Embiid to play for USA: What other naturalized players have played for the national team?
Basketball is a popular sport that brings together players from all over the world . Sometimes, players may choose to represent a different nation than their country of birth or the one they originally played for. Once they have expressed their new nation at least once, they become eligible to be listed as a player for that country. However, there are some players whose citizenship status is not recognized by FIBA, the international governing body of basketball. These players are treated the same way as naturalized players, as per FIBA eligibility rules . Let’s see which of the most popular players born outside the U.S. had defended the Stars and Stripes international basketball supremacy throughout history. Ernest Grunfeld Ernest Grunfeld is an American-Romanian former basketball player and NBA general manager born on April 24, 1955. He is the all-time leading scorer at the University of Tennessee and won gold medals in the 1975 Pan American Games and the 1976 Summer Olympics while ...