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http://www.thestar.com/Sports/NBA/article/265548A dozen years after he left Villanueva de la Serena and his family to move to Vitoria to play basketball, Calderon will stand on the court at the Palacio de Deportes here as a Toronto Raptor, one of five Spaniards in the league – one of four in tonight’s NBA doubleheader. And when he was that fresh-faced kid, he didn’t imagine it possible.

“I didn’t think of the NBA then, it wasn’t my objective at all,” said Calderon. “Now, it’s a dream and I’m happy to be here, but it was not my first thing to do when I was 13 years old.”