77 greatest international players ever: The HoopsHype list
As another year has passed, we are back with an addition to our previous list of the greatest international basketball players ever.
Some of the names at the top won’t surprise you but a few modern, active players are working their way up this list rapidly – a certain Serbian big man winning his first championship last season is a prime example of that.
Just like with our HoopsHype77 list, we compiled votes from our staff, removed the highest and lowest rank for each player and awarded points 77-1 for the rest.
As always, we factored in FIBA accomplishments to an extent but put way more stock on what players did while competing against the very best (that is, in the NBA). And, of course, the focus is on what they achieved and not what they could have done if A, B or C had happened.