Finally he played in the NBA. After a summer of rumors in which his name sounded many times, Marcelinho Huertas goes to the best basketball league in the world; He signed for one year with the Los Angeles Lakers, according to advance Adrian Wojnarowski (Yahoo! Sports).
The base, former Barcelona, leaves to fulfill a dream at age 32, and will not in the Utah Jazz team he's had sounded. Huertas makes the leap to play in one of the most decorated franchises in the NBA. He will share dressing room with Kobe Bryant and minutes with the likes of young D'Angelo Russell or Jordan Clarkson, and some not so young as Lou Williams.
The Brazilian base, which is not with Brazil in the FIBA Americas, has spent most of his career in Spain, playing for Joventut, Bilbao, Baskonia and Barcelona.
Huertas will become the tenth carioca playing in the NBA.
