If you measure the world champion by who has the best players in the world, then the answer is easy – the NBA. Baseball has the “World Series,” football has the Super Bowl “world champion” ring and now the NBA. Isn’t the best team in the best league in the world the “world champion?” To some, it’s not that simple. He was asking: Who’s the “world champion?”So, what does world champion actually mean? But the truth is, world champion or not, the best thing you could be as a basketball player is an NBA champion.