Charlotte Hornets forward Nicolas Batum, known to be one of the most cerebral players at the position, had a remarkable challenge for his Twitter followers — asking them to form a team with players of 10 different nationalities — a starting lineup and a second unit.
I'm testing your NBA knowledge: Try to build an NBA line up and a 2nd unit with 10 NBA players but from 10 différents nationalities! 🏀🌍
— Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) August 6, 2017
Batum came up with one of his own for the sake of demonstration.
1st: Dragic – Me (😝) – LeBron- Giannis – Embiid
2nd: Ginobili – Wiggins – Gallo – Porzingis – Jokic
— Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) August 6, 2017
Here's one with some international players that are 31 or older, just to kick up the difficulty up a bit.
- PG: Tony Parker (France) — 35 years old
- SG: Marco Belinelli (Italy) — 31 years old
- SF: Vince Carter (United States) — 40 years old
- PF: Dirk Nowitzki (Germany) — 39 years old
- C: Nene (Brazil) — 34 years old
- PG: Beno Udrih (Slovenia) — 35 years old
- SG: Mirza Teletovic (Bosnia) — 31 years old
- SF: Thabo Sefolosha (Switzerland) — 33 years old
- PF: Pau Gasol (Spain) — 37 years old
- C: Marcin Gortat (Poland) — 33 years old
Can you come up with a list of your own? Show us in the comments!