Zaza Pachulia eager for shot at NBA title with Warriors

Zaza Pachulia eager for shot at NBA title with Warriors After five years facing grown men in Turkey, the teenager joined the Orlando Magic as a second-round pick in 2003. Over the past four years, with the NBA calendar in a lull, Pachulia has taken summer classes at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Emory University's Goizueta Business School and Harvard Business School. Casual NBA fans might have turned to Google in January to research the man with the Eastern European name who received more All-Star votes than Draymond Green, Blake Griffin and DeMarcus Cousins. Back in Pachulia's native Georgia, locals had stuffed the cyberballots for the country's only active NBA player. "The coolest thing was that they did all that without me asking anyone one single time," said Pachulia, who finished just more than 14,000 votes behind Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard for the final starting spot. Though a below-average athlete by NBA standards, he is an intelligent player who excels at setting screens, hustling for loose balls and passing to the perimeter. Pachulia is the rare big man who pairs relentless rebounding with a solid mid-range jumper. In the days after signing...