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EuroBasket, Explained: The Tournament Luka, Giannis, and Jokic are Desperate to Win

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

For years, European players were something of an afterthought in the NBA. They were (often unfairly) labeled as soft, not tough enough and frankly not good enough to hang with their American counterparts. But those days are long gone. Two European players, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic have combined to win the last four NBA MVP awards, and Slovenian Luka Doncic is maybe the NBA’s best player under 25. All of which makes EuroBasket 2022 arguably the most competitive basketball tournament in the world after the NBA Playoffs. EuroBasket, which is now played every four years, features the top national teams from across Europe, in an atmosphere that is akin to a mix of March Madness and Soccer’s World Cup. Former Vice President for Strategic Research with the San Antonio Spurs, Kirk Goldsberry was reporting on the ground from EuroBasket, and explains why understanding Europe is essential to understanding the modern NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kirk Goldberg, there are some episodes of USBN Daily that I'm interested in just because

0:06.0

I'm jealous.

0:08.6

And your passport, your travels, what kind of stamps do you got right now?

0:14.3

Well, thanks to our company and these last two features I've worked on, Pablo, I can

0:18.6

say that I've been to Italy twice this summer, Germany twice, and Spain once.

0:24.3

Yeah, as I said, extraordinarily jealous.

0:26.4

I'll this expester, but it's important to note that you're not just going to see the

0:30.9

Colosseum, you're not going to see the Parthidon, you're going to see like monuments of a

0:36.3

different kind.

0:37.3

You're going to see people who may have literal statues in a decade or two.

0:41.7

Yeah, that's right.

0:42.7

I'm going to see the best current pro basketball players in the world, Pablo, and in the last

0:47.6

couple of weeks they have been playing around Europe in Europe, aske 2022.

0:52.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the city of surprises, Berlin, Germany for the fever

0:58.7

Eurobasket, round of 16, the battle between Greece and the Czech Republic.

1:05.9

The challenge for the Czech Republic team, how do you stop and to cope with, do you throw

1:11.7

bodies at him?

1:12.7

It's a very difficult match up, this Greek team.

1:15.9

I think, yeah, it's on to Tacumbo's, the best player I saw over there.

1:19.5

He is not quite a Greek god yet, but his current trajectory is that of a future icon in

1:26.0

Greece.

1:27.4

And what he's doing here is trying to elevate the Greek program back into contention

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