The Italian league has always been a fair source of talent, often managing to get the first crack at players who have gone on to become established names, even at the EuroLeague level.
This offseason, there has certainly been no shortage of interesting additions to the championship, some even surprising.
With the start of the next regular season approaching, this seems to be the best time to try to figure out which players will be the most interesting to follow in Lega Basket this upcoming campaign.
It was virtually impossible to begin this list without mentioning Wille Cauley-Stein, a huge addition made by Pallacanestro Varese and probably the most surprising summer transfer in Italy.
The American big man was the 6th overall pick of the 2015 NBA Draft and spent almost a decade in the league, playing for the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, and Philadelphia 76ers.
For a big chunk of his career, Cauley-Stein was a pretty solid NBA player, but in the last few years, he started to have a diminished role.
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