Let\u2019s put it this way: when you\u2019ve had the long and improbable basketball journey Cormac Ryan has had, nothing much is going to impress you. Part of belonging is acting like you\u2019ve been there before, right? So just because you\u2019re wearing an honest-to-God NBA uniform \u2014 dark Milwaukee Bucks roadie, name and number (30) on the back \u2026 just another workday.<\/p>\n
Just because the place you\u2019re draining 3s is no longer the Dapolito Rec Center on Carmine Street but instead the Toyota Center in Houston, with each of the 18,055 seats occupied \u2026 look, you\u2019ve played games at Cameron Indoor, OK (in Coach K\u2019s farewell game, no less)? You once played a couple of Final Four games at the New Orleans Superdome, in front of nearly 70,000 fans. A gym\u2019s a gym.<\/p>\n
Still \u2026 when some of those 3s are taken with Kevin Durant\u2019s hand in your face, when you wind up with 25 (on 9-for-14 shooting) and KD, because he is KD, feels the need to not only answer you back with a couple of game-clinching baskets (over you) but also a little smack talk \u2026<\/p>\n
Well, that has to be a little surreal, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s put it this way: when you\u2019ve had the long and improbable basketball journey Cormac Ryan has had,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-702437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-milwaukeebucks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116361123929144299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}