Nets scout details personal meeting with ‘pop star’ Pope Francis

Tiago Splitter and Pope FrancisNBA players are used to being before big crowds and in front of world-famous people. But when Nets scout Tiago Splitter was on a riser in Rome last weekend, with 15,000 looking on, this was different.

This was meeting the pope.

Splitter — hired by the Nets in April as a pro scout, with added duties for player development — may not be Catholic, but he’s Christian. And for the 33-year-old Brazilian, he may live three times that long and never have another experience like meeting Pope Francis and gifting him a Nets basketball.

“It was a gift for him. A lot of people do that. They go see the pope and they bring something,” Splitter told The Post. “It’s interesting.…