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The following is a list of athletes with dual nationality.It includes both players who can trace their origins to a foreign country and those who have attained foreign nationality during their career, as well as players who hail from semi-autonomous regions within countries.
The number of international players in the league rose after the formation of the Dream Team when NBA players were allowed into Olympic play starting in 1992. Global interest in basketball subsequently soared. On opening day of the 1991–92 season, NBA rosters included 23 international players from 18 countries. [6]
James Donaldson (dual British/US citizen) – Washington State Cougars and five NBA teams; Neil Fingleton – North Carolina Tar Heels, Holy Cross Crusaders, Boston Frenzy (21st-century ABA) Joel Freeland – Portland Trail Blazers; Ben Gordon (dual British/US citizen) – UConn Huskies and four NBA teams, also with the Texas Legends in the G ...
The increase in foreign players in the NBA has helped players born in the United States because, with more players from multiple countries, the outreach of the NBA is global and has been key to the NBA's success. [23] This has allowed for the average NBA player's salary to increase from $246,000 in 1982 [13] and 1983 to $7.7 million in 2019 ...
The list includes players both past and present after they have represented their new nation at least once. These list excludes players whose citizenship status is unrecognized by FIBA and therefore treated the same was as naturalized players as per FIBA eligibility rules ; such as the status of American-born player Jordan Clarkson who is born ...
Thybulle also earned first-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12, and repeated as the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year. Thybulle is a dual American-Australian citizen and spent seven years of his childhood in Sydney. He was a member of the Australian national team at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Kaman is a dual citizen; he is a citizen of the United States and of Germany. Although he did not speak any German at the time, he acquired German citizenship in July 2008 (his great-grandparents were German), to play on the Germany national basketball team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [23] Kaman belongs to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ...
The first Italian-born player to feature in the league was Hank Biasatti, who appeared in six games for the Toronto Huskies during the 1946–47 season and subsequently was picked by the Boston Celtics in the 1947 draft; Biasatti, however, was a Canadian citizen by naturalization at the time of his debut, having moved to Canada with his parents ...