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`Baby' steps: Maybyner `Nene' Hilario of Brazil is climbing on NBA draft boards. (Draft Insider).
Big changes are coming for Maybyner "Nene" Hilario in the next few months. He will be among the first-round picks in the June draft. He will be moving to the U.S. from his native Brazil. He will end his teenage years when he turns 20 on September 13.
Oh, and he finally will receive a paycheck for his work as a professional basketball player.
See, Hilario has been playing professionally as a relatively unknown power forward for Vasco de Gama in Brazil for the past year and a half. He is on a contract that should pay him $14,000 annually, a piddling amount by NBA standards. But here's the kicker: The team, which is not in good financial health and has been ...
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