Spoelstra
Years ago
non-American imports have been few and far between in the NBL, do teams even bother looking for them or is the American college system so advanced that there's no point looking for them.
I know Europeans would always stay in Europe, but what's to stop the NBL from being a good NBA breeding ground for non-Americans and non-Euros?
XztatiK
Years ago
I can only remember two :/
Dave Thomas was fantastic for many years. Martin Muursepp on the other hand...
fantale
Years ago
I remember Rimas Kurtanitus, the lithuanian olympian that played for the twonsville suns for a while, then there were a few african guys (nzigamazabo and someone else) that played for the razorbacks for a while.
orbit
Years ago
Hawks had one when Cooks was head coach. Didn't last long...
ebi ere is american, just so happened to have nigerian dad which made him eligible for their national team.
XztatiK
Years ago
Forgot old Cheikh.
Reyes went alright for a year or so.
curltey
Years ago
reyes went alright for about 3 games then got sent back to venezuela (which like the phillipines is mad about bball but is also crap at it).
runnypoop
Years ago
ernest nzigamazsabo was the other african for the razorbacks and was rather useless.
Reyes was atrocious, could rebound but that was it. The rest of his game was non-existent, he spent the time he could have worked on it at Maccas. He was from Puerto Rico BTW. Fringe national team player there for years.
Dave Marshall
Years ago
Castro didn't get to play in the NBL - he was supposed to with Singapore in '08/09, but they pulled out of the NBL two and a half months before the start of the season. They organised a series of exhibition matches to keep them occupied until the ASEAN League started the year after, but Castro didn't play in any of those either - he went back to the Philippines and nominated for the PBA draft.
Mark Dickel was an import prior to New Zealand breakers joining NBL.
Tony Rampton also.
Adris Deleon.
proud
Years ago
Cairns had that small forward that seemed to want to start fights and was very fiery, that was from 2017, Michael Carerra, he's Venezuelan.
Scott Morrison of the Melbourne Tigers is Canadian as well
Perth Wildcats had Earnest Ross and Drake U'u. Oh wait they were non import Americans.
Tai Wesley was born in Utah and spent most of his childhood in the US. He doesn't really qualify as non-American even though he can play for Guam.
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