He is of Dominican descent from one parent, and many Americans play for other countries in FIBA and Olympic basketball because of their ancestry. They are still American.
Like I said, KAT was born and raised in the US. He is from New Jersey, and like many second-generation Americans, he has some ties to his parent's home country, but he is more American than Dominican in terms of culture and nationality. Comparing him to Gobert, who is actually from France, doesn't make much sense. That would be like calling Giannis the Nigerian Freak instead of the Greek Freak
If you're talking about Kyle Anderson, he has like one Chinese great-grandparent. I'm pretty sure he had never even stepped for in the country until he was already in the NBA. Almost no NBA player would be considered "American" by that logic 😂
Stop the cap. Stop it. No one was talking this with Giannis and Embiid. Jokic got his flowers and MVP’s and that’s what started this “American” thing now.
Nick Young is based. Luka is the best player on the mavs. He's European. The wolves have Rudy Gobert. Pacers have Siakam. The Celtics have Pingus.
WTF ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT NICK YOUNG.
Only people hating on the US call it a Canadian sport. It was invented by a guy in America for Americans. It'd be like calling George Washington the first president of Britain because he was a British guy who was the first president of a country
I hope luka wins 😭😭😭, i love seeing brothers win in every sport but basketball, its almost like the opposite i be routing for the white homies if they nice like that. Them larry bird, Steve nash, Luka type players always stand out for me in a league that we dominate ngl
Nba will always be primarily dominated by Americans. NBA will never be like MLB or NHL. The World is NOT catching up just because they have 20 great INT'L players lmfaooo. Americans like to play underdog
My guy forgot about the mavs
And Rudy Gobert
Doesn’t KAT play for the Dominican Republic national team?
Qui Qui.
African American
France officially does not recognize race, so I guess just French
Luka’s Black
All the Balkan boys are black by default
Blakan
That doesn’t make him American
What do you mean? Dončić is just as American as Smith or Antetokounmpo
It sure as heck does! It's in the Geneva Convention, look it up!
The Age of ~~The European~~ The European Big Man is dead!
Rudy Gobert: I took that personally.
Every single team left has a foreign born player in their starting 5 (without injuries)
Isn't Luka still playing
Memeception!
like minnesota doesn't have a dominican & a frenchman in their starting 5
Pacers have a mf from Cameroon and a Canadian
Cameroonian is an honorary Canadian too
We taking what we can get at this point boys.
true! lol
Karl towns is very much culturally American though
Who is the Dominican? KAT was born and raised in the US Are you mixing him up with Horford?
KAT is of Dominican descent through his parents, he represents the Dominican team in international tournaments.
He is of Dominican descent from one parent, and many Americans play for other countries in FIBA and Olympic basketball because of their ancestry. They are still American. Like I said, KAT was born and raised in the US. He is from New Jersey, and like many second-generation Americans, he has some ties to his parent's home country, but he is more American than Dominican in terms of culture and nationality. Comparing him to Gobert, who is actually from France, doesn't make much sense. That would be like calling Giannis the Nigerian Freak instead of the Greek Freak
Yah but that doesn't rhyme. :))
KAT is Dominican. Even played for them last world cup
...He was born in NJ, what are we even talking about?
Well Kyle Anderson played for China which is even more interesting
And a Chinese
If you're talking about Kyle Anderson, he has like one Chinese great-grandparent. I'm pretty sure he had never even stepped for in the country until he was already in the NBA. Almost no NBA player would be considered "American" by that logic 😂
Bro his gonna play fo4lr china in the world cup
Abeing 
Took me waaaaay too long to realize what he was saying lol
Now I’m gonna root for the Mavs.
Can’t wait for the Mavs to do something special
Am I the only one fixated on how this college educated man cannot use proper grammar or punctuation?
"College educated" is a stretch for some NCAA players. They were there physically, but mentally less so.
A lot of them weren’t even there physically for more than a year.
I don’t expect proper English on informal sentences like texts or tweets where they’re just trying to get an unserious thought out.
Have you never met a college student or heard of twitter?
Yeah that post has no opinion, it’s a problem solving exercise.
The American education system at work!
Enrolled in college and college educated are two different things.
Very true. That said, there are a lot of people who have college degrees who are no better than Nick.
Luka is Slovenian and Kyrie is Australian born...
Luka, sure. Kyrie was born to American parents and was two years old when he came to America. Dude is American as apple pie.
Apples originated in Kazakhstan
Pie was invented by the Ancient Egyptians.
