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Basketball: Meeting again at the top between Tony Parker and Ron Stewart The trainer of the Standard was invited by his old protected from Paris at the time of the third match of finales NBA. A true mark of friendship. It is enough sometimes to a simple e-mail… Ron Stewart, then on the way towards Ohio, contacts by Internet in last weekend Tony Parker. The leader of Spurs de San Antonio has just gained with his team the first match of “his” final vis-a-vis Cleveland. He connects himself then on his “box email”, and “he answered me very quickly to think that he invited me, with Franck Vérove, to see the third match. ” The two Residents of Brest, with the angels, remain all the weekend with Columbus to supervise players, and Tuesday, here are who take the direction of Cleveland, to a few hundred kilometers in the North of the State. “It was the first time that I attended on line a match of a final NBA” entrusts Stewart, still impressed “by all this atmosphere around the match. In full day, already, almost 60% of people in the street carry shirts of their team. It was fantastic. Before the beginning of the match, I was there, in platforms and I could almost nothing say so much I were impressed. ” Placed at middle height in the platforms, at the sides of the guests of mark of San Antonio, Franck Vérove and Ron Stewart attend the third success of Spurs in the series. “TP”, once again, delivers a match of world class (17 pts, 5 rebounds, 4 master keys), and the meeting again between the pupil and its former mentor is held in all relaxation. “I had not seen it before the match. But at the end, I went to see it in slides to congratulate it. I found it in form, but unfortunately, at the time these finales, it is very taken by the media and the sponsors. Thus after fifteen minutes, it had very quickly to leave to answer other requests. ” “Tony always calls me coach” Between Tony Parker and Ron Stewart, the relations were always placed under the sign of the respect. Friendship, too. One initially formed the other (Stewart launched “TP” in the great bath of Pro A with Paris in 2000), whereas other guard since an eye on its performances. And calls it or sends textos to him, regularly. “There is much respect between us. Moreover, when it presented to me at its fellow-members of Spurs, it called me coach. ” But if its former player succeeds today, the Brest-native trainer does not feel on the other hand “any personal pride. I am proud of him, of course, but you know, if I belong to his history, it is above all him which is on the ground. ” And its current performances? “It became one of the best players of the world. There is no more doubt. I think that if it were an American, nobody any more would hesitate to say it. I see badly how, with what it is realizing, the le of MVP of the playoffs could escape to him. ” And did five years before, when at 18 years, its young leader of Paris announced to him that it was going to be presented at Draft 2001, imagine to see it, four years later, with three les NBA? “Not, frankly not. I knew that it could play in NBA, but I did not think that it would be also strong. It should be said, as, as it arrived in an ideal environment with players like Duncan or Robinson. And its trainer, Gregg Popovich, chose to launch it, and it was that most important. It gave him confidence, like me a few years earlier in Paris. ” Today, Parker is not any more a minot. Thursday, it perhaps will take down its third le NBA in six seasons. Stewart, will be to him on the parquet floors of Greensborough (North Carolina). To locate, perhaps, of the players of the hardening of a Parker… Gaspard BRÉMOND.
