Requiem for a Lin http://ppt.cc/Oew2 We probably should have been more suspicious of Jeremy Lin's knee injury than we were. For the past week or so, we didn't blink when coach Mike Woodson said "if" Lin comes back, when the Knicks kept Lin away from the press for a few days, when Lin was being scratched from the lineup earlier and earlier each day. We guess we just didn't want to believe it. But it's true: Jeremy Lin isn't coming back. 我们原本应该对Lin的膝伤抱持更加质疑的态度。过去一星期以来，我们看着 Woodson表示不清楚Lin「是否」能重返球场、尼克连续数天让Lin远离媒体、 Lin的名字越来越快从出赛名单上消失等种种迹象连眼睛都不敢眨一下。我们 仅仅是不愿相信事实：Lin不会回来了。 Some frayed knee cartilage is what ultimately ended Linsanity, and we won't see him again this season unless the Knicks somehow win a first-round playoff series, assuming, of course, they actually make the playoffs. (Which is far from assured.) We could lament the injury frustrations, the now-gaping-again point-guard-hole, the fact that we're gonna spend the last month of the season watching Carmelo Anthony, J.R. Smith, and Baron Davis running isolations every time down the court, but there will be plenty of time for that. Right now, we just want to reflect on what we have lost. 膝盖软骨的磨损导致Linsanity就此落幕，除非尼克设法赢得季後赛第一轮 ──当然是在假设尼克挤进季後赛的前提下（很难保证会发生）──观众 本季将无缘再见到他。大家可以开始悲叹球队遭遇的伤病问题、再度出现的 控球後卫大洞、赛季最後一个月都得耗在观看Carmelo Anthony、J.R. Smith 及 Baron Davis一再前场单打的事实，不过以後还有很多时间去想这些。此刻 ，我们只想审视一下我们失去了什麽。 We've been covering sports for New York Magazine for almost four years now, and Linsanity, without question, was our favorite story to cover. For those loopy, ascendant two weeks — and it was essentially a fortnight, starting on February 4 against New Jersey and peaking with that February 19 win over Dallas on national television — we had everything you could possibly want from an athletic endeavor. We had the "new": A scrappy kid coming out of nowhere. We had the "underdog": Ignored, undrafted, and left for dead in the D-League, Lin was proof that talent can be found (and missed) anywhere. We had the "inspiration": An Asian-American kid succeeding on his own terms in the grandest possible way. We had the "giddy novelty": He went to Harvard ... and did you see that pregame handshake? 我们替纽约杂志撰写体育报导已将近四年之久， Linsanity毫无疑问是我们 最喜爱报导的故事题材。在那如旭日初升的疯狂两星期里──从2月4日对战篮网 开始，在2月19日的国家电视网上战胜小牛达到颠峰──我们拥有过你对体育竞技 所追求的一切。我们有「新鲜」，一位原本籍籍无名的年轻斗士；有「没人看好 的哀兵」，屡受忽视、选秀落选、被抛弃到发展联盟……Lin证明在任何地方都 可能挖掘到（或错过）某些才能；有「鼓舞人心」，这个亚裔美籍孩子以他独特 的方式获得最绚烂盛大的成功；有「令人晕眩的新奇」：他是哈佛毕业生…… 而且，你看到他的赛前握手小仪式了吗？ The best part, to our mind, was that Lin was tough. We don't just mean the crunch-time mettle, though he of course had that in abundance; post-surgery, you could put him out on crutches and we'd still probably want him taking the last shot. We mean that he was physically punished every game — particularly once he became the focal point of every opponent's defensive strategy — with consistent bashes across the head and neck. Lin seemed to get at least one bloody nose a game ... and yet he never stopped driving the lane, and he never stopped getting back up. Lin was absolutely fearless. Maybe to make it to this level in so unlikely a fashion ... maybe you have to be. 