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How we changed

Last October 24 marked 20 years since the NBA's first foray into Europe with the conclusion of the McDonald's Open in Madrid with the participation of the historic Boston Celtics, who arrived in the capital with an unforgettable template formed by the likes of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge and Dennis Johnson. It was 1988 and across the pond to play in the best league in the world was unlikely a company for European players, so only a few managed to attract the attention of the General Managers , still did not see in our continent that the reef supply year after año en la actualidad.

La temporada anterior, Fernando Martín se había convertido en el único español en dar el salto a la NBA de la mano de los Portland Trail Blazers, una de las primeras franquicias en apostar por el mercado europeo. Una experiencia poco gratificante que no le sedujo, y que motivó su regreso un año después al Real Madrid, donde coincidió con Drazen Petrovic, que seguiría sus pasos un año más tarde para iniciar la aventura americana, también en el equipo de Oregon. Ya se ha hablado muchas veces de las numerosas coincidencias -tan trágicas en determinados momentos- en las carreras de estos dos geniales jugadores que fueron precursores del baloncesto europeo en la NBA.

At that time I was 12 and every Saturday at dawn, watching 'Close to the Stars, I was enthralled with the images so passionately recounting Trecet with Esteban Ramón Gómez. With them I became a fan of the Celtics, and when I discovered they would be in Madrid for another team to play against my soul, Real Madrid, I decided not to stop until I get my parents would take me and my brother to see him. Bless them. A week later, there we were, sitting at the Palais des Sports and staring without knowing where to set our eyes wide open, I imagine that under the funny look from my father that we had certainly not seen as still since we bought the Cinexin. We enjoyed every minute of a game that left with the impression that Real Madrid had put the Celtics in trouble despite the final score (111-96) did not show such equality. They

90 and something began to take shape in the old continent. Little by little, we watched as more players migrated to pursue the American dream and are no longer surprised to find that not only will stand up to the NBA teams in pre-season tour, it was possible to extract a victory. Change of the century and everything went pleasantly unpredictable for English basketball when we saw Pau Gasol became rookie of the year, Utah put their eyes on Raul Lopez, Toronto, Jose Manuel Calderon and Sergio Rodriguez Portland. Since then I have not stopped. Pau played an All-Star and consolidated as a franchise player in Memphis, Calderon became the mastermind of the Raptors and national players kept coming to the league: Garbajosa in 2006, Navarro in 2007 and finally Rudy Fernandez and Marc Gasol in 2008 . In between, the selection was crowned world champion in Japan, silver at EuroBasket '07 and silver in the Olympics again, after questioning the superiority of 'Redeem Team' in the game that many media and have described as "the best ever."

Now that Rudy images sinking the ball on Dwight Howard encircle the world and the Barça first name terms with the Lakers at Staples Center himself, where Pau played in the NBA finals last June, is hard to think that will follow. A number one draft ? As they say, time to time, but soon ...

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Joe

No one is aware that not all clubs have the same budget to meet the season, a fact which obviously is a decisive factor for the interests of a team. Having money means not only signing well, but to enjoy most suitable conditions for the staff to reach its goal-that is, win games, with guarantees.

the same way we play at home may be a simple and safe routine for the wealthy, who enjoy the substantial advantages of air travel the day before the game to night and rest before the collision, for others, get to your destination can be an endless journey, a long trek through the desert that only positive reading can be obtained as the inexhaustible number of events and stories tend not to sleep that occur in these pathways.

The Journey from A Coruña to Los Barrios to play a single party, as happened to us twice during my stay in the now defunct North Surveys from 2002 to 2004, meant to me an amazing experience unparalleled in my career as a basketball player. Galicia leave at midnight to remain confined for 16 hours in a bus adapted using traditional foam mattresses on the floor to sleep, eating bad movies or betting in any game of chance, from the classic bingo games pocha up through the type poker Texas hold 'em - does not seem the best strategy for reaching optimum physical condition for a match, but nevertheless, this was the only option that could afford a small club like that to perform these movements. However, the two seasons we walked up and down Portugal to Algeciras left us a balanced balance: one win and one defeat.

