Anonymous
Years ago
http://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball/nbl/australian-basketball-legend-shane-heals-top-10-nbl-imports-of-all-time/story-fnug4sup-1227560597722
http://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball/nbl/andrew-gaze-responds-to-the-hammer-and-selects-his-own-top-10-nbl-imports-of-all-time/story-fnug4sup-1227562040618
I go for Gaze's list. No Ricky Grace on Heal's? Pff.. come on.
Cecil
Years ago
Sorry, here I am. Hanging out with Dante and cheering him up.
Potential names to be debated:
Terry Dozier
Bruce Bolden
Mike Kelly
paul
Years ago
R Smith
Loggins
Fisher
Crawford
Grace
Copeland
McClain
Williams
Jackson
Childress
A fair few others worth consideration too.
Anonymous
Years ago
Suprising Heal left out Grace, 4 championships, 2 Finals MVPs, All First Teams.. etc, etc.
I spose it's HIS list, so whatever.
Train
Years ago
Leroy Loggins
James Crawford
Ricky Grace
Derek Rucker
Robert Rose
Darnell Mee
Darryl McDonald
Cedric Jackson
Scott Fisher
Josh Childress
Train
Years ago
I think everyone forgot about D-mac haha
Carlos Powell was another one that I thought deserved a mention.
snooch
Years ago
DMac and Darnell Mee were 2 of the best import guards I've seen. Grace was terrific as well. All 3 were winners.
meggsie
Years ago
green would have terrorised both of those 2 players over the years that's why he aint there.
PeterJohn
Years ago
Camel - Green arrived as an import and naturalised, as did Grace, Davis, Loggins etc. He was still an import when he won his MVP and also for the Bearcats championship.
Mike
Years ago
Hope Leroy Loggins comes back as Head Coach of Bris..
Shakeem Robchamberussell
Years ago
Rick Brunson and Adonis Jordan, lol
T-Payne
Years ago
Ok lets not get carried away with the drew barrys and the dewey michaels of the world.
My proper top 10:
Loggins
Davis
Grace
Crawford
Fisher
D-Mac
Rose
Rucker
Green
Bruton Snr
Who the hell is Rocky Smith?
There's too many amazing imports who had long careers here to consider Ennis. I'd take Fish ahead of him.
I like your list more than anyones's, TPayne.
Needs Copeland though, he won Ships and Rucker didn't IIRC. Nor did Green.
Basket Hanger
Years ago
T - Payne's list is pretty damn good. A case could be made for Copeland but it's the most complete list I've seen so far.
Rocky Smith, Ennis were great but only lasted a year or two. Cedrick Jackson might make that list one day.
Al the players on T- Payne's list had the common thread of longevity in the NBL. That's going yo score you some votes!
T-Payne
Years ago
Yep, thats what I went for, longevity. Really needed to have guys in there that played at least 5 seasons.
Hard to leave out Copeland, its almost like leaving out Pippen because he played with Jordan kinda thing.
meggsie
Years ago
green 2 championships / 2 losses ! mvp
still holds scoring record which wont be beaten.
most outstanding import combination of all-time Leroy loggins and al green in their prime.
Jerry Everett with the Newcastle Falcons was unstoppable back min the day.
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