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The Sony stock thing was a coincidence, but damn if it wasn't a funny coincidence.

 

Colbert <3

 

And the band originating this philosophical puzzle is called 'One Direction' (often mis-spoken in my house as 'One Dimension'). Math irony. It makes a boy band's hair float sideways.

 

Because we crush the Olympics Nearly every single time they roll around? We had a streak of bad runs in FIBA from the mid 90s to the early 2000s, but that's over. The 2004 Olympics were a shame. The '72 Olympics were a major controversy (So bad the American team REFUSED their silver medals), and 88 was the last 'college' team. But most of the time we absolutely destroy.

Across four separate international tournaments:

Gold: 32.
Silver: 8.
Bronze: 8.

That's why we call ourselves the World Champions. Generally we are. You can be all snobbish about cricket, soccer, and Rugby all you want...But in basketball? Don't even try.

 

That's a horrible argument. You're talking national teams, while it's the NBA winners that call themselves world champions, and they are made up of more than just Americans.

So it's oranges and apples.

 

Generally, the players in the NBA from different countries go play for their home country in the Olympics, rather than the US team.

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They play on American teams (where the vast majority of players ARE American) ran by American Coaches, in the American league.

Oh, and our national teams are generally composed of pro players. At least since 88 they have been.

It's generally admitted on the international scene, in sports, that the USA is the best country in the world when it comes to Basketball. Now and again we lose or have a bad streak, but when it comes to highest potential for play? USA > All and we've shown it. Repeatedly.

Is it cockiness and hubris? Sure. But it's pretty well earned cockiness and hubris.

 

You mean football, of course.

 

So? The NBA winners call themselves world champions while they only compete with other NBA teams. So it's a title they don't actually earn.

Saying that it's earned because the American national team usually beats the other world teams doesn't make much sense.

 

Blame it on the Brits, they gave us the word Soccer.

 

This is not a basketball thread, it's not an olympics thread, it's not even a multicultural linguistics exchange thread. It's a funny pictures thread. I don't want to read more than a sentence within the confines of this thread unless it's on a picture. Let's agree to be dicks in another thread and move on please. /hypocrisy

My contribution: House before he was house:

http://imgur.com/gallery/pes8d

It's a gallery so I'm unsure how to properly link.