Only two Americans in 1st Team All-NBA

NBA basketball has been an international game for a while. Nothing emphasizes that more than the recently announced 1st Team All-NBA, which had a record three international players on it to go along with Stephen Curry and Kawhi LeonardLuka Doncic (Slovenia), Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece), and Nikola Jokic (Serbia).

That makes 2020-21 the first time an All-NBA 1st Team has been made up of mostly international players.

The previous high for international players in a 1st Team All-NBA for any given season had been two out of the five, which took place on five separate occasions, in 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2018-19 and 2019-20.

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