well yeah except some of us are actually hung up on the “is really okay” part and how awkward that sounds in the english title we were provided lol. whether it’s boy or dude it doesn’t matter, following it with “really okay” is an odd compliment which is why most of us figured it couldn’t be right

And Americans never stay out of everybody else’s business. What’s your point?

It’s an incorrect translation bruh

Cry louder.

So insufferable

Don’t they have heritage? That’s a much clearer distinction even if it’s minimal in the grand scheme

Hayes is a mid at best hooper with no connection to slovenia other than Doncic.

It comes down to where your mother and father were born, gaining your citizenship, or possessing residency.

For example, since you made a reference to soccer, in the future Ronaldo Jr is technically qualified to play for 5 different countries.

Portugal: He is eligible through his father’s nationality and has already represented the country at the youth level.

United States: He was born in San Diego, California, automatically making him a U.S. citizen.

Spain: He lived in Spain for several years during his father’s time at Real Madrid, granting him the opportunity to acquire Spanish citizenship.

England: He became eligible to apply for British nationality after residing in the country while his father played for Manchester United.

Cape Verde: He is eligible through his paternal grandmother’s heritage from the African island nation.

It’s very different. For example, I was born and raised in France to Moroccan parents like a lot of guys in the Moroccan NT. Morocco doesn’t need to offer me anything. If I played football professionally I would choose Morocco over France.

Those guys have family there, have spent multiple months there every year since they were born (they might even own lands there) and at the very least they understand the language. They grew up around other North Africans and Africans,they weren’t raised as an actual ethnic minority (White people are a minority where I’m from and where most guys in the French NT are too )

It’s very different from a guy who’s never going to make the national team and suddenly finds out his grandparents might have been 10% Kazakh so he can play there, or a guy who gets gifted a Qatari passport.

I think it’s pertinent to know that entire Curacao island’s inhabitants were forcibly enslaved and evicted from the island by Europeans at one point.

Why Jaxson Hayes specifically though? Why hasn’t Slovenia tried to grab other players in the past from teams that Luka was a part of? Hayes is a pretty random mediocre player.

The whole reason international basketball is a thing is to see players represent their home countries, not to see who can buy the best imports to get citizenships there. At least in my view it is.

Who says they care? They just said it’s weird.

I don’t, I just think it’s a weird thing to do

That makes Quinones’s situation extremely different lmao

He didn’t migrate there. When asked why he was doing it he said “I don’t know, we have the same agent”

It is weird to get citizenship to play basketball for a country you have never lived in, have no plans of moving to and have no family connection to.

No one is crying or claiming he is ruining international basketball, we are simply saying it’s a little odd.

And it is, or else you would be pointing at all the examples of other NBA players that are doing this.

Again, not saying the man is evil for doing this. Don’t hop in the comments and act like we are lined up with pitch forks.

Simply pointing out it’s a little weird. You can tell Hayes thinks so himself with the way he giggled through his response to the media about why he was doing it.

It’s absolutely a bit weird if he’s doing it for the sole purpose of playing international basketball and I think you’re being intentionally obtuse in directly comparing this situation to migrating lol.

If Hayes plans on living in Slovenia outside of basketball that’s completely different though.

Does he live there?

Hayes isn’t migrating lmao

Migration obviously isn’t the issue which is why no one makes a big deal about Giannis playing for Greece or Wemby playing for France