Daryl Morey：林書豪落選因他是亞洲人

由 Michael Lewis寫成的「The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds」一書中，當中記載了火箭總經理Daryl Morey對林書豪的評價。當中Morey毫不避諱地談到現今體壇對亞洲球員的歧視。

引用“He lit up our model,” said Morey. “Our model said take him with, like, the 15th pick in the draft.” The objective measurement of Jeremy Lin didn’t square with what the experts saw when they watched him play; a not terribly athletic Asian kid. Morey hadn’t completely trusted his model - and so had chickened out and not drafted Lin. A year after the Houston Rockets failed to draft Jeremy Lin, they began to measure the speed of a player’s first two steps: Jeremy Lin had the quickest first move of any player measured. He was explosive and was able to change direction far more quickly than most NBA players. “He’s incredibly athletic,” said Morey. “But the reality is that every **** person, including me, thought he was unathletic. And I can’t think of any reason for it other than he was Asian.”

Morey稱當初曾讓自己的球探團評估林書豪，結果球探團認為以林書豪的實力應該能排在選秀的第十五名，但當時Morey並沒有信任他的球探團。他當時認為林書豪的運動能力不足，但在後來的測試中得知林書豪的加速頭兩步是當時所有球員中最快的。

Morey說「他的運動能力十分好，但現實就是所有人都是XXX，包括我，我以為他是沒有運動細胞的。除了因為他是亞洲人以外，我想不到其他原因（不選他）。」

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