看到這系列隨手估了一下 playing pick up games with NBA players
剛好翻到這篇Reddit上蠻有趣的經歷
沒有太大的相關
但是丟出來給大家看一下。
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原文如下:
I used to have a membership at the Hollywood YMCA, and there as a pickup game
there every single day.
原文作者(以下簡稱原PO)以前常常在YMCA打球，那邊以前天天都有pick up game(報隊打球)。
The normal game was just a bunch of guys who were there every day, but once
or twice a week, some crazy good ex college and sometimes even ex pros came
in. You had 5 man teams, played to 10 points, winning team kept the court and
the next team rotated in. When the really good guys came, they always played
on the same team, and they ran the court for hours at a time. (They were
dicks about it too, acting like they owned the place, etc.)
一般來說那裏都是正常人，可是每隔一兩周都有神手報隊，
甚至是海外職業球員。
當時的規則是五打五，10分換隊勝隊留下，
可是神手們常常霸場好幾個小時都未曾下場過，可是很靠北的是他們常常因此很唱邱。
以為自己真的很猛之類的。
There was this really old man (60 or so) who played alot, he wasn't worth
much but he could bomb threes like mad when he was hot, and he always claimed
he was friends with Magic Johnson and that one day he'd bring him in and we'd
finally get to beat this one really good group of guys. We all thought he was
full of shit. Then, lo and behold, one day the group of really good guys came
in and started winning, (one of them played for UCLA back in the day, and one
of them had played pro in Europe) and they started ordering everyone around,
calling cheap fouls, etc.
這時候有一個三分超準的老頭常常聲稱他是Magic的好朋友，
總有一天帶他來會把你們這些囂張的小毛頭電下場。
想當然大家都當他在豪洨。
直到有一天...那些強者依然在贏球霸場，甚至開始指使、亂喊犯規...。
So this old man lost it, he leaves and says he'll
be back in twenty minutes. Twenty minutes later, he came back with, no shit,
Magic Johnson. This was like summer of 1997, so Magic was probably only a
year or two removed from his comeback season with the Lakers. He was in
really good shape, and he looked like he was about 37 feet tall compared to
me, and I'm 6'3". So, Magic and this old man formed a team, I tried to get on
it but they needed runners and I was a known gunner. Eventually it's their
turn, and they take the court. Magic played PG, dribbled the ball up the
court, and he said he would only shoot the ball two times per game. "The
first bucket of the game, and the last." The other team just scoffed and said
he could shoot all he wanted, they were obviously not scared at all. Long
story short, Magic absolutely destroyed the game, made those guys look like
little boys.
老頭他媽的這下火了，走出球館並烙下狠話，說二十分鐘後回來你們走著瞧。
二十分鐘後....
不唬爛，活生生的魔術就出現在球館。
全場都驚呆了。
那時候是1997年的夏天，剛好魔術退役一年，身形還保持得非常良好，站在原PO旁邊
看起來足足有37呎高跟一隻怪物一樣。
魔術跟那個老人組一隊對抗血氣方剛的小毛頭們。魔術打控衛，帶球過半場的時候
說他整場比賽只投2球...整場比賽的第一球和最後一球。
當然對手也不是什麼好惹的料，畢竟身為前UCLA的成員或是海外球員。
看到一大把年紀剛退役的魔術他們根本不怕。甚至回嗆你可以想出手就出手。
長話短說，魔術把他們電爆了，就跟大人打小孩一樣。
As he stated, he did indeed score the first bucket of the game,
a very long three pointer (it actually only counted as 2, that's how we
played) and then he just became strictly a passer. It seemed like he grabbed
just about every rebound of the entire game, and made some insane passes. At
one point he actually dribbled the ball up the court by running backwards,
and was laughing and obviously not even trying at all. The old man who called
him there ended up hitting a three to make the score 9-3, or maybe 9-4, I
can't recall, but then Magic said "Ok, you guys get one more posession, then
this game is over." With this big grin on his face. So the other team took
the ball up the court, but all of a sudden, like a lightning bolt or
something, Magic just... it was almost like he dissappeared, that's how fast
he moved... he just exploded off his feet, stole the ball from the dribbler,
dribbled the ball up the court like a sprinting deer, took it all the way to
the hole and dunked it. Not a hard dunk, not a spectacular dunk, it was more
like he dunked it the way a normal person would open their car door, like,
his facial expression didn't even change. Game over.
魔術那場比賽當然投進了比賽的第一顆球，而且還是一顆大號三分。
之後就乖乖的組織傳球，抓下了幾乎每一波的籃板，傳出各種高難度神奇的助攻。
他還曾經一度邊笑邊倒退運球過半場，他根本不care這場比賽。
之後老頭子投進了一顆三分把比數拉到9:3還是9:4(原PO有點忘記了)剩最後一分。
這時候魔術說:"好，給你們最後一波球權，你們把握住了就算你們贏。"
臉上掛著他的招牌笑容。
於是乎對手帶球過半場，這時候...
魔術突然消失了，他就是這麼快的，像閃電一樣把球給抄了。
帶球過去...灌籃。
他的灌籃沒甚麼特別的，就跟普通人在關車門一樣輕鬆簡單，臉上依然掛著招牌笑容。
Game Over。
Epilogue:
The other guys were mad and demanded a rematch, but Magic said the rules of
the court were that they had to give up the court to the winnig team and wait
their turn to play again. Magic ended up playing there that day for about 2
hours, and won at least 10 games in that timespan. The really good team
played his team 2 more times, and again Magic's team won both times, score
was never even close.
結語:
對手要求再打一場，可是魔術說規則就是要把場子讓給下一隊，你們滾球吧。
之後魔術又打了2個小時吧，贏了至少10場比賽，
中間又跟小毛頭隊交手了2次...全勝。
比分根本沒拉近過。