Live Bar, June 10 news recently, Croat player zubatz was interviewed.
Speaking of the national team, he said: NBA teams are not very happy about this. They are afraid of getting hurt. When you play for the national team, they cannot control many things. To some extent, I understand this. They pay you to play in NBA instead of playing with your national team in summer.”
“But as an international player, as a person from a small country, you always want to make your country proud, and you want to do everything you can to succeed. This is very difficult, because FIBA puts the window period in the middle of NBA season, so we can’t go. For a small country like Croatia, it is a real harm to have no NBA players.”