"I was 50 CAMERA Train" – Of course, for all our athletes my invitation to star weekend was a real event – says Kurtinaytis. – In those years for us was the NBA cosmos. There will not ever set foot single Soviet basketball. I think Americans called me because my game in the semifinal of the Seoul Olympics, when I scored 28 points. I do not know why I have chosen. After all, the candidates were legendary Croat Drazen Petrovic and the famous Brazilian Oscar Schmidt … I learned about the invitation two weeks before the show. And he began to prepare like crazy. Trained at night in Kaunas: special for me pointers on the meter line drawn on, as is done in the NBA. But I have this discomfort is not caused. Quietly put 25 out of 25. And I think that would be made in the contest more successful, if not for American journalists. Around me started this madness. Reporters tormented day and night calls. The American media only, and wrote that the match goes the famous Russian sniper, who breaks the all-NBA. I was under great pressure. When arrived in Houston, was immediately convened a press conference to urge on me about five dozen cameras. For the first time in my life have I seen so many journalists who have showed interest only to my person. Tormented reporters before fainting. And I could not withstand this pressure. "So not cope with nerves" – The NBA contests are held the day before the All-Star Match – continues Rimas. – Immediately after the speech I was supposed to fly to Italy for a Champions League match – in the Zalgiris released only a day. Therefore, the match I could not see. But I had enough and the hours I spent at the Palais des Sports in Houston … This extraordinary spectacle. When I went to the site, and staring at me 50 thousand pairs of eyes. It was a shock. Never seen anything like it created a sense that I was in another dimension. I'll tell you this: in Europe, never anything like this would not, at least in the next hundred years. In Spain, Greece, in Russia at this level is unlikely to hold a celebration … nerves, acclimatization and increased attention to my person, I never managed it. Scored a total of 9 shots out of 25. Awful result. By the way, then Americans have ceased to invite her show players from the side. I spent the night in the company of superstars. I was invited to a huge nightclub. Asia Thomas, Charles Barkley, Magic Johnson. For us, the players from the Soviet Union, these men were gods. And suddenly I'm in their company. It was like a fairy tale. These guys are jiving, dancing, singing until dawn. And what struck me, no one drank. Alcohol was not banned, but the guys had fun without it. After that I have four more e times visited Star Game, but as a spectator. I hope that in Nizhny Novgorod, too, everything goes at a good level. After such shows only add to the popularity of basketball in your country. Recorded Cyril ZANGALIS
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