It is never too late to Pablo Prigioni

By Marcelo Nogueira
Chief Editor Ole Newspaper

 

Pablo Prigioni probably hasn’t awakened from the dream that means he will play in the NBA and with the New York Knicks.  Yet, at 35 years old, after an extended and successful career in Spain and in the national team of Argentina he has already lived a dream-filled life.

And it is better he doesnt wake up, that enjoy this, because he will live many more dreams come true.  From now on, his basketball home will be Madison Square Garden .

He will be surrounded by the public most fanatical of the league and the press of the top media in the United States, with specialists in the area, as demanding as passion for criticism.

In addition, as close as their colleagues, will be the ubiquitous presence of the living legend of Walt Frazier, a commentator for the local TV, the last great conductor of the Knicks champions of the 73.

Frazier was a genious in scoring, the pass and steal when the NBA didnt follow the statistics in turnovers

Surely, some council of brilliant "Clyde" will serve to Prigioni to accommodate its body in record time to a competition that always looked indifferently.

The native from Cordoba province, arrives in theory as third base and possibly the worst  team ´s salary, this in practice supposes a less responsibility with regard to the division of roles a franchise with pretensions to wade among the candidates in the season that will begin in October.

But Prigioni shows how feature that always started from the basement to get to the terrace against the prognosis of the most optimistic. Why could not repeat the history now while the challenge is present with the T Shirt of the Knicks? That has wire in the reel and the ability to achieve this there is no doubt, if, at 35, although it could have been much earlier.

Marcelo G. Nogueira

Ole Journal Argentina

Chief Editor 

email: mnogueira@ole.com.ar