With 84 players from outside the U.S. competing in the NBA this season, the American league broke its record of foreign players. It’s not a big surprise then to see nine of them on the American Airlines Arena court tonight, as the San Antonio Spurs face the Miami Heat in the decisive Game 7 of the NBA finals.
Since the 1992 Olympic gold won by Michael Jordan and the Dream Team, the American basketball league has become a 5 billion dollars annual industry and has developped into a global competition, as you can see on our NBA world map.