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I guess the greatest thing I've learned in life is never to invest too much emotion on one thing because if you do you would end up hurting yourself.

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Ten years ago, San Antonio Spurs general manager R.C. Buford walked into a steak house in Indianapolis, leaned into a private dining room, and witnessed Manu Ginobili and the brokenhearted Argentine silver medalists gathered at a long table for dinner. Children bounced on knees, wives and girlfriends chatted, and the fiber of a 2004 Olympic gold medalist strengthened itself in the aftermath of basketball's '02 world championships.
Argentina had delivered the United States its first loss in the post-Dream Team era, sending a ragged and motley Team USA tumbling toward sixth place and a well-deserved moment of global reckoning. USA Basketball had no system, no soul, no vision. The program had collapsed under the weight of its own neglect and hubris, a sense of entitlement that ultimately met its international match with a relentless band of brothers out of Argentina.
Argentina had long been a good team, but Manu Ginobili's emerging greatness promised to make them champions. He was daring and fearless, alive with a fervor and an innate sense of duty and obligation for the greater good of his basketball teams.
"The American guys had limousines lined up at the team hotel to get out of Indy as soon as they could," Buford said by phone from San Antonio this week. "The way the Argentines played, the passion they had for their national program, the way that they cared about each other, was something that was clearly missing with the U.S. program."
A senior USA Basketball official, Sean Ford, happened to be at the restaurant in July 2002, and the scene of the Argentine team stayed with him. As much as any national team on the planet, Argentina's rise to relevance demanded something closer to a revolution than a response stateside. Jerry Colangelo and Mike Krzyzewski were hired, Kobe Bryant and Jason Kidd were recruited, and truer training camps and feeder systems were installed.
Make no mistake: Argentina became a blueprint for the United States on its re-ascension to dominance. Yes, talent mattered, but so did culture, and no one has embodied team the way that Argentina has with Ginobili as the best player and leader. Another Spur, Fabricio Oberto, taught Ginobili on the national team, and he's passed it down, too.
Ten years later, Ginobili, 35, is on the cusp of saying goodbye to international basketball, but his legacy is unparalleled in this Olympic basketball tournament. On his way out, he's still averaging the most points, steals, and holding the highest efficiency ranking of these Games. He's still going to the floor and chasing loose balls, a national hero with the spirit to honor that Argentine uniform and flag.
As a young boy, Ginobili watched Maradona win the World Cup for Argentina in '86, but Ginobili turned out to be his country's Michael Jordan.
"It would be a little arrogant if I say that we are a blueprint of the USA Basketball," Ginobili told Yahoo! Sports. "But I think we did a heck of a job for a decade and am incredibly proud of what we've accomplished. And a lot of teams started to maintain a group of players – a core – that played together."
Ginobili was truly one of the children of the NBA's globalization, a young soccer player mesmerized over the flickering images of the Jordan and Magic Johnson highlights broadcast every Sunday night at midnight on Channel 9 in Argentina. Commissioner David Stern sold the rights for $2,000 to an eager basketball and soccer analyst named Adrian Paenza, and those images inspired Ginobili to try it all himself.
"When I was a kid, I didn't even dream of playing in the NBA," Ginobili says. "Nobody ever from Argentina played in the NBA when I was 10. I was watching MJ's tapes and thinking he was from another planet, that he was unreachable, untouchable – the same as Magic and Larry.
"And then I find myself, years later, raising the same trophy as they did."
Three times, Ginobili lifted an NBA championship trophy with the Spurs. He is the only player in history to have won an NBA title, an Olympic gold medal, and a Euroleague championship. That'll probably stand the test of time, too. Across the past decade, the two teams that have most shaped his legacy – the Spurs and Argentina – have been reflections of the culture his presence fosters, a touchstone player and leader that fits into environments and programs with precisely what teams need out of him.

