Best Unrestricted Foreign Free Agents

[SMAC]

The Suns could go the European route to find a post player. Europe has several over age 22 free agents available this summer. Here are the unrestricted free agents in ranked order:

Nikola Vujcic (4/5) 6-11 (Croatia-Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Israel)
http://www.eurobasket.com/ISRplayer.asp?PlayerID=16413

Fabricio Oberto (4/5) 6-11 (Argentina-Valencia ESP, Spain)
http://www.eurobasket.com/ESPplayer.asp?PlayerID=19693

Lazaros Papadoulos (5) 6-11 (Greece-Iraklis, Greece)
http://www.nba.com/draft2002/profiles/lazos_papadopoulos.html

Benjamin Eze (4/5) 6-10 played at Southern Idaho J.C. (Nigeria-Tris Reggio Calabria, Italy)
http://translate.google.com/transla...uro+basketball+player&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G

Others of Note:
Thomas Van Den Speigel (5) 7-0 (Netherlands-Skipper Bologna, Italy)
Aleksey Savrasenko (5) 7-1 (Russia-CSKA Moscow, Russia)
Antonis Fotsis (4/5) 6-10 (Greece-Real Madrid, Spain)
Dimos Dikoudis (4/5) 6-10 (Greece-Valencia, Spain)
Fedor Likcholitov (4/5) 6-11 (Russia-Aris, Greece)

Best Non Post Players in Europe (*NBA ready today):
*Andres Nocioni (2/3) 6-7 (Argentina-Tau Vitoria, Italy)
*Sarunas Jasikevicius (1) 6-4 (Lithuania-Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel)
*Arvydas Macijauskas (2) 6-4 (Lithuania-Tau Vitoria, Italy)
Walter Herrmann (2/3/4) 6-8 (Argentina-Malaga, Spain)

 

[George O'Brien]

Thank you for the post. A Euro seems like a long shot, but it might make sense if the Suns decide they don't like what they are seeing available at the price they will have to pay.

 

[Chaplin]

Papadoulos sounds interesting-- 6'11", 255

 

[JS22]

Chap, I think i remember gambo mentioning that the suns were interested in him.

(I could be wrong, alot of the euro names merge together in my head)

 

[SweetD]

I would like to know how much the buy outs are though.

 

[George O'Brien]

Chap, I think i remember gambo mentioning that the suns were interested in him.

(I could be wrong, alot of the euro names merge together in my head)

It took me three months just to learn to spell Cabarkapa.

 

[slinslin]

Papadopuls backs up Big Jake on the NT I think...

And Fotsis is a SF.