nights on these trips are endless. After seeing two or three masterpieces of auteur-style " Zoolander," "The Animal " or " Road trip: travel freaks," reference movies for so many teams recent years, sleeping on a mattress on the floor, crammed together with your mates and listening to the murmur of uncomfortable motor from sudden temperature changes, it becomes an impossible task. In those moments, sharing odors of any kind, or the snoring of a pivot 125 kilos Nigerian who wisely choose not to wake, inevitably ask the same question that Lucio Angulo assaulting one of his posts on the possibility of having exceeded, albeit inadvertently, on the premise of "making the team."

refueling stops are also a lot of play. Imagine for a moment fronted by an operator of a petrol station late at night and in the middle of God knows where, when approached by a dozen six-foot guys led by a rate of 2.07 in a white shirt Straps up knees, gold chains and an electrified afro hairstyle that would leave Don King in a very simple fringe, demanding the opening of the store in a pidgin English to stock up on chips and coca-cola. Many times, nor do we opened. On another occasion, desperate to stop a player requested urgently to meet the untimely call of nature, which came in a bus without a toilet. Well, the driver either maimed or short, stopped immediately in the first place I peered into the road, one of those places that are advertised with lots of neon lights. The player did not dare to enter, preferring to hide behind trees to solve your topic.

few years ago, a club which chained a spectacular run of wins after the Christmas break, and finally make the climb in June, decided to motivate his players by promising that, as things went wrong on the pitch, would become a effort to ensure all journeys are made by air. A more interesting incentive to save miles on the road and extend a little sporting careers of some players, but far less profitable time to accumulate experience and truly unforgettable episodes.

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still there. 18 points, 3 assists and 21 in the first victory valuation season of a CB Illescas needed before the Ford Burgos. While pledging himself every year that is going to be the last to dispute, Joe Alonso remains active. I can not help but smile every summer when a mutual friend, or Joe himself tells me that's still fine to play and we can see by the courts another season. Pulling

file and doing an exercise in hindsight, Madrid's record shows a history longer than the children of Heidi. At 37, Joe is a rara avis , a unique player who has known each and every national basketball divisions, from the distant to the current First B Adecco LEB Oro De physical talent and Maradona (fortunately his brain belongs to another school), away from the archetypal profile of the current basketball player, Joe has found its natural habitat in competitive states, for which he has successfully passed along nearly two decades become the bane of so many coaches that practically no longer any need to see video to recite by rote scouting, great shooter and dribbler, good management of both hands, feet, very fast, capable of dividing and drag to help finding the open man ... His first boat from 6.25 to give a very quick step back, back again after the three-point line and drove a triple play is now a classic house brand.

And the veteran guard has a competitive nature that forces him to fight and win every time, whatever it is in play. Doctorate cum laude in the game when Gasol Pocha, Reyes and company did not know what a card, Joe is able to challenge you to a 1x1 one hour before a game, be a sprain, causing the subsequent attack nerves of coach put his foot on ice, bandaging the ankle and go out and play like any other Friday, is, by canceling the opposing defense.

anecdotes in the stage where I met Joe at the Universidad Complutense more than one war stories with he is the protagonist. Do you remember Raja Bell? In the pre-season 2002/03, the U.S., which has become a leading player in the NBA, came to Madrid with the TAU to play a home in which our small team was measured with Real Madrid, the Lucentum Alicante (then in the ACB) and the Basque team. In the first game of the tournament, with the latter, Joe gave him a suit of 29 points to Bell, who could not stop his opponent to the despair of Dusko Ivanovic, who outlined his characteristic wry smile from the bench to each basket of our ' gamer. "

Well, days later, Raja Bell abandon discipline Vitoria club after hearing the siren call of the NBA, calling in the Dallas Mavericks, where they begin to carve a reputation as an advocate of extreme hardness, skirting the bounds of legality and starring in altercations with Kobe Bryant and Andrea Bargnani for would be punished. From Madrid, and in October, we imagined a Bell traumatized by his experience with Joe Alonso, repeating over and over again in training Nowitzki: "No you can imagine, Dirk, is a chubby guy in Spain ...."