The NBA’s Growing Globalization and the American Xenophobia Trying to Stop It

Omar Zahran
9 min readMar 30, 2024

Many of the league’s best players are from other countries, which has led to a familiar flavor of societal nastiness: discrimination

Who is the current face of the NBA? This is a question that in past generations was very easy to answer. In the 1980s it was Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. In the 1990s it was Michael Jordan, who later…

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