Shai and Embiid are not foreign players. They both played in NCAA. If you include them as forgeiners then most of the best players of the ‘90s and 2000s were also foreigners.
Hakeem is from Nigerian and Ewing is from Jamaica. That means the two best centers of the ‘90s were foreign.
Dikembe also won 4 DPOYs just like Gobert. So the best defender of the ‘90s was also foreign.
If Tatum and Brown needed Porzingis, then MJ needed Kukoc. Shaq and Kobe needed Rick Fox (Canadian).
Duncan is from the Virgin Islands, Nash is from Canada, Dirk is from Germany. That means 5 of 10 MVPs of the 2000s were foreigners. The Spurs won 4 titles with all foreigners. And Kobe also needed Pau.
Sounds like the ‘90s and 2000s were even more dominated by foreigners than today.