By Kyle Boenitz, Project Spurs.comThe San Antonio Spurs have been known as the NBA’s most “international” team for a while. They specialize in finding talent all over the world.
The rest of the league has caught on, and now you see a whole lot more players from other countries than you did 10 years ago. The NBA has truly become a global league and it’s because teams started taking chances on talent they saw elsewhere instead of being close-minded and thinking only Americans make good basketball players.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich thinks the same principles can be applied to coaches. There are some great basketball minds out there that weren’t born here in the USA. It’s only a matter of time before the NBA starts realizing it.
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