Team USA‘s loss in the 2023 FIBA World Cup has had a predictable effect, and its potential impact on the NBA is on people’s minds after the US National Team failed to medal. Was this loss — as bad as it was for the United States — actually a good thing for the wider basketball world and the NBA in particular?
Team USA’s loss in the FIBA World Cup is attributed to sending a less-than-A-list team, resulting in a defeat to the German National Team and then again to the Canadian National Team in the third-place game and a predictable call-to-arms from the league’s best American players.
Buy Celtics TicketsTo talk over what the loss might mean for the league, Team USA, and basketball writ large, the hosts of the eponymous CLNS Media “Bob Ryan, Jeff Goodman, and Gary Tanguay” podcast sans Goodman got together to hash it out on a recent episode.
Check out the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about the glaring US loss.
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