A more important international achievement than leading a total points category.

[TrainOfThought5]

this is some weak spursfan


every ing player on that list practically is better than the trash on the peurto rico and argentinian squads that throttled our americans.

Manu and Ncioni. b-b-but 23 year old Scola


Goddamn humiliation is what it is.

Im an American and i fully endorse this. No ing excuse to be made for the trash play that occurred that year.

[From Downtown]

Ignoring the troll attempt: 29 pts on 9 of 13 shooting against Team USA on an eliminaation game. What a beast.

One of Manu finest games

[diego]

Wade LeBron and Melo were 2nd team the following year, Iverson was 3 years removed from mvp, 1st team and scoring champ the next year (injured in 03-04, otherwise would have likely been 1st team that year too), marion was 3rd team the following year. Not the greatest dream team obviously but not quite the trash you are painting them out to be

not to mention, that in the run up to the olympics (following paul pierce, reggie miller, baron davis, michael finley, jermaine oneal, ben wallace, shawn marion, elton brand and andre miller getting beat at home, breaking a 59-0 record for nba players), nobody was complaining about marbury, rj and odom, on the contrary, everyone expected that team to smash argentina. and those teams were coached by pop, larry brown and george karl, quit pretending the states sends trash just because the very very very best are too pussy/lazy/legitimately injured to go. both times argentina won, the american players melted down and resorted to cheap shots. it was beautiful. argentina had a great team game, and manu was possessed. I believe the states is on another 40+ streak now, it will be a long time before another international player achieves what manu did.

[Kawhitstorm]

not to mention, that in the run up to the olympics (following paul pierce, reggie miller, baron davis, michael finley, jermaine oneal, ben wallace, shawn marion, elton brand and andre miller getting beat at home, breaking a 59-0 record for nba players), nobody was complaining about marbury, rj and odom, on the contrary, everyone expected that team to smash argentina. and those teams were coached by pop, larry brown and george karl, quit pretending the states sends trash just because the very very very best are too pussy/lazy/legitimately injured to go. both times argentina won, the american players melted down and resorted to cheap shots. it was beautiful. argentina had a great team game, and manu was possessed. I believe the states is on another 40+ streak now, it will be a long time before another international player achieves what manu did.

That was the equivalent of FC Porto beating ManU(er) over 2 legs on their way to winning the Champion League back in 2004 w/ Mourinho playing the maestro role before moving to England & winning a domestic le right away (ala Manu). Keane also resorting to dirty tactics (ala the Team USA players) is another parallel.

[cjw]

How in the is Hakeem an "international" player when he never played for Nigeria (he actually represented Team USA) & went to college in the States. Nash is North American & went to college in the States, he's as international as Obama is Kenyan.........that would be in name only. Dirk is also iffy considering he was a project who crafted his skills in the NBA & not overseas in Germany.

Exactly - Hakeem is no different to me than Duncan. Yes, Duncan was technically born in the U.S., but neither grew up in a basketball culture (USVI and Nigeria). Both American, though had much less exposure to traditional American basketball upbringings (AAU) and the European circuit for that matter.

[YGWHI]

How in the is Hakeem an "international" player when he never played for Nigeria (he actually represented Team USA) & went to college in the States. Nash is North American & went to college in the States, he's as international as Obama is Kenyan.........that would be in name only. Dirk is also iffy considering he was a project who crafted his skills in the NBA & not overseas in Germany.

I posted "top 5 foreign players" that means foreign-born, not "international" players. I didn't say those players have grown up outside the United States, or went from U.S. college to the NBA, or even played for their national teams.

[milkyway21]

How can op put that stuff here and call himself a Spurs fan? Knowing how ugly moment it was for the Spurs god Timmy and also Pop...op is not a fan of the Spurs, he is a son of a troll!!!

He's a fan of the Spurs but he's a hater of players who compete his boy Kawhi Leonard with the ball, in FGAs, and the team's scoring chart.

Wait next year let's see how soon can he start targeting LMA for the same reason.