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Article: Fraschilla has international players covered for ESPN.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Byline: Barry Horn
DALLAS _ As ESPN's international basketball maven, Fran Fraschilla isn't expecting as much face time during Thursday's NBA draft coverage as he had in years past.
"It's a quiet year," he said. "There may be only four or five first-round picks from overseas."
That's down from six last year and eight in 2003, but still on par with four in 2005 and five the year before.
And when the likes of China's Yi Jianlian and Brazil's Tiago Splitter and Italy's Marco Belinelli are selected in New York, Coach Fran will be ESPN's man.
Fraschilla, whose home base is in University Park, travels the globe to scout ...