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    Roger Biebert

    Member since 01/23/2023.

    1,025 posts. Last post 1 day ago.
    2 years ago 09/14/2023 11:41am EDT
    re: arunnerinwa

    arunnerinwa wrote:

    The one that gets me is the Crossfit people claiming they're "fittest in the world." I figure I could outrun some of them (and I'm over 40), and even if you accept their definition of fitness, their membership is so limited. The vast majority of competitors are from a few white English-speaking countries.

    When you win the Tour de France, you don't even get described as the best cyclist in the world.

    I'm ok with crossfit people saying they are the fittest in the world. I'd also be ok with someone self-proclaiming they are the best cyclist in the world if they won the tour, and am ok when Kobe Bryant would call himself the best basketball player in the world. Those terms and beliefs are all subjective. Heck, I'd be ok with Tyreek Hill calling himself the fastest in the world, but am not ok with him calling himself the 100m world champion. "World Champion" in my mind is not a subjective term.

  • wav3

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 11:50am EDT
    re: rojo

    Giannis is a bum who can't shoot, and he only has a ring because he injured Kyrie Irving on purpose. I just hope he's brave enough to show up for Greece next summer in Paris so Team USA can give him the beatdown he deserves.

  • Worlds Fittest Man

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 11:51am EDT
    re: arunnerinwa

    arunnerinwa wrote:

    The one that gets me is the Crossfit people claiming they're "fittest in the world." I figure I could outrun some of them (and I'm over 40), and even if you accept their definition of fitness, their membership is so limited. The vast majority of competitors are from a few white English-speaking countries.

    When you win the Tour de France, you don't even get described as the best cyclist in the world.

    Yes, I think the first CrossFit games was a triathlon and their performance was dismal in all three disciplines. And they got to use fins to swim!

    What everyone forgets is that “fitness” as a term is only meaningful relative to a goal. You can have running fitness, climbing fitness, lifting fitness, etc. and unless their goals are the same you can’t really compare two people’s fitness

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    Runner10287

    Member since 10/19/2017.

    3,087 posts. Last post 2 years ago.
    2 years ago 09/14/2023 12:47pm EDT
    re: brooklyn trainspotters

    brooklyn trainspotters wrote:

    If Giannis is having trouble accepting that the USA is the greatest nation on this planet he can always buy out his contract, pack his bags and fly back to Greece South Macedonia.

    We don't need no haters tearing down the great institution that is the NBA. If I was a team owner I'd demand 'no-slander' clauses in all future contracts.

    America. Oldest and greatest country in the world.

  • ComeonMannnn

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 1:07pm EDT
    re: brooklyn trainspotters

    brooklyn trainspotters wrote:

    If Giannis is having trouble accepting that the USA is the greatest nation on this planet he can always buy out his contract, pack his bags and fly back to Greece South Macedonia.

    We don't need no haters tearing down the great institution that is the NBA. If I was a team owner I'd demand 'no-slander' clauses in all future contracts.

    Lol you sound like one of those people who only buys American made products. Giannis has won 2 MVPs, a DPOY and a finals MVP...he can say whatever he wants about the NBA. He's also better at basketball than literally every single American, so I can't imagine he cares one bit (in fact, him, Jokic and Embiid are the 3 best basketball players on the planet right now/the last 3 guys to win MVP, and none of them are American).

  • wannabepro25

    Member since 04/23/2021.

    1,790 posts. Last post 6 days ago.
    2 years ago 09/14/2023 1:17pm EDT
    re: ComeonMannnn

    When NBA media day comes, you know the media is gonna ask Lebron, KD and all the other super stars about Noah Lyles’s comments.

  • BronRider667

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 1:41pm EDT
    re: rojo

    Giannis and Lyles are both morons nba is the most competitive basketball league in the world and Lyles is salty he cant hoop

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    trackfangirl

    Member since 02/22/2023.

    427 posts. Last post 1 week ago.
    2 years ago 09/14/2023 1:41pm EDT
    re: rojo

    Giannis Antetokounmpo is awesome, smart, passionate and a great, great athlete, live him <3

  • Hisie seems dumb

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 7:33pm EDT
    re: Hisie

    Hisie wrote:

    Hisie is lonely wrote:

    Lyles mentioned the NBA specifically in his comment. Giannis is addressing the comment that was directed at the league he represents. He doesn't need to attack other leagues to get his point across. That's not ignorance, that's intelligent communication.

