The Growing Presence of Former NBA Players in the Euroleague: A Statistical Overview

11/23/2023 Act. at 19:42 CET

The Euroleague has been considered for some years as the best competition outside the NBA and more and more American players decide to make the leap to Europe to play for one of the 18 teams that make up the competition.

Many European players also took the step of going to the NBA and after a few years of experiences on the other side of the Atlantic with more or less luck, they decided to return to the Euroleague, which has become the NBA’s wardrobe. with more North American players reaching the top European competition.

Information from ‘BasketNews’ indicates that in this season’s Euroleague, after the departure of Frank Jackson from ASVEL Villeurbanne, A total of 94 former NBA players are competing in the European tournament what represents 32.5% of professionals from all teams.

Barça, with a lot of NBA experience

In this year’s edition of the Euroleague, the team with the most NBA experience is Barça, with six players with a past in the American competition, Tomas Satoransky, Willy Hernangómez, Jabari Parker, Alex Abrines, Jan Vesely and Nico Laprovittola.

They are followed by Madrid, current European champion, who has accumulated 1,255 games with nine players who have stepped foot on an NBA court, and AS Monaco is third, with eight former NBA players who have accumulated 1,232 games.

Curiously, teams in the lower part of the Euroleague, such as ASVEL and Bayern, are fourth (1,214 games) and fifth (1-210) in NBA experience. Zalgiris Kaunas is the team that does not have any player with experience in the United States.

On an individual level, Bayern player Serge Ibaka is the one with the most experience in the NBA where he played 14 years and accumulated 919 games. The 34-year-old Congolese is one of nine players in the Euroleague to have won the ring.

One of the last to arrive, Kemba Walker, from AS Monaco, is the only All Star – he did it from 2017 to 202 – who has played in the Euroleague and has 750 games in the NBA.

2023-11-23 16:32:33
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