Tony Parker

William Anthony "Tony" Parker Jr. (born 17 May 1982) is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The son of a professional basketball player, Parker played for two years in the French basketball league before entering the 2001 NBA draft. He was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 28th overall pick in the draft and quickly became their starting point guard. Parker has helped the Spurs win four NBA championships in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014.

Employing his pace and high field goal percentage to great effect, Parker has been named to six NBA All-Star games, three All-NBA Second Teams, and an All-NBA Third Team. He was also the 2007 NBA Finals MVP.

Playing for the France national basketball team, Parker was named as the EuroBasket 2013 MVP following his team's victory over Lithuania (80–66) in the gold medal game. The point guard finished as the tournament's top scorer with 19 points per game. In 2015 he became the all-time leading scorer in the EuroBasket competition.

Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993)

Virgil Anthony "Tony" Parker (born September 18, 1993) is an American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins. As a high school player in Georgia, he won four consecutive state championships and was named the top player in the state. He also earned national All-American honors. He joined UCLA in 2012 as part of the top recruiting class in the nation.

Early life

Parker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Virgil and Hazel Parker. His father played college basketball. Growing up, Parker would tag along with his older brother, Adrian, and watch him play basketball at a local court. When Parker was five, his brother was arrested and went to prison for 15 years for armed robbery. While Adrian was away, Parker helped take care of his brother's son, Jayvion.

By the seventh grade, Parker stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and weighted 300 pounds (140 kg), and would be mistaken for a lineman. He attended Miller Grove High School in Lithonia, Georgia, and some doubted whether he could play basketball for them. However, he led their team to four consecutive state titles (2009–2012), the first time a player in Georgia had started for four straight state champions since Dontonio Wingfield (1990–1993). With the help of a personal trainer, his strength and conditioning improved each season. As a senior, Parker averaged 16.6 points, 11.0 rebounds, and 3.0 blocks per game. He was named Mr. Georgia Basketball as the top player in the state, and was recognized nationally as a Parade, McDonald's and Jordan Brand All-American.

Tony Parker (author)

Tony Parker (25 June 1923 3 October 1996) was an oral historian whose work was dedicated to giving a voice to British and American society's most marginalised figures, from single mothers to lighthouse keepers to criminals, including murderers.

Biography

Born in Stockport, Cheshire, Parker was a conscientious objector during World War II, and directed to work in a coal mine. He moved to London and worked as a publisher's representative at Odhams Press. He campaigned against capital punishment and became very interested in prisons and their occupants, eventually focussing on the experiences of prisoners after release. Tony Parker died in Westleton, Suffolk, having just completed his study of his American counterpart Studs Terkel.

Work

His books comprise lengthy interviews with his various subjects. He does not include his questions. He attempts to record his subjects "without comment or judgement'. He began by specialising in studies of convicted criminals in Britain. His later books took a wider range of subjects: a poor housing estate, a small town in America, post-Communist Russia and the lives of lighthouse-keepers. Anthony Storr described him in 1970 as 'Britain's most expert interviewer, mouthpiece of the inarticulate and counsel for the defence of those whom society has shunned and abandoned'. As Colin Ward wrote in the Independent, Parker's 'own triumphs were the result of his gentleness and modesty, which led the most taciturn or suspicious of people to open up with confidences they would not dream of revealing to more self-assertive questioners'. The anonymous obituarist in the Telegraph stressed that "his real gift was for creating sympathetic silences into which murderers, thugs, child molesters, rapists and baby-batterers could pour their confidences without inhibition". He also wrote plays for television and episodes of Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch, Within These Walls, and Crown Court.

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Tony Parker

by: Tony Parker

Ca fait tout drôle
T’étais mon premier love
Mais qu’est-ce qu’on est devenu ?
T’étais mon premier love
J'crois qu’on évolue dans la vie
J'perds le fil
On s’est connu
On était gosse
T’étais mon premier love
Bien avant le basket
Mon premier titre
Toujours ensemble à l’époque
On était croque l’un de l’autre
On était jeune
On était fous
A qui la faute ?
On était rien sans l’autre
On était simple on était deux
On pensait un
Un seul amour
Un seul avenir
Un seul chemin
Et j'me rappelle
Quand j'te serrai dans mes bras
Tu me disais que t’aimais ça
Que t’étais au nirvana
Tu m’as rendu meilleur
J’avais un cœur de pierre
De cupidon t’étais la flèche
Mon cœur était la cible
Je n’avais pas de tunes au départ
Pour toi, j’aurais décroché la lune
Sans la fusée
Toujours derrière moi quoi qu’il arrive
T’étais mon pare balle,
Mon porte bonheur, quoi qu’il arrive
Refrain :
C’était toi et moi à l’infini
Si tu tombes, je tombes
J’étais Clyde t’étais Bonnie
You know I’ve never lied to U
All I do have done for U
You're my lover
My heart always beating for u
Nothing there I couldn't do for U
I could die for U
Baby u’re my first love
My love
Les années passent
Concentré dans mon basket
Notre amour se dissipe
On a grandi si vite
On se prend la tête
J'perds le fil de nos vies
On s’est connu trop jeune
De l’avis de nos amis
Tu m’as toujours dit
Que j’étais l'seul et l’unique
Tu m’aimerais jusqu’à la fin
Quel qu’en soit le prix
T’étais mon premier amour (t'étais
T’étais ma meilleure amie (t'étais
Je ne t’oublierais jamais
Malgré le succès
Les strass et les paillettes
Les fans et les groupies, tu sais
Mes souvenirs j’les garde dans ma mémoire
Nos éclats de sourires et tes pleurs tard le soir
J’regrette rien
Mes sentiments sont toujours là
On reste amis
Y a pas de futur sans histoires
Refrain
C’était toi et moi à l’infini
Si tu tombes, je tombes
J’étais Clyde t’étais Bonnie
You know I’ve never lied to U
All I do have done for U
You're my lover
My heart always beating for u
Nothing there I couldn't do for U
I could die for U
Baby u’re my first love
My love
J’parle au passé de notre histoire (t’étais mon premier love)
T’étais mon double
On s’est aimés (t’étais mon premier love)
On s’est quittés
On reste amis (on reste amis)
J’parle au passé de notre histoire (t’étais mon premier love)
T’étais mon double
On s’est aimés (t’étais mon premier love)
On s’est quittés
On reste amis (t’étais mon premier love)
T’étais mon premier love
T’étais mon premier love
T’étais mon premier love




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