EUROPEAN PHENOM DARIO SARIC, ZAGREB CO
This year Nike Hoop Summit game will take place tonight in Portland (Oregon, U.S.A.) and as usual it has already generated a tremendous amount of electricity around the basketball globe.
In the 14th annual edition of this prestigious competition Team USA will look forward to achieve it’s 11th W in front of the capacity crowd in Portland’s Rose Garden.
This game will instantly remove some of hype cruising around with some of the players involved. It will help confirming someone’s reported talent. It will help revealing someone’s hidden talent.
The youngest player of this year’s game comes from Croatia. His name is Dario Saric, his basketball idol is Magic Johnson and is considered the second coming of the legendary Bulls star Toni Kukoc.
Yesterday, Saric celebrated his 17th birthday and thus still has two extra years to reach his prime before reaching his climax for this competition, which led many to NBA.
Still, Saric has seen plenty of minutes this season for Zagreb CO subsidiary Dubrava Zagreb and thus should be ready to make a relatively strong impact in the limited minutes. This is nbadraft.net’s most recent update about his NHS stock:
“Saric is the youngest player in the Nike Hoops Summit this year (1994 born), but he doesn’t play like it. Dario is a prolific outside shooter with a very versatile and well-rounded game. He has good ball-handling and passing ability. Saric needs to continue to add weight, but he has plenty of time for that.”
The game starts at 04.00 CET and it can be seen live via FIBATV (to register click here).
