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Atleast for Basketball it is the league system. European players play a lot more games and a way bigger focus is on team play. In the US youth mostly plays to impress recruiters which results in unbalanced players.
Then when they win they're "world champions" because the league has players from around the world even though it's called the national basketball association.
to be fair, guy was coming off draft nights featuring picks such as Izzet Turkyilmaz, Sergio Llil, Axel Hervelle, Sani Becirovic and Nikoloz Tskitishvili...
I'd issue a string of obscenities that would make all of you blush (yes, even you) but I've decided it isn't actually helping anyone and able to be dismissed by people looking to justify their own hypocrisy and ignorance. (Again, yes, even you.)
Delete this poorly researched post. It was always obviously a joke.
Also, even if it was real, he was a 41st pick. Nobody was expecting anything. It’s not like he was a top 5 pick like Tingus Pingus where if foolish fans were saying shit it would mean something.
Funny how it works in different sports. NBA - Stop bringing in unknown foreigners!
MLB - We need more Dominicans on our team! Get that Japanese phenom!
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Drafted during a quesarito commercial so we didn’t even get to watch. Never forget.
Hagrid is the reason Trump is POTUS.
Harry Potter fans in shambles
(Laughing in Russian)
MAGA voter….early edition..
Nah, he's a full-time horsse dude who just plays basketball in his spare time
Serbia's main (and only) export is athletes. Something in our genes I guess xD
I was gonna mention Nikola Tesla but then I remembered that dude could drain threes like a motherfucker
Atleast for Basketball it is the league system. European players play a lot more games and a way bigger focus is on team play. In the US youth mostly plays to impress recruiters which results in unbalanced players.
You mean scouting the best talent?
Well, athletes and terrorists who start World Wars.
WHO THE FUCK IS TINGUS PINGUS?
Proof that fans, scouts, and Twitter experts all learn the same lesson eventually.
Btw, the guy is a troll and I'm pretty sure he posted it like in the past few years where Jokic was already a star.
It definitely was a joke but these people aren’t going to look into it
Then when they win they're "world champions" because the league has players from around the world even though it's called the national basketball association.
He obviously wasn't unknown if someone drafted him. Someone had heard of him.
Tingus Pingus of Lativia type-beat
The guy made that comment relatively recently so he was clearly joking. Not really aged like milk or anything
Do people ever follow up with the posters to check on them?
to be fair, guy was coming off draft nights featuring picks such as Izzet Turkyilmaz, Sergio Llil, Axel Hervelle, Sani Becirovic and Nikoloz Tskitishvili...
Ain't no way my man Sani was still playing back then, was he? Also Sergio Llull made a pretty impressive career in Europe.
I'd issue a string of obscenities that would make all of you blush (yes, even you) but I've decided it isn't actually helping anyone and able to be dismissed by people looking to justify their own hypocrisy and ignorance. (Again, yes, even you.)
Bitching about pick #41 is wild to me.
He’s worked out great for Denver.
Delete this poorly researched post. It was always obviously a joke. Also, even if it was real, he was a 41st pick. Nobody was expecting anything. It’s not like he was a top 5 pick like Tingus Pingus where if foolish fans were saying shit it would mean something.
I still feel like sports should have the people from the town they're in playing them. Maybe then I care.
Funny how it works in different sports. NBA - Stop bringing in unknown foreigners! MLB - We need more Dominicans on our team! Get that Japanese phenom!
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... has made the WCF 3 times in the last 4 years and won a title in 2023
I’d be happy if the Lakers relieved Denver of this unknown foreigner. I’ll even come get him personally.
Jamal Murray owns your franchise
Declined. Y’all have Leflop James, someone you guys call the GOAT every year. Clearly that means y’all have no need for Jokić.
You hate him because he’s a foreigner, I hate him becoaue he’s Serbian, we are NOT associated/j