Comments on: Battle For Sporting Supremacy: Basketball v Football (Fútbol, Soccer, Fußball, etc.)

By: Ali B

Ali B — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:48:09 +0000

I think the words “Basketball” and “Soccer” need to switch places in the first paragraph. plus, Futbol is catching on in North America, which is a big deal too.

By: christian

christian — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:57:29 +0000

True influx started with Dirk? No, no, no. Drazen Petrovic, Sarunas Marciulionis, Detlef Schrempf, Arvydas Sabonis, Vlade Divac, Carl Herrera, Toni Kukoc, Dikembe Mutombo, and Dino Radja were just some of the many foreigners to make an impact on the NBA before Nowitzki. In fact, I’d say Marciulionis, Petrovic, Divac, and Kukoc were much more instrumental and without them, Nowitzki would not be playing in the NBA.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:48:26 +0000

Not teleportation. Virgin Galactic. When Richard Branson launches a SpaceShipThree that can transport an entire basketball team from Sydney to London in two hours, the game will change.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:46:35 +0000

Whether Basketball has been eclipsed by Soccer?

Thats a really stupid statement.

Besides Basketball is by far the most boring sport major sport on the planet. I wish more people would give ice hockey a shot, by far the most athletically demanding and the most exciting sport on the planet. Oh well.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:37:45 +0000

ive been sayin that for years….nba teams do go to europe and “practice” with european teams…but international club competition would be good to see…can you imagine a european team beating the lakers? cavs?….i would like to see that

By: Jeremy Brahm

Jeremy Brahm — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:34:56 +0000

Jon, the NBA did have the McDonald’s Championship in the past which had the NBA play leading European teams. They never lost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald’s_Championship

Also the FIBA (the basketball version of FIFA) is creating a World Club Cup in 2010, which the NBA might participate in 2011.

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:06:45 +0000

not bashing basketball, but the idea that simply because there are now other countries besides the US that find basketball popular, and that somewhere in the world there are players talented enough to play in the NBA, and that this justifies the argument that the NBA is as big a global sport as Soccer/futbol/football/calcio… ludi”chris” :)

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:41:18 +0000

I think it would be unreasonable for teams to travel to other continents for regular league games. It would be interesting to see a Champions League-style competition open up between top NBA clubs and other top club teams from around the world.