Best International players who never played in the NBA

FreeBird23 · Post #1 » by **FreeBird23** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 9:08 am

In the first topic about Europeans players who never played in the NBA, some of you guys named Oscar Schmidt even though he was Brazilian.
So let's see who you have as the best International player (except Americans) who never played in the NBA.

CodeBreaker · Post #2 » by **CodeBreaker** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 9:22 am

Kai Sotto

Gregoire · Post #3 » by **Gregoire** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 9:44 am

Belov
Bodiroga
Shmidt
Gallis

TheNG · Post #4 » by **TheNG** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 10:12 am

Llull does not belong here

baldur · Post #5 » by **baldur** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 10:17 am

bodiroga. he was different.

BruttoNostra · Post #6 » by **BruttoNostra** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 10:26 am

The "better than Jokic" version of Divac or Radja who never arrived in NBA.

Joking, ofc.
For me it's Bodiroga, at least among those who I saw in my lifetime.

Petergrifindor · Post #7 » by **Petergrifindor** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 10:42 am

Bodiroga, Oscar, Galis.

UcanUwill · Post #8 » by **UcanUwill** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 12:04 pm

1. Galis
2. Oscar
3. Dejan

To me it is pretty simple.

mcmurphy · Post #9 » by **mcmurphy** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 12:43 pm

excluding '70s players (Meneghin, Dalipagic and others) top3 are:

1) Oscar
2) Galis
3) Bodiroga

BarbaGrizz · Post #10 » by **BarbaGrizz** » Thu Apr 4, 2024 1:23 pm

Oscar´s best comp is Chris Mullin on steroids (better shot maker and rebounder but worse playmaker). He was Kobe´s childhood idol and Larry Bird was at the stage in his Hall Of Fame introduction

Hatrick Ewing · Post #11 » by **Hatrick Ewing** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:41 pm

Forastivic
Michilinga
Stephen Arigbabu
Gunther Behnke
Mithat Demirel
Patrick Femerling – Had the most caps for the national team with (221)
Hansi Gnad
Henning Harnisch – Currently vice president of Alba Berlin
Mike Jackel
Michael Koch – Currently a professional basketball Head coach
Jens Kujawa
Kai Nürnberger
Ademola Okulaja – Former player at North Carolina
Tibor Pleiß
Henrik Rödl – Former player at North Carolina and Alba Berlin
Sylvain Francisco
Nadir Hifi
Andrew Albicy
Guerschon Yabusele
Vincent Poirier
Zaccharie Risacher
Mathias Lessort
Isaïa Cordinier
Jaylen Hoard
Damien Inglis
Matthew Strazel
Paul Lacombe
Denis Wucherer

schnakenpopanz · Post #12 » by **schnakenpopanz** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:13 am

Hatrick Ewing wrote:Forastivic
Michilinga
Stephen Arigbabu
Gunther Behnke
Mithat Demirel
Patrick Femerling – Had the most caps for the national team with (221)
Hansi Gnad
Henning Harnisch – Currently vice president of Alba Berlin
Mike Jackel
Michael Koch – Currently a professional basketball Head coach
Jens Kujawa
Kai Nürnberger
Ademola Okulaja – Former player at North Carolina
Tibor Pleiß
Henrik Rödl – Former player at North Carolina and Alba Berlin
Sylvain Francisco
Nadir Hifi
Andrew Albicy
Guerschon Yabusele
Vincent Poirier
Zaccharie Risacher
Mathias Lessort
Isaïa Cordinier
Jaylen Hoard
Damien Inglis
Matthew Strazel
Paul Lacombe
Denis Wucherer

some of these german players were avg at best in europe, i think they would have a hard time in the nba and there was a reason back then why most of them did not make it.

kacey ring · Post #13 » by **kacey ring** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:36 am

Hatrick Ewing wrote:Forastivic
Michilinga
Stephen Arigbabu
Gunther Behnke
Mithat Demirel
Patrick Femerling – Had the most caps for the national team with (221)
Hansi Gnad
Henning Harnisch – Currently vice president of Alba Berlin
Mike Jackel
Michael Koch – Currently a professional basketball Head coach
Jens Kujawa
Kai Nürnberger
Ademola Okulaja – Former player at North Carolina
Tibor Pleiß
Henrik Rödl – Former player at North Carolina and Alba Berlin
Sylvain Francisco
Nadir Hifi
Andrew Albicy
Guerschon Yabusele
Vincent Poirier
Zaccharie Risacher
Mathias Lessort
Isaïa Cordinier
Jaylen Hoard
Damien Inglis
Matthew Strazel
Paul Lacombe
Denis Wucherer

I’ll be honest I don’t know very many of these guys, but to have Okulaja (RIP) listed makes me question some things.

