So I came across this over and BEdge. It's about Nic, sadly it's all in french. The guy who posted the link on BEdge, translated it so you have to have two windows open, the video and the translation. But it is very good imo. http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/9/11/1025738/nicolas-batum-in-the-name-of-thy
Brilliant! I think Nic is going to be special. He's already my favourite player for the way he plays D.
it got a little disjointed at times because of the translation, but what a great read to start my day with. Thanks! Man do I love the Blazer starting forwards. I thought the bit about gambling was eyepopping... -Gambling, betting, you can't fall into that, you know weird games and stuff. A guy called Michael Francis came for that one, he used to launder money for the mafia. You hear a lot of creepy stuff, there's guys who did stuff like that, now they're completely debt ridden, and plus there's the risk of getting killed for nothing, so...I remember I was in Boston and I got a call from a guy offering to give me 10 000 dollars if I scored 4 three pointers. I hung up straight away. I'm not going to fall into that. STOMP
yeah, then to have the actual team give him 120$ every game night for food in an envelope. That might be confusing at first.
Really, really good article. My favorite part: It was also pretty interesting to get more details on his supposed heart condition. Funny to think that there's a pretty reasonable chance we could have three players (Batum, Oden, Fernandez) suit up for the Sophomore team at All-Star weekend.
That would be awesome, but I'm holding out hope that Oden plays his way into the actual game with Shaq in the East and Yao out. EDIT- actually, Oden would also play in the Rook/Soph game. Brain cramp, because I remember Roy and LeBron James both doing double duty.
