Moe Wagner left the Magic this summer for the Brooklyn Nets. He takes the subway regularly, and he likes it, he said, according to BeBasket: “I take the subway all the time, it’s convenient, cheap. I’ve lived here for a while now and I like the subway and New York.”
He added: “Nobody likes the subway but sometimes I don’t feel like starting my day paying for a $60 Uber.” At the same press conference, his teammate Day’Ron Sharpe said he has never taken the subway in New York. And Wagner admitted he had not yet seen the city’s real winter.
Let me tell you: in 2000, I arrived in Charleroi with one bag and a one-year contract, and on the first day I took the bus to the hall. I thought it was convenient. It was August. I told Wagner’s story to my mother on Sunday, on the phone. A world champion who takes the subway, who likes the city, who has just arrived. She asked whether he had seen a New York January yet. I said no, and that he had admitted it himself. She laughed. She reminded me of my first January here, the hall with the badminton lines, the heating with its moods, and me at the bus stop in two jumpers. I had told her on the phone that everything was fine. She had heard my teeth. I said: but I stayed, Mom. A quarter of a century. And I still like the bus. She said: see? He’ll still like the subway in February. But he should buy gloves.
It’s true, we checked: BeBasket.
