NEW YORK -- He reads. He writes. He sketches. He loves Batman comic books, Disney movies and Michael Jackson's music.
He already has pitched an animated television pilot, politicked to play a Wookiee in a future Star Wars picture and hopes to pen an action-adventure novel someday.
Oh, and you likely didn't know, Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez is also learning to play the piano and speak Japanese.
Yes, Japanese.
"I always go to Japan in the offseason, so I'm trying to get better at it," Lopez told ESPN.com recently, noting that he's also working on learning "the Kanji," Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system.