NBA giants, born to be great
Julien Brygo,
July 2017
A National Basketball Association (NBA) commercial shows a young black boy in a tidy bedroom, gazing at the flag of his favourite basketball team, the New York Knicks. He’s wearing a Porzingis jersey, and Kristaps Porziņģis, a Latvian player signed by the Knicks in 2015 for $6.5m a year, does the voiceover: it ‘was a dream of mine, since I was a kid. Picked up a basketball and never looked back. At the end of the day, if you work hard, then anything’s possible — even coming from a small village in (...) →