When EuroLeague Teams Defeated NBA Champions 

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I love games featuring nba vs foreign teams. I hope they add more of these to their preseason

Facts were spoken

Kobe Bryant have no chance winning against against Barcelona with Messi, Iniesta, and Xavi.

As a Football Club Barcelona fan, seeing Barcelona do well at basketball in 2008-2010 too is beautiful.

There’s a reason Luka Doncic from Slovenia said European league is harder then NBA

Spoke facts. Great video by this creator. CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED content. This video needs to be viral asap

I am a lifelong Chicago Bulls fan, born and raised in Chicago in the 90s and seeing the dominating Jordan/Pippen teams. Continue to watch them to this day. Now I live in London, and my wife is from Barcelona. I went to an FC Barcelona basket game last year with my mom because we used to go to a lot of Bulls games growing up. I got so anxiety ridden because I felt like they were passing way too much. But in reality they were really really hunting for the best kind of shot. No heroball at all. Made it pretty obvious why the current Bulls 'my turn, your turn' with Lavine and DeRozan is failing. I'm quite sure that last years FC Barcelona with Mirotic would beat the last years' Bulls in a series. Being away from the US in general, you understand we are just raised with a ridiculous amount of entitled exceptionalism. It's such a gross look when the cacophony of sports media and former NBA players like Gilbert Arenas continue to talk about players like Jokic like he is a joke. I remember when Nikola Mirotic turned down a contract in Utah and Milwaukee to return to Barcelona. I was like, 'yes, I too would have taken less money to live in a way, way, way better city.' And so many people came down on me in comments about how America was the greatest yadda, yadda, yadda. It's ridiculous that even as somebody that has spent substantial time in all three aforementioned cities; trying to explain thing like worker and social rights, the choice of free healthcare, great infrastructure and public transportation, and pedestrian access just illicits a response of 'that's communism.'

Calculating the theoretical amount of wins for a Euroleague in the NBA, you also have to consider that historically the Euroleague teams have mostly played NBA champions and not bad NBA teams, so their record would probably be even better

It would be really intense, entertaining and controversial if every year nba's playoffs 4 team, euroleague's final 4 and some other nation's league's final 4 compete against each other for World Champions crown.

As an American who initially sided with Jxmy, this video persuaded me that NBA champs aren't world champs. Thank you for your unbiased take with great statistics to back it up!

Amazing !! Very complete video

The first 3 games against Maccabi was sold 100%

Facts. You know the game. Europe is improving rapidly. Will be great to have that world championship competition created. Very proud of that Spanish team 💪

Id be curious to see what adjustments would be made by both teams in a 7 game series.

1:40 Olympiacos,my team i support to the Greece ❤❤

Wow! Such an amazing video and editing. I enjoyed watching it 👍

Incredibly well put video. Amazingly done, congratulations!!

I really wanna see it get settled. The first time I saw the "World Champions" title being used by the NBA champs, I find it weird since there are no flags being represented there and there were only playing in a domestic league. About time to settle this. Best ball clubs in the world duke it out to see who's the best.

There is already a "FIBA Club World Cup" and it's called the FIBA Intercontinental Cup. The only thing is that most EuroLeague teams don't participate, and the NBA sends the G-League champions to play in that cup. But still, we need the NBA and the EuroLeague to participate in this competition to prove that NBA teams aren't always world champions.

*NBA and Euroleague Clashing would make such a fuss just like Copa Libertadores with UEFA Champions League* ...Gold tier entertainment there hope we'll live to see it happening!

Dallas mavs just lost against Real Madrid😅

It’s funny how Barcelona’s basketball team still has FC in the name

17:50 As a football fan, that is the unholiest thing I've ever seen someone do to a football crest

great video, worth a subscription :)

Speaking the truth that others aren’t willing to hear! Pure facts

You're screaming into the void honestly. We all know that you're right, and Americans (who disagree) are probably too self-centered to have their minds changed on this. Hopefully we get to see more club matches between NBA and other leagues, and hopefully more leagues can develop talent and keep it to compete with NBA teams.

Make this a regular annual matchup. NBA champ VS Euro champ in BO5

Yeah they did Morris Wagner plays for the Magic

Personally I think a yearly 3 game series between the Euro League champions and NBA champions should be organized

I knew we could rely on you making these arguments and spreading the word

Joventut vs Lakers in Paris 94

I wish if there is a super cup between the nba Champion and Europe champion.

The time has come for a club-world-championship in Basketball!! Let's gooo

Also you calculated the games European clubs played vs mostly the top 10 clubs from NBA at the time of playing those games which means that if they can beat the top teams, they could surely beat worse NBA teams and that would improve their potential record in NBA even more

Great video clip, thank you

FIBA already has Intercontinetal Cup for year, but currently Europe is represented by Fiba Champions League title holder (which is together with Eurocup 2nd tier continetial competition in Europe) , USA by G league Champion, Latin America by Basketballl Champions League Americas champion, Africa by BAL champion and Asia by Chinese title holder. So NBA, Euroleague (for info, Euroleague and Eurocup from 2000 are not controlled by Fiba, if you did not know) and Australian-New Zealand NBL league champions are missing. To Expand this compettition would be great for basketball, however it clashes with offseason NBA and Euroleague schedule

That’s facts The first time I saw a video of a RU-vidr I follow regarding the world champions argument being right I thought about the same example and actually you quote this video on yours, and I just couldn’t help myself to think about the champions league, this is just accurate facts

Facts....great job, great video!

