Comment on Noah Lyles: we are the world (the NBA's not)
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, if you're one of the best 100 players on the planet, there's exactly one place you're going to play, and it's the NBA. Winning whatever international exhibition you want is fine, but it's not where the best basketball is.
Fordry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly, and it dates to decades back when The sport was less popular around the world. But even with the popularity it enjoys today around the world, the NBA is absolutely the top league with nothing even remotely close to it. The NBA champ is the world champ.