You might not know the Pistons' Jonas Jerebko yet -- he sat out most of last season with injury. But in Sweden, the young man's already a household name: he's the first, and only, Swedish ballplayer in the NBA.
A new web video series from Nike Sportswear Sweden called American Made follows Jerebko during the beginning of his second season in Detroit -- a big change from his small Swedish town with two restaurants. Local faves like Juan Atkins, Ben Wallace, Hank Zetterberg and Nick Lidstrom also appear in the series, hosted by Swedish-born hip-hop artist Adam Tensta.
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"I wanna be known as a good player. I just don't wanna be known as the guy who made the NBA but didn't do anything about it. I wanna get better and I wanna do something with my career. I wanna win a championship. I wanna do stuff."
Check out the trailer or watch the first two webisodes of American Made
here.
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