Sports Publishing Llc The (inter) national basketball association: how the nba ushered in a new era of basketball and went global, hardcover/joel gunderson

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For most of its existence, the National Basketball Association was a league filled with (almost) all American-born players.

Players from overseas were looked at as less-skilled and not worth the risk.

Americans playing overseas were looked at as those who couldn't cut it in the NBA, now playing in, essentially, the minor leagues of basketball.

But that's no longer the case.

Today, a full one-third of those in the league were born overseas.

Out are the days of foreign-born players from .