Given the rise of basketball on a global scale, it's only natural that the NBA is beginning to field more foreign-born players per team than ever before.For the NBA's 75th season, the league announced that, of its 450 players, 109 were foreign-born, coming from 39 different countries acro s the world.Fifty-six of those players were from European countries, and Harrison Butker Men Jersey a majority of them will be representing their respective countries at September's EuroBasket 2022 tournament.Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic and Rudy Gobert will all be playing at the prestigious tournament, but there are a couple of names that won't be participating.Both Nikola Jovic andAleksej Pokusevski will be absent from the Serbian team. Jovic won't be Antoine Bethea Men Jersey able to join Jokic on the Serbian team, as he was prevented by his NBA club, the Heat, from doing so."For Pokusevski and Jovic, we did not get permi sion from their teams," Serbian head coach Svetislav Pesic said. "The teams want the players to work there and get ready for the new season."EuroBasket 2022 is scheduled for Jake Elliott Jersey Sept. 1-18, and given that the Heat's training camp opens in September, it is reasonable to think that Miami would want Jovic, who was selected with the No. 27 overall pick in this year's draft, to Kurt Warner Youth Jersey get acclimated to his new teammates.Aleksej Pokusevski and Nikola Jovic are ruled out by Serbia We did not get permi sion from their teams Svetislav Pesic Eurohoops (@Eurohoopsnet) In the case of Pokusevski, the Thunder have opted to once again err on the side of caution.Last summer, they held the promising point forward out of NBA Summer League action in an effort to add weight and muscle to his frame.The Thunder traded up to getPokusevski with the No. 17 overall pick in Antoine Bethea Jersey the 2020 NBA Draft and clearly value their investment in him, seeing him as akey piece of the young core they have been building over the past few seasons.