{"id":7331,"date":"2025-09-15T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-world-champions-debate-is-the-nba-title-misnamed\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:00:25","slug":"the-world-champions-debate-is-the-nba-title-misnamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-world-champions-debate-is-the-nba-title-misnamed\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;World Champions&#8221; debate: Is the NBA title misnamed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><video src=\"https:\/\/video.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-09-13\/The-World-Champions-debate-Is-the-NBA-title-misnamed--1GCUK5l1OOQ\/video\/wu_1j50932po16bqhtvm9t1od37qpa\/wu_1j50932po16bqhtvm9t1od37qpa.m3u8\" poster=\"https:\/\/video.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-09-13\/The-World-Champions-debate-Is-the-NBA-title-misnamed--1GCUK5l1OOQ\/video\/wu_1j50932po16bqhtvm9t1od37qpa\/wu_1j50932po16bqhtvm9t1od37qpa.jpg\"><\/video>\n<p>On this episode of Sideline Story, we dive into the EuroBasket 2025 and the fiery comments from T&uuml;rkiye coach Ergin Ataman that sparked a global debate, as he challenged the NBA&rsquo;s right to call its winners &ldquo;World Champions.&rdquo; We break down this contentious issue, asking if the title is deserved or presumptuous. We also analyze Luka Doncic&rsquo;s stellar form, Germany&rsquo;s rise led by Dennis Schroder, and the shocking early exits of pre-tournament favorites France and Serbia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>The &ldquo;World Champions&rdquo; debate: Is the NBA title misnamed?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode of Sideline Story, we dive into the EuroBasket 2025 and the fiery comments from T&uuml;rkiye coach Ergin Ataman that sparked a global debate, as he challenged the NBA&rsquo;s right to call its winners &ldquo;World Champions.&rdquo; We break down this contentious issue, asking if the title is deserved or presumptuous. We also analyze&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-world-champions-debate-is-the-nba-title-misnamed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The &#8220;World Champions&#8221; debate: Is the NBA title misnamed?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}