毒品/NBA X RIDE ALONG

這只是時間的問題。Kevin Hart感嘆他的身高-NBA夢想…

It was only a matter of time. Kevin Hart laments his height. NBA dreams.

滿分聯賽/DYCKMAN. 8 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT NYC STREETBALL

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WRITER – Rick Kang
CN – Belinda
ILLUSTRATOR – Rob Judges

Full disclosure: even though I lived in New York backintheday (‘98/’99) and even played ball in the streets of New York, up until this July I’d never actually watched a basketball game in New York. The Knicks? First off, I hate ’em. I hated them in the Patrick Ewing/John Starks era, rooted (briefly) for them as an underdog in the short-lived Sprewell era and they’ve been pretty much irrelevant ever since.*

* Yeah, yeah, Carmelo. As for Brooklyn – the Nyets? Seriously? Maybe this year; maybe…

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提起紐約,或者當年的hip hop風光不再,但紐約街頭籃球的王者霸氣至今依然未減。

利申:雖然我在紐約住過一會兒(1998-1999),又打過一陣街頭籃球,但是我其實沒有真正看過一場籃球賽。你想應該有看過the Knicks吧? 不要開玩笑,我討厭這支球隊,除了因為它的影響力小之外*,我也討厭Patrick Ewing/John Starks擔正的年代,我只算是勉強支持過苟延殘喘的Sprewell年代,就這麼多而已。

*我知道,我知道有Carmelo。所以你說要去看布魯克林the Nyets?你還在開玩笑嗎?好吧,或許今年去,又或者…不會。

總之,雖然我住的紐約有Rucker和其他數不盡的街頭籃球聯賽(例如:布魯克林的Soul in the Hole, 西四街的The Cage, 因伍德的Dyckman),但是我從來沒有見識過為人津津樂道的熱血街場比賽。於是在上個週末,我決定是時候要去長見識了。

我本來打算去哈林的Rucker Park, 可惜來得不是時候,沒有碰上比賽--誰都想免掉查找聯賽比賽場次的功夫啊。不過也沒關係,我轉去有著街籃傳奇Bobbito Garcia的Dyckman街籃聯賽,剛好碰上了星期五晚上演的兩場高中比賽,分別是:L-Pac 對 Mookie’s All Stars, 以及Team Dyckman對10th Avenue。

來到哈林,如果你和我一樣是個「sneaker痴」,就別忘了去Footlocker House of Hoops的分店朝聖,搶一雙剛推出的人氣鞋作Rondo Christmas PE Hyperposites,來個完整的紐約籃球體驗。[https://www.facebook.com/pages/HOUSE-OF-HOOPS-HARLEM-NEW-YORK/296798495932]

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