Kevin Durant says the rest of the world has not caught up to USA basketball 👀
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How yall mad for him sticking up for his country 😂😂😂 internet is wild
Weirdest mfs ever
😂😂EXACTLY THEY CRAZY and be played with them
he didnt stick up for his country. he told his truth.
@ shut yo wanna be political correct ass up
Undefeated smh
USA 350M people
Serbia 7M people
WC gold medals:
Serbia/Yugoslavia 5
USA 5
What are you talking about?
@@RastkoGačević-y8f so you not gonna add context of when the NBA players couldnt compete? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@allanbrito4645 dude u have cities with more population than the whole serbia.
@@RastkoGačević-y8f 1. Our college players were competing against 26 year old men. 2. Wasn’t Yugoslavia like 6 countries? So basically you need 6 countries to be able to compete and that was like 30 years ago 🤣🤣 3. The U.S. beat Serbia three times easily most recently 4. Y’all always have been sore losers who blame the West and low population for your misfortunes. Just admit the U.S. has great players brother.
Cope with your 💩 medal
U guys dont even play vs our best 😂😂😂😂
Here comes all the foreigners mad that KD bigging up USA basketball . That entire Olympics proved how much European fans have so much disdain for USA nba players.
@@kemlloyd5192 wise words of gilbert arenas “yea we shut that dumb shit up”
"That entire Olympics proved how much European fans have so much disdain for USA nba players"
How so? I would be willing to bet the ratings for the basketball olympics were much higher precisely because the biggest USA NBA stars were there.
@@kemlloyd5192 Facts
@@perotal the bigggest NBA Stars were in the Olympics because of the insult that we got from the European fan base and other fan bases of he world saying that USA basketball is no longer on top. This started with bitch ass Noah Lyles talking shit about USA basketball, then the various trolls mocking the NBA cuz the USA 3rd string lost in the FIBA tornament the previous year.
New York rappers used to say the same thing about hiphop and fashion… delusion at its finest
Dubuque speaks! 🙄🙄
And whose at the top of the greatest all time list 😂 HOV/BIG every rapper in the game influenced by Fab and A$AP mob ya goofies be chatting
@@travisdope what does this have to do with in basketball...??? Make it make sense, you nonsense.
USA is like a continent. You have to assess it against "Team Europe", including Joker, Luka, Giannis, Wemby, Avidija, Sabonis, Porzingis, Sengun, Wagner, Schroeder, Bogdanovic
@@davidbg1696 That's the between us and you nonsense. Canada, China and Russia are all bigger than us, while even Jamaica, with only 2.8 million people, beats us in sprinting in track and field. We don't make excuses but, make our selves accountable in our performances. That is the difference between us and you ridiculous deluded peasant nonsense.
KD is right actually.
Our youth USA teams have been crushing the other international kids.
Theres a reason for that. International teams especially the European coaches harp on team drills and fundamentals and they practice way more than they play. They play way fewer games than Americans do and aren't allowed to hone in on their individual skills till much later in their career. For example, Jaku from Lithuania was getting crushed by American talent but as he grew older in the system, he was allowed to move to Barcelona to work on his individual skillset before moving to Illinois.
If Victor never fouled out, France was beating that Chet led u19 American team. 16 year old Wemby led French team was one of few teams that I saw give actual fits to Team USA. You dont understand how much Kenny Lofton saved team USA. And Team USA by some was considered the underdog against the Wemby-led French team. Once Nathan Soliman, Hugo Yigma, and Aaron Towo get more mature, they could very well give youth level Team USA problems. But Team USA is loaded with dawgs currently but idk if they have enough of the KD, Curry, LeBron talent to take on a Wemby led French golden generation.
We will continue to do that, since 2010 you cant even name 5 generational talented players from each country. Theres not multiple giannis’s on greece team, theres not multiple jokic’s in serbia, just like france and slovenia. You know how many talented American players were bred since 2010. Like cmon bro
@@SuperYoungjb A wemby led generation? Alex sarr sucks, and so does Zaccharie Risacher. You even heard zaccharie say “when i came here, i didnt feel athletic anymore”. That should tell you everything you need to know…. Cmon man France second and third leading scorers behind wemby are two 32 yr olds…
Crushing not even the word down right obliterating 😂
Tell me names of the other international kids!You have no idea but you know USA will crush them?!
Basketball was invented in Canada, by James Naismith... CANADA bruh 😂
#🍁
Half truth. He invented it after moving to the states.
