Krstic signs with OKC Thunder

 
By Darnell Mayberry
Published: December 31, 2008

Nenad Krstic ’s basketball journey didn’t begin with the luxuries that accompany AAU basketball.

Unlike most American-born players, he missed out on the exotic travel and the free apparel. Such treats didn’t exist during Krstic’s childhood days in Serbia .

Krstic’s unlikely NBA story started with pick-up games on cement-cracked playgrounds and inside underground gyms as a lanky te...


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