Many people in Canada will watch. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a big reason. He is a great player from Oklahoma City.

People from Serbia and Greece watch Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo play basketball. People in Turkey watch Alperen Sengun. People in Slovenia watch Luka Doncic. People in Cameroon watch Pascal Siakam. Kristaps Porzingis is from Latvia and Al Horford is from the Dominican Republic.

Again, the NBA playoffs will have many good players from other countries.

This year, top players in basketball are from different countries.

Many players in our basketball league are from other countries.

Many players from 44 countries played basketball in the NBA this year. Players from Canada scored many points, over 15,000. A player from Canada was the best scorer.

People think Gilgeous-Alexander will win the MVP award. He or Jokic will win it. This means a player from another country will win the MVP again. Antetokounmpo won it two times. Then Jokic won it three times. Embiid from Cameroon won it one time.

Shai is a very good player. It is difficult to stop him when he plays well.

Now, he is like many players from other countries. No one can stop Jokic, Antetokounmpo, and Doncic.

This year, many people bought Doncic's jersey.

The player from Slovenia has the most popular shirt. He is the first player from another country to do this.

We are small, only 2 million people. But our sport is great.

The NBA wants to be bigger in other countries.

This season, four players got more than 2,000 points in the NBA. Three players were from other countries.

FIBA head Andreas Zagklis said many people play basketball.

Zagklis said, 'People like the NBA a lot in the world and in North America. It is very popular and makes a lot of money.'