While he was living in America 😂
Well Durant is ignorant and arrogant. 1/4 of the NBA players today are non-americas. The top 5 NBA players right now are also non-Americans. The last 6 MVP awards went to non-americans (and it will not change any time soon). Yes Americans have the numbers but not the top talent. Also he mentioned that Luka was inspired by NBA players but he mentioned in ESPN a couple years ago his icon was a Greek player, Kill Bill!
This conversation would have some meaning only if team U. S. A played against team Europe. USA is 400 m people which means a huge pool of potential players, comparing ourself to Serbia, or Greece or Slovenia is just for laughs
Thank you
I mean the Top 5 players in the NBA (Jokic, Giannis, Shai, Luka, Embiid) aren't from the US. But those are just individual players ofc, the USA are a basketball nation so it ain't surprising that they have the depth when it comes to national tournaments.
You not taking into account they’re all from different countries and the Olympics is country vs country not USA vs World so when you take into account that aspect these countries have a LONG way to go to even compete with our bench.
@innerstandtruth5813 nah France, Germany and Serbia would absolutely smack that USA bench
@@kjjr3270 you do realize that if we actually had the guys that should’ve been on the team like Kyrie, Jalen brown, Jalen Brunson, healthy kawhi, or Donovan Mitchell. Shit KD and Jason Tatum were coming off the bench. This take just lets me know you are frfr a casual
After those 5 the talent starts to drop dramatically compared to the US
Exactly
This makes Manu’s win even more legendary. Dude beat Team USA.
Steph, KD and Bron won't play in the next Olympics we talk then.
We still gonna win gold these other countries never stand a chance lmao
@@akumicobain without steph, kd and bron the young Americans couldn’t even beat Lithuania in the World Cup LMAO
@ without the oldest players on the team💀 bringing up FIBA is like brining up in season tournament lil bro
@@akumicobainI disagree to that Serbia, France, Canada, Greece, Slovenia, and Germany have all gotten better. Without Bron and KD on the USA roster I would just have to see it to believe it
@@evan6080 gotten better by what sense lmao the gold medal discrepancy is enough proof they’ll never be able to compete and that’s okay. USA will never compete with some countries in a lot of sports
Anybody that thinks the world is catching up look at our 19U,17U scores shit genuinely disgusting. We would get more comp letting our teens play up an age group
We don’t even really send our best team. It’s more to it than our best talent…& our team needs to be together for longer than a few months.
The international players are dominating the league right now. Tf he talking about?
They’re all from separate countries, all our greats represent for us. Just listen to what he’s saying again and you’ll understand, he’s not saying that Europe doesn’t have players it’s just they aren’t all from the same country like our stars.
Real American statement from a real American🤣 yall keep acting like yall r the best in the world at everything
In basketball they are. Hes acting like that or its not a reality? What country is even close to the US right now in basketball?
American culture has influenced the entire world. sir.
Agree. The last 6 MVPs? Foreigners.
Talent wise, individually? USA is ahead, but basketball IQ, the world has certainly caught up. Divac, Sabonis (the elder), Petrovic, Luka, Jokic are bigger guys who can all shoot and pass. USA youth can definitely learn from that.
@@FlipFreedom1997 there are buildings in most European cities older than America is.. yes USA has a huge influence but it will fade out. Once the ottoman empire was huge once aswell..
Recently France also beat USA twice: 2019 FIBA WC and 2021 Olympics. Plus Germany in 2023 FIBA WC. Don't forget about that!
Additionally, we definitely know what being a pro means here in Europe. Actually, guys like Luka or Victor were pros at a relatively young age competing with adults! We're talking 16 yo kids. What are talking about fool?!
They lost in the FIBA world cup, and they almost lost in the Olympics. KD is delusional.
You almost lost to South Sudan. You should learn and humble a little bit. Last FIBA you were 6th. What y'all talking about? Voluntary ignorance.
🙄
Almost lost u see what you said so you should shut up we the best been it and gone always be it!
@@JoJo-ub5ti U didn’t read the part when you were 6th in the last cup; right? As i said voluntary ignorance. And 2004 never happened
But everybody knows! Almost doesn’t COUNT 😂😂😂😂
Dat 6th place was da austin reaves team wasnt it
KDs point doesn't really make sense. Serbia, Slovenia, Greece, France combined population is under 100 million vs 330 million from USA.
