Allen Iverson Wants to Play 6 More Years Source: http://tinyurl.com/nlo29z At this time last summer, Allen Iverson was one of the highest-paid players in the game and generally regarded as a superstar enjoying the final years of his prime. One failed season in Detroit, he's become a complete afterthought. What happened? For one, all of the stereotypes that have surrounded him his entire career proved to be still true: he needs an offense custom-made for his abilities to be effective; he can no longer finish consistently at the rim; he's a sieve on defense; he'd rather sit out than concede a starting job. Scoring guards are generally the easiest asset to find in the NBA, and considering the undeniable evidence that Iverson's game has slipped, it now longer makes sense to make him the primary focal point. Nevertheless, Iverson, 34, is in no hurry to leave the game the game behind, revealing in a recent interview with his hometown paper in Newport News, Va., that he hopes to play until he's 40. From David Teel of the Daily Press: Q: You said hopefully the next stop is a place you can retire. How many years do you think you might have left? 您希望下一站是您可以退休的地方，那你觉得多久後你才会离开球场? A: I used to say that I didn't want to go over 40. I see young guys emulating the way I play ... and I used to think it would be weird to be 40 years old and doing the things I do. You can't be 40 years old still trying to cross people over and stuff like that. ... 我以前常说我不想到40岁，我看到很多年轻小伙子在模仿我打球，而我会觉得奇怪的是我 到40岁後还有人模仿我打球。很难想像到40岁还在试着带球过人。 But the one thing God gave me is the stamina to be able to run all day, as far as being a freak of nature. My teammates always say that about me. I honestly feel like I'm not slowing down. I'm just thinking I don't want to go past 40. I'll push it to the limit. I hope God gives me six more good years. 不过很庆幸的是上帝给我很好的体力让我持续整天的跑动，到目前为止是很奥妙的事。我 队友总是会谈到我，我很诚实的感觉到我并不是怠慢，我只是在想我到40岁前还要不要打 球，我会将自己冲到极限。我希望上帝能给我六年的篮球生涯。 Iverson seems to realize that his skills are no longer valued quite as much as they used and seemed to accept the fact that he'll have to take a significant pay cut if he hopes to prolong his career. Iverson似乎觉得他的技巧已经不再像以前人们评价那麽的好，也接受可能会减薪打球的事 业。 Iverson: Man, if money is a concern to me at this point in my life, after all that I've made, then I've got a problem. So that's not going to be a big deal. The biggest deal is going to be being happy. That's it. ... In Denver I was happy all the way through, but that was what, two years? I'm talking about a steady diet of happiness all the way through. That's all I want at this point in my career. Iverson说:男人，在人生中的这一刻，总是会非常关心钱的事，但毕竟我已经赚够了，然 而我也出现一个问题。所以就不会有一很大的交易。有一场大交易固然是很开心的一件事 ，那就是在丹佛我真的很快乐在那里打球，但那又如何，两年而已?我很坚决谈到打球还是 要以快乐为优先。在我篮球生涯中快乐才是我最想要的。 Obviously I want a championship, but I don't care about statistics anymore like I did when I was younger. I don't care about All-Star games. I don't care about scoring titles, MVPs, none of that. I just want to play basketball, be effective and be happy. Be a great teammate. I don't even care about being dominant on the court like I used to be. I don't have any more individual goals . I've done basically everything you can do in a basketball game. 很明显的我现在很想要一个冠军，但我不在很关心的我的打球数据如何。我也不在忽NBA明 星赛，我也不在忽得分排行，MVPS，都不是在忽这些。我只是想要打篮球!有效率而且很快 乐。并当一个很好的队友，我甚至不在忽在球场上我是不是领导者。我已经不在也有更多 个人的目标，那些个人目标我在之前都已经完成了。 Maybe his time in Detroit taught something, or maybe he's simply saying all the right things -- if you recall, he made virtually the same comments while being introduced in Detroit, claiming he'd do anything if it meant winning. When push came shove, "anything" didn't include coming off the bench, trusting the team's renowned medical staff to treat his back injury or showing up to the arena to support his teammates while he was injured. His skills may be in decline, but his ability to say exactly what everyone wants to hear while proceeding to do the exact opposite is still in peak form. -- ○○○○○ □□□ ⊙⊙ ◎◎ ☆ ☆ ○ □ ⊙ ⊙ ◎ ◎ ☆☆ ○ □□□ ⊙ ⊙ ◎ ◎ ☆ ○ □ ⊙ ⊙ ◎ ◎ ☆ ○ □□□ ⊙⊙ ◎◎ ☆ --

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