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Apples to oranges. The United States has also done well in the World Cup twice since 1950, and the USA has never been the top dawg like it has in basketball.

And Europe may claim they aren't worried about the explosion of soccer in America ... until the USA beats one of the "powers".

 

UMMM, 14 teams IN the NBA couldn't finish above .500(Philly being one) and the Knicks and TBlazers finished with less than 25 wins. The Knicks might not finish .500 in the top European league.

I don't get the inability to accept the fact that although the NBA may still be standard of the best basketball in the world, the gap between the best of the rest of the world and the best of the US is extremely narrow. And a mediocre team in Europe may be the equal of a mediocre team in the US.


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Nobody seems to have mentioned that the Sixers have only had a handful of practices, while their opponent's season has already been underway for some time. I'm not saying that it's a positive reflection on the Sixers, but let's keep things in perspective.

 

Well, that's pretty much what I was alluding to.

 

because the best players in the world - foreign and US - play in the NBA. International play is one thing, because a lot of that might depend on a team playing together. The fact that the top international players want to play in the NBA and pretty much anybody who can start in the NBA wouldn't be likely to play in Europe tells you all you need to know.

In Europe, they don't play an 82-game schedule. It's not as demanding as the NBA in terms of travel and the number of games. The gap is narrowing but if you put the top 10 European clubs in the NBA to play a full 82-game season, how many would be above .500?

 

Another America-hating lib thread.

 

the Sixers don't practice