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The majority of the teams in the NBA have an international player that is either a star on their team or a very important role player. Washingon, Portland, Boston, Atlanta and Detroit are the only good teams excluded from this majority. Based on our draft history of taking "proven college stars" I highly doubt we'll give any of these guys a look in the upcoming draft, but I got bored and thought it would be fun discussing which of these guys could potentially really help out. Without further ado...

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Nathan Jawai (Australia) 21 years old 6

I kinda like to think of Ammo as our International type player, but I think getting one of the combo guards or a big that fits would go a long way.

Playmaker solutions: Tripkovic/Dragic/Kalnietis

Ability to play alongside Okafor/Mohammed: Ibaka/Zabelin/Pekovic/Tomic/Ajinca

We're in the lottery and no one in our range fills a position so we go BPA: Batum then Gallinari

nice work walt.

everyone knows i love a good euro.

where is ricky rubio? or did you limit the list to only players from this year's draft class? either way he's gonna be fun to watch.

Yea, this year's draft potentials. I removed some guys I thought would be terrible fits (Paja Samaradziski for example)

I saw Jawai a couple of times when I was back home in Dec. One time was the All Star game which he totally dominated - but like I said it was an All Star game so we can't base too much on that.

He's a big unit carrying some excess baby fat, but he's super strong, is a soild rebounder and who loves to throw down power jams. He's a long way from being defined but seems to have some good smarts.

From what I have been reading about the Ibaka kid - if he could ever live up to the hype he'd be a stud and almost perfectly fit what we'd need at the 4 (providing EO50 is at the 5).