(CNN) -- Bo McCalebb, a 26-year old from New Orleans, makes for an unlikely Macedonian national hero.
Until a year ago the basketball player had not even set foot in the small Balkan country, but since helping the national team to their biggest ever international sporting success last month, he's become one of Macedonia's favorite adopted sons.
McCalebb was instrumental in Macedonia's fourth-place finish, their highest ever, at the EuroBasket championships in Lithuania.
If not quite "Bo the Great," he's since been given the moniker "Borche McCalebbovski" by wags in the local media, who quickly picked up on the unprecedented fervor the team's wins created across the country .
"The team was greeted in Skopje as if they had won the golden medal," remembers 32-year-old Mimoza Kasapi-Nuhiu, a resident of Macedonia's capital.
"Lots of people went out on the streets on a working day, singing, banging their drums and cheering like never before."
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