Europe Quote by Clyde Drexler

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The NBA is becoming a global game.

— Dikembe Mutombo

I'm coming to America for NBA because that's my dream.

— Juancho Hernangomez

Maybe NBA teams won't want me and maybe I'll play in Europe the last one or two seasons.

— Toni Kukoc

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

— David Stern

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

— Jerry West

I think I want to come straight to the NBA, but if the team who drafts me, they want me to stay in Europe…

— Ivica Zubac

It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great…

— Chris Kraus

Everybody knows the NBA is the top of basketball in the world. The game here is more hard, more physical, faster than in Europe.

— Toni Kukoc

You can't rule out that, in the future, we could create a European league with the major clubs from Italy, Germany, England, Spain and…

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

It was even hard to imagine I was going to play in the NBA, because so many guys playing in Europe are not even…

— Ivica Zubac

I thought, 'I'm going to play in Yugoslavia, then I'll go to play in Italy or Spain.' Then I'll be 28 or 29 and…

— Vlade Divac