The past six MVP awards in the NBA have been given to international players, and several new potential stars born outside the United States were slated to be gobbled up in the first round of the draft Wednesday night at Barclays Center.
“These are kids that you would think if you saw Alex or Zaccharie, if you watch them play, you’d think they grew up in Detroit or LA or New York, as opposed to Toulouse or Paris,” former St. John’s coach and current ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla told The Post last week. “If you look around the NBA, there’s been a lot of French kids now, Gobert, Batum, Fournier, and before that, Tony Parker, and now Wemby, there’s been floodgates of them.
Risacher has played for Asvel Basket — owned by Parker, a Hall of Fame guard — and JL Bourg in the French Pro League’s top division.Fraschilla, who describes himself as an “international hoops junkie” on his social media profiles, believes the massive influx of players from around the world dates back to the 1960s and ’70s, when coaches such as Hubie Brown, Dr. Jack Ramsay, Louie Carnesecca and others conducted coaching clinics around the world.
For the 10th straight year, Canada was the most-represented country outside of the U.S., followed by France , Australia , Serbia , Germany , Nigeria and Turkey .
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