"I know who you are," he told Fede in an awed voice. "You played pro court ball with the Tampico Voladores. The game you’re talking about was the exhibition match that kicked off the 2051 season, the one in which Lorenzo Nanchez died of a ruptured spleen. You won that game by forcing Juan Toro to touch the ball with his hand and forfeit a point, then drove the ball into his end zone. Toro was so slotted off at you that he slammed you against the wall, breaking both of your legs. We thought you were out for the season, but you came back two months later with cybernetic limbs—the ones that enabled you to leap up and slam the ball through the hoop in the third game of the semi-finals in 2055, winning the game with just ten minutes and thirty-six seconds on the clock. That was a fragging brilliant move—although I agree with the officials’ decision not to let you play in the ollamaliztli finals, on account of your enhancements. But at least they let you remain the honorary captain of the team, even if you were benched for all five—"