Well you know its ovah when that 7 foot bleached blonde European kid comes out onto the floor. BTW I'm so glad that Ben Wallace won a ring. He's a true underdog and inspiration. Playing undersized and being undrafted. He's the man. Dang Vanessa Bryant is so hot.
World Champions???????????? And which teams from around the WORLD did they beat? Why do the NBA winners always claim to be World Champions? NORTH AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD!!! The Association Football World Champions are Brazil, because they played and beat the rest of the world. There are also World Club Champions, but after winning their national championship, they then have to take on the rest of the continent, and then they have to beat the rest of the continental champions. But it would seem that to be Basketball World Champions, all you have to do is beat the rest of the country and a few Canadian teams. There are only two tournaments that give a country the right to be World Champions. The World Championships, which were won by Serbia and Montenegro, and the Olympics. So the current World Champions are not Detroit but Serbia and Montenegro. And given that the "Dream Team" have already lost to Lithuania and Costa Rica, I just don't see how some people can claim that the winners of the NBA are World Champions. What does the "N" stand for in NBA (at least they name the league properly, unlike the "World" Series in baseball"? So what are they the champions of?
The NBA is the best league in the world, It's pretty simple why the NBA champions are considered world champions. No league comes close to the NBA in terms of talent and overall skill. There is no more dream team, that ended in 2000 when they decided to stop sending the best players. The team now only has two current all-stars, the rest are very young and are a few years away from being considered great. I would rather the NBA send the world champions to to the olympics and play for USA. That way we wouldn't have to worry about lack of chemistry or ego's getting in the way. Gold would also be brought back to where It truely belongs. It's very possible the US won't win the gold medal this year, thats due to the NBA for sending weaker players and the superstars turning down places on the team. The NBA champions will always be considered world champions due to the fact thats where the best players play.
