Nick Collison’s Two-Day Adventure
ORLANDO, Fla. — Nick Collison has had his eyes set on a family vacation.
At some point over the next couple of years, the Thunder’s power forward was going to take his family to Disney World.
Oddly enough, knee surgery fast-forwarded his timeline.
Collison has come to Orlando to rehab his right knee, which needed arthroscopic surgery in mid-May. While here, he thought it best to squeeze in that highly-anticipated trip to the place where dreams come true. Before making his first appearance at summer league on Monday, Collison took his wife, Robbie, and 4-year-old daughter, Emma, to the world’s most famous theme park.
“If it didn’t work out like this I might have waited a couple of years,” Collison said. “But (Emma) had fun. It was only a couple of rides she wasn’t tall enough to go on.”
But what’s a family vacation without a few snags?
Doing Disney World during the jammed-packed, summer-vacation, dog-days of spicy-hot July can be brutal for any parent. And Collison learned that lesson the hard way. He split the trip over a two-day span, making sure his leading ladies got the most out of their visit.
As for Collison, well he got a surprising workout.
“It was a lot of work, man,” he said. “We were there six, seven hours standing in line with the heat. It’s a grind, man. Eighty-two games is nothing compared to that. It’s tough but it was fun.”
Asked his favorite ride, Collison didn’t hesitate.
“Splash Mountain,” he declared. “That’s a good ride.”
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