Would You Like to See The NBA Champion Face the Best International Team? | THE ODD COUPLE 

Here we go guys. Brace yourselves. Let the flip flopping begin....

My guy Chris just talking

The only reason international teams stand a chance is because of their NBA players. If it was champion vs champion then all the international NBA players would remain with their NBA teams.

Chris your idea is brilliant, it shouldn’t be all star team vs all star team like the Olympics but the top teams from each league face off like soccer

Chris always crying about the world has caught up to the USA. Now we see that hasn’t and now he wants to change the narrative

They spent months saying the usa is going to struggle but there destroying teams . Now there switching the narrative

Isnt the Olympics the world championship i thought it was the best players in the world are playing

I’m all fur it. Tired of the misconception that the world is so “caught up”

They should do it like the champions league in soccer. Have the champion from a certain # of countries compete in a tournament. Then that's a legit world champion

Chris reaching right here

Hell no if Kendrick nunn leading you to championships I never wanna watch you play against the Celtics…

Is it just me or a lot of old heads sound like they want the 🇺🇸 to lose or at less not dominate

Basketball should be like Soccer less regular season games. More leagues - more global alignment and the USNBA plays against EuroNBA vs SoAmerNBa vs AsianNBA

This would set up a NBA Euroleague merger. The NBA can trade out the okc and sacramentos for london and paris

A basketball champions league if you will.

This is a ridiculous conversation

what NBA player is going to risk their health on this, especially ones that are in line or make big money?

Only ignorant talk show hosts ever thought any other country could remotely compete with the US team. As I said, the bench of the United States is better by far than any starting 5 of any other team! Forget the starters for the US. The world has caught up my ass haha

A 7 game series every 4 years would be good

The model Chris is talking about already exists in football. You win your national league and play a champions league which is continental, winners of that play in the club world cup. Americans just dont believe different pro leagues of the same sport can co exist without one taking from the other, which is wierd.

There already is a “World championship” for basketball, it’s the FIBA World Cup, just like soccer/football has the FIFA World Cup as the sport’s world championship. If players want to be called World champions, that’s the tournament they need to participate in, and if they don’t participate and would rather be doing something else, then that’s on them. Perhaps there’s some guy just sitting on his couch somewhere who’s the fastest sprinter in the world, but if he doesn’t actually go participate in the world championships for Track and Field, then he’s not getting that title. Just because he “could” win doesn’t make him the World Champion.

Why not send our champs vs their champs, would be fun to watch

The NBA should invite EuroLeague teams to the NBA Cup. Problem solved.

If its a champions league contest, than sure that contest would need its standard rule but if its own leagues, than no. the different court dimensions, ball size and time length for games along with amount of timeouts you can call puts a different twist to the type of basketball.

Rob G is right and Noah Lyles is clueless about basketball. The best players on every Olympics team are in the NBA and the teams with the best NBA players have gotten furthest in this tournament. It's ridiculous to think the Celtics would do anything other than smash the Euro league champs.

Chris u tryin to sound smart but it comes off as dumb

They have the model required in football with the Champions League. Also they used to have the McDonald's Championship, where the champion CLUB teams would play in a tournament.

This is a semantics debate. There is no doubt the NBA Champion is the best basketball team in the world, don’t think Lyles would even deny that. The NBA is however a national (or two country, counting Canada) league. For Americans best in the world = World Champion, while in Europe & globally it does not. The best way to explain this is football (soccer). In football, the best team in the world is typically the team that wins the UEFA Champions League (best team in Europe) but they would still only ever refer to themselves as the Champions of Europe. Only after winning the Club World Cup, would that team refer to themselves as World Champion. So it’s just down to however you want to interpret the meaning of World Champion.

Chris STOP IT !!!!

Dude on the right is a shock jock type.

So the only way to make it competetive is to put one arm around our backs by making just the NBA champs play when the rest of the countries plays their entire best players. We just send a team that may have only 1 or 2 of the top US players instead? All that just to prove whats already a given that, the US runs basketball still and for quite some time.

