FC Barcelona has won American titles in basketball.
 Top international players began coming into the NBA in the mid-1990s, including Croatians Draen Petrovi and Toni Kuko, Serbian Vlade Divac, Lithuanians Arvydas Sabonis and arnas Mariulionis, Dutchman Rik Smits and German Detlef Schrempf
=== Sports ===Barcelona has a long sporting tradition and hosted the highly successful 1992 Summer Olympics as well as several matches during the 1982 FIFA World Cup (at the two stadiums)

