦
White people made basketball… and everything else for that matter😎
If they don’t win it will validate Noah Lyle even more 😂
I don’t think so. USA should be favored to win regardless. But we clearly didn’t send out our 15 best players lol
True 👍
It don't matter if USA wins Noah Lyles was speaking str8 fax. Too many ch truth for a few American snowflakes to handle lmao
facts he put a light on usa no one until now ever questioned usa’s dominance
@@tbenjamin8348you were born after 2005 huh?
Basketball was not born in the us it’s was born in Canada by a Canadian. And also the first nba game was played in Toronto Canada vs the NY KNICKS
these analyst dont actually know the history of the game some may but the majority dont
Facts. Big up James Naisbitt from Ottawa.
Canadian American and invented in the USA. Stop the lies.
@@amardhaliwal6416 yes that is right invented by a Canadian and I believe he taught it to his students while teaching in the US
Let’s go team USA go for a gold medal 🥇 to be a world champs
not even bronze !! lol
Germany=Gold
Serbia=Silver
Canada=Bronze
USA=Copium
Steven A said "I went golfing and sucked at it" ... me too 😅
Did Stephen A Smith say BasketBall was born where?!?!? Yeah no.. it was crates in CANADA 😂😂😂😂
Basketball was created in Massachusetts by a Canadian American
@@captaincaveman2400 With ethnic Scottish parents
It was based on a Canadian children's game dude. We used apple picking baskets. He was asked to modify it for the students he taught PE. You are welcome. Naisbitt was from Ottawa.
@@Annapurna818it is an AMERICAN sport tho either way. The USA specifically took their time to perfect and craft the sport. It is what it is. Shoutout the kids who were throwing apples in buckets. IM SURE they were the first 😂😂
@@toomuchdiponmychip5838 It's still created in Canada 🇨🇦.
Fact check: basketball was invented by a Canadian James Naismith and Canada is coming for the Gold medal this year
3 losses and not even bronze.
People also have no problem referring to the American baseball championship series as the World Series
Which is wrong.
This aged very badly
ESPN's finally beginning to get it. Most of us only watch y'all clips on CZcams from bogus Vietnamese accounts
Basketball is born in Canada but bred in the USA. Although Canada has had a small resurgence in the last decade with some great players...i.e. Shai & Murray.
Wiggins was huge in their championship.Mathurin is a future star. Dortz a good starter too.
If team USA loses its really a win for basketball fans cause then the top players in the league are gonna start playing .
I can't believe the world's best shooter has only competed nationally once.. I wanna see KD and Steph one more time together
No they won’t, our top players sit out these games and wait for the Olympics. Every FIBA World Cup, USA fields a team of mostly up and coming stars and superstars mixed with role players. Win or lose, NBA superstars are still gonna say no thanks
@@benmitchell9308 when Spain an other countries started beating the brakes off USA kobe lebron an a lot of other players started to commit to playing cause they recognized what was at stake it may very well start happening again
@@benmitchell9308 this is true.. although our fiba 2014 team was very very dominant
USA just lost to Germany in the FIBA World Cup! It's Up!
Hopefully Team USA get to the final first
I mean the World Cup is a warm up for the Olympics where the veterans come in.
GERMANY is the WORLD CHAMPION OF BASKETBALL. Sorry Team US and Denver Nuggets.
Basketball was not born in America ! Wrong again Stephen A.
At least try to get Bronze next time!🤣 Respect for Stephen!
It’s very important
As a huge basketball fan I got to say, at least in Europe basketball takes a secondary or tertiary role. People don't care as much as football so there is not much investment or interest in seriously developing talent!
A European league team can call themselves world Champions because they are they best. Nothing wrong with that.
Same should go for American League basketball team championship. They are the best in the world
@@billycarter1798 but the winner of the championsleague plays in the Club World Champion for the titel of best team in the world
Europeans don’t invest in it because they know they have no chance in basketball against the USA.
@@billycarter1798 Youre wrong. NBA champion is just US/Canada league champions. FIBA World Cup champions are World Champions of basketball just like FIFA World Cup champions are world champion of football. World there means the scope of competition and representation, all continents of the world were represented. The national team that top all other national teams is the world champion. There are Asian Champion (FIBA Asia winner), European champion (FIBA Eurobasket winner), African champion (FIBA Africa winner) etc. Americans should stop being arrogant and ignorant. Team USA did not even medal in FIBA World Cup, they were only placed 4th in the world. Germany is the basketball world champion.