Football (European soccer) has the best club teams playing there in the Champions League (CL), teams from all over Europe..The winner of that plays in the Club World Cup to claim world champion status..That doesn't take away anything from the prestige the CL still has, which is more than the CWC..And the European champions tend to win that more often than not.. I think the problem is NBA champs have labeled themselves World champs so long it's scary to think they might get beat and not.have that claim to guys like Chris Broussard..

I’ve said in the past to make the NBA All Star Game the NBA All Stars vs The World.

The NBA champion versus the Euro Champion would GROW the game. And that’s what we want. Maybe it could grow close enough be as popular as soccer. Maybe….

What Chris wants is what they have in European Futbol.... Its called champions league. At the moment USA would win a champions league/Club world cup type contest but give other countries in Africa, Europe and South America time to make their leagues and develop players for a 20 to 25 year time span, USA would no longer be dominant in basketball.

An NBA team winning a world championship tournament is a club world championship. You need win at the international level (country vs country) to be a world champion. That's the rule for all other sports so why is it different for basket ball?

Best way would be for the previous season's NBA champion to get the last week of their preseason replaced by a best of 3 series against the winner of a separate tournament. Ie. European champ vs Asian champ etc. winner of that tournament plays the NBA champ in the US for the world title

This 24 team is built different. They beating teams by 20 in between parties, while other team are training, USA team is partying lol

I wish the NBA would work with the basketball leagues and do something like the Champions League. You can take the top 4 NBA teams (the teams in the conference finals) and top 4 teams of the Euro League and have them play in tournament. BUT maybe I’m over estimating how big Basketball is outside of the U.S.

International starting 5 for me is Schroder Doncic SGA Giannis Jokic vs Team USA or NBA champion like Celtics?

Bruh why would you want the NBA players to be flying back in forth across seas. Financially it doesn’t make sense. Health wise it don’t make sense. Imagine being injured then having to travel to Europe next . Adam Silver can kick rocks , can’t wait until he gets replaced

Have a league similar to the champions league. Where top 5 teams from the major leagues and regions play against each other. At the start of each nba season.

I'm with Chris on this

if anything Panathinaikos vs Boston

The best basketball is being played in the USA, fact.

0:00 - 7:03 time out … are you saying that because these international teams may or may not have up to one to three players not playing with the rest of their international team(s), means that the international teams that primarily play together in international league (play/rules/officiating/court/ball/etc) are void of any advantage/opportunity/etc of building MORE team chemistry with the rest of their team that is primarily/majority in tact. Eesh I gotta pause on this clip. Thank you next please. Do/be better than that Brou 😅that’s an interesting take to make a stand on after you just described in part how it’s a different game LOL

SORRY THIS TRAM IS BETTER THAN THE DREAM TEAM 🤷🏿‍♂️

A whole 7 or even 5 games series would be a lot.I thing a nice idea would a final 4 in which the two european finalist of euroleague play each other and the two nba finalists play each other and the winners play in the final

We do not need to standardize rules. In fact it will be great to have different leagues to have different rules, ball size, court dimensions and length of games. That way we get different team constructions and "Home court advantage" will have meaning in sport and not the referee favoring you which that's what the secret meaning is. Different brand of basketball for everyone. Those that like 3 pointers, those that hate it, those that like full zone, those that want 0 zone etc. See players in different circumstances. But yes a champions league/Club world cup should operate on FIBA Standard rules but individual leagues can run their own game rules.

The NBA is the best league in the world. They should have a club world champion with the best league champions, it makes sense.

What Noah Lyles said was something normal folk call “common sense” and “logical”. No team in any sport is going to call themselves “world champions” when you’re not competing in a globally competition. Create a world champion and win and then you’ll be world champions. It’s very simple lol. If Noah Lyles lost, he’d still be the world champion because he won at the “world” championship loooool. It’s basic comprehension

The nba needs a reboot, for it is no longer enjoyable to watch

NBA Champion plays the top 2 or 3 World teams

Rob G is to Chris like Jamie is to Joe Rogan😂Rob G pull up that playoff game from 1967😂 I'm just having fun lol love the show though😂

Bring back 5 seconds and hand check we already got zones and apparently theses guys won’t be affected by it

“The world has caught up” is a clear showing of how 90s basketball is not at today’s level. Old folks never seen so many great international players in they day so they got scared😂😂😂

Martin is underrating the Euroleague teams. They've already beaten NBA teams in recent exhibitions. An NBA vs. Euroleague tourney could blow up in the NBA's face as soon as they lose some games or a tourney final. The gap b/w NBA and Euroleague is nowhere near the gap b/w Team USA and the other nat'l squads.

