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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:55:13 +0000

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:30:17 +0000

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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:03:37 +0000

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By: Ball in Europe – European Basketball Blog » Blog Archive » Five more added to Dream Team Europe roster

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:29:37 +0000

[...] to all the folks who read and commented upon the recent Ball in Europe article “Dream Team Europe: The All-Time European Basketball Team.” Before announcing a few augmentations to the squad, i’d like to answer one commenter’s [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:24:04 +0000

Forget: Diaw.
Must-have : Bodiroga, Kirilenko
Why not: Papaloukas, Karnishovas

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El All-Star de todos los tiempos en Europa | El Corte de UCLA — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:03:28 +0000

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By: Cato.the.Elder

Cato.the.Elder — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:03:21 +0000

Oscar Schmidt is not European, but of course he would deserve to be in the list if he were.

By: t2c.wah

t2c.wah — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:13:40 +0000

WTF man!
What’s wrong with you!?!
No Dejan BODIROGA on your list!?!
The guy is the Greatest Of All Time! A winner, a leader…
He didn’t play in the NBA (despite being drafted by Sacramento) but he proved many times in international competition that he was as good as the best NBA players if not better…
WAKE UP MAN!

By: joe hubris

joe hubris — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:58:13 +0000

Oscar schmidt should be here. Youtube the game against petrovich where the two of them combined for over 100 points.
Boris diaw? What? How do he get in there?
Sabonis is perhaps the greatest player period. No one had the combo of size, passing, shooting, rebounding, ball handling and defense he did.
Petro, RIP.

By: Teo

Teo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:30:00 +0000

also galis holds almost any scoring record man can think of in european and world championships. What else exactly is a 2-guard supposed to be able to do in order to get on this list? Be a fiba hall-of-famer?

Well, guess what…Galis IS that. You did not put one of the premier Hall-of-famers of FIBA, not even just fiba-europe, on this list, while picking parker, who could not win anything with fiba rules if his life depended on it because he simply flourishes in the nba system while euro-defense smothers his drives.
Another thing about galis that nba purists tend to disegard: before he was injured close to the nba draft, he was regularly destroying the opposition (i.e. LARRY BIRD) in the ncaa. Only at that time drafting a player with such knee problems seemed an enormous risk, so he went to europe and ever-grateful ARIS and gave the western world a title over the soviet union.

Hardly a snub if you ask me, and Bodiroga is a lock on this list, as well.

Apart from that, returning to parker, I would also pick calderon over parker for all of his national achievements and because he has proven to be a fantastic nba guard. Different than parker and maybe not as successful in the nba (yet), but much more proven on an intternational plateau.