Messi e Cristiano Ronaldo foram os melhores e campeões durante longos anos mas isso nao fez que a Espanha chegasse a ser ou o campeonato fosse o " Campeões do mundo" o atleta pode considerar internacional profissionalmente mas a estrutura da disputa onde ele se encontra nao pode carregar esse abreviação
People are always talking about the best NBA players are not on the US team, but forget that the only elite international player in this competition is Luka.
So Shai isn’t elite?
@@TheMonkeyKing7235 Good player, but I am not convinced.
Meanwhile, they wont talk about the team USA that had been winning at the track and field WORLD Championships
Not popular enough
They’ll be okay
@SCOOBYGD which is exactly what Noah was saying, actual World Champions not getting the attention that 'national champions pretending to be World champions' are getting...
@@romanparisi5503or basketball is just more entertaining
Because black Americans (descendants of USA chattel slavery) have been dominating the Olympics in majority of the categories since 1930!! Jessie owens!
It's so clear that it's blatantly wrong to call all NBA champs world champs. With SAS logic, all the other leagues basketball champs should also be world champs. The NBA is not the only basketball league with players from other countries. What Noah Lyles said is facts. I haven't heard a strong argument against him yet.
Because it’s just pure common sense. How can you call yourselves “world champions” if you didn’t even go up against the whole world. Most people think US is the whole world. 😂
When is Stephen A going to learn how to pronounce Luka's last name?
All i gotta say is Noah better win GOLD
Basketball was invented and born in Canada. It was made popular in the US but let's give credits to where it was invented and born!
Springfield College is in Canada now?
Based on a Canadian children's game by a Canadian post graduate student from Ottawa, James Naisbitt
He was asked to modify the games for Americans while he was a PE teacher there. Bet you did not know that Bell invented the telephone in Brantford, Ontario either.
@@Annapurna818bet you didn’t know I’m eating an omelette right now.
@@Annapurna818 USA hockey > Canadian hockey
"Little third world countries".
Wow. Ok.
i know, they acted like it was nothing
okay i’m not the only one offended by that comment
FYI the word ignorant has nothing to do with the level of competency. The word ignorant emulates from the root word to ignore. Which fits perfectly for that man.
Sharing a root word means little. Eg the root word for assassin is hashish. Ignorant means unaware, not ignoring.
This channel has a million subscribers
if Denver is already the World Champions in basketball, what will the USA or whoever wins this tournament be called?
Worldwide Champions 😂😂😂
@@lav7161lol
There’s a difference between “NBA Champions” and “World Champions”.
Why are u guys comparing a club to a national team? Two things can be correct. No basketball club in the world are beating the current nba champs. Let's be real
Universal champions
Finally a world championship.
yes..for Germany ;)
''World champions of what?'' 😂
Molly caught a stray 😂
Well, it was previously stipulated that professional players can not play in Olympic and FIBA World basketball competitions. They tumbled down to the bronze in the 1988 Olympics in Korea with the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia taking the gold and silver medals. The following year, FIBA lifted the restrictions on pro players and the Dream Team was formed and dominated the 1992 Olympics. In 2004 Argentina also won the gold. So while the best players are in the NBA hands down, basketball is still a team game and there is always a chance that another country can beat them.
No there is not Argentina won because the USA didn’t send the best players simple as that no country comes close to America in basketball
@@SouthJerzVillains USA didn't send their best players. Lol. Duncan, Wade, Iverson, Lebron combined with Carmelo Anthony, Marbury, Odom, Marion. Meanwhile Argentina had one (1!) NBA player in Ginobili.
My boy Austin is Shining
really likes spears take
We don’t have the best basketball players anymore ! Embiid,Jokic,Doncic,Giannis,etc…
That makes so sense Swaggoo. Not because a league has (generally perceived) the best players in the world (or the best player in the world) it's not a reason to say the nba winner is a world champion. Winning FIBA in this case would warrant such a nomenclature. There is nothing "technically" right about what Noah said, what the man said is just plain common sense. The most ridiculous of all is saying the super bowl champs are world champions. Also MLB world series. Smh
The NBA and NFL are global organizations comprised of the best players in the world that's what makes it a world championship. Also its the NBA World Championship not the World Championship of basketball. Anyway you wanna slice it the Noah dude is wrong
@getsomwmoney2433 if your logic is true please explain why the winner of major league soccer isnt called the world champions..also no other country in the world outside of canada plays nfl football with those rules ..so how is the nfl winner a world champion or a world organization .thats doesnt make sense to me..
@@christophergrannum3768 because the mls choose to call their championship whatever they wanted to call it. if they wanted to call it the mls world championship they could.
the nfl super bowl is the nfl world championship because the nfl is comprised of the best nfl players from around the world therefore making it a global organization based in the US. so, the players are competing against the best nfl players in the world.