LeBron setting the tone on both ends plus distributing the ball like Magic at nearly 40 is insane. They just hit the unfair switch and ain't no coming back from that.

Here we go with the angle to start having NBA teams and foreign teams playing each other. This is where this is going.

I dont want to see the USA Olympic team I want to see the NBA Championship team vs who ever the Euro League champion is or if its more than 1 top league do a small tournament of champions.

Even if the NBA champions sweep the Euro champ, ....at least you can say "World Champion"

I'd rather see USA vs. world, than the Allstar game.

what is Weiss talking about? you come up playing together its easier to plug you in a system and the team could gel plus your familiar with each other game playing together.

Everybody knows that the USA has the better team, but there used to be 1maybe 2 non american in the top 10 players, now it is at least half. You still have more talent, especially at the guard positions. But also, you have to understand that FIBA basketball is totally different, the intensity, the toughness needed, the crowd, you only see that in some playoff games. Some playerss in Europe are not skilled enough for the NBA but they are so tough, they become elite in FIBA basket. Schroeder is the best example. Just ask Lu Dort or Dillon Brooks how it feels to play Yabusele and Lessort, they are known to be tough in the NBA but just got bullied in the Olympics.

Its about legitimacy, yeah the NBA champ would win 9 times out of 10 but then you can actually claim being world champions, It is what it is.

I’m convinced the old heads want this USA team to struggle to have the Dream Team looked at as the best team of all time.

World vs US LETS GO!

Send the ncaa championship team to the Olympic!!

This would be a club event. So the Denver Nuggets would play against a club from Europe. It’s not a world cup of basketball.

Yall the Double Dutch champions

the only problem is that Americans who don't make the NBA all play overseas. The Euro and Australia leagues have a lot of American talent in them.

Chris trying to bow out peacefully by saying its not in the best interest for the NBA after the caller disagreed with him 😂

THE WORLD HAS CAUGHT UP😂😂😂

I don't understand how anyone can argue Noah's point. No calls Real Madrid the world champions....

Here we go again. Dont we have a legit world champion? There is a final coming up pretty soon if I'm not mistaken. Look, Boston Celtics vs Panatinaikhos will never be that exciting. Sloukas and Lessort vs Tatum and Brown... If you listen to Lyles he was not questioning the quality of the leuge, just stating the fact that it is a domestic competition and the arrogance of calling it's champion, the world champion. The reaction from NBA players kind of just proved his point. To day there is no real money in European club basketball, they constantly face financial trouble and some clubs are kept alive by the good will of the football section. So talent wise, the gap is astronimical, why you wanna go up against that? Euro rules and courts have made the games intressting. But why face players cut from the NBA?

If other countries where to start their leagues, nba will want to takevover those leagues since they do not want a upstart alternative due to the fact there are a segment of fans not happy with their product at this time. I believe nba is moving to be even more international with their presence in africa at the moment and also this inseason tournament they introduce last year. I believe their vision is to have what european futbol champions league and the big european league futbol leagues are but with nba running it.

Bulls in 97 faced off against the world in fiba and won. Should be that way for the Olympics. Whoever the nba champion is is team USA

I would rather watch the worst NBA team vs the best European team

They wanna diss Boston for having a easy path to the finals but bring it up about team Usa

Where’s rob Parker lol

HOW ABOUT NBA OVER 30 vs UNDER 30???

A tournament with all countries against each other to see who has the best players in the world everybody vs everybody

12 on 12 USA vs World For the World team probably would have Luka giannis Franz Wagner SGA Jokic Jamal Murray Wemby Gobert idk who else

I would like to see more 3 on 3 where we layed a double egg with both men's and women's. 🥚🥚

You guys keep saying most foreign teams have NBA players. Most are unknown because they never played. One exception is Patty Mills who has been retired and is now 45 years old. The USA team is NBA all stars just showing off and were never threatened. . ..

