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are non-americans allowed in the NBA?
Da WCC Hopar!:
--- Quote from: Overseer on August 28, 2004, 10:25:13 AM ---if it is.. is it not very common right now?
i saw something about a guy from another team being an NBA player..
but i wonder if scouts have their eyes on cheap foreign imports ;)
--- End quote ---
take yao as an example hes not a american they took his rice eatin ass from china to play in the USA
Suga Foot:
Nash and Fox are Canadian.
Trauma-san:
To be honest, you got all these blacks from urban areas that grew up playing ball, and they're just better and more athletic than hardly anybody else in the world. A lot of these guys haven't done a damn thing BUT play Basketball since they were 5, and they're just flat out better than someone who hasn't practiced for hours, for nearly 15 years, you know? So not only are there not TONS of foriegn players, there aren't tons of white players, either, because they typically aren't from an urban area, and the black players that are have much more skill @ playing.
Baseball's pretty incredibly diverse, there's a lot of south american and latin players, similar reasons, they play a lot of ball down there as kids and end up just better than anybody else because they've played so much.
Practice Practice Practice
white Boy:
Player (Team) Country
Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Dallas France
Robert Archibald, Toronto Scotland
Carlos Arroyo, Utah Puerto Rico
Leandro Barbosa, Phoenix Brazil
Raja Bell, Utah U.S. Virgin Islands
Ruben Boumtje Boumtje, Cleveland Cameroon
Primoz Brezec, Indiana Slovenia
Zarko Cabarkapa, Phoenix Serbia and Montenegro
Samuel Dalembert, Philadelphia Haiti
Boris Diaw, Atlanta France
DeSagana Diop, Cleveland Senegal
Vlade Divac, Sacramento Serbia and Montenegro
Predrag Drobnjak, L.A. Clippers Serbia and Montenegro
Tim Duncan, San Antonio U.S. Virgin Islands
Ndudi Ebi (1), Minnesota England
Obinna Ekezie, Atlanta Nigeria
Francisco Elson, Denver Netherlands
Rick Fox (2), L.A. Lakers Canada
Adonal Foyle, Golden State St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Dan Gadzuric, Milwaukee Netherlands
Alex Garcia, San Antonio Brazil
Pau Gasol, Memphis Spain
Emanuel Ginobili, San Antonio Argentina
Gordan Giricek, Utah Croatia
Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Cleveland Lithuania
Marko Jaric, L.A. Clippers Serbia and Montenegro
Andrei Kirilenko, Utah Russia
Toni Kukoc, Milwaukee Croatia
Maciej Lampe, Phoenix Poland
Raul Lopez, Utah Spain
Todd MacCulloch, Philadelphia Canada
Jamaal Magloire, New Orleans Canada
Sean Marks, San Antonio New Zealand
Stanislav Medvedenko, L.A. Lakers Ukraine
Darko Milicic, Detroit Serbia and Montenegro
Jerome Moiso, Toronto France
Dikembe Mutombo, New York Congo
Bostjan Nachbar, Houston Slovenia
Eduardo Najera, Dallas Mexico
Steve Nash, Dallas Canada
Mamadou N'diaye, Atlanta Senegal
Nenê, Denver Brazil
Rasho Nesterovic, San Antonio Slovenia
Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Germany
Mehmet Okur, Detroit Turkey
Michael Olowokandi (3), Minnesota Nigeria
Zaza Pachulia, Orlando Georgia
Milt Palacio, Toronto Belize
Tony Parker (4), San Antonio France
Aleksandar Pavlovic, Utah Serbia and Montenegro
Mickael Pietrus, Golden State France
Zoran Planinic (5), New Jersey Croatia
Vitaly Potapenko, Seattle Ukraine
Vladimir Radmanovic (6), Seattle Serbia and Montenegro
Zeljko Rebraca, Atlanta Serbia and Montenegro
Daniel Santiago, Milwaukee Puerto Rico
Darius Songaila, Sacramento Lithuania
Jon Stefansson, Dallas Iceland
Vladimir Stepania, Portland Georgia
Peja Stojakovic, Sacramento Serbia and Montenegro
Cezary Trybanski, New York Poland
Jake Tsakalidis, Memphis Greece
Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Denver Georgia
Hedo Turkoglu, San Antonio Turkey
Wang Zhizhi, Miami China
Jiri Welsch, Boston Czech Republic
Yao Ming, Houston China
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: SMiLE on August 28, 2004, 06:14:58 PM ---To be honest, you got all these blacks from urban areas that grew up playing ball, and they're just better and more athletic than hardly anybody else in the world. A lot of these guys haven't done a damn thing BUT play Basketball since they were 5, and they're just flat out better than someone who hasn't practiced for hours, for nearly 15 years, you know? So not only are there not TONS of foriegn players, there aren't tons of white players, either, because they typically aren't from an urban area, and the black players that are have much more skill @ playing.
Baseball's pretty incredibly diverse, there's a lot of south american and latin players, similar reasons, they play a lot of ball down there as kids and end up just better than anybody else because they've played so much.
Practice Practice Practice
--- End quote ---
True. In Latin America, they play baseball all day... with rocks and sticks... whatever they can find. In the U.S., one black kid has a ball... and the whole neighborhood plays all day. Go to a park... and it's nothin but black kids... little 7 year olds doing And1 tricks... and their older brothers just playing all day long. Every summer... the parks are filled... and it's crazy. On our local parks... the Millers used to hustle the shit outta people in the 80's, a girl and a skinny ass boy challenging older guys... and placing bets... and of course the Millers would win. That's U.S. basketball. The Puerto Rican team actually had a lot of players that played street ball in New York. European basketball of course will always been more technical... and the media will of course say we need to go back to passing... but one on one... still no one can beat a United States player.
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