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A New Orleans N.B.A. All-Star Weekend Diary: Dunks and Skills

来源于:THE NEW YORKER
The Superdome was lit purple, a giant spaceship beneath the night sky. Blue police lights strobed near and far. There were police on motorcycles, in police cruisers, in unmarked cars, on foot with parked cars next to them, all of them with lights madly blinking. It was like the entire Superdome had been turned into a Mardi Gras float. A helicopter circled above, lower and lower. White stretch Bentleys, including two with the monogram “TMT”—the boxer Floyd Mayweather’s life-style brand, The Money Team—were backed up at a police checkpoint where a black, bomb-sniffing dog circled the vehicles. I had parked my Vespa on the other side of the overpass and was on foot. It felt like a stroll through the fall of Saigon, but it was just the back entrance to the Smoothie King Arena, where all the TV trucks were stationed under bright white lights, their radar pointed skyward. 查看全文>>