Word: divac
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...finally shed the "soft" label, buying into coach Avery Johnson's plan that he both bang down low and bomb threes. And if he leads Dallas to a title, Nowitzki will stamp the European revolution of America's game. The first wave of Euros from the early '90s - Vlade Divac of Serbia, Toni Kukoc and Drazen Petrovic from Croatia - had to earn the begrudging respect of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and the basketball establishment. The next wave - Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic of Serbia, Pau Gasol of Spain - could play, but still faced the question of whether they could carry a team...
...Until recently, the conventional wisdom on all this was that fans didn't care where their players came from so long as their team won. The delirious supporters of the Sacramento Kings don't distinguish between Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic-both Serbs-and other team stars. Even a club's ownership seems to be immaterial to its support...
...from Akron, Ohio. It's no coincidence that the three best teams so far this season (and those with the best shot at dethroning the L.A. Lakers as NBA champs) are the Kings, Mavericks and Spurs, all aided by an abundance of foreign talent. (With Stojakovic and center Vlade Divac on the Kings, some fans have dubbed the team the Sacramento Serbs...
...Sarunas Marciulionis showed that foreigners who weren't named Olajuwon could still play ball with the big boys, the NBA has eagerly gone global. In the next round of the playoffs the Mavericks will square off against the Yugoslavian stars of the Sacramento Kings, Predrag Stojakovic and Vlade Divac. Elsewhere, one of the league's most promising wunderkinds is the San Antonio Spurs'19-year-old Tony Parker, hailing from Belgium...