<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">LAS VEGAS ? Nobody knows what's going to happen in the NBA career of Nick Fazekas. Based on family history, though, something interesting is probably in store for the Mavericks' top draft pick. It seems to happen to every generation of the Fazekas clan. It was Nick's grandfather who found himself in a concentration camp in the 1950s. It was his father, just a few years ago, who was morbidly overweight at 425 pounds. In both cases, there have been happy endings. Fazekas, taken by the Mavs with the 34th overall pick in the draft, is a 6-11, 240-pound forward who is slow afoot but quick to a rebound and to pull the trigger on an open shot. He has flaws in his game, which have been well documented. But by all accounts, he has a fire in his heart that is tough to vanquish. "If you're a Fazekas," he says, "you have to be tough-minded." His grandfather made sure the toughness gene was in place long before Nick came along. Albert Fazekas was a soldier in the Hungarian war and spent more than three years in a Soviet gulag after he refused to join the Communist party. He suffered lots of injuries, including a severe leg burn when he tried to set up a diversion during an escape attempt. </div> Source: Dallas News
Wow, interesting stories. Nick Fazekas reminds me a lot of a young Raef Lafrentz. hoprfully he'll be a good contributer off the bench.
