The picture is unique. What are the famous and multimillionaire Detroit Pistons players doing going to a game by subway? It is not usual in a league full of (private) air travel, that demigod status of the professionals themselves and the economic value of the competition. But the Pistons had no choice. They were in New York and to beat Jordi Fernandez’s Brooklyn Nets (92-106), they went to the game like any other “mundane” person.

No alarms were raised. The reason was well known, as New York hosted one of its sporting jewels, the Marathon. The running of the ‘Major’ changes the normal life of the city, cuts and collapses its heart and the Pistons had to adapt. The franchises normally go to games by bus, but on this occasion they traveled to the Barclays Center in the prestigious Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn by subway due to the traffic cuts.

The image was great. The Pistons, occupying a subway car on line three and getting off at the stops near the arena. With their big players, such as Cade Cunningham or Tobias Harris, showing care not to hit their heads in the car after receiving a warning from the league itself about the dangers of the subway.

And they won, which was the main thing. At that unusual time (3:30 p.m. East Coast time) and as visitors to the surprising Nets of Jordi Fernandez. It was their second win of the season. Perhaps it was the subway that gave them some unexpected wings.

The New York Marathon was won by the Dutchman, originally from Somalia, Abdi Nageeye with 2:07.39 in the men’s category, and by the Kenyan Sheila Chepkirui, marking a time of 2.24:35, in the women’s category.