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It was a lovely day in Sri Lanka, right up until Tony Ronzone spent those two hours at gunpoint.

That kind of soured the mood.

As one of the Mavericks' international scouts, Ronzone spends a large amount of his time going to the ends of the earth to find basketball talent. Occasionally, he has found himself in compromising situations.

The Sri Lanka trip tops everything else on the scouting road for Ronzone.

"They had rebels -- it's like civil war in the country," he said. "We got stopped and they had rifles pointed at us for two hours and wouldn't let us do anything.