And you could have
Doncic
Bogdanovic
Giannis
Wemby
Jokic
That team would wipe the floor with team USA
You gotta respect KD, he’s stamped!
You think
@@mattjones6323 nah we know…
Joker laughs 😂 JOKER alone, against all star players + Embiid 😂
Laughing with a loss never winning shit for that shit country 😂
💩medalist
@@IgorMaric-n1i how did you like the way Embiid dunked so easily over your overrated player....????
with the help of the judges, they robbed Serbia, and he has no shame in talking like this
Those refs were too busy being starstruck 🤩
Serbia wouldn’t have beat our FIBA team 💩
@@ivanradic4912 I guess Chef Curry, that was your daddy, didn't put you to bed like a good father when he said night night....???? Keep deluding yourself , you nonsense peasant nonsense. You come from a nonsense peasant country that has a GDP of 76 billion USD, a third of what new York City spends just on education. You nonsense just run your mouths and it's so funny.
Kd don't care about nothing but basketball
Not in quantity yes in quality
I really like his confidence and he has the skills to back it up though whether we like it or not, international teams are really catching up and USA is only winning a tiny margin compared decades ago.
I like when kd speaks
Remember the world cup when 3 players didn't play for usa (kd, lebron, steph)
Got to remember it was Arvydas Sabonis the reason they started the dream team! The world already did caught up you had Hakeem,dirk,turkgolu,Steve nash,manu,Tony Parker,Mutumbo, pau gasol and others as well!
USA 🇺🇸 is shutting on its the rest of the world in basketball 🏀
KD is right
there are not hundreds of good players in the US, stop it Kevin
This why I love KD. 😤
Usually though when we say USA compared to the rest of the world they're saying the rest of the world as a whole. He's bringing up France beat us once, etc. but the argument was always USA vs. everyone else, and I think it's much closer than he thinks. Hell, right away he didn't want to count Canada.
Its still not that close because most Canadians go to school in America. Hell, Shai was BORN in Canada but played High School and College in Tennessee and Kentucky respectively. Most (with me giving my self room to make an error) times if not all players that want to make the NBA immerse themselves in the American system and if you look at the youth players, all most all of the next up and comers are American. A few great foreigners in a SEA of Americans makes those foreigners special but still exceptions to the rule.
@@Mag.Media_ Yeah, almost all Canadian players that have a chance at the league go to private high school academies in the States. Jamal Murray is one of the only exceptions. Still, its nice to see how much the game has grown here since I was a kid. There were few opportunities to play here compared to now.
Most of these international players come to the US and perfect their game. A lot of them played in the NCAA or the NBA.
Other countries will never be better than the U.S. in basketball...we are and will always be the standard
Kd the goat 🐐
I'm an American and the USA has the best basketball players by far. Doesnt mean an united clujtry can't beat us in an exhibition match. But one thing he is wrong about is this, basketball was created in Canada not the US!
Bro we got ZBo, TA, and KD on the same pod talkin ball 💯💪🏿. We gotta get back to givin the legends their flowers while they can smell them, this dope for hoops 💯‼️
yep using 3 players
cause Kevin Durant don’t realize WE 300 million!!!
These countries are smaller than Virginia
KD is 100% correct
Good conversation
USA basketball all day everyday we run this shit
This is why America is on a decline, arrogance is out the roof.
Your face is on the decline
@@Josefernandez35563 100%. The other comment it’s proof.
You want America to be on the decline. That’s different from the actual truth. Your entitled hate is why you have no clue what you’re talking about.
America is on decline because of immigrants. Trump fixing that tho
Skills matter more than arrogance
Tier 1 USA players will most of the time win, which is like 12 players, once you get to Tier 2 the Europeans win
Once the Olympics comes around. USA wins
It took 4 mvps, a team full of Allstars to beat Joker!
Stop it. They beat them 3 times in 2 weeks. Twice by 20+ points.
Yeah a 40 year old and two 36 year olds. Do you even hear yourself?
😂 if he the best why does it matter they don’t have another joker over there that’s sad
+ enormous help from referees.
@ you tell yourself that to deal with the disappointment. Always blaming the west or referees for LOSING 🤣🤣… Stephen Curry shot the ball lights out. Serbia gave them all they had and it still wasn’t enough. Just deal with the truth.
