Posted on: March 17, 2008 6:50 pm  The European Player Lacks 1
Quality  I received a text message from my cousin the other day
and it read "The European player lacks 1 quality. Thats the
difference between T.J (Ford) and Jose (Calderon). Its swagger!"
obviously he is talking about the Toronto Raptors point guard
situation, and while that is a whole discussion on itself, the
comment about swagger got me thinking. Magic Johnson had it,
Larry Bird had it, Micheal Jordan had it, Kobe Bryant has it.
But are the Euro players missing something? does Dirk have it?
does Kirilenko have it? does Pau Gasol have it? And how
important is it? Well I don't know exactly how important it is,
but I do know those players I named who do have it, have done
something no European player has done yet, lift their game, and
lead their team to an NBA Championship.  So the question remains
do they have it?