Not as rich with talent as Europe per say, but South America has good amount of players that made very good NBA careers.
Which one is the BEST player in history of that continent?
Names like Manu, Scola, Nene and Barbosa come to mind.
One might argue Manu had better NBA career, but I think Scola was also a force back in the day with a long list of international accomplishments. Thoughts?
I am from South America, and recently got into cbb.
I am a big fan of basketball since i was younger and I wanna start supporting a college basketball program.
I would like to support a program who is good, but it's not a contender. A program who have a passionate fan base and great uniform schemes, and the most important, i would not like to support a program that has a giant fan base (UNC, Duke, Kentucky, etc).
I also intend to study abroad in the US so would be great to have a chance to watch a live game!
Renan Dal Zotto has announced the 14 players that will be playing the South American championship: Bruno and Fernando Cachopa; Alan and Abouba; Lucarelli, João Rafael, Vaccari and Adriano; Lucão, Isac, Flávio and Cledenilson; liberos Thales e Maique. Douglas Souza, Leal, Maurício Borges, Maurício Souza and Wallace are out. Douglas asked to have the time off, Leal has things to sort out in Cuba and Wallace is not playing for the national squad anymore.
> When Curry considers the construction of the team and his current responsibilities within the Warriors ecosystem, he grins. “Well, it's also weird because when we won our first championship, in 2015, Jordan Poole was 15 years old,” he says. “Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody were like freshmen in high school, and now they're here. It's weird to think they were watching us like we were almost basketball gods.” He laughs, and then offers an accepting shrug. “And now they're here helping us do it again.” > > This specific nostalgia rings true for Jordan Poole, who summons a specific memory of Curry's greatness: his infamous game-winning pull-up three against Oklahoma City in 2016. “I grew up in Milwaukee, so I was mostly getting Eastern Conference games on television,” Poole says. “That was the rare night I got a Western Conference game, and it didn't disappoint.” > > ----- > > Curry's coach at Davidson, Bob McKillop, is one of the few people who can remember when Curry truly was an underdog. He was a three-star recruit who was all but ignored by Division I colleges, most notably Virginia Tech—alma mater of his NBA-famous father, Dell, and the school Curry had eyed for himself. Davidson was one of the only schools to offer Curry a scholarship, a choice the program made because of his resiliency, McKillop says. “We went to see him play in Vegas in an AAU tournament the summer before his senior year,” McKillop tells me. “He played in one of the auxiliary gyms, not the main gym. There were very few people at the game, and even fewer coaches. I felt pretty good knowing that only a couple of guys were watching him.” McKillop waits a beat before the reveal. “And he was awful. He threw the ball into the stands, he dropped passes, he dribbled off his foot, he missed shots. But never once during that game did he blame an official, or point a finger at a teammate. He was always cheering from the bench, he looked in his coaches eyes, and he never flinched. That stuck with me.” > > ----- > > His prolonged contest with LeBron James is now one of the great sports duels of our era, one that added yet another chapter late last season, when James hit a three-pointer over Curry's outstretched arms in the dwindling moments of the play-in game that would send the Lakers into the playoffs. > > Curry looks upon the James rivalry almost with a
... keep reading on reddit ➡Coach Jose Roberto Guimaraes called up the following players for the South American Championship that starts next month:
Macris, Roberta, Rosamaria, Lorenne, Gabi, Natália, Ana Cristina, Kasiely, Carol Gattaz, Carol, Bia, Mayany and liberos Nyeme and Natinha.
Personally I wish Pri Daroit would make the roster, but...oh well :(
Pretty incredible statistic, and speaks to the long journey traveled by a lot of the Baylor talent, like Mitchell who rode the bench at Auburn and Teague who spent time at UNC Asheville.
This is a huge achievement for the program, to do so much with players that were not heralded out of the gate.
