Hi! This is Seth. The Donnie Expedition, our history of international players in the NBA Draft, was supposed to be four parts, ending on the Wang Zhizhi episode. But obviously there is one more extremely important foreign draft pick in Donnie Nelson's Mavericks tenure, so one day while Will was sleeping I whispered into his ear "hey man can I do one more about Luka pleeeease." (I sleep at the foot of Will's bed like a dog. This was his idea, not mine. I have a family. They miss me, but duty calls.)
Anyway, his response was "what? ughhghh," which I took as a yes, so here you go.
There's talent everywhere, but not necessarily opportunity. This applies to so many things in the world, and over these five episodes, I hope we've shown you how basketball's version of that phenomenon has unfolded in recent history. Donnie Nelson's life project-- alongside so many others-- is to create opportunity with attention, money, infrastructure, and time. Pipelines. Thanks for watching.