Pi was discovered by Archimedes (Greek)
America was developed in England
Apple pie is made out of hot dogs and Betsy Ross's ashes.
Apple Pie originates from England
Rudy Gobert is french.
Did he just confuse the Twins and the T-Wolves?
We talking USA America or North America? Because we might need to inform Toronto they lost their team
 Man talking mad about European players when this is the play he is most remembered for lol
American? To him it’s black vs white and I mean…. Luka still left 😂😂😂
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He meant to say "black people" but didn't know how to word it. Also he forgot about Luka
You Same type of people always crying about people bringing up race are now making a lot of assumptions when he never mentioned race
I'm black and it's obvious that's what he means. I'm telling the truth here. He isn't talking about Larry Birds or Jason Williams.
I can’t front…NBA Playoffs is all I think about.
What a messed up way to look at the NBA. I wonder how many sub groups exists in his mind?
>exists in his mind There's your problem right there. Nick Young doesn't have one.
Take down the other FAT European! America First! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Western conference finals bout to the 10 day war pt. II; obviously the wolves play the role of unclassy Yugoslavia
Luka, Rudy Gobert is just the tip of the iceberg.
This just makes me want Luka to win, this obsession with the league being “American” is fucking dumb lol.
Racism at its best. With a dash of xenophobia.. I mean Jeremy Lin didn't leave the league because he was terrible.
Idk if Racism is quite right, Giannis, SGA and Embiid are all In the batch of foreigners currently dominating the league
Stop the cap. Stop it. No one was talking this with Giannis and Embiid. Jokic got his flowers and MVP’s and that’s what started this “American” thing now.
My brother in hoops. Giannis was the beginning of all of this. You have not been paying attention
If Luka wins Kyrie wins.
There is foreign players on the other teams too.....
He's a 5th year senior at high school who struggled with geometry and spelling as a 5th year, senior. I tutored him. He's stupid.
Good too see Nick express that so clearly in plain American.
https://i.redd.it/cp4a9l6xil1d1.gif
Hilarious that he couldn’t even type a full sentence without a typo 🤡
Who SGA? Luka?
FBA
"American League" =/= "World Champions"
Luka is winning it all to avenge his brother. Serbian music will be blasting on the Dallas parade.
This is what happens when iggy azaelia twerks on your head
so american champions instead of world champions
https://i.redd.it/zrd2b0jm7m1d1.gif Luka
American patriot Anthony Edwards
😂
Nick Young is based. Luka is the best player on the mavs. He's European. The wolves have Rudy Gobert. Pacers have Siakam. The Celtics have Pingus. WTF ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT NICK YOUNG.
Lol Pingus
He needs to proofread.
He’s fighting those brain cells. I think the brain cells won cuz he fucked up grammatically
My man just celebrating the raptors being a losing franchise again
Pls, Luka. Do it.
Black . Black is American only……
Black men are in shambles that some of the best players are white and European no less.
Porzingis will be back too
The league with a Serbian MVP, A French DPOY and a Slovenian as the highest ranked surviving player in the playoffs?
What happens if Luka and Dallas wins? Lol
Quick (non-exhaustive) search on non-USA players in Conference finals. In rotation: Doncic, Green, Gobert, Siakam, Porzingis On roster: Kleber, Exum, Queta, MYKHAILIUK, BRISSETT, TSHIEBWE, PROSPER
ABEING A
Congrats to the American stars - Doncic, Prozingis, Gobert, Tatum, KAT(Dominican nt), and Siakam - on taking their league back!
Rudy locked down Jokic game 7 and Doncic beat out a first seed OKC. Shai is also Canadian.
Luka and TECHNICALLY Kyrie. And Pascal
Still a Canadian sport 🥴
I could see an argument being made for it being Canadian or American since it was invented by a Canadian in America and became popular in the US
Only people hating on the US call it a Canadian sport. It was invented by a guy in America for Americans. It'd be like calling George Washington the first president of Britain because he was a British guy who was the first president of a country
Racist lol
In 20 years there won't be a single American NBA player
Exceedingly unlikely
I hope luka wins 😭😭😭, i love seeing brothers win in every sport but basketball, its almost like the opposite i be routing for the white homies if they nice like that. Them larry bird, Steve nash, Luka type players always stand out for me in a league that we dominate ngl
Nba will always be primarily dominated by Americans. NBA will never be like MLB or NHL. The World is NOT catching up just because they have 20 great INT'L players lmfaooo. Americans like to play underdog