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Former NBA Stars Slam Outlandish Denver Nuggets Take

The Denver Nuggets would not have been challenged by this team
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Former NBA Stars Slam Outlandish Denver Nuggets Take
Former NBA Stars Slam Outlandish Denver Nuggets Take

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During a recent episode of Gil's Arena, former NBA All-Stars Gilbert Arenas and Kenyon Martin slammed the idea that a team from Lebanon would have chance against the Denver Nuggets. The conversation was sparked from Noah Lyles' comments about the NBA Finals being called a World Championship, as both Arenas and Martin were arguing that no team outside of the NBA would stand a chance against the defending champion Nuggets.

"Ya'll would lose by 200," Arenas told Rashad McCants, who said his team from Lebanon would have a chance against the Nuggets. "Stop... For the Denver Nuggets to go around the [United States], to play a bunch of sorry ass teams, it's a waste of f--king time. We're talking about the NBA with the best Euro teams in the country would be on the NBA teams, not on the team that won the EuroCup."

Arenas seems to be proposing a hypothetical scenario where the best Euroleague teams joined the NBA to see if they could challenge a team like the Nuggets, which he sees as a waste of time since Denver is so superior. While this is of course not a scenario that would ever happen, it was Arenas's way of explaining why there's nothing wrong with the NBA Champions being called World Champions, since in his eyes there is no challenger anywhere in the world for a team like the Nuggets.

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Joey Linn
JOEY LINN

Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA and WNBA for On SI. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined On SI to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts and in the classroom earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time, primarily serving as a Clippers beat writer.

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