This past weekend as the first time I watched an Italian league game live. I thought: “Hey, Gallinari is coming to Rome, lets see if he will really be in the 08 draft as many expect him to be”. Well Danilo did not have his best game and also the guy he was guarding, Roberto Gabini won the game in the end for Roma.
But I don’t want to write a scouting report – you can find that here. Let’s take a look who was sitting in the VIP section at that game between Roma and Milano:
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Who do you see? Of course you can see the Lottomatica president in the first row on the right side – ah yes in the back we have a women that looks – well funny? but who is that in the third row with that white shirt? Bryan Colangelo – President and General Manager of the Toronto Raptors.
What is Bryan doing in Rome? The NBA Europe is over – and I promise the picture was taken this past Sunday :). Here is another one:
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As we know the Raptors do have the rights for Roko Ukic, so this might have been a reason, but as I was following Bryan’s eyes for a while he was really following Danilo Gallinari. Of course everything is just “speculating”, but for me it was a pretty big deal to see a NBA GM in Europe while the NBA season is still going on – not too well for the Raptors right now though.
I was also wondering if Bryan told his coach about his trip – I am not sure if Sam Mitchell, who let us know he isn’t into European Basketball at all, would come here, so Bryan did the job for him.
