Josh Childress blazed the trail out of the NBA and to the Euroleague this summer.

He'll have plenty of company on his trip across the Atlantic for this upcoming season, with as many as seven other NBA players having already committed to joining him and several others still weighing their options.

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Nenad Krstic averaged 11.3 points per game in the NBA.

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The weakening of the dollar in relation to the strength of the euro no doubt played a huge part in the economics that accompanied the decision.

The reluctance of NBA teams to spend as freely on free agents as they have in past summers also impacted those decisions.

Childress' departure after four seasons with the Hawks for a three-year, $20 million (net pay) contract with Olympiakos of Greece was the most notable switch.

Here are some other familiar faces, at least to Childress, from NBA rosters last season that will play somewhere else for the 2008-09 season:

Nenad Krstic

• Age: 25

• Old team: New Jersey

• New team: Triumph (Moscow)

• New deal: Two years, $18 million

• The skinny: Krstic was in the midst of his best NBA season in 2007 when he went down with an ACL injury. A sluggish comeback last season soured some NBA teams on the power forward/center, and the interest in him this summer was cool at best by everyone other than the Nets. Krstic joined the Nets in 2004 after playing for Partizan Belgrade, so he'll have no problem readjusting to the international game. He's a player to keep an eye on in the future, along with Childress, as someone who could make the leap back to the NBA someday.

Bostjan Nachbar

• Age: 28

• Old team: New Jersey

• New team: Dynamo (Moscow)

• New deal: Three years, $14.3 million

• The skinny: Nachbar was a casualty of the Nets' summertime wheeling and dealing, which included adding Yi Jianlian, Bobby Simmons, Jarvis Hayes and Eduardo Najera as well as rookie draft pick Chris Douglas-Roberts. Nachbar averaged 9.8 points in his sixth NBA season and proved to be a mainstay in the Nets' rotation, but ultimately opted for a much more lucrative contract from Dynamo than the mid-level offers he was fielding from NBA teams that didn't estimate his value anywhere near as high as it was on the international market.

Juan Carlos Navarro

• Age: 28

• Old team: Memphis

• New team: FC Barcelona

• New deal: Five years, $20 million

• The skinny: Originally obtained by the Grizzlies as a security blanket for Pau Gasol, Navarro's future in the NBA was in doubt the minute Gasol was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. That didn't stop Navarro from having a standout rookie season in the NBA, the combo guard averaged 10.9 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists with the Grizzlies and was chosen to the NBA All-Rookie second team in May. Navarro also made 156 3-pointers during the season, two short of equaling the NBA record for a rookie. But no NBA team was willing to commit the type of dollars to an older player like the Spanish team Navarro grew up playing for did.

Jorge Garbajosa

• Age: 30

• Old team: Toronto

• New team: BC Khimki (Russia)

• New deal: Two years, $18 million

• The skinny: The Raptors did the right thing buying out the final year of Garbajosa's NBA contract, allowing the Spanish big man the opportunity to join BC Khimki for a boatload more money than he'd have ever commanded from any NBA team. A bit older and more experienced than most of the players on this list, Garbajosa played in his native Spain and Italy from 1995 to 2006, making his transition back to the international game simple. With the Raptors frontcourt rotation already stocked before the trade for Jermaine O'Neal, Garbajosa was probably going to be squeezed out of the rotation anyway.

Carlos Delfino

• Age: 25

• Old team: Toronto

• New team: BC Khimki (Russia)

• New deal: Three years, $13.5 million

• The skinny: After years of anticipation by Pistons fans about adding Delfino to their mix, the Argentine star never seemed to find his niche in Detroit — he joined the Pistons in 2004 after stints with Italian teams Reggio Calabria and Skipper Bologna. A return to the European game, alongside Garbajosa, could mean a return to his status as a starter as well. Delfino never could crack the first five in Detroit or Toronto, leaving many observers to wonder if he was ever anything more than just a lot of international hype.