北京东单篮球场
作者：安德鲁·利特尔
来源：《英语世界》2020年第08期
After graduating high school， Zhang He and Zhang Baoyuan decide to take a trip fro
m their native Hebei province to Beijing with their newfound freedom—a breath of fresh air after months of gaokao prep.
邓家先 As they touch down2 in Beijing， others are arriving from more distant places： Shanxi， Hainan， even Los Angeles. Fresh high school grad and working professional alike， they all have one thing in common. Everyone is making the pilgrimage to Sunt Dongdan3—Beijing’s legendary street basketball tournament， held on a court that’s come to be known as the “Holy Land” of Chine streetball.金牛座男人
Streetball is more fast and loo than your NBA variety of the sport， typically played with less enforcement of the rules， more flair4 and tricks. There are courts around the world that draw perennial crowds hoping to catch some of the city’s—even country’s—most talented streetball players in action. For New York， it’s Rucker Park; for LA， it’s the courts at Venice Beach. For China， that court is Dongdan， which plays host to the aforementioned yearly streetball tournament that falls between May and July.
“Since high school， we’ve wanted to come out to Sunt Dongdan，” says Baoyua
n， sitting on the steps of the historic court in full gear. “Plus we’re big fans of MoreFree5.”
Minutes after Baoyuan speaks， MoreFree—the man that transformed the court into the streetball Mecca that it is today—pulls up in a sleek6 black car. He enters the court with a swagger and celebrity which， in this space， only he or an NBA all-star could posss.
Throngs of spectators have already gathered around the court， while lines to enter still run one hundred-deep. Music is bumping， the sun hovers beyond its highpoint， and with MoreFree now prent， onlookers become hushed in anticipation of the main event.
The warm-ups
线条动画 While the audience jostles for the best vantage points， players are already on the court， warming up their jump-shots and lay-ups for the competition. If they perform well，
they’ll be picked up by one of the big boys， maybe even MoreFree， for the competition’s finale： the night games.
政治思想方面个人总结 Like most traditional streetball tournaments， it’s individuals and not teams that come to play in Sunt Dongdan. Teams are randomly asmbled from the pool of players for the first round of the tournament， and standout individuals are picked by judges to compete one-on-one for slots in the night games. There they will play alongside pre-lected streetball veterans like MoreFree—many a young streetball player’s dream.
Securing a spot in the first round is a challenge in and of itlf， however. Each week there are only 64 slots open—40 for Beijingers and a meager 24 for people from out of town， like He and Baoyuan.
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After the tournament， a young Chine streetball hobbyist manages to catch MoreFree for an interview. Starstruck， the admirer nervously asks him how to start other tournaments like Sunt Dongdan in China.
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“First， you need to have confidence，” MoreFree replies. “You have to get to know everybody in the scene. It’s really difficult to do something like this by yourlf. You need the combined hard work of a group of people.”
When MoreFree founded the tournament in 2012， Chine streetball was facing extinction. Dongdan wasn’t much more than a community court at that point， but with a tournament on the horizon， the best streetball players in the city—and the nation—would ideally have something to work towards. The first tournament nt ripples across China， and other cities started to form their own streetball teams， returning grassroots streetball to its glory days once again.
北京平均工资 Perhaps Liu Jie from Henan puts it best when asked what Dongdan Court and MoreFree’s tournament have come to mean to the Chine basketball community.
