hippesthippo wrote:UcanUwill wrote:hippesthippo wrote:Now
this is stretching it. I love how the report says he meets the "strict criteria," and then goes on to state that his Grandmother was born in Jamaica.
Yup, totally fits the criteria. They even refer to him as one of Minnesota's "star," players.
I'm glad for Slo-mo, I've always liked his game, but this seems like a bit too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.
The fact he doent count as naturalized is pretty crazy. But it will be fun to see him in FIBA as first option, I always wondered does he really have Bodiroga in him, now we gonna see.
I don't understand what you're trying to say about not counting as naturalized. It said in the OP that they "started the process of naturalization last year," but I don't even know what the criteria for that is and who decides it.
Is naturalization something which is defined and limited by FIBA, or is it the country that makes that determination?
Well, I assume they used word naturalization just as is, and he is nto FIBA Naturalized player. Because FIBA naturalized player can have nothing to do with country whatsoever, he just needs to get passport of that country and thats it. The fact they searching and linking his encestry inplies they do not consider or plan for him to count as FIBA naturalized, not liek it really matters, because I believe CHina did not use naturalized player, but if they want, they still could.
(Or maybe he will count as naturalized player, and Chinese federation bringing his ancestry just to explain their fans why he should be on a team, Chinese are patriotic people and they probably against FIBA naturalizations.)
It is the same thing with how Calathes and Tyler Dorsey can play for Greece, neither of them is naturalized player. Brazdeikis plays for Lithuania even tho he is more Canadian at this point, but he is from Lithuanian family and country originally, so he is also not naturalzied. Same with be with Matas Buzelis or Paulo Banchero etc.
I remind that FIBA has one "naturalized'' player per team limit. Naturalized FIba player is a person who has citizenship aka simple passport of the country, but actually has no other connection to that country at all. For example, like Lorenzo Brown, who stained entire European basketball this past Autum, by seriously dragging Spain to gold medal. He should have been Eurobasketball MVP really, FIBA Europe was probably just so ashemed so talked themselves into giving MVP to WIlly Hernangomez.
