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When Gregg Popovich, the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, first set eyes on
Tony Parker, at a predraft camp in Chicago in 2001, he did not need long to
reach an assessment.
Parker, then a 19-year-old from France, had generated some buzz with a strong
performance against a team of American high school all-stars. He intrigued
the Spurs, who had the last pick of the first round. But Popovich’s
appraisal after the workout was typically blunt: Parker was too soft.
When R.C. Buford, then the assistant general manager, got more looks at
Parker, who had just arrived off a plane from Paris for that initial workout,
he persuaded Popovich to take another look. So the Spurs set up a workout in
San Antonio. Popovich brought in three players he described with a chuckle
as thugs and stationed them for 45 minutes with Parker on the low block.
The workout had little to do with playing point guard, scoring guard or
basketball, really.
“They just wanted to see what I was made of,” Parker said. “I didn’t even
realize it was for that. I was just trying to do my best. I was happy to do a
workout for an N.B.A. team.”
馬刺隊的帕克現在已經是聯盟的全明星，但是在他進入聯盟之前他卻不被人們看好，這
其中就包括馬刺主教練Gregg Popovich，在2001年芝加哥的一次選秀訓練營裡，波波維
奇第一次看到了帕克，他沒用多久就給帕克作出了評價，他認為帕克太軟了，不能去選
他。
當時只有19歲的帕克在對陣美國高中全明星隊時脫穎而出，他激起了馬刺隊的興趣，當
時馬刺擁有首輪最後一位選秀權，當時還是馬刺助理總經理的R.C. Buford 更多地觀察
了一下帕克，他勸說波波維奇能再看看帕克的表現，然後馬刺自己舉辦了一個試訓，大
約45分鐘，不過這次試訓和籃球沒太有什麼關係。
帕克接受採訪時說：“他們就是想看看我的內在，我當時沒有意識到他們是這個目的，
我只是盡量做到最好，我很高興能為一支NBA球隊做試訓。”