    1. You could probably learn some lessons from him.

    2. An NBA superstar defends the comment made by a track athlete, on a running-based message board, and the basketball playing is getting criticized? Some people are just desperate to create hate.

    Giannis said “I don’t think in any other sport you’re called the world champions.”
    I pointed out that many other sports have world champions. It is sad they you’re not able to understand how Giannis sounds ignorant, probably because you and he share this trait.

    You are either deliberately misunderstanding, or displaying a spectrum-like inability to comprehend basic language.

    OBVIOUSLY we all know that sports with legitimate world championships have legitimate world champions.

    OBVIOUSLY what Giannis is saying is "I don’t think in any other sport [the winners of a single league are] called the world champions.”

    And he's right.

    For truly slow people like you, he even helpfully provides the example of soccer, in which the world's best league doesn't call its winners "world champions."

    Get it?

  • Hisie

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 7:50pm EDT
    re: Hisie seems dumb

    Hisie seems dumb wrote:

    Hisie wrote:

    Giannis said “I don’t think in any other sport you’re called the world champions.”
    I pointed out that many other sports have world champions. It is sad they you’re not able to understand how Giannis sounds ignorant, probably because you and he share this trait.

    You are either deliberately misunderstanding, or displaying a spectrum-like inability to comprehend basic language.

    OBVIOUSLY we all know that sports with legitimate world championships have legitimate world champions.

    OBVIOUSLY what Giannis is saying is "I don’t think in any other sport [the winners of a single league are] called the world champions.”

    And he's right.

    For truly slow people like you, he even helpfully provides the example of soccer, in which the world's best league doesn't call its winners "world champions."

    Get it?

    Giannis possibly has a low IQ. He says “I don’t think in any other sport you’re called the world champions.”’WTF? Many other sports have world champions. You obviously have a low IQ as you are struggling with this. So if he is trying to say something else, he failed badly, and you and he are both inarticulate.

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    El Keniano

    Member since 08/18/2015.

    9,844 posts. Last post 1 week ago.
    2 years ago 09/14/2023 9:01pm EDT
    re: JohnR

    JohnR wrote:

    El Keniano wrote:

    Interesting that Giannis self-identies as more Nigerian and African than Greek even though he was born in Greece and represents them.

    One, that's not true. He has consistently said that he is both. Two, that topic has nothing whatsoever to do with this conversation.

    Did you even listen to the whole podcast? He talks about it at length.

    This post was edited 2 minutes after it was posted.

  • IS THIS A SPORT

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/14/2023 9:56pm EDT
    re: El Keniano

    NAME ME A BASEKTBALL LEAGUE BETTER THAN THE NBA,HARDER TO WIN THE NBA TITLE, AND THAT PAYS MORE- THERE IS NONE....ALL PLAYERS COME TO NBA TO MAKE NAME FOR THEMSELVES- UNLIKE ANY OTHER SPORT.

    GIANNIS LIKE YAO MING BEFORE AND WEMBY NOW CAN AMASS MASSIVE NUMBERS OVERSEAS BUT NOBODY CARES UNLESS ITS IN NBA.

  • Hisie seems dumb

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/15/2023 12:35am EDT
    re: Hisie

    Hisie wrote:

    Hisie seems dumb wrote:

    You are either deliberately misunderstanding, or displaying a spectrum-like inability to comprehend basic language.

    OBVIOUSLY we all know that sports with legitimate world championships have legitimate world champions.

    OBVIOUSLY what Giannis is saying is "I don’t think in any other sport [the winners of a single league are] called the world champions.”

    And he's right.

    For truly slow people like you, he even helpfully provides the example of soccer, in which the world's best league doesn't call its winners "world champions."

    Get it?

    Giannis possibly has a low IQ. He says “I don’t think in any other sport you’re called the world champions.”’WTF? Many other sports have world champions. You obviously have a low IQ as you are struggling with this. So if he is trying to say something else, he failed badly, and you and he are both inarticulate.

    Hahahahahaha. You are very unintelligent. But sure, go for another -50 downvoted post.

  • A Joke

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/15/2023 9:04am EDT
    re: rojo

    Basically he is trying to say nicely: USA is not the center of the world. Never was, never will be. Some Americans know that, most dont.

  • Hisie seems dumb

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 09/15/2023 12:58pm EDT
    re: A Joke

    A Joke wrote:

    Basically he is trying to say nicely: USA is not the center of the world. Never was, never will be. Some Americans know that, most dont.

    Hisle doesn't.

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