Salon.com > James Treadway http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Exporting American selfishness http://www.salon.com/2011/12/12/exporting_american_selfishness/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/12/exporting_american_selfishness/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10306127 When Adam Morrison played at Gonzaga, he seemed to many the heart and soul of college basketball, a reincarnated Larry Bird with a mushroom haircut, scraggly mustache, gaudy 28 points-per-game average and unforgettably emotional moments, like when he repeatedly slammed the ball into his forehead toward the end of one game, or wept, upon losing his last NCAA tournament game, more openly than any player we can remember.

Four deeply frustrating seasons in the NBA followed, and the 2005-06 co-player of the year lost his passion for the game. That changed this fall, however -- when he resurfaced in Serbia.

I spotted him in October while sitting in a Belgrade restaurant. He was playing on TV for Red Star, one of the city’s two biggest clubs, in a game against Bayern Munich. A new hairdo marked his new phase: long brown locks fell beneath his shoulders and splashed over his eyes with his every hunched, pigeon-toed stride.

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