More NBA Players Signing Contracts with Overseas Teams

1. NBA's best interest is to ante up or be out of buisness!LOL

LAWDHAVMURCY at 10:42AM on Aug 7th 2008

2. NBA's best interest is to ante up or be out of business.

LAWDHAVMURCY at 10:47AM on Aug 7th 2008

3. Take the money and run! There is no preference in whether you sell your body to the NBA or abroad. Why would Lebron or Kobe not take 2-3 years overseas and get $150 million and then come back to the NBA one year before the next Olympics? The Euro is stronger than the dollar and can be converted for more money. You only have one body and one life. Just put it in these terms...If you were an engineer in the USA and you were making $150,000 and someone came to you and offered to pay you $1,000,000 to work abroad, what would you do? Keep it real!!!

Mario Jackson at 11:29AM on Aug 7th 2008

4. This is what happens when the Commissioner David Stern wants basketball to be global. I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but this is definitely an extension of it, although unexpected.

Personally I think the European teams are gearing up for future olympics. Don't be surprised if they start offering the players citizenship as well. What better way to increase the chances of winning gold than having American basketball players.

James Ervin at 12:40PM on Aug 7th 2008

5. They are already offering American players citizenship. I know of atleast one american WNBA player who is playing for a foreign team. and one NBA player playing for Germany. he was given citizenship status because his great grandparents was German,. I can see this to be a growing trend. Thanks David Stern

greg at 12:30AM on Aug 8th 2008

6. THEY GET PAY TO MUCH KNOW

JERRY at 8:40PM on Aug 11th 2008

7. any player is entitled if they are a free agent to sign with any team he or she wishes to sign with. as they say in the nba it's all about business anyway. if we can get their players its fair for them to play in the same ball park as us.

jet tri at 12:51AM on Aug 12th 2008

8. Russia has a male and female american on their national team roster and they have NO Russian history. It will increase no doubt as the years go on. Money talks. Personally I could not feel proud representing a country that I had NO history with. To each their own!

cynthia at 12:59PM on Aug 12th 2008

9. Hey it's really be coming a world game.

Randy at 8:49PM on Aug 12th 2008

10. The media and many American citizens are always criticizing NBA players. They refer to them as thugs, criminals and every other name in the book. Yet when the olympics roll around they want these players to stand up, be proud, and support the USA. I would just love it if the Black NBA players would boycott the olympics, and only choose to play for an African team. Can you just imagine the backlash that would create, but also the amount of pride, integrity and courage it would instill in the black race? Then the USA would be forced to send a team of white players (jason williams, kirk hinrich, wally szcerbiack, mike dunleavy, troy murphy, michael doleac, mike miller, kevin love, brian scalabrine, adam morrison, jeff foster, jj redick). Can you say NO MEDALS? Even if this team loss evry game in the olympics which they would, I bet in no way would they endure the same type of criticism that is leveled against black players.

Brandon at 11:40PM on Aug 12th 2008

11. Brandon I agree with you greed has set in with this generation of bball players they would never play for an African nation whereby their ancestors came from, nothing is in it for them, it will never happen. No pride compared to Jim Brown, Bill Russell and Ali. These crybabies want more cars, more jewerly, bigger houses and 10 baby mamas. When is enough---ENOUGH

LeeLee at 1:00AM on Aug 13th 2008

12. I am thinking of making a one year comeback.

Afordlove at 1:43PM on Aug 13th 2008

13. we may lose some more star players, but the NBA doesn't care; as this was the whole calamity of taking our (U.S.) jobs overseas--thereby bringing in more white players from the "Queen's" slave funded Europe.
Unemployed everyday citizens end-up going to prison behind the U.S's jobs overseas schism; while our best Black Athletes taking multi-million dollar deals globally, will rightfully hurt the U.S. leagues. They don't deserve our players. If the U.S. news isn't denigrating them, they're trading them like...
I'll bet the UK isn't shaming them in their media?

Laymen Konvurse at 6:32PM on Aug 13th 2008

14. I'm glad, I think the NBA and NFL has treated it's black players likd $hit (all for thier monetary gain). If these players can go somewhere else and be paid for their gift without the BS, I say good for them! I hope more do the same and tell the NBA and other organizations to kiss my a$$.

Pay Attention at 12:25AM on Aug 22nd 2008

15. Nah, the NBA doesn't care that much about its prospects and current players. That's all a part of the "globalization" network--replace the Black players with European and American white, ones.

At the same time, if the MLB and Hockey teams were losing white players, it'd be a 'big' deal. White wealthy people care more about their children having white heroes, than Black ones.

Frank Talk at 12:16AM on Aug 24th 2008