Who do you think are the top 10 foreign players who have played in the NBA since the beginning of the NBA? Don't include players who later during their NBA career played for the US national team (Olajuwon, Duncan). My list so far would be: Detlef Schrempf Arvydas Sabonis Toni Kukoc (Drazen Petrovic) - career cut short Vlade Divac Dirk Nowitzki Yao Ming Steve Nash Pau Gasol Manu Ginobili Andrei Kirilenko Yours?
You picked Yao Ming over Rik Smits????? Idiot. Good list. Deke should definitely be on the list and Parker is right there with Manu and AK47.
you have to put dikembe in there. i'd drop kirilenko, whose good but oft-injured, to make room for the cookie monster.
My list: Yao Ming Dirk Nowitzki Steve Nash Pau Gasol Dikembe Mutombo Peja Stojakovic Manu Ginobili Vlade Divac Detlef Schrempf Arvydas Sabonis
If Mutombo makes the list, so should Olajuwon (Nigeria) and even Tim Duncan (Virgin Islands). Mutombo played college ball at Georgetown. That disqualifies him in my mind. Nash went to Santa Clara, so he's out too. Schrempf went to Washington. Here's my list: 1. Dirk 2. Yao (he'll surpass Dirk when all all is said and done) 3. Pau Gasol 4. Petrovic 5. Sabonis 6. Kukoc 7. Parker 8. Ginobili 9. Kirilenko 10. Divac
In no particular order. Detlef Schrempf Arvydas Sabonis Dikembe Mutombo Drazen Petrovic Vlade Divac Dirk Nowitzki Yao Ming Steve Nash Pau Gasol Manu Ginobili Andrei Kirilenko And ofcourse Serge Zwikker
None of you have 2 time MVP top your list?? Nash two time MVP Ginobili ring,ring Dirk take team to NBA final Yao nothing to add here, will top the list with a ring Parker just not feel he contribute as much as Ginobili Petrovic Schrempf Mutombo AK47 Gasol
Do we HAVE to put Schrempf on there? I hated that *&%$er more than Payton and Kemp... Rik Smits definitely deserves mentioning. I still think that we would have lost in the NBA Finals if we faced Indiana instead of New York. Hakeem always seemed to have trouble against those big, slow centers for some reason... I think Stojakovic will be one of the greatest when it's all said and done. He's going to light it up from the outside with Chris Paul driving and dishing. ...and, of course, we can't forget about the greatest foreigner in basketball history, the man himself... Dr. James Naismith
not sure cause , cause he (along with duncan) played college ball here. Furthermore changed their citizenship
In no particular order: Arvydas Sabonis Drazen Petrovic Dikembe Mutumbo Detlef Schremp Yao Ming Vlade Divac Rik Smits Steve Nash Dirk Nowitzki Manu Ginobili
I don't know why the citizenship thing matters. As for college, a number of the "international players" listed also played college ball in the US.
