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It’s been a while since we did a rundown of the happenings in international basketball, so, here goes our periodic international Run-On Sentence:
Roko-Leni Ukic joins the Toronto Raptors
Croatian star guard Roko Leni-Ukic has been busy this last week, not only is he trying to help his national team qualify for the Olympics, but he’s signed [...]
As expected, Italian prospect Danilo Gallinari was the first foreign player chosen at number six by the hometown Knicks and a total of thirteen international players were selected in the 2008 NBA draft.
No doubt the influence of new Knick’s coach Mike D’Antoni had a huge impact of the pick. D’Antoni played professional ball in Italy [...]
With 2006’s overall #1 pick Andrea Bargnani’s poor performance for Toronto this past season, and Marco Bellineli riding the bench after a great preseason, some might assume NBA scouts would be a little hesitant to rate another Italian player so highly.
Luckily for Danilo Gallinari, this isn’t the late 1980s or early 90s. This is a [...]
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