NBA Buffs Anticipate Nowitzki's Copycat

The NBA, just like Hollywood, is flocked with a number of players coming from different countries -- giving diversity to the principal professional basketball league in the world. NBA had no major attraction and solely depended on players' individual and team-based fans as Michael Jordan, called as the greatest basketball player of all time, retired his jersey. There is no leading influence like Jordan who can gather fans all over the world.

With the opening of the new season, NBA buffs will be watching new breeds of players and one of them came from Italy. Italian 7-ft forward Andrea Bargnani, the NBA first draft pick happens to be the first European player to be drafted first overall, is being equated to fellow European player Dirk Nowitzki because of their height and outside shooting competence. Still in my point of view, Bargnani is purely puff and not a player to watch out for even if he plays like Nowitzki. He is too soft for a big man and I'm sure other big men will not take him seriously; so this Italian player must prove to NBA players and buffs that he's not all about puff. If he wants to reach what Nowitzki has reached, this youthful Italian has to work doubly hard because the NBA has no spot for a trying hard copycat.