Danilo Gallinari, Hero Of The South Bronx [NBA Draft]

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 Danilo Gallinari, Hero Of The South Bronx [NBA Draft]
Somehow, a little part of us wonders, had Knicks fans known his nickname and true self , if they might have cut him a little more slack. Instead, as we sadly predicted , Gallinari got the royal New York treatment last night. There's a tendency, when an athlete comes to an American sports from another country (particularly a European one), to make fun of them for not understand our sports ... [link]

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Further notes on the 2008 Stephen A. Smith Heckling Video
Published 6/28/2008 by mb at Rockin' Steady
... Other media: Deadspin more or less buried us in this Gallinari post — I kinda suspected Leitch had gotten a wee bit tired of us, and it was a special day around those parts anyway — only to do another post over the ...

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