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Hojs, for teh lulz.

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Blame Cark Muban for selling the team

Yes, it’s actually their national past time.

It’s Easter Europe, so yes.

Nay. It’s still Harden. That guy has got so many big men paid. I don’t think you can say the same for Luka.

Chris Paul turned his bigs into All Stars and made them a ton of money.

The real answer is Jason Kidd

It’s just so bizarre. I can’t imagine changing my citizenship or acquiring citizenship for something this dumb.

it starts by signing strangers for your domestic teams. best serbian players have always played for zvezda and partizan. i turned on the game when they played a few weeks ago and there was maybe two serbs on the floor. sad reality.

We did sign an American for our women’s team, she seems cool. Gotta be honest as a Serb, if our men’s team was shit, we would probably do it there too. Maybe it would’ve been Punter back when he was in Partizan.

But on the other hand, why would only America have the privilege to play immigrants and our team to be constrained to ethnic Serbs or something. I’m split on this question

I was so annoyed when we naturalised Walkup after living here for a year. Then he only did a week of military service. Even Giannis did 3 months. It’s a joke.

Hey, Lithuania too. Our “nationalised” player is Brazdeikis lol

Yeah, it’s sad that even Spain is like ‘We need an American PG’.

I feel like anytime I watch international team sports there are some citizenship games being played. I think there are more guys from California than Israel on Israel’s World Baseball Classic team. Also he has other reasons to have citizenship but it did surprise me when Embiid was announced for team USA

I feel like Serbia can field players better than Hayes. It’s not a high bar to pass honestly in the grand scheme of professional basketball.

Nah its fine.

It’s better for the game if there are more strong teams. If a guy is never going to play for USA, I would rather see him go join another team instead of just be wasted and not used on a roster at all.

This could be “fixed” though if they had each state field their own team instead of one team USA. A player like Jaxson Hayes could play for (wikipedia says born in) Oklahoma with Trae Young and whoever else is from there. It wouldn’t be the strongest team but it would probably be competitive against teams like Slovenia and whatnot, and then they wouldn’t have to change their nationality to find a team.

Except Embiid wrote a letter to the French president asking for citizenship and talking about how much he loved France, and then completely u-turned to play for the US.

Its not like Hayes has written to Giorgia Meloni to try and play for Italy saying how much he loves the country, but is now trying to become Slovenian because he likes Luka.

Just for the record, I think what Hayes is doing is completely ridiculous as well, but it’s not entirely the same as what Embiid did.

Didn’t Embiid get shit because he went out of his way to ask for french citizenship and then ditched them for USA when he had the chance? Hardly the same lol

Hayes will never play for team USA. Embiid could’ve played for any country in the world and chose the most stacked one. French fans are right to hate on him

Hayes is getting Slovenian citizenship and in exchange he is (presumably) providing a service to the country via the national basketball team. Embiid got French citizenship and didn’t provide the service that the country wanted from him and in fact even worked against the country’s interest by playing for the direct opposition.

Embiid got shit because a team Cameroon with him alone would have done very well at Afrobasket, qualifiers and likely do better at a World Cup than any other African team. Instead he got naturalised for the country with the most NBA players where every NT member is a top-50 player in the world. It looked like the easy way to a medal for a superstar.

Hayes doesn’t have a path to getting a spot on the US NT. He’s getting a passport from a country of 2 million, whose NT features a total of 2 NBA players. A non-star going to a middling NT rather than a superstar joining a juggernaut NT. You can assign moral value to each however you want, let’s just acknowledge it’s a very different situation.

Both situations are shit:

• Embiid for juggling nations until he sees which one makes him the biggest favorite.
• Hayes for being signed in free agency to play for the country he can’t point to on the map.

The context is obviously completely different, i am actually surprised that anyone with a functional brain upvoted this.

Except it’s not at all what Embiid did. He could have played for his own national team if he wanted to. He instead lied to one country (France) to get citizenship. Then opted to instead play for the team that gave him an all but guaranteed gold medal.

Joel also isn’t a piece of shit abuser either

MVP joining team USA

=/=

Benchwarmer joining a country you couldn’t find on a map if I told you where to look

That’s because Embiid is a fucking clown asshole.

This dude is trash, the fLakers actually acquired Ayton, AYTON, because they couldn’t trust Hayes. Why would US team even let you in the parking lot? Open tryouts, SMH

Chicken and mlinci

This isn’t new if you’re following FIBA. What’s wrong with people? It’s only Jackson Hayes, and people are acting like it’s Jokic😂.

I see no one else complaining about this lol , If the guy is exploring his international options. WHO CARES?

The literal fucking french football team is filled with the exact same, could’ve been algerian, angolan, congolese, cameroonian, but guess what? they CHOOSE French

Hayes would not only be their best center but probably their 2nd best player right now

Why are you typing this like this is some kind of a new thing or change? Also your last sentence doesn’t make any sense if you understand that only one player can be naturalized. One naturalized player has been allowed for almost 30 years now. That was when they changed it from 2 to 1. It helps smaller countries (in this case Slovenia has population of 2million) to be more competitive in the world stage which makes the international competitions more interesting and even.

Unnecessary