>Speaking after the U.S. men's basketball team won a third straight gold medal with a rout of Serbia, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said other countries need to find a way to be more competitive.
>"I'm not going to be making excuses for anyone about our [dominance]," Colangelo said. "Someone said to me [after the game], one of the officials said to me, 'You know next time you play, you ought to play with four.' And I said, 'No, maybe the other teams better get their act together and compete.'"
>Mike Krzyzewski steps down as coach after 76 straight international wins and an 88-1 record.
Michael Edwards
Hardly any countries outside US care about basketball
Luke Ramirez
hardly any countries care about any of the olympic sports.
Jayden Campbell
America is the only place with a huge professional basketball league and college basketball
Luis Green
>hardly any countries
spain france australia serbia russia lithuania italy argentina brazil
great Shitian is about the only place that doesnt care
Nathan Cooper
maybe if you let us import some of your niggers then maybe we would try harder
Levi Clark
>America is the only place with a huge professional basketball league It's another bongs confirm how retarded they are episode everyone! Basketball is huge worldwide and is the second most popular sport in most developed countries. Spain, Italy, China, Lithuania, Russia, etc.
Christian Jones
we dont care tho
Julian Clark
lmao
Connor Hill
we dont care tho
Grayson Rivera
lmao
Cameron Peterson
They don't have anything like the NBA though. Everyone in Spain watches football, maybe a few fans will watch the basketball branch of the football team if the football team isn't playing, but only America treats basketball as a major sport.
Blake Price
That's like saying CFL is the second biggest professional gridiron league, though. It may be second most popular, but it's a very, very distant second.
Oliver Jones
>Mike "Krzyzewski" >needing a foreign coach to succeed >'lets just call him "Coach K" and pretend he's really american'
Juan Martinez
Revenue (in millions of €)
Liga ACB: 107 NBA: 4,730
So USA basketball is about 45 times more lucrative
Leo Rodriguez
Basketball is the sport with the most federated people here. Football is the most popular by far,but lots of people play and watch basketball. Real Madrid is probably the biggest basketball european team
Asher Young
>Born: February 13, 1947 (age 69), Chicago, IL
unplug your router
Lucas Campbell
How big are they compared to an NBA team?
Jonathan Parker
we dont care tho
Mason Clark
>45 times more lucrative The NFL's revenue is 13 billion dollars and American football is followed by fewer people than football. The US just has is just the biggest consumer in the world by a long shot
William Torres
lmao are people in this thread really arguing that countries are on the same level as the US? we have 100x the NBA-level players, more money pumped into the sport than probably every other country combined, and we actually care about it a lot it should be considered a national embarassment if we ever lose a game
Jordan Richardson
We don't care tho. The other sport that we do, there wer 2 golds for >us.
Jeremiah Garcia
There's no reason to send pros to Olympics.
Hockey does this shit too but at least the NHL owners put up a bit of a fight.
Olympics are better when it's simple amateur competition.
Eli Scott
>White Americans of European heritage bragging about how a bunch of blacks are beating White Europeans
What the fuck is wrong with Americucks? They literally worship niggers.
Ethan King
>How big are they compared to an NBA team? Small. It is like comparing an Argie or Brazilian team with an European one. Still we have a solid basketball tradition
Evan Williams
the players on the court do. they should git gud.
Elijah Hughes
Basketball is a shit sport desu.
Anthony Ward
Yeah guys, all you have to do is breed giganiggers for two centuries and then pay them billions of dollars.
Here's a thought, how about making it an amateur-only competition.
Gavin Bell
>chairman Jerry Colangelo said other countries need to find a way to be more competitive. No other country has as many doped niggers and 350 million population. A EU team could probably give US a run for their money.
Jacob Walker
No shit, the NBA is gigantic and also has plenty of international players in it. You're still downplaying it.. "a few fans" There's no question that soccer is the absolute tops in these places, but basketball does not lack any support.
No it's not. At all. You're comparing a specific league in a specific country and putting it up against the NFL in how it's viewed worldwide. I'm specifically talking about a basketball leagues popularity within it's own country. i.e. the popularity of Liga ACB in Spain or Lega Basket in Italy
Ryder Cook
>be american >lose a basketball match >refuse to accept the silver medal stay mad forever losers of Munich
Nathan Scott
>the last country that beat them was based Greece
Carter Lewis
It does the NBA had to come and give money to try to make our league a bit bigger
Asher Nguyen
Even if Yuro countries did love basketball as much as USA does, they'd still get BTFO since we have 4x more people than even the larger countries there. Really anything USA decides to really try for, they BTFO the world. Like athletics, swimming, women's gymnastics. Only exception is this year's women's soccer team which choked.
