During their extended championship era, the San Antonio Spurs were well known for their international talent. There was unknown-draft-picks-turned-stars in Tony Parker from France and Manu Ginobili from Argentina — and while some often don’t consider it due to his dual citizenship, Tim Duncan was in fact from another county via the Virgin Islands. Role players such as Boris Diaw, Patty Mills, Tiago Splitter, Marco Belinelli and countless others also brought their own international flare to a team that was scouting overseas before it was a common league practice.
However, in recent years the Spurs had gotten away from that tried-and-true approach.