{"id":97282,"date":"2024-09-24T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=97282"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:04:51","slug":"espn-panelist-breaks-down-best-future-european-player-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/24\/espn-panelist-breaks-down-best-future-european-player-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Panelist Breaks Down Best Future European Player Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN\u2019s Zach Lowe shared his two cents on who will eventually reign as the best European basketball player of all time. Will it be Nikola Joki\u0107<\/a>? Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/a>? Or maybe it\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>\u2019s title to claim.<\/p>\n

ESPN Panelist Breaks Down Best Future European Player Debate<\/h2>\n

And the Best Future European Player Goes To…<\/h3>\n

Who will become the eventual greatest European player ever to represent overseas in the NBA? ESPN sportswriter\u00a0<\/span>Zach Lowe<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has a couple of solid suggestions. Lowe and company continued discussing who would go down as the best European player ever during a segment on\u00a0<\/span>NBA Today<\/span><\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of\u00a0<\/span>Vlade Divac<\/span><\/a>\u2019s comments\u00a0<\/span>regarding Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Nikola Joki\u0107 recently, the NBA analyst panel went on about the subject further today. Aside from Joki\u0107 and Don\u010di\u0107, Giannis Antetokounmpo and\u00a0<\/span>Victor Wembanyama<\/span><\/a>\u2019s names also made it into the stirring pot. Lowe, however,\u00a0<\/span>seems ten-toes down on the former two European stars<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who represent Serbia and Slovenia, referencing their current accolades.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLook, Joki\u0107 has three MVPs, a championship, and a finals MVP, and statistically he\u2019s going to be in the stratosphere where like its LeBron [James] and him if he stays healthy,\u201d Lowe goes on to say of Don\u010di\u0107, \u201cLuka\u2019s gonna be in that same statistical stratosphere and TBD on him and how much he wins\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This particular conversation was featured in the \u201cSummer Superlatives\u201d segment on NBA Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Four in the Mix<\/h3>\n

Lowe is right on cue here as it relates to the two superstars in question. Joki\u0107 has the upper hand on Don\u010di\u0107 regarding NBA championships and multiple\u00a0<\/span>MVP<\/span><\/a>s. Luka has yet to reach those milestones, and his future trophy case is yet to be determined. While Giannis has thus far put forth a pretty spectacular career, many would not place him above Joki\u0107. Each European player has implanted league dominance in their own way, yet Joki\u0107\u2019s dominance hits a different note on the basketball court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Setting aside these three players for the moment, Lowe\u2019s panelist counterpart, David Dennis Jr., didn\u2019t shy away from including French sensation Victor Wembanyama in the conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026we\u2019re gonna be talking about Wemby as maybe the greatest of all time\u2026\u201d Dennis Jr. stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lowe responded by requesting everyone to calm down.\u00a0Wemby surely has the potential to be the best European player ever, but Lowe is right. No one knows what\u2019s in store for Wemby down the road. After all, he\u2019s only entering his second NBA season, and the San Antonio Spurs are not a good team. Wembanyama needs to accumulate a lot of what Joki\u0107 has, and more, if his name is to be considered as Europe\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

International Talent at its Best<\/h3>\n

These hypotheticals are fun to enjoy and debate back and forth on. However, each aforementioned European player is still playing the game of basketball at an elite level. Giannas and Joki\u0107 are still in play to win a second title. Don\u010di\u0107 will win an MVP at some point, if not multiple, not to mention a championship ring for himself. As for Wembanyama, he\u2019s just getting started.<\/p>\n

Who knows where this hot-topic conversation will take us? As of right now, where it stands in the NBA, Nikola Joki\u0107 holds all the cards and stands at the top of the mountain. It\u2019ll be up to the others to climb on up and tip him over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESPN\u2019s Zach Lowe shared his two cents on who will eventually reign as the best European basketball player of all time. Will it be Nikola Joki\u0107? Luka Don\u010di\u0107? Or maybe it\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s title to claim. ESPN Panelist Breaks Down Best Future European Player Debate And the Best Future European Player Goes To… Who will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5081,"featured_media":97334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,61,62],"tags":[979,306,38,1133,408,564,72,4669,753],"class_list":["post-97282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-international-basketball","category-nba","tag-espn","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-lebron-james","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba-championship","tag-nba-mvp","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-vlade-divac"],"modified_by":"Jacob Stephens, Associate Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}