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The 10 best international NBA prospects

By Chad Ford
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 26, 2007

With a number of international players taking dominant roles in the NBA, the stigma of being a "foreign" basketball player is slowly wearing away. I first started covering the international phenomenon in 2002, when I traveled to Italy to watch the Euroleague Final Four in Bologna. I was there to watch two international stars who were thinking about making the jump to the NBA -- Manu Ginobili and Marko Jaric. They played together in the same backcourt and wowed me with the sophistication of the ...

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