德州25岁创作者专给野生球局吹哨走红 最热一条视频播放量超过1600万次
位于美国德克萨斯州 Bexar 县 San Antonio 市的25岁创作者 Christian Ortiz，靠一件别人没想到的事在 TikTok 上走红：他不打球，专门跑到公园和健身房的野生球局里吹哨当裁判。据《今日美国》11月11日报道，Ortiz 以 @whrissss 和 @whristan 两个账号发布这类视频，播放量动辄数百万次，他最热的一条视频播放量超过1600万次。
那条视频里，Ortiz 从车里跳下，亮出一身 NBA 裁判行头跳上球场。场上的人起初将信将疑，慢慢开始接受他的哨声；一名球员质疑他的球技，他随即亲自下场打进一球，还给自己吹了一个「And-1」。野生球局原本靠球员自己喊犯规，Ortiz 说，一次犯规争议就能让比赛停上五分钟，有个裁判在场反而帮了大家。
Ortiz 学生时代在德州 Brownsville 上高中时恰恰是裁判最头疼的那种球员。他对《今日美国》说，自己创下过全校被驱逐和技术犯规次数的纪录，总爱跟裁判表达意见。2011年 Dallas 独行侠队夺冠后他成了这支球队的球迷，2019年夏天、上大学之前，他开始真正吹哨，从小学和大学比赛吹起，后来发现健身房里成年人的男子联赛最难管。
Ortiz 的正职是在体育社交媒体公司 House of Highlights 做 NBA 相关内容。他给自己起了个新名头，叫「职业非官方野生球局裁判」。他说自己最终目标是不要打扰场上打球的人，而是让这场球因为他的出现变得更好；有网友建议他再给野生球局配上啦啦队和教练，他并不打算采纳。
Texas Creator, 25, Goes Viral Refereeing Pickup Games, With His Top Video Topping 16 Million Views
Christian Ortiz, a 25-year-old creator who lives in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, has gone viral on TikTok for doing something few people thought of: instead of playing, he shows up at pickup basketball games in parks and gyms, pulls out a whistle and starts refereeing them. According to USA TODAY on November 11, Ortiz posts the videos under the usernames @whrissss and @whristan, they routinely attract millions of views, and his most viral video has topped 16 million views on TikTok.
In that video, Ortiz jumps out of a car, reveals an NBA referee outfit and hops onto the court. The players are skeptical at first, then slowly accept his authority, until one player challenges his basketball skills. Ortiz takes him on, scores a basket and calls his own foul: "And-1!" Pickup games normally rely on players calling their own fouls, and Ortiz says an argument over one call can stop a game for five minutes, so having a referee there actually helps everyone.
As a high school student in Brownsville, Texas, Ortiz was exactly the kind of player referees dreaded. He told USA TODAY he set a school record for ejections and technical fouls and always gave referees his opinions. He became a Dallas Mavericks fan after their 2011 championship, and in the summer of 2019, before his first year of college, he began refereeing for real, working elementary school and college games before finding that men's league games between grown adults in recreation centers were the hardest to control.
Ortiz's day job is making NBA content for the sports social media company House of Highlights. He has given himself a new title: a "professional unofficial pickup ref." He says his end goal is to make sure his being there makes the game better for the pickup players, not worse, and he is not planning to take up viewers' suggestions to add cheerleaders or a coach to the pickup court.
来源：《今日美国》
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图片来源：图：野生篮球局比赛资料图（摄于 San Diego，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons），已裁为16:9，画面人物并非 Ortiz、亦非其视频现场。/ Pickup basketball game (file photo taken in San Diego, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons), cropped to 16:9; the players shown are not Ortiz and the image is not from his videos.
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