Italian Heroes
Bargnani vs. Belinelli.
By Matt Caputo
If you read my last post about Italian basketball, you’ll know that there haven’t been two Italian players in the NBA for over ten years. Seeing both Marco Belinelli and Andrea Bargnani in a Nike ad has me fighting off tears.
Unfortunately, Bargnani and Belinelli will only meet eachother on the court twice next year. So, for now, enjoy this little clip of my two cousins having a shoot around.
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19 Responses to “Italian Heroes”
Sep.5 at 4:16 pm
Ryan Jones says:
That’s kinda dope.
Sep.5 at 4:17 pm
Tarzan Cooper says:
belinelli better be for real, brandan wright too.
Sep.5 at 4:20 pm
a. sam says:
I liked that. Can I get a translation, Matt?
Sep.5 at 4:22 pm
Myles Brown says:
I was totally hoping this was gonna be about sandwiches, but I’m not disappointed. Nice find.
Sep.5 at 4:33 pm
white hot eboy says:
Bargnani’s shot had the same earmarks of Lebron’s full-court heaves in the Powerade commercial. To quote Chris Rock “CGI, n**ga, CGI”.
Sep.5 at 4:33 pm
Bryant Reeves says:
Nice to see that Bargs spent the off season working on his inside game
Sep.5 at 4:41 pm
Tom says:
how many times has chris rock been quoted today?
Sep.5 at 4:42 pm
Tom says:
and am i the only one who notices how similar bargnani’s shooting form is to Larry Legends?
Sep.5 at 5:03 pm
Tarzan Cooper says:
dont start tom
Sep.5 at 6:01 pm
Jay says:
wht he say abt Kobe????
Sep.5 at 6:48 pm
JB21 says:
They’re both white too.
Sep.5 at 10:02 pm
twofly says:
heres the translation: bargani says: Look out Beli, to me you won’t last a second in NBA. In Bologna you were the #1, but there you’re nobody.
Belinelli doesn’t care and keep shooting.
Bargnani: in the morning you will bring breakfast, donuts to everybody, take and wash dirty jersey. and the you got to defend hard to people like kobe bryant.
than bargnani stops belinelli and says: but the most important thing is learning to listen.
Sep.6 at 2:39 am
Chris says:
Correction Eboy, I believe the quote was, “CGI, motherf*cker, CGI”
Sep.6 at 2:59 am
Doc says:
Such a shame both got shut down by France and TP’s score-fest.
Also that game was a real flop-a-thon.
Sep.6 at 7:53 am
Milan says:
Well neither of those two nor TP had anything against Slovenia. TP missed a last second free throw to send it into ot and Bargnani and Bellinelli played like crap.
Sep.6 at 8:46 am
Doc says:
Agreed France played disgustingly yesterday and something can be said about refereeing in this tournament too.
Sep.6 at 10:55 am
Matt Caputo says:
I appreciate the love.
Sep.6 at 4:47 pm
niQ says:
haha i didnt even kno it was a commercial til the end
Sep.10 at 1:18 pm
steve says:
It not CGI. That was actually shot on the first try. There is a longer version of this commercial floating out there thats even more dope.