一开始总是觉得不多 怎麽翻到後面又觉得好长翻不完 囧 来源︰http://ppt.cc/iIg_ Cheers for Iverson need no translation The look on Allen Iverson's face in that moment he was introduced to his new life was one of pure amazement, equal parts shock and fear. And that gave way to the realization that these people halfway around the world - in a place he never thought much about and would never have reason to - loved him, adored him. The expressions on Iverson's face when he landed in Turkey the other day, and again at the soccer game where they stood and chanted for him, were priceless. 在Allen Iverson进场介绍时脸上是纯粹惊奇的表情，同样震惊以及恐惧。这让他知道 在地球另一边的人 - 在一个他从没想过也没理由去的地方 - 敬爱他、欣赏他。在抵达 土耳其的那天，以及群众在球场上起身为他欢呼，Iverson的表情是无价的。 Don't get me wrong, Allen Iverson shouldn't have to play in Turkey - or anywhere in Europe or Asia. Iverson, now 35 years old, should be taking his curtain calls here, at home, for an NBA team, preferably a contender. You can't convince me that Iverson can't help a good team, that he can't come off the bench and be an asset. The coach with whom Iverson had his greatest success, Larry Brown, said recently, "I think it's sad having him have to go to Turkey to finish his career." 别误会我，Allen Iverson不应该在土耳其打球 - 或在欧洲、亚洲。Iverson，现年35 岁，应该在他的家、NBA球队谢幕。你无法说服我Iverson无法对球队有所帮助、无法 从替补上当个有价值的球员。那一个和Iverson获得最大的成就的教练，Larry Brown ，最近这麽说“我认为让他去土耳其结束他的生涯令人难过” (注︰那你还不快点签他回来) Not as sad, though, as sitting by a phone that never rings. Since no NBA team called and Iverson wasn't ready to give up his Hoop Dreams, he bit when Besiktas offered him $4 million for playing two years in Turkey. Most folks you talk to in the basketball world believe there's zero chance Iverson will stick it out that long, even if he did say after that greeting fit for a king, "I bet before I leave here I'm going to speak Turkish." 不过没有比坐在不会响起的电话旁边难过。既然没有NBA球队打来，Iverson也不打算结 束他的篮球梦，他答应Besiktas两年四百万在土耳其的合约。你跟你那群篮球夥伴相信 没有丝毫机会待那麽久，即使他说过“我赌当我离开时已经会说土耳其语。” Perhaps this can be the experience of a lifetime for Iverson, living and working abroad, seeing something so stunningly different from Hampton Roads, Va.; Washington; Philly; Detroit; and even Denver. Perhaps this will be life-changing or life-affirming in a way Iverson, even with all he's been through, could never imagine. 这也许是Iverson人生中的一段经历，在海外生活以及工作、看见与汉普顿的不同、维 吉尼亚洲、华盛顿、费城、底特律、甚至丹佛。也许这是，甚至他以前过的，Iverson 从来无法想像的人生转变或是生活观， Adrian Branch, the DeMatha and Maryland alum who wears an NBA championship ring from his days with the Los Angeles Lakers, played seven years overseas. There were stops in Israel, Spain, Australia, Thailand, the Dominican Republic and . . . Turkey. Adrian Branch，迪玛莎高中和马里兰大学的校友，在洛杉矶湖人队的日子拿到冠军戒 指，在海外征战七年。曾在以色列、西班牙、澳洲、泰国、多明尼加共和国以及..... 土耳其。 Branch played the 1993-94 season for Oyak Renault in Bursa. He can rattle off a sentence in Turkish even now and recalls his time there fondly. He said of what's facing Iverson, "You can't go in there with the attitude of, 'I'm the man, I'm the American, I'm here to fix everything.' They know A.I. They've seen all the clips. They know his crossover. They've got his trading cards, pre-cornrows, pre-tattoos. He can go over there and be Micheal Ray Richardson and play till he's 40. But he'll have to be humble. He can't go over there being G.I. Joe. After all, they're giving him a chance no American team would; they're giving him a job." Branch在1993-94为布尔萨OYAK Renault效力。他可以说一口流畅的土耳其语，在土耳 其的时光也能深情回忆。他说什麽是Iverson要去面对的“你不能以‘我正是那个人、 我是美国人、我来处理这一切’的这种态度。他们知道A.I. 他们看过所有的剪辑，他 们知道Crossover，他们有他的球员卡、他们烫玉米垄发头、刺青。他可以过去那边成 为Micheal Ray Richardson然後打到他四十岁。但他必须要谦虚。他不能过去那边然後 变成特种部队，毕竟他们给了他一个机会，美国球队没给他的。他们给他一份工作。 The challenges are fairly obvious, beyond language and living in a radically different culture. The European season is less than half the length of an NBA season, but there's plenty of practice, sometimes two-a-days, and Iverson long ago let us know what he thinks of practice. 挑战是相当明显的，除了语言跟生活在完全不同的文化下，欧洲联盟球季是少於NBA的 一半长度，但会有很多的练习，有时候两天一次，Iverson以前曾告诉我们他对练习的 态度。 