Honestly this just makes me wish that the NBA and FIBA would commit to creating a one-game tournament for the finalists from both continents. Having it 3-4 weeks after both leagues' finals would be perfect fr

I think the only difference between the NBA and the Euro league is the defense is harder in Euro league and in the NBA it's easier to score plus the 3pt line is shorter

We need UEFA or Club World Cup version of basketball

Champions of the US, not even America

Everybody forgot the golden rule of "lets settle it on the court" lmao

I heard the words "World Champion"... As a german I became sharp-eared! 😉😂

NBA and Euroleague need to hold year competition between champions. The gap between the 2 leagues is very short now.

0:55 NUTS

Noah Lyles is laughing somewhere at the background. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wanna see a game where BOTH teams have the same interest level.

3:47 should be both 196, not 206

Damn it's crazy when fc barcelona dropped messi on the court. Everyone is breaking ankles and yes he slam dunked

NBA is a show, Europe teams actually play basketball

this needs to get settled sooner rather than later

1:42 Olympiacos vs Lakers we want see what will happen.I want see this.

6:02 The greek basketball team Ares ❤

One game sample size against NBA teams fresh off of training camp. Come on lmfao

Thanks for saying it! You have this Canadian's support!

Thank you for making this video my friend.

NBA teams are 169-19 vs international teams all time.

i just watched this video after the loss of the mavs against real madrid

I doubt this will ever happen. The NBA teams wouldn't want to risk losing their prestige as the best teams in the world. They are making too money and have too much clout. It is why 1v1 competitions don't happen in the NBA or the fact that stars don't play in the dunk contest.

"World champions of what???!!!" 😂😂😂

I'm not arguing the euro teams arent good, but my guy, for years through the 2000s there was a problem with NBA players not caring unless its playoffs. Regular season, preseason, exhibition, not giving 100%. Seems to have changed lately a bit more

Barca and Real Madrid be cooking in fútbol and basketball 💀

People need to stop sleeping simple as that 💯

3:30 you missed Eran Ilyasova

I totally agree with you.

not to mention that in 2022, the adelaide 36ers of the Australian NBL, who finished 7th in a 10 team league with a record of 10-18, beat the phoenix suns, who had just lost the nba finals with a record of 64-18, 134-124 in phoenix.

what makes that win% stat kinda crazy to think of as well is that most of those games were against top NBA teams. They won an average of about 35-40% of their games against some of NBA's BEST teams. Think how their record would improve if they were to play every team in the NBA.

Greece vs USA (101 - 95) on the semifinal of 2006 World Cup. Outstanding win for Greece!

It's important to say that these games are played usually in October, that is for NBA teams those are pre-season games. European teams start the season in September, so they have already finished the pre-season training. The same games in April would be very different. Anyway, do not underestimate Euroleague teams!!

Man if the euroleague and nba merge, it would be crazy

This was one of the best basketball videos I've ever watched, very very eye opening. Thank you

Call it, what it is: FEAR!

You spoken facts bro

here after madrid won mavericks

Facts overload......Common sense overload.

NBA and NHL need to have a kind of World Cup of Clubs trully !

Maccabi tel aviv also beat 2006 toronto raptors

Him saying cherry picking stats is hilarious💀

This aged extremely well lmao

The heel fcb barcelena combine poijts are 196

And two Slovenian players Jaka Lakovic and Erazem Lorbek.

I wish that they play whit euroleague rules

Let's watch that real Vs mavs game now

I would love to see something like the club world cup we see in soccer. Hopefully FIBA can organize something like that so that there is actual competitive basketball played between different continents.

It's simple. NBA is more for the show, the player are more athletes. But, on the same breath, nba is 80% based on offense. If you watched the euroleague, you would know that they play like crazy people on the field, defense is first, and I'd say they are more passionate. I predicted Real Madrid to win Mavericks this year, caught 4x odds on them

Jaka Lakovič > Kobe 22:29

THANK YOU for this video. Such a fresh breath of air. So well reasoned and factual. Thanks.

Thank you!!!

Great video

I don’t watch basketball, but seeing this video, I think it would be cool if they organized a championship like the Club World Cup by FIFA

if there's something american nba tams definetly should learn about european clubs is to make good club badges. my god the nba badges look just like some kind of soda or snacks label

Demasiado facto

Someone that understands

Hello from a european fan(who actually is one of the fans showed in the first clip of euro-arenas). I just wanted to let you know that there is a tournament like the one you describe. It's called Fiba Intercontinental Cup (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIBA_Intercontinental_Cup) but saddly the NBA doesn't participate. So it's up to the NBA to defend it's world champions title.

i do wish they commence a UEFA Champions league type of tournament where every top leagues/teams in basketball compete with each other but idk if thatll ever happen

The difference of these one off games is that they're played as exhibitions. I guarantee if you told Kobe that was the "World Championship" game- Lakers win by 20. It's a showcase game and they don't care who wins because there's nothing on the line.

Well Barcelona at 5:00 they do not play a whole season of 60-70 games against good teams and different refs then plays in the playoffs and face teams with all star players in up to 7 games as a series multiple times until they play against a team with an all time coach and a bunch of hall of famers. But if they played in the world championship all the teams would be tired

Basketball Needs a Super Cup