[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2/3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/obnWlJYi7t4″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The NBA All-Star Game last year featured a televised ping-pong match on TNT between NBA Hall of Famer Reggie Miller and top hip-hop artist Drake who are both big into ping-pong!
Their ping-pong match was watched live by many big names including NBA legends Lebron James, Charles Barkley, and Isiah Thomas. If they played my weekend league, my guess is their rating would be around 100-300. Their rating would likely be higher in other regions of the country. The rating system goes from a scale from 0-3,000 with the higher, the better. The top in the world are 2700-2950. The top in the US are 2500-2750. The average USA Table Tennis tournament player is around 1,600.
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Reggie Miller came to watch table-tennis at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he was playing for the USA Men’s Basketball team that won gold. He watched the men’s singles semifinal match between China’s Wang Tao and Czech Republic’s Petr Korbel. My clubmate and practice partner, Jimmy Guan, sat right behind Miller and explained things to him to make sure he understood what was going on. We were part of the staff during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics that did scorekeeping and stats. Miller gave two standing ovations during that match and since he is big into ping-pong, my guess is that he told members of the 2000 USA Men’s basketball team to go watch table-tennis. NBA Dream Team members Jason Kidd, Ray Allen, Allan Houston, and Steve Smith came to watch table-tennis during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In an interview after they came to watch table-tennis, Ray Allen said the ball was moving fast but they think they could be out there. This indicates that table-tennis is high skill and not understood by everyone as seemingly simple-looking play is not very simple with the high amount of spin and deception on the ball. They would likely not be able to receive the serves of any Olympian.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