@@getsomemoney2433 😂 i guess thats where alot of misunderstanding comes from, noone really cares if its nba world champs or nfl world mlb world champions, but it shouldn't be just plain world champs because the true world champs are being decided right now at the fiba world cup
@@mabricado_dm it's not world champs though, nobody calls it that. That's what makes this whole discussion ridiculous nobody calls the nuggets world champs we just say they won the title that season
world champioship of what?
best players of what?
This aged really horrible..
@3:29 Stephen A was scared as ever that Molly was gonna kiss and tell
NBA is the land of the free when it comes to basketball due to the Dream Team and exposure with media. It’s people who are giving keys to there city plus higher access in their country due to winning a NBA Championship.
Also we send some of our best rising stars to this level of competition. Our higher level athletes are assembled at the main events.
Ah yes, Germany the 3rd world country.
Who here after ThE WoRlD ChAMps just lost to Lithuania
love my favorite country national sports team, manchester united
Formula for losing is underestimating your opponent
I believe that championships are more about the team than its players individually, and so it doesn't matter that the 1/3 of the NBA are non-Americans. What matters is that 29 out of 30 teams are American.
Plus I believe that NBA Championship teams are close to or on equal footing against the top-tier National Teams around the world and would not automatically pick them to win against these National teams.
You must be a moron to think an NBA team is on par with some National team. Most countries can’t even field a team of more than 2 NBA players bro.
Someone finally covered team 🇺🇸 basketball loll
That Charles Barkley quote Is kind of unhinged 👀
Saying a particular person is the best player in the world is very different from saying a particular team is the best in the world.
Great job Stephen A. US needs to win Gold every time. I see where Noah Lyles is coming from. I think his delivery was just off.
His delivery made perfect sense to everyone outside of the US.
Schedule Lyles Vs Aaron Gordon 200meter...
Yes Stephen A. He Apologized.. thinking he's wrong.. Thank You Sir..
Sometimes I feel like they don’t have anything to say so they jus have a long winded conversation
America has a long standing "structured" baskeltball culture and a larger population of talent to hone than most countries. most contries can compete to a level and can produce the other decent players but a world title is earned by defeating them nontheless. NBA is national title. End of story
Everything you just stated makes the NBA a WORLD TITLE
@@wheelman1232tf do u mean “high ups won’t let that happen?” The best players in the world play in the nba and are American. It’s their choice to play in the Olympics and fiba. They play because america is the best at basketball and it’s their right to prove that. You’re a nobody until you come to the greatest league in the world. The nba. Even though it’s a national title, you have to win the nba finals to be considered the best team in the world.
NBA isn't even a "national" league like college sports. The NCAA is restricted to only American collegiate sports. The NBA just happens to have teams representing mostly American cities, but it's not an American-only league.
@@AfricanThinker86
Ok. So if some trillionaire from Dubai wants to set up an NBA team there and participate will he be allowed to ?
I'm sure we can get every major city to set up teams.
@@cp3190 If the league approves it. Obviously, they wouldn't let too many teams come in and dilute the talent pool, but they can let any team they want in. The Grizzlies used to be in Canada before they relocated to Memphis. The NBA calls their championships "world championships" for marketing purposes. It was never literally seen as equivalent to a World Cup or Olympic medal.
Team Canada is winning it all..Sorry to say..
Facts.
😂😂😂😂
You are all aware that Spain is currently the world basketball champion (FIBA) right?
SAS really said Manchester United xD
Remember, after the pool play you enter a knockout round. One bad game is all it takes. Best team generally wins a best of seven, but that isn't available here
No best team usually win on the day, that's the beauty of football (soccer as the uneducated call it), you get No do-overs in real sports.....you think Noah Lyles get the chance to re-run the 200m finals had he lost last week
@@romanparisi5503you tired of your country always losing to USA I can tell 😂😂😂😂
Where’s Perkins at I miss that dude
Can't wait for upcoming First take and undisputed, haha.
Noah Lyles is smiling right now after that Lithuania game lol, to be fair Team USA lineup is not the Best of the Best
Anthony Edwards gonna Carry Team USA no doubt
Glad Stephen A sees lyle's comments for how I perceived them 😅 can't say you're "world" champions if the league is only reserved for American teams 🤷🏽♂️
Now yeah, no doubt a championship nba team could beat a team from Spain, or China, or Russia. But until there is a proper global tournament for it, it's a gimmic name in reality.
I'm a soccer fan, and FIFA has actual international tournaments like the club World Cup, to find out the best club, not international team, is.