Then there are the expectations about American players. European fans see NBA basketball all the time, and therefore know just how old Iverson is and that his last four stops - Denver, Detroit, Memphis and a return to Philly - were somewhere between disappointing and disastrous. But they'll still expect him to be the A.I. they adore, just like American soccer fans expected Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Cruyff and David Beckham to fairly regularly show the form that made them famous, that made an international community want to pay to see him. 然而对於美国球员有些期望，欧洲的球迷常常看NBA的比赛，因此他们知道Iverson年纪 有多大以及他之前的四个球队 - 丹佛、底特律、孟菲斯以及费城 - 都是在失望以及失 败之间。但他们仍然期待他是A.I. 他们欣赏，就像是美国足球迷期待Giorgio Chinaglia Johan Cruyff跟David Beckham一样，这让他们想去付钱去看他。 Besiktas wants to fill their 4,500-seat arena, to even have overflow crowds that are willing to spill into the streets and watch on screens outside the building. The Turks are buying Iverson's No. 4 jersey like mad (he can't wear No. 3 since 4 is the lowest number allowed on jerseys there) and don't think of him as "old" even though that's what he is in basketball terms. It's been three years since Iverson scored in a manner (26.4 points per game in 2007-08 for Denver) that made him an international sensation. Iverson played 57 games the following year, then 28 last season. Besiktas希望球场能坐满4500人，甚至让超出的群众，愿意上街去看建筑物上的萤幕。 土耳其人像疯子般买Iverson的4号球衣(他不能穿3号是因为那边最小的号码是4号)而且 不认为他是老的，即使他在篮球届中就是。这是三年以来Iverson得分的方式(26.4场均 分在丹佛2007-08球季)让他在国际轰动。隔年Iverson打了57场比赛，27场次年。 The prevailing wisdom has been that Iverson wouldn't come off the bench, and when he took time off after the Sixers picked him up, it was cited as proof that he didn't want to play last year. But one of Iverson's closest associates told me recently that Iverson would indeed come off the bench for an NBA team and that he wasn't obstinate; 76ers management encouraged him to take the time last year to be with his family while the club took a long and needed look at some younger players. 普遍都认为Iverson不打算打替补，而且当他离开在七六人签他後离开，常被引用成他 不想打最後一年的证据。但有一个Iverson亲近的朋友跟我说Iverson当然愿意成为NBA 球队的替补，他不是固执的。七六人的经理鼓励他用去年的时间去和他的家人相处，当 球队需要花一段时间重整。 It was never quite clear why Brown, who clearly still loves Iverson, didn't prevail upon the Bobcats to bring Iverson to Charlotte. It was never quite clear (not to me anyway) why a team like Cleveland, which needed scoring off the bench, which needed a player who could get his own shot and provide a spark without being dependent on LeBron James, never called. They must have felt that Iverson had too many holes or too many issues to be an asset. 没有明显原因，那一个仍然爱着Iverson，Brown没有劝说山猫去签Iverson来到夏洛特。 这从来是不清楚的(至少对我来说)为什麽像克里夫兰这种需要得分替补的球队，需要不用 Lebron James来刺激进攻的球员，从来没打过电话。他们一定是觉得Iverson有太多缺陷 以及太多的问题去成为有价值的球员。 The sad part is that nobody ever played harder than Iverson, which is why audiences have loved him, even if he did have his moments with coaches, even if practice didn't interest him. Iverson did those two things that were appreciated even if you were watching 4,500 miles away on television. He gave every ounce of himself to every game and he thrilled you in the process. And the Turks want to see that light, or whatever is left of it, before it's entirely extinguished. 难过的地方是没有人打球像是Iverson一样认真，这就是为什麽观众喜欢他，即使他有 和教练们的好时光，即使他对练习没有兴趣。Iverson作了这两件事情让你即使在电视 上看4500英哩外的他，仍然欣赏他。他为每场比赛付出一点自己让你感到激动。土耳其 人希望能看到光，无论是否是之前留下来的，在完全熄灭之前。 Iverson will be playing with, as one writer put it recently, a bunch of guys who a few years ago would have been paying to see him play. The players, according to scouts, will be college-level, in terms of talent. His team plays in the Turkish league, not the superior Euroleague. Even so, the Turks will want to see the player they idolized as kids, the one who crossed over Michael Jordan as a rookie, who led the NBA in scoring four times, who led his team to the NBA Finals once, who was the league's MVP. And perhaps, if it's meant to end sweetly, Iverson will play up to expectation in Europe and the real curtain call will come in the NBA, in America, at home, where his final bows ought to come. Iverson将会和，像是最近一位作家所说的，一群愿意付钱去看他比赛家伙打球。这些球 员，根据侦查的结果，大概是大学等级的人才。他在土耳其联赛，不是欧洲联赛。即使 如此，土耳其人仍会想去看他们从小崇拜的球员，那一个菜鸟时期在Michael Jordan前 用Crossover，那一个NBA四届得分王，那一个带领球队到NBA总冠军赛，那一个曾是NBA MVP。也许，如果这注定要顺利的结束，Iverson将会在欧洲不负众望，然後会在NBA谢 幕退休、在美国、在家、他最後的一鞠躬的地方。 --

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