So what if the nuggets win the nba finals then they have to play Serbia? Who’s jokic playing for?

Give me a champions league ala soccer

The two most important things needed in basketball in order to compete are Height and Wingspan. After that all you need are Skills and IQ. Athleticism is Vastly overrated. Jokic the best player in the NBA in 2024 cannot jump over a thin paper, cannot out run a turtle vertically or horizontally but he has height 6'11, wingspan 7'3 put together with skills which are dribbling, shooting, passing and High IQ when to utilize said skill set. Thats it! The top ten countries with tallest people by average height as of 2024 are the following ranked tallest to shortest. I also listed the countries population next to them. 1 Netherlands 18M 2 Montenegro 700K 3 Estonia 1.5M 4 Denmark 6M 5 Iceland 400K 6 Latvia 2M 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.5M 8 Czech Republic 11M 9 Serbia where Jokic is from 8M 10 Lithuania 3M has Jonas Valančiūnas who beat the USA C team in the 2023 FIBA World Cup only to lose to Germany in the Final. Jonas was the only NBA player on that team none of these countries take basketball seriously except for maybe Serbia and Lithuania. You cannot tell me if the countries I listed above were to have a basketball system similar to how Europe has its sports academy and Pyramid league system based on merit, that they would not challenge/beat the USA in basketball even with its lower population compared to USA. Same for African countries as well. So Lithuania a country of 3M with only 1 nba player was able to beat USA top to bottom nba roster albeit being its "C Team". 3M vs 330M. Thats pretty impressive Serbia a country of 8M was able to produce the best Basketball player vs a country of 330M that being the USA. Thats more impressive.

TY Chris, always hearing this BS about how these other teams have been playing together.....

If usa plays against the world they get 💩 beat down their leg imagine a team with luka,joker,giannis,shai,siakam,markannen,porzingis,murray,wemby,sengun,wagner and porzingis

You guys have to do more research on these topics before you roll them out on your show. Firstly the Euroleague is already an international tournament. Its not a league in the way US fans and media define league. Its more like the NBA in season tournament. Every country has their own domestic league with their own championship so figuring that out would be messy and without adding multiple European clubs there wouldn`t be enough teams to make a tournament. The NBL out of Australia is the only league outside Europe that could field a team that would have a chance to beat a bottom tier NBA team. All of those league best players play for NBA teams. Every year for the past decade or so international teams play NBA teams in the pre-season... Go look at the results.

Did the league done it in the 90s? Where the Bulls the eventual champs vs euroleague. McDonald's championship?

It is come down to getting MVP LJ vs KD

Team World would cook team USA. We would have the best 5 or 6 players in the world.

We need a Club world Cup.. FIFA has no problem with it even if the UEFA champs always win the club world cup all the time..

Can yall stop this tired debate. Noah Lyles is right because if he takes a bunch of the worlds fastest sprinters in the world and runs a 4x100 at a diamond league event they can’t call themselves the world champions because they won the diamond league series

Some these programs damn near got me believing they trying to sabotage their own country dominance aka USA basketball.

For all of you dense people that keep saying “Team USA…. best League….” First The BOSTON CELTICS ARE The world Champs NOT Team USA so the Boston Celtics would need to play other pro champ teams in the world. So they may not destroy other teams like you think SECOND it would be the champs from other leagues like euroleague it would NOT be All Star teams on either side. And just because we all (probably correctly) assume the Boston Celtics would beat any team, until it actually happens it not a FACT

It will be better for the sport of Basketball. Imagine having England win all FIFA Futbol World Cups and Olympics with no serious challengers and when they lose its because of the team and not the opponent? I do not think futbol would be the #1 sport it is today. That is basically what the USA is in Basketball. Thus why Basketball remains number 2 sport in the world and in some countries not even top ten.

The best players from Europe go to the NBA so how would they ever beat an NBA team smh