Best Quote by Toni Kukoc

Now if you ask me about coming from Europe, I would suggest to any young player interested in the NBA to not spend two…

— Toni Kukoc

I know people that was playing basketball better than me. If they were in the NBA, they could be All-Stars, those people. They just…

— Serge Ibaka

I had always wanted to see Europe, and what better way to see it than to spend a year there playing basketball?

— Mike D'Antoni

There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in…

— Masai Ujiri

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

I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.

— Ronaldo

Italy was very important for my career, Inter and Juve, two huge clubs.

— Joao Cancelo

As a player, I started in Serie C and got to the top of Europe and the world.

— Filippo Inzaghi

Going overseas and playing a different style of basketball and the way the European game is played. You can bring stuff from that back.

— Austin Reaves

I was one of the best players in the NBA.

— Penny Hardaway

Probably I would have got more money if I'd stayed in Italy. It was said that I took England for the money. Absolutely not.…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

The best players, the best courses, the best weather is here in the United States. If all those things were in Europe, maybe I…

— Seve Ballesteros