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Top accolades: One NBA title, two FIBA Americas gold medals, three All-Euroleague Team selections
Share of the vote: 3.07 percent
A solid big man in the NBA who could set sturdy screens and score out of the pick-and-roll, Tiago Splitter won an NBA championship as a member of the Spurs, playing his role at the 5-spot at a capable level.
ALSO RECEIVING VOTES
Sergei Belov, Andrew Gaze, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Dino Meneghin, Dimitris Diamantidis, Dragan Kicanovic, Marco Belinelli, Radivoj Korac, Ersan Ilyasova, Jamaal Magloire, Nemanja Bjelica, Milos Teodosic, Nando De Colo, Andres Nocioni, Kresimir Cosic, Enes Freedom, Theodoros Papaloukas, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Aleksandar Djordjevic, Buddy Hield and Zaza Pachulia.
WHO WAS ELIGIBLE FOR THIS LIST?
There are occasionally grey areas when it comes to the nationality of some players since many have multiple passports. For this exercise, we kept it simple with two basic rules: 1. If you only represented USA internationally, you’re not eligible for this list. 2. If you didn’t have a passport from a foreign country by age 18, you’re not eligible either.
By doing that, we filter out players who had few links with a foreign country aside from representing their National Team (say Chris Kaman with Germany).
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