The debate was launched on the Instagram page “Ball don’t stop”, whose founder Ekam Nagra stated that Doncic and Jokic dominate America because of the European system of basketball development.
“The reason why Jokic and Doncic took over the NBA as a storm is because of the European system of basketball development,” said Nagra.
“Emphasis on skill and learning to play the right way. Too many young North American players are chasing influence (social networks) or ‘stuck’ in that show business and therefore enter the NBA with the missing parts in the game. The NBA is too easy for European players. Their upbringing was different. First, you improve the basics, and then you become a professional “, added Nagra.
However, basketball player Kevin Durant entered the discussion, saying that Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic are anomalies.
“How many European basketball players came here and came back because they couldn’t survive?” “Using Jokic and Doncic, who are anomalies, seems to me to be pushing the agenda,” Durant wrote.
The point of both Nagra and Durant is correct from the first angle.
Durant is right that many European basketball players do not manage in the NBA and that they will soon return to Europe, but also what Nagra says and how he is right.
Basketball in America has always been show business, and lately, with social networks and other digital platforms, young, talented Americans are becoming known as teenagers, gaining fame without playing a professional match and that can often be very bad.
