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USA Today's 12 top foreign-born NBA players

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Yaowaming, Oct 14, 2004.

  1. bottlerocket

    bottlerocket Member

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    So if you are a (not a US citizen) foreigner and play college ball in the US you are still not considered a foreigner??

    Ex: Nash, Dream(became US citizen later), & Najera.
     
  2. tksense

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    no one wonders why is jiri welsch there????? I mean, he's had some good games.. SOME good games... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

    only in his 3rd season too!
     
  3. kevin8494

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    Yes, that's a good idea.
    Team US vs. Team International, who win?
    US: shaq, td, kg, kidd, kobe.
    bench: Ben, JO, Odom,bibby,tmac
    Inter: yao, Gasol, dirk,nash,peja.
    bench: bigZ, Ak47,nene, Ginobilli, parker.

    Will be a pretty close game, I predict team Inter win.:p
     
  4. ayears

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    Why Sobnis isn't in the list? :confused:
     
  5. m_cable

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    It's probably just current players.
     
  6. AroundTheWorld

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    Yes, otherwise DET THE THREAT would have had to be in the list as well! ;)
     
  7. douglasreedy1

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    No he can't, and he never could. Maybe in Croatia he could play all five positions, but he never could, especially defensively, in the NBA. The only player I've EVER seen that could actually play all five positions was Magic Johnson. Lamar Odom is probably the next in line behind Magic, but he's trailing by a huge margin in that respect.
     
  8. m_cable

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    Lebron should be able to also. He's about tall and bulked up enough to handle the front court slots. I mean Lebron is about the size of Brian Grant who spent two seasons at center. Don't know if the Bron at PG experiment is still on, but he could play it if he wanted to.
     
  9. SwoLy-D

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    That is true, AGB, but he was born in Chihuahua, México. Thread title is "foreign-born" not Foreign-Played. ;)

    Oops, yes, now I read the USA Today College exception... my mistake!
     
  10. bottlerocket

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    Then add Patrick Ewing born in Jamaica(the Island not Queens) & Tim Duncan born in the Virgin Is.
     

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