Care to explain why you think some of these guys are the best int’l to never play in NBA? Also, Poirier played for Celtics and 76ers.

durden_tyler · Post #14 » by **durden_tyler** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:02 am

CodeBreaker wrote:Kai Sotto

NBA does not need another scrub.

Mirotic12 · Post #15 » by **Mirotic12** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:34 pm

From the players listed in the poll, it's Bodiroga.

All of the players listed had very long careers in Europe, and Bodiroga had the best career in Europe of all of the players listed.

But if we are just talking about players that never played in the NBA, and we are including Nick Galis, who was born and raised in the USA, but played a long time in Europe, then that should open up the discussion to other American players that played a long time in Europe, like Wayne Brabender, Walt Szczerbiak Sr., Bob Morse, and Clifford Luyk. They had better careers in Europe than some of the players listed on the poll.

Also, in the list of European players listed here in this poll, some of them didn't have as good of careers in Europe, as guys like Miki Berkovich, Emiliano Rodriguez, Antonello Riva, Janis Krumins, Doron Jamchi, San Epifanio (Epi), Dragan Kicanovic, Drazen Dalipagic, and players like that, that also never played in the NBA.

Mirotic12 · Post #16 » by **Mirotic12** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:01 pm

Hatrick Ewing wrote:Forastivic
Michilinga
Stephen Arigbabu
Gunther Behnke
Mithat Demirel
Patrick Femerling – Had the most caps for the national team with (221)
Hansi Gnad
Henning Harnisch – Currently vice president of Alba Berlin
Mike Jackel
Michael Koch – Currently a professional basketball Head coach
Jens Kujawa
Kai Nürnberger
Ademola Okulaja – Former player at North Carolina
Tibor Pleiß
Henrik Rödl – Former player at North Carolina and Alba Berlin
Sylvain Francisco
Nadir Hifi
Andrew Albicy
Guerschon Yabusele
Vincent Poirier
Zaccharie Risacher
Mathias Lessort
Isaïa Cordinier
Jaylen Hoard
Damien Inglis
Matthew Strazel
Paul Lacombe
Denis Wucherer

With all due respect, none of these players should ever be mentioned in such a topic.

UcanUwill · Post #17 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:11 pm

kacey ring wrote:
Hatrick Ewing wrote:Forastivic
Michilinga
Stephen Arigbabu
Gunther Behnke
Mithat Demirel
Patrick Femerling – Had the most caps for the national team with (221)
Hansi Gnad
Henning Harnisch – Currently vice president of Alba Berlin
Mike Jackel
Michael Koch – Currently a professional basketball Head coach
Jens Kujawa
Kai Nürnberger
Ademola Okulaja – Former player at North Carolina
Tibor Pleiß
Henrik Rödl – Former player at North Carolina and Alba Berlin
Sylvain Francisco
Nadir Hifi
Andrew Albicy
Guerschon Yabusele
Vincent Poirier
Zaccharie Risacher
Mathias Lessort
Isaïa Cordinier
Jaylen Hoard
Damien Inglis
Matthew Strazel
Paul Lacombe
Denis Wucherer

I’ll be honest I don’t know very many of these guys, but to have Okulaja (RIP) listed makes me question some things.

Care to explain why you think some of these guys are the best int’l to never play in NBA? Also, Poirier played for Celtics and 76ers.

Most of these guys weren't good at all even in Europe, I do not get what that list is about, that they played in Germany? those indeed are players I guess. Some did play in the NBA, like Pleiss and Gershon obviously.

JRoy · Post #18 » by **JRoy** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:15 pm

Barkley was a big fan of Oscar Schmidt.

holdenwait · Post #19 » by **holdenwait** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:16 pm

Petar Naumoski the legend!

UcanUwill · Post #20 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:16 pm

schnakenpopanz wrote:
Hatrick Ewing wrote:Forastivic
Michilinga
Stephen Arigbabu
Gunther Behnke
Mithat Demirel
Patrick Femerling – Had the most caps for the national team with (221)
Hansi Gnad
Henning Harnisch – Currently vice president of Alba Berlin
Mike Jackel
Michael Koch – Currently a professional basketball Head coach
Jens Kujawa
Kai Nürnberger
Ademola Okulaja – Former player at North Carolina
Tibor Pleiß
Henrik Rödl – Former player at North Carolina and Alba Berlin
Sylvain Francisco
Nadir Hifi
Andrew Albicy
Guerschon Yabusele
Vincent Poirier
Zaccharie Risacher
Mathias Lessort
Isaïa Cordinier
Jaylen Hoard
Damien Inglis
Matthew Strazel
Paul Lacombe
Denis Wucherer

some of these german players were avg at best in europe, i think they would have a hard time in the nba and there was a reason back then why most of them did not make it.

They already had hard time in Europe. I did need a reminder Patrick Femerling existed, he and Dirk surely played together. Dirk really had no help, compare to world champions now, almost a good glowup as Canada, maybe even better.

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