11-17-2021, 02:13 PM
(11-17-2021, 01:57 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Thats a LOT of foreign players. So many that a couple of pretty good ones might not even make the team in this exercise.
I have a sense that this is unusual. Maybe not unique, but unusual. Have most teams had that many foreign players through the years?
I suspect that if you include players like Peja in Dallas, most teams would have similar numbers just because back end guys like Melli or Campazzo get passed around a lot as trade filler. Dallas, I think, feels unusual because of the number of top-end foreign players. I mean if you replace Peja with Blackman in the original post then that's arguably the same set as 'greatest Dallas players all-time by position'.
Other than Houston with Hakeem and Yao Ming, I'm drawing a blank on another team with any equivalence to Dallas with Dirk then Luka as franchise cornerstones--and Hakeem and Yao Ming's supporting casts were considerably more 'American' than Dirk and Luka's (i.e., where Dirk had Nash, Hakeem had Drexler; where Luka has KP, Yao Min had Mcgrady, etc).