World Championship Basketball
A couple of months ago I was deeply sleepless due to the football World Cup. Thankfully, the FIBA World Championsips are on at a much better time, since they're being held in Japan. I haven't been able to watch all the games, but I have seen most of the Australian games, and it was pretty good basketball. In fact, they were involved in one of the games of the tournament when they gave up six points to Greece in the last ten seconds of play to lose to Greece by three. Then Australia went on to be thrashed by the USA in the round of sixteen. Now given that they almost beat Greece but were soundly beaten by the US, I guess you would expect the US to beat Greece easliy.
But in probably the game of the tournament so far, Greece managed to defeat the USA in the semi-finals. The game was highly spirited and highly skilled. With their contrasting styles, with the USA being amazingly atheletic and Greece having the better team play, the game was absorbing. Greece managed to shoot and slice their way to victory and were understandably overjoyed at the win.
Now halfway through an excellent and tightly contested Spain v Argentina semi-final, it looks like another classic.
To cut this rambling post short, I guess my point is: basketball really is global, and globally good.