Is Dirk Nowitzki the Last Legend of European Basketball?
I'm asking because with European basketball greats like Dino Meneghin, Arvydas Sabonis, Sarunas Marciulionis, Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoc, Drazen Petrovic, Zarko Paspalj, Sergei Belov, Kresimir Cosic, Nikos Galis, Detlef Schrempf, Rik Smits, and etc....gone, has European basketball run out of great players?
I'm fully aware that some I stated above never played in the NBA.
Sure, other than Nowitzki, there's Pau Gasol, Peja Stojakovic, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Hedo Turkoglu, Memo Okur, and Andrei Kirilenko. But Dirk has individually achieved many times more than his present day European contemporaries. So, is he Last Legend of European Basketball?
I'm asking because with European basketball greats like Dino Meneghin, Arvydas Sabonis, Sarunas Marciulionis, Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoc, Drazen Petrovic, Zarko Paspalj, Sergei Belov, Kresimir Cosic, Nikos Galis, Detlef Schrempf, Rik Smits, and etc....gone, has European basketball run out of great players?
I'm fully aware that some I stated above never played in the NBA.
Sure, other than Nowitzki, there's Pau Gasol, Peja Stojakovic, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Hedo Turkoglu, Memo Okur, and Andrei Kirilenko. But Dirk has individually achieved many times more than his present day European contemporaries. So, is he Last Legend of European Basketball?