There has never been a time — not when he was playing, not when he was stuffing his face with pasta, not when he was answering the media’s harried questions — when Andrea Bargnani appeared to be charismatic. No, the 7-foot Italian usually looked distracted, or aloof, or vaguely disinterested in all that was going on around him. “Oh, I’m in the NBA?” his face seemed to say, “I honestly had no idea.”
Bargnani is no longer in the NBA, and, after seven long seasons, hasn’t been on the Toronto Raptors since 2013.