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Well yeah the future is foreign, because non-domestic players come from..... THE REST OF THE WORLD!

You guys have been playing this game for a while. I would imagine a few of you would be pretty good at it. Kudos. Now please, discover the next Michael Jordan and convince him to demand the Blazers ONLY draft him.
 
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It blows me away there are no studs coming out of China? With that size of a pool to draw from, and as structured their athletic academy are, you'd think they would uncover a player. I read they have more recreational basketball players in China, than there are people in the US!!!
 
THE HCP said:
It blows me away there are no studs coming out of China? With that size of a pool to draw from, and as structured their athletic academy are, you'd think they would uncover a player. I read they have more recreational basketball players in China, than there are people in the US!!!
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Yeah, it has been Yao, Wang, and pretty much nothing else. Really surprised we haven't seen some guard or forward come out of China.
 
theprunetang said:
Yeah, it has been Yao, Wang, and pretty much nothing else. Really surprised we haven't seen some guard or forward come out of China.
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Contrary to popular belief....a lot of Chinese athletes are famous at home and ride the pine in the NBA....in other words...around the globe there are many who prefer to play in Spain or China and aren't that interested in living in Cleveland. The African league will probably bring lots of prospects here. Ex Blazers Joel Freeland and Rudy Fernandez had great lives playing in Spain and probably not as much fun on the NBA circuit. Marbury is a superstar in China....in the NBA he was a Vaseline eating meme.....Jeremy Lin will have more endorsement deals than Lebron does in LA with his new Chinese team...and the cost of living over there is a speck of dust compared to here. Not every athlete thinks the NBA is the goal.
 
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THE HCP said:
It blows me away there are no studs coming out of China? With that size of a pool to draw from, and as structured their athletic academy are, you'd think they would uncover a player. I read they have more recreational basketball players in China, than there are people in the US!!!
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That’s one way to describe their doping program.
 
The NBA is going to go the way of the English Premier League. When I was a lad, non-British EPL players were rare (and the Premier League was called "the first division"). Now they're the majority (along with the coaches).
 
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Mid 2000's international all-stars:

Dirk Nowitzki
Steve Nash
Yao Ming
Manu Ginóbili
Pau Gasol
Tony Parker
Mehmet Okur
Peja Stojaković
Andrei Kirilenko
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Jamaal Magloire (Canada)

Not too bad either huh?

Ming Vs Embiid
Dirk Vs Porzingis
Kirilenko Vs Giannis
Ginóbili Vs Doncic
Nash Vs Dragic' (?)
 
Blazers Roy said:
Mid 2000's international all-stars:

Dirk Nowitzki
Steve Nash
Yao Ming
Manu Ginóbili
Pau Gasol
Tony Parker
Mehmet Okur
Peja Stojaković
Andrei Kirilenko
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Jamaal Magloire (Canada)

Not too bad either huh?

Ming Vs Embiid
Dirk Vs Porzingis
Kirilenko Vs Giannis
Ginóbili Vs Doncic
Nash Vs Dragic' (?)
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Not bad. But sooner rather than later the best two players in the league will be Doncic and Antetokounmpo, i.e., non-US born or raised, and that's entirely new. I know Dirk won MVP one year, but it probably was just because they were tired of giving it to LeBron or Kobe every year. Same with Nash - he was the first beneficiary of D'Antoni PG stats bloat (most glaring example: Jeremy Lin).
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Not bad. But sooner rather than later the best two players in the league will be Doncic and Antetokounmpo, i.e., non-US born or raised, and that's entirely new. I know Dirk won MVP one year, but it probably was just because they were tired of giving it to LeBron or Kobe every year. Same with Nash - he was the first beneficiary of D'Antoni PG stats bloat (most glaring example: Jeremy Lin).
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What about Hakeem? one of the best Centers of all times (MJ said he takes him over any other Center).
 
Blazers Roy said:
What about Hakeem? one of the best Centers of all times .
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I thought of him, and yes, he was the best player in the league for a while there, but
(a) it was just him, and arguably it was just because Jordan had retired
(b) he learned the game at a US college. Neither Giannis nor Doncic did.

Blazers Roy said:
(MJ said he takes him over any other Center).
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I love Hakeem, but have you seen the job Jordan has done picking talent for the Hornets? Hakeem needs to get in line behind Wilt and Kareem at least. Hakeem COULD have been better, but he kind of coasted for the early part of his career - only became THE DREAM fairly late on.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I thought of him, and yes, he was the best player in the league for a while there, but
(a) it was just him, and arguably it was just because Jordan had retired
(b) he learned the game at a US college. Neither Giannis nor Doncic did.


I love Hakeem, but have you seen the job Jordan has done picking talent for the Hornets? Hakeem needs to get in line behind Wilt and Kareem at least. Hakeem COULD have been better, but he kind of coasted for the early part of his career - only became THE DREAM fairly late on.
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Giannis came in so young, you can argue he learned most of his game at the NBA.

Bulls had a problem dealing with talented Centers right? i wouldnt be so quick to dismiss those Rockets teams.
 
Kirilenko was my favorite non blazer wing not named Gerald Wallace in the early 2000s man was a baller in every sense of the word.
 
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