{"id":465555,"date":"2025-10-21T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465555"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:08:43","slug":"nba-2025-26-record-135-international-players-from-43-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-2025-26-record-135-international-players-from-43-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA 2025-26: Record 135 International Players from 43 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"571\">The <strong data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"158\">NBA<\/strong> announced that a <strong data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"212\">record 135 international players<\/strong> from <strong data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"234\">43 countries<\/strong> will be on <strong data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"271\">opening-night rosters<\/strong> for the <strong data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"298\">2025-26 season<\/strong>. Among them are <strong data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"331\">71 Europeans<\/strong> \u2014 the most ever \u2014 including <strong data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"386\">19 players from France<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"409\">13 from Australia<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"415\" data-end=\"444\">4 from the United Kingdom<\/strong>. It marks the fifth straight season with at least 120 international players and the 12th consecutive year with at least 100.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"573\" data-end=\"837\"><strong data-start=\"573\" data-end=\"596\">Canada (23 players)<\/strong> once again leads all countries outside the U.S., followed by France, Australia, Germany, and Serbia. All <strong data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"718\">30 NBA teams<\/strong> feature at least one international player, with the <strong data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"788\">Atlanta Hawks<\/strong> carrying a record-tying <strong data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"834\">10 internationals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"1202\">The list includes global superstars such as <strong data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"908\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"926\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"928\" data-end=\"943\">Luka Doncic<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"960\">Joel Embiid<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"987\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong>, who have combined to win <strong data-start=\"1014\" data-end=\"1054\">all seven of the last NBA MVP awards<\/strong>. In total, <strong data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1096\">16 international All-Stars<\/strong> are part of this season\u2019s rosters, including <strong data-start=\"1142\" data-end=\"1152\">Gobert<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1167\">Porzi\u0146\u0123is<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1182\">Markkanen<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1199\">Wiggins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1418\">The NBA\u2019s 80th regular season tips off tonight with a doubleheader on NBC\/Peacock: <strong data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1310\">Thunder vs. Rockets<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1338\">Lakers vs. Warriors<\/strong>, with games broadcast in <strong data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1381\">214 countries<\/strong> and in more than <strong data-start=\"1399\" data-end=\"1415\">50 languages<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1420\" data-end=\"1491\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league opens its 80th season with the most global rosters in history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":465554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/2025-26-NBA-International-Players-1024x1024-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465555"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465555"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465555"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}