Can you name the NBA's best foreign born players of all time? by SportsGuy21

Country of Citizenship	Player	Career Points
20. Serbia (LAL, SAC)		13,398
19. Turkey (SAC, ORL, TOR)		8,861
18. Lebanon (MIA)		9,991
17. Netherlands (IND)		12,871
16. Serbia (SAC, NO)		13,009
15. England (CHI, DET)		7,802
14. Sudan/England (CHI)		5,793
13. Lithuania (CLE)		10,457
12. Germany (SEA)		15,761
11. Croatia (CHI, MIL)		9,810

Country of Citizenship	Player	Career Points
10. Argentina (SAS)		7,469
9. Belgium (SAS)		16,797
8. China (HOU)		9,196
7. Democratic Republic of the Congo (ATL, HOU, DEN)		11,729
6. France (ATL)		26,668
5. Canada (PHO)		14,205
4. Spain (MEM, LAL)		11,409
3. Jamaica (NYK)		24,815
2. Germany (DAL)		20,065
1. Nigeria (HOU,TOR)		26,946

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NBA's best foreign players of all time Quiz

by SportsGuy21

Created Sep 29, 2010 in Sports
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	SeanJohn528:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 06:32 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz, but Gasol is WAY to high on the list

	Tarabas:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 07:28 GMT	1 point
	As far as I remember, Ewing is a US citizen and came in the USA almost a newborn child. I am not at all sure that Wilkins is of French nationality. He was son of a US army officer based in France but is not a foreigner.

	edkool7:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 07:37 GMT	1 point
	dominique wilkins does not belong on this list

	ereed6:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 08:06 GMT	9 points
	Arvydas Sabonis and Drazen Petrovic?

	wfuwaldo:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 12:50 GMT	2 points
	Petrovic could play more than half these guys under the table.

	MistahSchwartz:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 13:02 GMT	1 point
	Agreed with ereed6 and wfuwaldo ^^

	bmo1616:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 13:05 GMT	-1 points
	If you're going to put nicknames, what happened to Hakeem "The Dream"?

	SportsGuy21:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 13:11 GMT	-1 points
	I understand what you are saying but Wilkins is considered foreign player based on the fact that he was actually born in France. As for Petrovic and Sabonis, considering the stats they averaged, they simply didn't play long enough in the NBA. Divac had slightly better career averages than Sabonis, but played much longer. Likewise, Turkoglu has slightly worse #s than Petrovic but has already accomplished many more things in a much longer career.

	SportsGuy21:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 13:15 GMT	1 point
	@bmo1616: Nicknames have now been taken away.

	bojanthebest:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 14:07 GMT	1 point
	but Petrovic is in the Hall of Fame.

	SportsGuy21:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 15:03 GMT	-2 points
	He certainly is in the Hall but he was inducted for much more than how he played on the court. The two biggest reasons for his induction: his influence on the influx of Europeans to play in the NBA, and, his sudden death in a car accident at the age of 28 or something. His actual numbers were not Hall of Fame worthy.

	jonnyr12:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 18:16 GMT	1 point
	There's not a whole lot of room for subjectivity in Sporcle quizzes. I would go with an objective measure, such as points scored (for example), and specify that they are foreign-born, regardless of citizenship. I would then change the title to reflect that. Also, Steve Nash was born in South Africa, for consistency's sake.

	SportsGuy21:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 19:14 GMT	-2 points
	I changed it from 'native country' to 'country of citizenship'

	ghosty:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 19:31 GMT	1 point
	If you go by that then Parker should be French. Lots of these guys played for teams you haven't listed too - Ewing, Schrempf, Seikaly, Wilkins, Divac, Nash etc.

	SportsGuy21:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 20:10 GMT	-3 points
	The teams are there for a reference point, not to be an encyclopedia.

	ag169908:	Sep 30th, 2010 at 03:03 GMT	0 points
	isnt tony parker from france?

	Paman93:	Sep 30th, 2010 at 03:38 GMT	1 point
	good quiz, but the name (if you are planning on keeping Wilkins and players who are US citizens) should be Foreign "Born" NBA players

	Thomsons_Yo:	Sep 30th, 2010 at 04:14 GMT	1 point
	If you are going to put team references they should be correct. Why do some players have multiple teams when others don't. I remember schrempf more as a Pacer than a Sonic