For the first time in NBA history, the top 3 players are arguably internationally born. How do you feel about this?

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

you're being dishonest - you just negged me for stating literally the same thing.


here is what I said:



now you're in here saying you agree with what OP said, which is exactly what I stated. You're a freaking weirdo

To be perfectly honest, I didn't neg you for that specific post, I negged you because you're part of an influx of lame ass posters who've joined this year. I've seen a few of your posts, so take it as a neg for your posting as a whole. I wasn't wrong hence your crying about it in this thread and your incessant quoting of my posts, begging for my attention.

what competitive hoops did he play in Cameroon?

Go and do your research.

 

[Maquina]

To be perfectly honest, I didn't neg you for that specific post, I negged you because you're part of an influx of lame ass posters who've joined this year. I've seen a few of your posts, so take it as a neg for your posting as a whole. I wasn't wrong hence your crying about it in this thread and your incessant quoting of my posts, begging for my attention.

Go and do your research.

so you negged me on a post that you literally agreed with later? You're going around and negging people who just joined and you don't think you're being a weirdo?


I've done my research, he never played competitive ball in Cameroon. He was a volleyball player who was found in a camp and didn't even know how to play ball when he came over to highschool. He had literally no experience playing. You have no idea what you're talking about - he never played competitively internationally, he was never on a scene, he never traveled, he has 0 semi-pro experience like all the top international players. He learned the game in the U.S. - again I'm splitting hair but you don't know what the F you're talking about

 

[EBK String]

Luka & Jokic

Giannis
KD
Embiid
Curry
Bron
Kawhi (when healthy)
AD (when healthy)


Then maybe Luka & Jokic. Hell I’d take KAT over Jokic

Don't ever speak about ball again

 

[fifth column]

Actually, he first played competitive hoops in Cameroon, so yes he does have "amateur experience" outside of the US. He's also aiming to play for France in the Olympics in 2024, so yes, he's classified as an international player. It's a pretty damn pointless exercise to debate this.

If he played competitively in Cameroon then he would be ineligible to play for France in the Olympics. He is not ineligible to play for France or any other country. Knowing everything don’t make you smart it’s knowing what you don’t know that make you smart.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

so you negged me on a post that you literally agreed with later? You're going around and negging people who just joined and you don't think you're being a weirdo?

You're a worthless troll and you're only making a big deal about it because you know you're a lame.

I've done my research, he never played competitive ball in Cameroon. He was a volleyball player who was found in a camp and didn't even know how to play ball when he came over to highschool. He had literally no experience playing. You have no idea what you're talking about - he never played competitively internationally, he was never on a scene, he never traveled, he has 0 semi-pro experience like all the top international players. He learned the game in the U.S. - again I'm splitting hair but you don't know what the F you're talking about

If he played competitively in Cameroon then he would be ineligible to play for France in the Olympics. He is not ineligible to play for France or any other country. Knowing everything don’t make you smart it’s knowing what you don’t know that make you smart.

"Joel Embiid is fond of comparing his life to a movie. The story, in his account, begins with a scout discovering him on the streets of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, where Embiid grew up.

.........

In February, Thomas [Embiid's father] signed paperwork allowing Joel to join a local team led by a coach named Guy Moudio. Moudio gave Joel a tape of Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon to study. He used a medicine ball to build up Joel’s strength. Moudio had to teach Joel some of the game’s more basic skills, but he was impressed with what he saw and how Joel, despite being a novice, seemed to have an innate feel for the game".

This was in Cameroon when he was 15/16 years old, and it was many months prior to Mbah a Moute holding the camp that got him noticed. So yes, he played organized/competitive hoops in Cameroon, now, of course, it's not organized/competitive hoops as we come to know in this country, but in relation to age-group play in Cameroon, it was. He's had experience playing basketball before he came to the US - that is a fact.; to say he had "literally no experience playing" is 100% inaccurate. This is a pointless matter anyway given the fact he's already gone through the process to play for France which whatever arbitrary measure y'all want to use, he'll be playing for an international team in the not too distant future.

It's probably for the best if you two just sit back and let the grown folks talk hoops.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Knowing everything don’t make you smart it’s knowing what you don’t know that make you smart.