FIBA teams limit the amount of Americans you can have on your team because we’re so good. People gotta cut it out, we got it in terms of depth of talent
Kinda but it's more so they can develop their own talent instead of just importing everything
Euroleague and Eurocup teams don't. I know Germany changed their rules right before the World Cup win in order to grow the sport amongst their citizens. Asian countries thou have that rule. They are very strict with American players. Some Asian leagues limit it to where only 1 American born player is allowed to be on the court. Thats why many Americans drop their American passport and gain citizenship from another country to evade the rule. But the European teams sans Germany doesnt limit the amount of american players. Spain ACB. I think has a 3 American player limit. But Like Germany, Spain wants to heavily develop their homegrown talent.
Not because you are so good but because you are idiots!
Wtf are you on about? A US citizen shouldn't play for another country. That has nothing to do with limits.
Yall act like team USA don’t prove it every Olympics even our c team goes deep in the tournament 😪
He speaking facts, we got best players in world.. when u ask who best NBA player ever.. it never no foreign player
Top 5 nba Players rn aren‘t even american. What are you Talking about?
KD fights fans and podcasts harder than Serbia or other players lol
Barkley would bust him too
USA 🇺🇸 !!!!!!
Where all these haters comefrom?? Bruh if you don't like what's been said why are you here log off press eject go to sleep
They always want to take what we create from us, you got 3 good euro players and now the world has caught up, please
Definitely not. They just have the 5 best players and the best young player..
KD hurting feelings with these statements 😂😂😂
Doped Durant says something...?!?!?
I heard no lies…
3:35 shots fired. Where you at Chuck? Perk? Steven A?
Kevin, get your facts straight. I'm not going to speak about the other international players, but Manu grew up and developed in a basketball culture heavily influenced by the Balkan school. Ever since the legendary Ranko Žeravica set foot in Argentina, every coach fell in love with the Serbian philosophy of the game. Granted, Manu had an MJ poster and definitely watched the NBA, but that's that. You may know your NBA stuff, but your understanding of the global game culture is short-sighted.
Must respect KD
Olympic kd crazy work
Ngl i liked vocal kd … quiet kd was adolescent
To those in the comments who cares if the games were close 😂 THEY LOST
We didn't even make the World Cup Final in 2019 or 2023. . Olympics, we almost lost to S Sudan... Barely beat Serbia or France when we have 370MM people and Serbia is 6.6MM people. S Sudan is a new country with only 11MM people and only 1 indoor gym. Hell, France is only 70MM people. When you don't know how to play team ball and play defense together, you can be beat by a lot of teams.
The question was simple. Is the world catching up? The answer is also simple. Yes. Just see the results. USA is still the best by far, just not that far as in the past. KD uses arguments that have nothing to do with the question.
people not watching cause KD loves his opponent and cries about fans
People pay to watch A Floyd Mayweather lose and fight just as much as they want to see him win and dominate. Mayweather IS SAVAGE on the opponent that’s tries to take him out
go beat Lebron!!!! Beat Steph!! Save the smoke for players
He worried about fans
Fans not watching cause the drama is out
He's right on this the US still way ahead as far as quantity and quality if you compare it to other sports. The All Blacks (rugby) until about 5 years ago seemed to me to be one of the more dominant teams in team sports but the gap back to the chasing pack (SA, France etc) was nothing compared to the gap between the US and Serbia, Canada, Germany etc. France tho might have something to say in a few years.
So because 3-5 foreigners right now are the best in the nba that means the rest of the world has caught up 😂 bruh if u take all of the American hoopers in the world and put them up against all the foreign hoopers it won’t even be close Basketball is not even as big across the states Giannis Luka wemby and joker players like that are the extreme exception
Top 5 right now includes no americans . Shai , giannis , luka , wemby , jokic. Womp womp womp
Shai is next door in Canada right here in North America. You mentioning one guy from each country. No country produces the quantity of stars that the US produces. Its literally not close.
@ either way canada is NOT america. Also america has 400 million people along with way better resources for anyone playing any sport. . Compare that to the other countries. USA should actually have the top 20 players in the NBA based on the numbers. But yall dont have 1 in top 5….womp womp womp
@ excuses, excuses Americans are the best in basketball. It is what it is.
And the a bunch of shit after 😂 can’t even build a legit all star team of non Americans
@@akumicobain shai , luka , giannis , wemby , embiid , jokic , senguin , sabonis , siakam , lauri markenan , siakam, franz wagner , jamall murray etc . Go watch some more basketball goof
The American TEAM is still gonna be better because of overall talents. But the BEST players is definitely not Americans anymore, and it probably wont be for another 5 years and on
you gonna hate it but its forreal even how close other country to USA, they will always be the standard and always standout, USA is like a continent if EUROPE became one country they probably have a chance to dethrone them that will never happen.
