Stop selling the rest of the world short.
Last time I checked, the U.S. INVENTED basketball, yet now the rest of the world has caught up. Soccer has been around in the U.S. far longer than basketball has been around in the likes of Serbia, Germany, and Argentina...yet you don't here them bitching about how they wish their best athletes played bball instead of soccer.
That's like a Brazilian saying that if Ronaldhino, Ronaldo, Pele, etc. all played basketball instead of soccer, that Brazil would be a basketball powerhouse.