Jason Gurney of Ballhype did a fancy little thing with Google Maps that plots the birthplace of every single NBA player. You can also sort by team.

The big lesson?

I was shocked by this, to be honest.

Roll through all thirty teams one by one, every single team has just one part of the world where the main concentration of their players come from. And for every single team, that cluster is the United States east of the Mississippi.

Similarly, zoom in on the map when it's showing the whole league, and be amazed how full the East is with markers of birthplaces. 

I know that's a huge area with tons of people in it. But you'd think there might one or two teams out of thirty with more players from the West -- there are lots of people in California -- or some other random spot. But there really is not. And check out the Pacers. Mike Dunleavy Jr. may have spent some of his youth on the West Coast, but no one on that team was born west of Texas.

Gurney also makes a great point: "The Suns are one Yuta Tabuse away from having a player born on every continent."