Why NBA Players Should Retire In EuroLeague 

The impact of a star playing in europe is really crazy, and I don't think people understand it. France have so many good players and rising young players because TP became a star a played in the French national team. Look at all the new generation of French player, Wemby for example, fan of the Spurs. And so much more French kids chose basketball over football (by far the national sport) because of him.

I would have travelled to see Dominique play! Although I was probably like 15 or something 😂

Good point, we should have also mentioned the inspiration part.

Not sure LeBron is the right guy for that…

Cultural differences and being away from family are probably issues.

Americans are scared of the world. Especially if its not UK with english as main language.

When you close your eyes, it makes sense. But I guess in Europe no one will offer them the China money.

Besides the reasons above I think a lot of players just want to retire sooner than later. Going to play in a country halfway along the world for a year or 2 more for what's essentially pennies compared to what you've made in your career isn't ideal. There's also the fact that superstars (actual superstars not guys like Ibaka) used to stay loyal in one team and get rewarded with a farewell tour at the end of their careers. Guys like Kobe, Duncan, Wade Dirk etc

thomas should have made the move years ago but hes ego is stopping him

He is already a grand dad, lol.

I definitely believe there’s an alternate universe where IT goes overseas way earlier and he has a legendary overseas career and it probably happens 9/10 times you run the scenario

@@mvee05yeah but instead of going oversea, earning Money and playing basketball he is crying and complaining about Not playing in the nba

Do Belgrade. The atmosphere is truly special.

@@rubatsch1713 it looks amazing, those guys are passionate 💪

Belgrade, Athens, Istanbul. You'll have a great experience. In Germany it's fine but not the same thing.

@@gntym I have friends in Germany, and cheap flights to Berlin. That's why it popped into my head. I've never been to Belgrade though so it's top of the list

D.H. is too old to do in Europe. NBA trashes are not allowed in EL.:))

Euro league will never be the best league as long as football exists and they don’t pump money into it like the nba

England has proved time and time again that they don't appreciate basketball. In all fairness , who ever wants to join, let them become part of it. Don't push anyone.

I think your examples show that it also depends on position and height. Small players, like barea and kemba struggle in any setting, once their athleticism is gone, despite being solid shooters. L7

Exactly. EL cannot be the garbage bag of the NBA. If a NBA star is between the ages 32-35, depending on his physical status, he could be accepted but players like the grand daddy Dwight Howard, one must be out of his mind to sign him; that would definitely be a total failure. Europe should pursue to develop their own stars instead of providing place for thrash NBA players .

wait fr im trying to make nba from uk any tips im moving to toronto soon

@@Ishowspeed_uk how old are you ?

im apg im very athletic but need help on finshing and shooting from range@@LordoftheTHOTs

i have the best defence in the top leauge in uk for my age @@LordoftheTHOTs

i have love for the game that wont run out never@@LordoftheTHOTs

yep indeed. german league has 34 regular season games, national cup games (which can be like 10 or so games) and if you have european competition the tally can go up by 20+ games (there are lower level european competitons) and then playoffs come on top. the european competion is kinda a weird web since they aren t organized hierarchically by the same organizers, so there isn t an official "tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 european competition" like in football with champions league, europa league and conference league. The "king" euroleague originated from a split of the big clubs from europe from ULEB (the basketball equivalent of UEFA), running their own european competition. Basically these basketball clubs succeeded in what some of the big football clubs tried to achieve when they wanted their own "superleague". this league is essentially an invitational competitions. it has 18 spots, of which 12 are permanently given to certain big household names (bayern munich, barcelona, real madrid, olympiakos etc.) and 6 wild cards where teams are subject to change every year (and i have no idea how these are decided). So basically, you can only agree "to just play in european competition" if you manage to snag a spot of one of those 12 permanent teams (and they are the ones who can afford the biggest contracts too). Below that there are european competitions which are either organized by FIBA europe (champions league, europe cup) or ULEB (EuroCup) [btw why do 2 names need to be so similar smh], where you need to qualify for each season through the national league. so ye most teams cannot afford to sign someone to "just play the big games" because they cannot guarantee those big games and these teams won t be willing to sign someone who just wants to play "the most important games" and let others do the job in normal games.

What are you going to do with the grand dad, lol?Mustafa Fall is probably better than him.

@@codingstyle9480 Fall is better than Howard? His defense is not consistent and he is ass

Unfortunately he can't play anymore. I don't think he can play on the euroleague, maybe eurocup

Tašmajdan stadium.

NBA>Euroleague>ACB, France league, Italian league, German league>NBL>Japans league>CBA

@@nesakysiu12 Italian>German>Greek>France. How tf is france league better than the others? Also Turkey might be better than All of them expect ACB.

If not watching basketball, why would you care? You would not event understand the answer you are given. :))

@@forgondor881 i forgot about turkish league because i dont follow that league

@@codingstyle9480 TIL: don’t learn anything you don’t already know . Thanks for the input

playing like it too

I think the same. I do not understand how ex-NBA trash players of over 35 years of age would be beneficial to European Basketball.

Injuries took a toll on him

Since Nikola Mirotic's contract with Barcelona 👀

He actually made what is equal to $12 million a season in the NBA. Spanish media had several articles about it, where they showed that the per season salary would equal to $12 million per year in the way the NBA counts it. Also, if we go back in the day, to the '90s to 2010s, and factor inflation to today's money, then there have been lots of EuroLeague players that made in the 8 to 10+ million range per season, in how the NBA counts salary.

Man delete this comment dont make fool of yourself any nba star would dominate in euroleague the talent alone is on another level, shengelia is a similar type player to giannis and he dominates in euroleague now imagine what giannis would do, harden also would dominate he avg most points in 2014 wc usa team

@@nesakysiu12why would you bother with this 🤡. These people think NBA players are dumb and Euro league players are astrophysicists or something.

@@MrInfinitig35s Some Players like KD will dominate euroleague easily. BUT some others like a 38yo Lebron , Giannis mr brick everything Antentokounmbo and Lillard or haliburton wont do shit. Their style just cant translate into a smaller court with tight spaces , and before you say that this is bs , watch them in fiba cup all of them were trash.

@@forgondor881stupid take giannis avg 30points in eurobasket fucking shengelia dominates euroleague but giannis would be trash... mike james is best player in euroleague but lillard who is faster stronger better shooter better iso player but yeah he would be trash Lillard avg 11points in team usa with other 11 nba stars

@@nesakysiu12 Not really. It is easier to score in the NBA because of the larger space. Did you watch the USA team in the world-cup last summer? They had star NBA players but could not compete well in the FIBA basketball.

Well, yeah, because they are actually passionate about the game.

Lol i guess America won the fiba cup in Football , oh wait they cant even get pass the 16 best countries in the world.