Nance’s NBA career had just begun in Los Angeles as Bryant’s came to a close in 2015-16. The juxtaposition between their stages of life created a space for learning. Nance had much to learn as a rookie in the NBA. Bryant never stopped learning, subsequently teaching the impressionable rookies and young players. “Just watching him you could see his passion for the game. Forget the game, his passion for just wanting to learn,” Nance said. “We had guys come in the locker room and speaking different languages, Marcelo Huertas speaking Brazilian and Portuguese and all this stuff, and Kobe would do his best to pick up on that. And just his thirst for knowledge was just really impressive.”
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Marcelo Huertas
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Born: 05/25/83
Height: 6-3 / 1.91
Weight:205 lbs. / 93 kg.
Earnings: $2,025,093 ($2,171,674*)
Born: 05/25/83
Height: 6-3 / 1.91
Weight:205 lbs. / 93 kg.
Earnings: $2,025,093 ($2,171,674*)
Brazil head coach Aco Petrovic has invited 15 players for the national team’s training camp ahead of the 2019 World Cup. The list includes a couple of players that compete in Europe such as veteran guard Marcelinho Huertas, guard Rafa Luz, center Augusto Lima and guard Vitor Benite. Former NBA veterans Leandro Barbosa and Anderson Varejao are also in the roster.
Marcelo Huertas had a rough run with the L.A. Lakers … and now he’s clapping back at his former team and the NBA for how they coddle their superstars. “In the NBA, players are babies … everyone is afraid of dealing with the athletes,” Huertas told Brazilian hoops blog Bala na Cesta.
“That’s not a thing in Europe. If you step over the line, you’re punished athletically, financially, you’re thrown out, suspended, whatever the hell. That doesn’t exist in the NBA. I would see things and say, ‘There’s no way this is possible.”‘
24 Jul 17
David Pick: Lakers free-agent PG Marcelo Huertas is signing with EuroCup gold-winners Unicaja Malaga, according to Espana sources.
