Nike Hoop Summit

[SchoolboyC]

Yes, top tier talent, the best defensive big in the league is a 22 year old frenchie, and outside of Davis & Kyrie damn near half of the best dudes under 23 years old are foreigners.

So which team are you taking?

Irving/Knight
Oladipo/MKG
Leonard/Parker
Davis/Favors
Drummond/Noel

Schroeder/Exum
Wiggins/Stauskas
Giannis/Karasev
Mirotic/Olynyk
Embiid/Gobert

 

[Malta]

I'm being prideful of the African American athletic prowess

I'm sure the Brazilian basketball development agency you create will provide the NBA with plenty of long, athletic defensive stoppers who can't shoot and flamboyant, floppy haired bigmen

Athletic defensive stoppers? I'd be the black Pete Newell if I had my own basketball agency, those Brazilians would come off my assembly line with the amazing footwork honed by years of soccer and the post moves only developed under the tutelage of a kind and loving father figure

 

[Darealtwo1]

Yes, top tier talent, the best defensive big in the league is a 22 year old frenchie, and outside of Davis & Kyrie damn near half of the best dudes under 23 years old are foreigners.

Kyrie is a foreigner

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Kobe was actually raised over there, I mean he's legitimately a European basketball product if you think about it.

dont tell people that though

 

[Originalman]

Kobe was actually raised over there, I mean he's legitimately a European basketball product if you think about it.

Why do folks say this Kobe left the US at 6 and returned at 13. He spent 6 to 7 years there and so he was in the US from his birth to 6 and from 13 to 18.

 

[Malta]

Why do folks say this Kobe left the US at 6 and returned at 13. He spent 6 to 7 years there and so he was in the US from his birth to 6 and from 13 to 18.

Bryant grew up in Italy, where he says he learned a wider range of fundamentals than the average u.S. player coming up through the AAU system.

"I was kind of fortunate, because when I was growing up in Italy, the Red Auerbachs, the Tex Winters were doing clinics and camps in Europe," he said. "They were teaching the club coaches -- all the club coaches were just following their advice and their fundamentals, and they were teaching us kids all that stuff. Me, Manu Ginobili, all these guys that grew up around that same time, we're a product of that.

And what if he had grown up in the U.S., instead?

"I probably wouldn't be able to dribble with my left, shoot with my left, have good footwork," said Bryant.

From the man himself.....he views himself as a product of European development.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Why do folks say this Kobe left the US at 6 and returned at 13. He spent 6 to 7 years there and so he was in the US from his birth to 6 and from 13 to 18.

formative years

he was born in italia tho.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

kobe as the GOAT euro player thread would go diamond

 

[Originalman]

Kyrie is a foreigner

So is Shaq he lived in Germany 13 to 15. Where do you think he learned those post moves and interior dominance. Oh and you know the Germans taught him how to pass and dribble too.

On the real the definition of international players is dumb as fukk.

But the funniest shyt to me is how all of a sudden these black foreign euros and others black players overseas are now the ones who are being drafted more and more from overseas.

Years ago I said that eventually even when it came to overseas players the best, most skilled and talented would be of african decent just like in the US.

Just wait until countries in Africa start to get more training and money put into their basketball programs.

 

[Originalman]

formative years

he was born in italia tho.

Once again where the hell did this narritive come from. Dude was born in Philly. His dad played for the 76ers. Man the media and fans done ran with this silly narrative (which was pushed by the media years ago and Kobe played into it) for years.

shyt reminds me how folks think Tina Turner from Europe cause she got a fake euro accent.

 

[Originalman]

kobe as the GOAT euro player thread would go diamond

So I guess we can count Mutumbo and Mark Gasol and detlef as Americans too you know they played here too as youngsters...lol

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

Skal should've been the #1 player in the nation.

One of the best high school players I ever seen. I was surprise when he was ranked below the top 5 Juniors last year.

He almost made a huge mistake and played for Josh Pastner.

I know Austin Nichols is after seeing Duke win Monday.

Lol...I forgot about Austin Nichols.....He deserve it !!!!!!

 

[Originalman]

From the man himself.....he views himself as a product of European development.

I know what Kobe says but he is not European. Is Tina Turner European?

 

[Malta]

Once again where the hell did this narritive come from. Dude was born in Philly. His dad played for the 76ers. Man the media and fans done ran with this silly narrative (which was pushed by the media years ago and Kobe played into it) for years.

shyt reminds me how folks think Tina Turner from Europe cause she got a fake euro accent.

It comes from Kobe himself saying Europe is where he developed the foundation of his game, how can you actually go against what he's saying?

 

[Malta]

I know what Kobe says but he is not European. Is Tina Turner European?

Poor comparison....

Kobe attended EUROPEAN basketball clinics, he literally learned how to play basketball in Italy. He said those helped him become the player he is, why argue with that?

He doesn't need to be European, we're saying he's a biproduct of their development.