1337. I must be going now.
1422. You easily get tired, so you should take this medicine.　

1615. I've got athlete's foot.
I have athlete's foot.
1616. Your summer uniform looks good on you.
You look great in your summer uniform.
Your summer uniform looks good.
1617. Now everybody has started to wear short sleeves.
Now everybody has started warring short sleeves.
1618. I guess it's rice planting season.
I suppose it's rice planting season.
1619. What did you get for Father's Day?
1621. Am I going to need my umbrella today?
1623. Couples enjoy sharing an umbrella.
1624. Excuse me, you forgot your umbrella.
You almost forgot your umbrella.
1625. My umbrella blew away.
I lost my umbrella in the wind.
1626. I forgot my umbrella on the train again.
I always forget my umbrella in the train.

1576. In June, wet weather comes in from the south.
A mass of wet air from the south blows over Japan in June.
1577. The rainy season shows the change from spring to summer.
The shift from spring to summer is marked by the rainy season.
Rainy season indicates the change from spring to summer.
1578. The rainy season has already started in Okinawa.
It's already the rainy season in Okinawa.
1579. We have the rainy season in early summer.
Early summer is the rainy season.
1581. It's the beginning of the rainy season.
1582. Now that it's the rainy season, we're having chilly days.
Now that the rainy season has set in, we're having chilly days.
1600. It's very humid, isn't it?
Humidity is high, isn't it?
1613. l got food poisoning.
I came down with food poisoning.
1614. I've been puking.
I threw up a couple of times.
I've been vomiting.

THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW’S WISDOM

This is a story about a good father who had a bad son and a wise daughter-in-law. The father was a religious man. He and his wife had only one son. The son was doing well in his studies, so the father wanted the son to study in the town.
Although he was not rich, he had some land. So he sold a plot of land to pay for his son’s education. His son studied and studied and then did well in his examination. Then he became a scholar. But he lived in the town, while the poor father and his wife remained in the village.

Then the father wanted the son to get married. Once again the father was ready to sell his property so that his son could be happy, happier, happiest. So they became poor.
Their son got married and he and his wife had a child. Soon he became very rich. Because he was rich he was able to send the child to a good private school. In every way the child was doing well.

Once, from the village, news came that his father was very sick. But the ungrateful son did not want to go to see his father.
He said, “He is an old man and his time has come. It will be a waste of time for me to go and see him.”
The son had become such a rogue. The mother was miserable. The son never came to see them. Finally the father died. Then the mother was all alone.

In the course of time, the rich son wanted his own son to get a higher education.
But his wife said, “I do not want our son to have a higher education. He has earned his high school diploma. That is enough. Now he should look for a job.”
The husband said, “My son should get an ordinary job? No, no! He has to be well educated! At this time if he gives up his studies, if he no longer goes to school, he will have no future. He has to be a great scholar like me. He has to become very rich.”

The wife pleaded, “Can you not see what you have done to your father? Your father did so much for you, but you did not care for him at all. Then he became old and he died. Will our son also not behave like you? He will become very well educated, rich. Then, you will become old. What you have done to your father, your son will also do to you. He will live with his own wife and son very happily. But he will not pay any attention to you.”

After listening to his wife’s words, the rich man felt some pangs in his heart. He agreed to go to the village with his wife to see his mother. When he saw his poor, old mother, he began crying.
His mother told him, “Son, at last you have come! Better late than never.”
Then the mother embraced her daughter-in-law and said, “You have so much wisdom! You are right. My son would have suffered the same fate as his own father. My son would also have suffered at the hands of his own son. Thank you very much.”
Eventually, the daughter-in-law saved her own family.

1530. Bamboo shoots come into season this time of year.
1531. It was chilly inside the cave.
I felt chilly inside of the cave.
1555. I got stuck in the mud.
1560. Food gets moldy during the rainy season.
1571. June is the rainy season in Japan.
1572. The rainy season is coming.
It'll be the rainy season soon.
The rainy season will be here soon.
1573. When does the rainy season start?
1574. The rainy season starts in the middle of June.
1575. The rainy season is about to begin.
It's almost time for the rainy season.
The rainy season is just around the corner.

127. Are there any golf courses around here?
467. This year is almost over.
This year is almost over already.
601. Christmas is my favorite time of year.
Christmas time is the best.
802. We have a lot of snow in Japan.
911. Winter reminds me of snow.
926. How do you like your rice cake?
1070. Plum trees have begun to bud.
1092. The weather is changeable.
1196.Cherry buds are a signal that spring is coming.