FIBA World Cup winner berates American for calling NBA World Championship

Basketball star Andreas Obst, Bayern shooting guard and World Cup champion with Germany riticised the NBA and the attitude of its players in an interview with Eurohoops

The fiasco of the NBA and the label of world champion continues to run its course. After the speech of Noah Lyles, triple world champion in the 200m and world champion in the 100m in Budapest, the criticism and the exchange of words continued.

"World champions of what, the United States?", the athlete commented after winning the medal in Hungary.

NBA players criticised these words, but days later the United States was eliminated in the World Cup by Germany in the semi-finals of the FIBA World Cup. It was precisely a player from this team, who would end up lifting the trophy, who lashed out against the NBA.

In an interview with Eurohoops, Andreas Obst criticised the egocentric thinking of the players in the American competition.

"In the NBA they say they are world champions because the best players in the world play there, but really they are champions of the national league and we, Germany, are world champions," the German shooting guard explained to Eurohoops.

"In the NBA they have always had that attitude, that they are the best at something and you can certainly characterise it in many different ways. Let them say what they want, at the end of the day it doesn't change anything. We are World Champions."

Obst, who made a leap in quality in the last Euroleague and was a key player for Germany, gave his opinion on the figure of Laso, what his arrival means,

and what can be expected from a team that has high expectations thanks to the good signings they have made in Ibaka and Carsen Edwards.

"Bayern are moving in the right direction. We have Pablo Laso on the bench. There will be times when you lose, but the important thing is to pick yourself up. I like what is being built, the team radiates positivity," commented Andreas Obst.