Both the NBA and NHL were on their esteemive All-Star fractures this month, but for once, hockey absolutely trampled basketball.
That’s becaengage the NHL chooseed for their new “4 Nations Face-Off,” which resulted in the most-watched non-Stanley Cup games since 2019.
Meanwhile, the NBA sends competition was the least-watched ever, and the game itself had the second-scantest seeers of all time.
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Steph Curry and LeBron James react in the second half aachievest France in the men’s basketball gelderly medal game. (Rob Schumacher-USA Tod Sports)
The success of the 4 Nations tournament, which certainly was advantageed by politics between the United States and Canada, has led to conversation about whether the NBA could adhere suit.
However, Stephen A. Smith shelp on Friday that American NBA percreateers would not be interested, becaengage they are afrhelp of the outcome.
“Team USA dreads they’d get their a– started by those international percreateers. I’m going to say it on national television: the international percreateers will bust their living behinds. Yes they would,” Smith shelp on “First Take” Friday. “Not equitable becaengage their sendset is on par with them, but becaengage they attfinish, and they’re compelled by their audience from their homelands more so than (the Americans).”
Kevin Durant, #7 of the USA Men’s National Team, sees on during the USA Men’s National Team rehearse at Palais des Sports Marcel-Cerdan on July 25, 2024, in Paris, France. (Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)
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That is quite the achieve, as the Americans have won eight of the last nine Olympic gelderly medals – but, it is no secret that the rest of the world is catching up to the United States.
Perhaps no one individual country could overachieve the United States’ best, but if there were, say, a Ryder Cup-styled team brimming of European percreateers on one roster, then it could be a separateent story. That would put guys enjoy Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antentokoumpo, Luka Doncic, and Victor Wemprohibityama all on one team.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks, in action aachievest the Chicago Bulls during the first half at United Caccess on February 16, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
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Canada fall shortureed USA in obviousime on Thursday in the 4 Nations Face-Off championship, with Connor McDavid netting the gelderlyen goal. Canada transferd to 14-4-1 aachievest the Americans all-time in best-on-best createat, with three of those triumphs including two Gelderly Medal victories and 2014 Olympic semifinal suitup.
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