<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The followers keep coming, seemingly a new one each week of Thabo Sefolosha's young basketball career. They arrive at the Berto Center and United Center to chronicle his every move, to sate the curiosity back home, to tell the story of the first Swiss-born player in the NBA. Their reports and stories run on Swiss TV stations and in Swiss newspapers typically devoted to the athletic exploits on soccer fields, hockey rinks and mountains. "He's getting way too much attention for a rookie," Viktor Khryapa said, smiling. Teasing is the ultimate form of respect inside any sports locker room. And Sefolosha is being accepted not only for his raw basketball ability but also for the path he took to reach his lifelong goal. Teachers dissuaded him. Friends laughed at him. Even some teammates in the French and Italian leagues he sought out for better competition rolled their eyes when he repeated the three letters of his ultimate dream?NBA. "I remember people laughing and saying, 'All right, whatever,'" Sefolosha said recently at the Bulls' practice facility. "I had so many people say I would never leave Switzerland by playing basketball." That's what made the Bulls' draft-day trade to acquire him from the 76ers in June so special. That's why an e-mail Sefolosha received from his mother's boyfriend the other day resonated so powerfully.</div> Source
Thabo Sefolosha has been very impressive thus far, in limited playing time. The pressure he must have on him is incomprehensible, being the only player to represent your country in the NBA. He has definitely lived up to the hype thus far though I wouldn't be surprised to see him possibly start if Deng slacks off.
<div class="quote_poster">Bulls=Amazing Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Tyrus didn't play against Milwaukee because of his nose I'm assuming?</div> Yeah hes having trouble breathing. I hope we sit him out until his nose full heals.
Tyrus may as well wear the Darth Vader mask. It would be just as big and bulky as the current one he wears. I agree with sitting him out until his nose fully heals.
