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Türkiye coach: NBA champion is not world champion You have to beat European and Australian league champions

7:35pm, 4 September 2025Basketball

September 4th News Recently, Türkiye's men's basketball coach Elkin Ataman talked about the topic of whether the NBA championship is equivalent to the world championship in an interview.

Ataman said: "NBA champions should not call themselves world champions. If an NBA team wants to be a real world champion, they must beat the European League champions and may even beat the Australian League champions. The European League is full of high-level competition, and NBA teams must play with them to call themselves world champions."

"NBA basketball has become more like a show now, but the European League has both. There is a performance component here, but there is also fierce competition; every game is like the final. I know that everyone is paying attention to the European basketball league, including the United States," Ataman said.

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