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Casspi set to be first Israeli in NBA (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

As a child growing up in Israel, Omri Casspi would do whatever he could to get any glimpse of the NBA. "I remember waking up early in the morning to watch Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s," said Casspi, not knowing if he would ever get a chance to play there. That day has almost arrived and now young Israeli kids will want to be like Omri.