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Soccer superstar and World Cup winner Kylian Mbappe recently signed an extension with his club Paris Saint-Germain FC. This ended the speculation that Mbappe could join Spanish Giants Real Madrid CF. While the Madrid fans would feel hard done by, PSG fans are elated that Mbappe decided to stay. The extension will keep him in the French capital till 2025. 

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Ever since the news broke out, Kylian Mbappe has been everywhere in the sports media. And when there was news that the Bulls and the Pistons could play a regular-season game in France, fans had to mention Kylian

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A lot of fans are happy that the NBA is taking steps to accommodate European basketball fans. With the growing influence of European players in the league, it is only fitting.

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Kylian Mbappe is an NBA fan

While Kylian Mbappe has millions of fans around the world, he himself is a huge NBA fan. He has been to multiple NBA games so far. And has also met some of the stars of the NBA. Mbappe’s current extension will reportedly earn him a massive 435 million euros in 3 years.

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This will make him the most expensive player in the history of soccer.

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And a lot of fans think that he was just playing Real Madrid to get what he wanted from PSG. In that trend, fans think that Mbappe also runs the NBA. A lot of fans started trolling the Pistons in the comment section as well.

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Fans from other countries commented that they want some NBA action in their country as well. With the game becoming more global than ever, we can see a lot of games being played in other countries in the years to come.

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Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Doncic

Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Doncic are the European superstars in the NBA. Both Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo have already won the NBA MVP award twice. To top it off, they both won it back to back. Giannis won the prestigious award in 2019 and 2020, while Jokic won it in 2021 and 2022. 

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Also, Luka Doncic won the Rookie of the Year award and is a three-time NBA All-Star. And he has led his Mavericks team to this year’s Western Conference Finals.

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Europeans won the last four MVP awards. This explains their dominance and growth in the league. While Jokic and Doncic are yet to win an NBA championship, Giannis has cemented his dominance by helping the Bucks win the title last year. He was also named the finals MVP.

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Bagavathi Eswaran

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Bagavathi Eswaran is a senior NBA writer at EssentiallySports, having a strong passion for the sport since the age of ten. As a former college player, Bagavathi has been following the NBA for more than a decade and has found his calling in writing about the sport. He has used his expertise in covering the NBA, as well as other arenas of the sport, to write more than 1400 articles at ES. Bagavathi's pieces on the increasingly dominant presence of European basketball and those following the journey of women-ballers are particularly noteworthy. Along with being a full-time writer, he is also a part of a group of young coaches groomed as trainers by Junior NBA. Bagavathi has trained players from schools and colleges, as well as underprivileged students who can attend the camps for free.

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