And in typical smart dumb nxgga fashion you throw out some remedial adage, not realizing it is you who ended up looking foolish (once again) by jumping in other folks' conversations, merely trying to get one back on me, ultimately doubling down on your stupidity from earlier in the thread.

I ain't even need to lace them up for you.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

there's literally several people in this thread stating that specifically cuz KAT shoots "better" and is probably a better two way player between them.

I meant anyone real. The Coli is a place where you can find people who will insist the Earth is flat and Jabari Parker is better than Julius Randle.

 

[fifth column]

And in typical smart dumb nxgga fashion you throw out some remedial adage, not realizing it is you who ended up looking foolish (once again) by jumping in other folks' conversations, merely trying to get one back on me, ultimately doubling down on your stupidity from earlier in the thread.

I ain't even need to lace them up for you.

So where did you get your info from that Embiid played competitively in Cameroon? The evidence that you posted is not “playing competitively” Stop making shyt up online breh.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

So where did you get your info from that Embiid played competitively in Cameroon? The evidence that you posted is not “playing competitively” Stop making shyt up online breh.

He played in an organised environment for a local team, that his father signed papers for. How is that not competitive? It was in Cameroon likely with limited resources, at what point would you deem it competitive for the context of this discussion?

It’s not as if the only experience playing the game he had outside of the US was shooting by himself in the backyard.

Once again, here you are arguing about trivial shyt, because you can’t seem to see the bigger picture. I’m beginning to think you have Asperger’s.

 

[IIVI]

I don't mind they're international, I mind the fanbases getting more international though. So much of the sport's culture and fan interaction changed.

It's why the NFL season low key feels like a breath of fresh air. The locker rooms and everything still got that raw feeling to them.

Maybe I prefer the audacity to the snobbery though.

 

[fifth column]

I don't mind they're international, I mind the fanbases getting more international though. So much of the sport's culture and fan interaction changed.

It's why the NFL season low key feels like a breath of fresh air. The locker rooms and everything still got that raw feeling to them.

Maybe I prefer the hilarity to the snobbery though.

 

[IIVI]

Mark Jackson tried doing this to an NBA team, got kicked off by an Australian complaining about it and was never able to land a coaching job afterwards.

Global players are cool, I think it's great the game is opening up, but these new fans from Europe and around the world making me feel some type of way lately. They practically show zero respect for what came before this current era.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I meant anyone real. The Coli is a place where you can find people who will insist the Earth is flat and Jabari Parker is better than Julius Randle.

What kind of stupidity is this? How could you possibly think these are remotely the same, both in principle and literal? When the initial Julius vs Jabari comparison was made over half a decade ago, Jabari was better. At no point has the Earth ever been flat, so it’s stupid to draw parallels between the two.

Typical of you to act like you know what’s going on when you had multiple people involved on ignore while the discussion was taking place.

 

[fifth column]

He played in an organised environment for a local team, that his father signed papers for. How is that not competitive? It was in Cameroon likely with limited resources, at what point would you deem it competitive for the context of this discussion?

It’s not as if the only experience playing the game he had outside of the US was shooting by himself in the backyard.

Once again, here you are arguing about trivial shyt, because you can’t seem to see the bigger picture. I’m beginning to think you have Asperger’s.

Organized and Competitively mean too different things. Saying that he played competitively is insinuating that he was playing amateur basketball for Cameroon. He is not in the same international category as a Giannis, Jokic or Luka as you were trying to put him. If in the future he plays for France then that changes things.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Organized and Competitively mean too different things. Saying that he played competitively is insinuating that he was playing amateur basketball for Cameroon. He is not in the same international category as a Giannis, Jokic or Luka as you were trying to put him. If in the future he plays for France then that changes things.

I never stated or insinuated he played for Cameroon on an international level. I said he played in Cameroon which what @Maquina was arguing against, saying he had no experience whatsoever playing hoops on any level (amateur or otherwise). Except he did. Organised and competitive mean the same thing in this context.

How is it you’ve been on this board for all these years yet still don’t know how to debate properly?

Embiid is recognised as an international/foreign player and nobody should be arguing any different.