Swedish Sensation and Detroit Pistons Rookie Bobi Klintman is Ready to Bring His European Mentality to the NBA
There’s something interesting about it. The way some players evolve to match the culture of basketball. It can look like a walk—a sort of swag that manifests as a mixture of unwavering confidence and body-shattering soreness from a seven-hour workout done the night before.
But other times, it looks like just straight-up passion, the kind that says “kill or be killed.” Those who live in America are no stranger to the in-your-face sort of culture that surrounds basketball. But for players from abroad, like new Detroit Pistons rookie Bobi Klintman, it’s a completely different world. But it’s also one he’s adapting to.
“I would say out here in America, it’s like a religion,” Klintman says. “You grow up playing basketball, basically. You know somebody that played basketball, you probably have somebody in your family that played basketball.”
And it’s true. For many basketball players, it was practically instilled at birth—with many still hanging on to the early memories of one-handed dunks on a Little Tikes hoop. But for Klintman, that early exposure was hardly an option.
https://www.slamonline.com/news/nba/bobi-klintman-detroit-pistons/