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Quick Final Four Observation No. 5: The Globalization of Hoops

By Ted Bauer

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Rather obvious to some, but we're going to point this out anyway: David Stern speaks often of the globalization of basketball as a huge thing for him. He should be watching the 6:07pm game this Saturday in Detroit: in it, you've got Goran Suton of Bosnia (read this) banging with Hasheem Thabeet of Tanzania (read this) for the right to get to Monday night's stage. That's globalization personified. (Read this too.)

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