The NBA is undoubtedly the world's top basketball competition hall, from the format to the quality of the players are the world's top. The popularity of NBA stars is also very high around the world, and their highlights are instantly spread on the streets.
However, there is a sky outside the sky, there are people outside the people, can it be that all the best basketball players in the world are playing in the NBA? No, in the international arena outside the NBA, there are also such four hall-of-fame figures, worthy of our admiration.
1. Dimitris Diamantidis
Born in 1980, Diamantidis is a Greek basketball player with a height of 1.96 meters, a left-handed player with excellent scoring and assist skills, and he has been voted the best defensive player in the Europa League for five consecutive seasons. Not only that, but his career honors are not at all lost to NBA stars: 3 Europa League championships, 2011 Champions League MVP, 6 Champions League Best Defensive Players, 4 Champions League First Team, 2 Champions League Assists, 2016 Champions League Legends. In the Greek league, he is even more invincible: 9 Greek league championships, 6 Greek league MVP, 2007 Greek league best defender, 2011 Greek league best defensive player, 11 Greek league best team, 5 Greek league assist kings... He is perfectly capable of playing all three positions on the pitch except for the inside line, and he was also the best all-rounder in the Champions League. Such excellent athletic talent, even in the NBA, will definitely have a very good achievement! However, in 2016, the Champions League legend retired and failed to shine in the NBA.
2. Theodoros Papalukas
Ten years ago, the showdown between Kidd and Nash, two top point guards, made fans around the world feel the importance and extraordinary charm of "organizing a defender" for the team. It was then that someone was looking for "the strongest organizational guard outside the NBA," and Theodoros Papalukas from Greece was given the title. Born in 1977, Papalukas was watched by NBA fans in a game that was at the 2006 World Championships, where Papalukas contributed Greece's highest 12 assists to lead Greece to the United States. He won the European Championship in 2005 as well as MVP, ending his career in 2013.
3. Dejan Bodi Loga
For many years, people have been struggling to find another player like Magic Johnson, however, in Yugoslavia, Serbia, there is such a player called "White Magician" - Bodi Loga. He is 2.05 meters tall, can be inside and outside, can shoot suddenly, and his one-handed assist ability is recognized by the world. Oriental Sports Media once commented that "he is 205cm tall, some people say that he is a point guard, some people say that he is a shooting guard, some people say that he is a small forward, and he is like Olajuwon under the basket back singles, which confuses the concept of "position" on the basketball court." He also has a nickname "Champion Harvester", and throughout his career, he has won 11 MVPs in Europe and a total of 19 championships in various competitions, honors and so on! In 1995, he was selected with the 11th pick in the first round of the NBA Draft, but he confessed that he was very comfortable with his teammates in Europe and would not play in the NBA. Peja, who has a retired jersey in the Kings, is even more blunt: "Bodi Loga is the greatest player outside the NBA."
4. Oscar Schmidt
The American Dream Team is nothing less than the world hegemon of the Olympic men's basketball team for so many years, but when people evaluate the greatest basketball player in the history of the Olympic Games, they will nominate the great player from Brazil , Oscar Schmidt. With a height of 2.05 meters, Schmidt has a super scoring ability, and he scored 1093 points in the Olympic games! In particular, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he averaged 42.3 points per game, scoring a total of 338 points to become the Olympic leading scorer. The highest game of his career was in the basketball final of the 1987 Pan American Games, where he scored 46 points and led the team to defeat the United States led by David Robinson to win the men's basketball championship, which was the first defeat of the American team on home soil! In addition, Oscar should be the world's longest basketball player in a career, reaching 29 years. In his career, he scored a total of 49,737 points, more than Jabbar, more than Jordan, more than anyone else, the highest score in history.
He was inducted into the FIBA Top 50 Superstars at the 1991 Oscar, the FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010, and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
In fact, the NBA is only the world's most concerned basketball game platform, but it is undeniable that outside of this stage, there is no other "world-class high-ranking person", these four world-class basketball celebrities, or indifferent to fame and fortune, or nostalgic for their hometown, did not enter the NBA professional league, is the NBA regret, today to introduce them to the fans, fill our worship for their once missing! (Translation)