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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.”
马刺队的帕克现在已经是联盟的全明星，但是在他进入联盟之前他却不被人们看好，这
其中就包括马刺主教练Gregg Popovich，在2001年芝加哥的一次选秀训练营里，波波维
奇第一次看到了帕克，他没用多久就给帕克作出了评价，他认为帕克太软了，不能去选
他。
当时只有19岁的帕克在对阵美国高中全明星队时脱颖而出，他激起了马刺队的兴趣，当
时马刺拥有首轮最后一位选秀权，当时还是马刺助理总经理的R.C. Buford 更多地观察
了一下帕克，他劝说波波维奇能再看看帕克的表现，然后马刺自己举办了一个试训，大
约45分钟，不过这次试训和篮球没太有什么关系。
帕克接受采访时说：“他们就是想看看我的内在，我当时没有意识到他们是这个目的，
我只是尽量做到最好，我很高兴能为一支NBA球队做试训。”