Jaxson Adams
Colangelo is such a slimy bastard
Isaiah Martin
we dont care tho
Jace Long
"After an inbound pass was blocked and the US won by 50 to 49, an Olympic official (Renato William Jones) sitting in the stands overturned the referees and demanded the Soviet team be granted another chance and two seconds were added to the clock. The shot made by the Soviets missed and the American Team began to celebrate, but the official demanded a third try be permitted. On the third attempt the Soviet team made the winning basket." Renato Jones - "He was perhaps most widely known for his decision at the 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final. The United States appeared to have defeated the Soviet Union 50-49 for an unprecedented eighth straight gold medal. However, Jones came out of the stands and ordered the time clock technician to put three seconds back on the game clock. The ruling allowed the Soviet team to score a final basket and win 51-50. He was controversially quoted later as saying "The Americans have to learn how to lose, even when they think they are right." Jones later conceded that he had no authority to make a ruling during a game. However, his power over amateur basketball was such that the technician complied." That was a screw job of epic proportions.
Jackson Lee
wow, was he bankrolled by the Soviets or something?
Wyatt Lopez
either that or he really wanted the US to lose to help grow the game in Europe.
Joshua Sanders
>Basketball is huge worldwide and is the second most popular sport in most developed countries. Spain, Italy, China, Lithuania, Russia, etc. LOL, nope. In Soviet Russia #1 - Hockey; #2 - football (but without success); #3 - valleyball; #4 - tennis ... shit, urine, basketball, baseball, golf. For example, in USSR the best basketball comand were Žalgiris from Lithuania - ex-soviet republic.
Michael Cook
>let me tell you about your country
Yes, it lack support.
Brody Murphy
USA could try and devout all their resorces to Table Tennis and China would still win easily by virtue that the population actualy plays this shit.
Landon King
>Basketball is huge worldwide >Young game from US >is the second most popular sport In yours wet dreams.
Nolan Barnes
Yeah Australian professional basketballers get paid about as much as school teachers.. our national basketball league is a joke that isn't even televised.
That's how much we care about your shitty sport.
Grayson Torres
>Hockey does this shit too but at least the NHL owners put up a bit of a fight. Hockey needs pros in the Olympics
you know how bullshit it was before pros?
it was a snorefest , pros in Olympic hockey is the greatest thing to happen
pros in basketball only happened because our college kids sucked ass during the 80s
Logan Ward
a lot of countries have a sport they are dominant in
you have to consider that in places like China they don't grow up playing basketball in the streets just like they probably are not huge on ping pong or whateveer the fuck in the USA
Angel Morgan
Iktf
Matthew Watson
>Spain, Italy, China, Lithuania, Russia >developed countries
Kevin Robinson
>US Men's national basketball team coach
Is this the easiest job in the world?
Jordan Peterson
the Olympics should be the best athletes in the world in their respected events.
Eli Collins
In the USSR, the Communist Party forced to play basketball, to "catch up and overtake America". It is not interesting to anyone still. In the yards are hockey pitches and football gate, ring stands less and kids-level.
Bentley Price
Why don't you actually git gud at a sport that actually matters like football, Sharty McSharter?
Kayden Rogers
But we are good at football. We've won the super bowl 50 years in a row.
Jace Scott
t b h I've watched both world cups for some times now, and the women's cup has consistently been more entertaining.
Brandon Jones
Well yeah he is right, you cant play below your level just because its unfair for the rest, people want to get better they should strnghten their game, make it more attractive for the nba to import players from your country putting them on the top level of basketball just as in soccer,the top players from latinamerican and african NT play in european leagues, hence top playes of basketball NT should come from the nba/ncaa, quite a few players of the nba are already in the olympics representing their countries, now its all about increasing those numbers
Henry Moore
It only proves that basketball is not so popular, as you suppose.
Sebastian Hall
Also its about time theres Professional boxing at the olympics
David Richardson
>maybe if you let us import some of your niggers then maybe we would try harder Import ALL OF THEM, please, we beg of you.
Parker Edwards
How many boatloads you want?
Samuel Peterson
top bantz
Christopher White
Well it dosent need to be all that popular for a country to be good at it, our 3 stronger competitions in the olympics are diving, boxing and taekwondo, although México is not on "China at table tennis" levels of domination at neither its where the country fairs resonably good, particularly taekwondo consideering its short time as an olympic sport and aint no one throwing a carne asada to get togheter with his bros to watch it on the weekends or something