>...Even the worst teams in the NBA (which both the Bucks and Nets are) are stocked with players better than 99.9% of the basketball players in the world.

Are you kidding? Why %20 of NBA players out from America? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_NBA_players

There are a lot of good players out of America. A big part of them will be move NBA, that's true. But next year or a few years later...

And don't forget dream team disasters... :))