Published on October 20, 2024 at 09:15. / Modified on October 20, 2024 at 5:03 p.m.
There are press releases that can be recycled more often than others. The one that announces that the NBA “will have a record number of foreign players this season”, for example, should fall in the coming days for the third year in a row. There were 120 in 2022-2023, 125 in 2023-2024, and they will be, according to the data collected by Time140 in 2024-2025. In addition to the two Swiss Clint Capela and Kyshawn George, the most prestigious basketball league in the world will bring together 22 Canadians, 13 French, 10 Australians, 6 Serbians, 4 Germans and 83 representatives from 39 other countries.
This is a new step taken in the internationalization of the National Basketball Association, of which 23.5% of the workforce will be made up of foreigners during the season which begins Tuesday October 22. This proportion, which was only 2% during the 1995-1996 season, has continued to increase over the last thirty years. The bar of one hundred foreign players was crossed in 2014, that of forty nationalities represented in 2015. In all, 92 countries saw at least one of their nationals touch the orange sphere on the NBA floors.
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