Three ball on the way from Thomas, Iowa's Big 12 tournament champs at the ice, and he drills it.

愛荷華州12強賽冠軍托馬斯冰場三球在路上，他鑽了出來。

Everyone has their own journey.

每個人都有自己的旅程。

Everyone has their own path, and I wouldn't trade mine for anything.

每個人都有自己的路，我也不會用我的路去換什麼。

Ever since he was little mats, life revolved around sports, especially basketball.

從小墊子，生活就圍著運動轉，尤其是籃球。

His mother, Martha, was a high school basketball star and his dad, Greg, rarely missed a game.

他的母親瑪莎是一名高中籃球明星，他的父親格雷格則很少缺席比賽。

When my mom and dad split up, we would go there on the weekends on DSI him way.

當我的媽媽和爸爸分開的時候，我們會在週末去那裡的DSI他的方式。

Go play horse or pig on Sundays.

星期天去玩馬或豬。

It always have, like pancakes and bacon, and we dive breakfast and he put peanut butter on his pancakes and then watch NFL Watched the Bears play way definitely were closed.

它總是有，像煎餅和培根，我們潛水早餐，他把花生醬在他的煎餅，然後看NFL看熊玩的方式肯定是關閉。

As a kid, you don't understand, obviously, but he had a lot of trouble with addictions with drugs and alcohol, and he was definitely struggling.

小時候，你不懂，很明顯，但他有很多麻煩，吸毒和酗酒的癮，他肯定在掙扎。

Greg, who worked as a nurse, lost several jobs and eventually his medical license after he was caught stealing painkillers on September 1st, 2005.

格雷格曾是一名護士，2005年9月1日，他偷竊止痛藥被抓後，失去了幾份工作，最終也失去了醫療執照。

Greg Thomas shot himself.

格雷格-托馬斯開槍自殺了

Matt was only 11 years old at that age.

馬特那年只有11歲。

All you know is you lost your dad.

你只知道你失去了你的父親。

It was really hard.

真的很辛苦。

It was really hard time.

那段時間真的很辛苦。

Yeah.

是啊。

I could only imagine how tough it was on him.

我只能想象他有多難受。

I just tried to be there for him.

我只是想陪著他

You know, with this faras sports go or just as a friend, we're pretty much inseparable at times.

你知道，與這個faras運動去或只是作為一個朋友，我們是相當多的分不開的時候。

I needed someone there for me at that time, and Dustin was that friend and Todd was a father figure that stepped in for me.

那時候我需要有人在我身邊，達斯汀就是那個朋友，而託德則是一個父親的形象，為我出面。

And without them, I don't I don't know where I'd be.

沒有他們，我不... ...我不知道我會在哪裡。

Dustin Gordon and Matt have been best friends since the third grade.

達斯汀-戈登和馬特從三年級開始就是最好的朋友。

You name a sport?

你能說出一項運動嗎？

They played it together.

他們一起玩。

And Dustin's dad, Todd embraced Matt as his own.

而達斯汀的爸爸託德則把馬特當做自己的親生兒子來擁抱。

My dad was very selfless.

我的爸爸是非常無私的。

You would do anything for you at any time.

任何時候你都會為你做任何事情。

He was my number one fan.

他是我的頭號粉絲。

One of Matt's number one fans.

馬特的頭號粉絲之一。

My with Todd.

我和託德在一起

He he stepped in as a father figure for me.

他... ...他把我當成了父親的形象。

E was over at their house all the time.

E一直在他們家過。

You know, we play pig or horse in the driveway.

你知道，我們在車道上玩豬或馬。

Kind of the same stuff that I was doing with my dad.

跟我和我爸做的事情差不多。

He just kind of stepped in and filled that void.

他只是一種介入，填補了這個空白。

For me, basketball filled a void for Matt to the court.

對我來說，籃球填補了馬特上場的空白。

Was his sanctuary a sacred place?

他的聖殿是一個神聖的地方嗎？

Basketball was always my outlet, kind of like an escape for me.

籃球一直是我的出路，有點像我的逃避。

All I need is the ball in the basket and I'm good.

我只需要把球放進籃筐就好了。

It was a blast playing with them.

和他們一起玩很開心。

Those games were packed, and there was a lot of crowd energy at that was just for people trying to get a spot to see Matt play at around 64 Junior number 21.

那幾場比賽都是人滿為患，那時候的人群能量很大，就是為了讓人們在64小號21號左右的位置上看馬特比賽。

Matt Thomas the baby.

馬特-托馬斯的孩子。

Every time you had Matt on your team, you knew you had a chance going into any game.

每次你有馬特在你的球隊， 你知道你有機會進入任何比賽。

Our team knew our roles very well.

我們的團隊非常瞭解我們的角色。

Natural was to score the basketball.

自然是將籃球打進。

Thomas put it on a show.

托馬斯把它的表演。

Mhm.

嗯

When Matt and Dustin were younger, Todd took them to watch the championship game every year.

馬特和達斯汀小的時候，託德每年都會帶他們去看冠軍賽。

Winning it in 2012 was their childhood dream.

2012年奪冠是他們兒時的夢想。

Realized my dad, he could just tell how proud he was off both of us, and you know, that's that's a moment that I'll never forget.

意識到我的父親，他可以告訴他是多麼的驕傲了我們兩個， 你知道，這是一個時刻，我永遠不會忘記。

That moment was one of their last happy memories.

那一刻，是他們最後的幸福記憶之一。

My dad just bought a small fishing boat and took it out for the first time.

我爸爸剛買了一艘小漁船，第一次出海。

It's April, the water's cold and they ended up finding the boat.

現在是4月，水很冷，他們最後還是找到了船。

But my dad would was not in the boat when they found it.

但他們發現時，我爸不在船上。

It was a really tough time for me, but even tougher for my best friend, Dustin.

這段時間對我來說真的很艱難，但對我最好的朋友Dustin來說更艱難。

And I'm glad that we had each other during those times for Matt, you know that.

我很高興我們在馬特的那些日子裡有了彼此，你知道的。

This is the second time he's he lost the dad.

這是他第二次失去父親。

I couldn't even imagine the pain that he was feeling and and really, all he was worried about was how I was doing.

我甚至無法想象他當時的痛苦，真的，他擔心的只是我的情況。

Throughout it all.

在整個過程中。

Basketball was a steadfast comfort.

籃球是一種堅定的安慰。

Right corner Matt Thomas, three chords.

右邊的馬特-托馬斯，三和絃。

Matt went on to make a name for himself as a three point specialist at Iowa State.

馬特後來在愛荷華州立大學以三分專家的身份名聲大噪。

After graduating, he played professionally in Spain.

畢業後，他在西班牙打職業。

And then, in July of 2019 he found a home in the NBA with the Toronto Raptors.

而後，在2019年7月，他在多倫多猛龍隊找到了NBA的家。

I've seen behind the scenes I've seen all the work that he's put in throughout the years, just to see that coming to fruition and see all that you know, being being shown to the rest of the world right now and have company more happy for him.

我已經看到了幕後我已經看到了所有的工作，他的投入在整個多年，只是為了看到，來實現，看到所有的你知道的，被展示給世界其他地方，現在，並有公司更高興為他。

Do you think about what?

你想過什麼嗎？

Your father what Todd might have said about making it to the MBA?

你父親對託德說過要考上MBA的事嗎？

You realize that they're not here anymore, But I know they're both watching me and extremely proud of what I'm doing and the person I became.

你會意識到他們已經不在這裡了 但我知道他們都在看著我 為我的所作所為和我成為的人感到驕傲