BALLER#3
Years ago
http://fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/14/wcm/news/p/nid/71823/article.html
Article says that Blatche is attmepting to get citizenship for the Philippines... Why and how?
Isaac
Years ago
They tried to naturalise Javale McGee too.
Found this:
Joe Johnson was just asked if he knew Andray Blatche was half Filipino. Joe said: "No, but he's full of shit."
Although he did not speak any German at the time, he acquired German citizenship in July 2008 (due to his great-grandparents being German), to play on the Germany national basketball team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
MACDUB
Years ago
The Russian you are referring to Isaac is JR Holden. He could really ball.
I think he earned it more so than others because he lived in Russia 5 years before playing for Russia. He was with CSKA Moscow from 2002 - 2011. So was dedicated to the country.
FIBA need to start installing their own citizenship guidelines/criteria to make it harder to become naturalised.
Currently, if your a citizen in the country you can become naturalised. There is nothing stopping someone/an investor from paying the govt under the table to fastrack the process and play for a country
Dedicated to the money the country was paying him more like it haha
Mick
Years ago
I dont have a problem with this. No cpuntry that is any good at basketball would make a mockery of their own citizenship process in order to sign an american. Its not like phillipines are a medal threat. Heck, they wont even be at the world cup.
pattymillsfan
Years ago
"Heck, they wont even be at the world cup."
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