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The Frenchman has already had one of the best-ever careers of a foreign-born player in the NBA, and he's still just 32 years old. Born in Belgium but raised in France, Tony Parker had great ...
Early in the first quarter of a Dec. 21, 2007 matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Clippers, Dirk Nowitzki became the highest scoring German-born player ... NBA Sixth Man of ...
Among the best foreign NBA players of all time, we feature 2019 NBA champion and 2012-13 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Marc Gasol. A second round draft pick by the LA Lakers in 2007 ...
What would an all-defensive team look like it, if it was solely comprised of all foreign-born NBA players? Keep in mind that I don't consider Tim Duncan or Raja Bell as international players.
The NBA trend of increasing the number of foreign-born players year after year appears to be coming to an end. International representation in the NBA reached an all-time high 25.1% in 2016 ...
Over the next 17 seasons, the percentage of foreign-born players grew ... the percentage ten years ago, suggesting we are now at the peak of the internationalization of the NBA.
Five of the last seven players chosen were foreign-born, including kids from Nigeria ... with all kinds of success a couple of years ago. But the NBA doesn't seem interested, and maybe that's ...
A couple of years ago the National Basketball Association ... a curious thing has happened. Foreign-born players have gotten to work and now dominate the league. Milwaukee’s Giannis ...
(Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Ricky Rubio Jasper Juinen This year, foreign-born players filled up the NBA draft board like they haven’t in years — four of the top seven ...
The number of international players in the NBA continues to grow every year. Last October, the NBA announced a record 125 international players on the league's opening day rosters. It also marked ...