TheStar.com | Sports | All hail Bargnani, ruler of Rome
As much as this trip is about the Raptors spreading the Raptor brand in Italy and next in Spain, the second leg of the three-city journey should be all about Bargnani. Maurizio Gherardini’s role as the overseer was exponentially harder here, in his former hometown, than it should be in Rome and Jorge Garbajosa and Jose Calderon will get their moment next week in Madrid.

Tomorrow, it’s Bargnani.

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The atmosphere in the 11,000-seat PalaLottomatica for the games on the weekend should be electric, perhaps even enough to move Bargnani to a public display of emotion he’s seldom shown before.