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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 5136276, member: 767"]
What's wild is this would be a first team all league with 0 US born players.  And it's totally plausible since 4 of the 5 made it last year and the Wemby is ready to go nuclear at any moment.

I think I did this right, the 1986 season was the first time a foreign born player was first team all league; but that was Dominique Wilkins who was born in Paris but his dad was in the US army, so, you know.  Hakeem made it the next season.  We didn't have fewer than 4 US born first team all league guys until 2005, when we went down to just 2.  However one of the 3 foreign born was Tim Duncan, which like Nique, is not really what I was looking for.  But Dirk and Steve Nash definitely were.  If you throw Duncan out, from 2009-2018 the only foreign born player to make first team was Marc Gasol in 2015.

In 2018 and 19 we hit the more modern era, Giannis and Jokic made first team.  If you count Tim Duncan as american (and I do), 2021 was the first time first team all NBA had more foreign players than american (Giannis, Jokic, and Luka).  That has been the case for each of the last 5 years.  I wonder the next time we'll have 3 or more american born players on first team.
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