Nen

NEN or Nen may refer to:

Near Earth Network (formerly Ground Network), a NASA network of ground stations to support space flight missions

Nen River, a river in China

NEN (TV station), an Australian television station licensed to, and serving northern New South Wales

NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network), a Wadhwani Foundation initiative for building institutional capacity for entrepreneur support.

Neverending Nights, a machinima comic fantasy video series created by Adam Freese and Tawmis Logue using the computer game Neverwinter Nights

People

Nen (footballer) (born 1978), nickname of Brazilian footballer Francisco Assis dos Santos

Dick Nen (born 1939), former Major League first baseman

Robb Nen (born 1969), former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball

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Nenê

Nenê (Portuguese pronunciation: [neˈne]; born September 13, 1982) is a Brazilian professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His birth name was Maybyner Rodney Hilário, but it was legally changed to Nenê in 2003.

Early life

Born in São Carlos, Brazil, he received his nickname "Nenê" (Brazilian Portuguese for baby) because he was the youngest in both his family and his group of childhood friends. Like most Brazilian children, he started out playing soccer and was invited to train with pro clubs at a young age In the mid-1990s, he started playing basketball at Escola de Basquete Meneghelli in his hometown. He later played professionally for Vasco da Gama between 1999 and 2002. In 2001, he became a part of the Brazilian national team and participated in the Goodwill Games.

Professional career

Denver Nuggets (2002–2012)

Nenê's successful three-year stint playing in Brazil earned him an NBA pre-draft camp invitation in Chicago in 2002. He was later selected by the New York Knicks with the seventh overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft, and immediately traded him to the Denver Nuggets. He was the first Brazilian ever to be selected in the first round of the NBA draft.

Nenè

Nenè is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Salvatore Samperi. The film is a historical drama, set in post-war Italy in 1948 during the first free elections after the war. It tells of a romance and a coming-of-age amid a difficult family life and amid national political tensions.

The film was an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name, written by Cesare Lanza. His novel won the Premio Sila award in 1976.

Plot

Ju is a nine-year-old boy growing up in the aftermath of World War II in Italy. He is observant of the difficulties surrounding him. Both his father and mother have suffered emotionally, though his mother has suffered more due to the ongoing sexual and physical abuse caused by her husband.

Ju's orphaned fifteen-year-old cousin Nenè, comes to live with his family. Through Nenè, Ju learns even more of the strange adult world that he has yet to enter. Nenè allows him to sleep in her bed and confides in him of her growing sexuality and her secret affair with a local Mulatto boy.

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