I have doubts on LA Olympics for team USA
Lol why America got embiid? Yugoslavia beat the American
You can't even win without help of referees 😂
Teams can’t guard USA without fouling .
Hold on to your shit medal
They didn’t have chemistry either like those other teams. Let them had 3 months to practice together it wouldn’t have been close
As long as the US have trash coaches it will appear close.
The US won a gold medal with the coach of a team that is .500 and that got blown out by 50 once, 40 once, 30 twice through 42 games 2024 season. In the 73-9 season, Kerr missed more than 43 games and yet they set the record
The coaches suck, and the USA teams need to unleash the dogs and stop treating the international games like they are exhibition games. The USA are not ambassadors for the sport, it is not our responsibility to make them want to play it - unleash the dogs.
Kobe destroying Pau on a screen, Michael and Scottie hounding Kukoc, TMac taunting his opponent, 4000 lb Charles Barkley elbowing the 50 lb dude from Angola. As long as we treat the game like we have to be nice to the international players, they will continue this stupid narrative
Of course not caught up because you had to join LeBron and Curry and some of the best of the NBA and even though you almost lost
The olympic teams have to adapt to FIBA rules and that takes time.. KD means athleticism not skill. International players are far more fundamentally sound and play a team game.
USA players are more physically gifted and talented. International players IQ and fundamentals are 2nd to none. He right tho basketball is American solidified. Basketball is not the number one sport in majority of international countries, it’s futobol.
Americans invented basketball.But we Europeans invented your country!!Haha what the f you talking about?
Gotta realize ball is life for a lot of kids and a way out a poverty and its passed down from those that didn't make it
Tf that has to do with anything?
The game was created by Canadian my man 😂. Why he always so mad?
The rest of the world will not caught up to USA basketball. Because USA is always going to stack their roster since they don’t want a repeat of the 2004 Olympics. So with a roster full of NBA players and stars, USA basketball shouldn’t lose at all!
However non-American basketball players in the NBA are no longer the best players. Jokic and Giannis won multiple MVPs. This year MVP is most likely going to Shai another non-American player. The world is definitely winning in the NBA!
Tell us why you dont accept as players anti doping control
dominating dudes??
Lies
The US national team still superior but euro players dominating the NBA and that's a fact.
Imagine Europe team 🤫
I was chatting with an ole head at my job and he mentioned he played with Tony Parker Sr in Chicago.
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Team USA is the b best team in the world. But the world's 🌎 team could beat team USA 🇺🇸
SAS talking ass lolol
That’s other shii media talk the world would never catch up to the u.s
Man KD don't sugarcoat sh*t l love it. He don't mind 😂
😂😂Exactly..
All that man does is cap nowadays. And he just repeats what other people that are older than him says. Gil is the one that gave him this material. He doesnt have a mind of his own. He lost it once he left okc to go to golden state warriors. He killed polarity. He's trash now.
Not mad at it. Let’s go 🇺🇸
💯💯💯💯💯💯
Yet you had to naturalize Embid for hekp
KD is so lame
You Capping Slime, Jokic & Doncic took over on your watch. Make it make sense
What you said doesn’t even make sense and has nothing to do with the topic.
The point is those are only 2 players . Yes the 2 players are great but that’s it . Nobody else from their countries are top 100 in the NBA
Hahahaha, this doped Durant is so funny. If the USA team's are controlled for doping they should return half the medals they won. In Paris against Serbia, you should thank to referee that you turn around. One Jokic and "others" from "GREAT" Serbia against ALL STAR USA team and you need a help to win.
KD got Jokic/Luka fanboys in their feelings. 😂
Damn KD is really dumb but yeah hes a cupcake so whatever
cap fam
Jokic n Luka n Giannis are better than you ever were
Shae with you right now
Add Wendy bro yea they top 5 better than yours
On a countrywide level he’s correct. You can see how dominant we still are internationally speaking. But on the individual level, international players are now on par and better than Americans. But our history with the game is too deep.
I would argue it's the opposite.
Athletic wise, individually? USA is ahead, but basketball IQ, the world has certainly caught up. Divac, Sabonis (the elder), Petrovic, Luka, Jokic are bigger guys who can all shoot and pass. USA youth can definitely learn from that.