在我们心中，最美好的部分是Lin展现的坚韧不拔。这里的意思不单指在关键 时刻的大心脏，当然他丝毫不欠缺这种资质。即使Lin在手术之後拄着拐杖上 场，我们依然愿意由他来负责最後一击。他的身体每场比赛都遭受各种冲撞 ──特别是自从成为每一只对战队伍的重点防守目标後──经常被对手重击头 部和颈部。Lin看来每场比赛至少会流一次鼻血……更别说他从不停止切入， 从不停止摔倒在场上又爬起来。Lin绝对无所畏惧。或许像这样倾尽全力去打 球一点也不符合流行风潮……或许身为一名球员本该如此坚强。 Lin made the Knicks come to life, but what he did to the Garden was even more thrilling. Knicks fans have been so desperate for something to cheer for in the post-Isiah era that they've been willing to talk themselves into anything, from Chris Duhon to Anthony Randolph to, more recently, the pretend-land game that Carmelo Anthony was a lifelong New Yorker who just selflessly wanted to return home. They have waited because, when it is humming, when it is connecting with the city in a viral, subconscious way, no sport in this city is as great as basketball when the Knicks are winning, when the Knicks matter. Much of this fan hope has been unwarranted and unrequited; after all, the Knicks still haven't won a playoff game since April 29, 2001. There's a reason much of the rest of the NBA hates Knicks fans. Knicks fans are so famished for success, for something to cheer about, that they can sometimes take up a disproportionate chunk of the league's psychic energy. Lin唤醒了尼克，但他为麦迪逊花园广场所做的甚至更加令人兴奋。尼克迷这麽 绝望地渴求在後Isiah时代找到一点可支持的目标，不惜用任何话题来说服自己， 从Chris Duhon到Anthony Randolph，一直到最近的虚假梦幻仙境── Carmelo Anthony生来是一名纽约客，仅仅无私地希望重返故乡打球。他们等待 多时，因为当蜂鸣器响起宣布开赛，当篮球与这座城市如病毒扩散般以潜意识的 方式连结在一起，当尼克打出成绩，纽约其余任何职业运动都不像尼克拿下胜利 时一样美好。 大部分球迷的冀望始终得不到保证及回应。毕竟，尼克从2001年4月29日以後从未 赢过一场季後赛。许多其他NBA球迷讨厌尼克迷自有其缘故，尼克迷如此渴望胜利 ，如此渴望为某些事物欢呼，导致他们有时不成比例地大量占据联盟的关注焦点。 But Lin, Lin was different. Lin wasn't some sort of Jim Dolan hype-creation, a Faustian bargain, the best we could do so we might as well cheer. Lin was entirely ours, a sudden creation, a firestorm that somehow lived outside the normal Knicks dysfunction. We were discovering Lin, and he was feeding off Knicks fans — and the Garden frenzy — as much as they were feeding off him. Nobody fired up the Garden like this kid. Even after Mike D'Antoni left and some of the shine was inevitably rusted by MSG madness, and of course Carmelo, Lin didn't go away. He secured himself as the team's top point guard and one of its most important players, fitting in and improving the team even when Carmelo demanded the ball in the post and Smith was chucking three-pointers while falling out of bounds and Dolan was making announcements to the press and then slumping out of the room, like always. And he was smiling all the way, a beacon of normalcy, sanity, and joy amidst the typical Knicks chaos. 可是Lin……Lin不一样。Lin并非Dolan炒作下的产物，并非在我们选择范围内最好 的浮士德式魔鬼交易，不得不为其欢呼。Lin彻底属於我们，他突然从天而降，是 一股出於某种未知原因超乎於尼克例行故障麻烦之外的风暴热潮。我们发现了他， Lin替尼克球迷──与麦迪逊花园带来无限狂热──正如广大球迷回报给他的热情。 没有人能像这孩子一样引爆麦迪逊花园广场。即便D'Antoni离开，MSG的疯狂行径和 Carmelo不可避免地从他身上夺走几分光芒，Lin并未离去。他巩固了自己身为队 上最佳控卫及重要球员之一的地位，融入并帮助球队进步。即使Carmelo在後场要球 、J.R. Smith滑出场外同时滥投3分、Dolan一如往常对媒体发完声明稿後随即走人， Lin始终面露微笑，宛如一座灯塔般在典型的尼克混乱中恒保正常、理智和喜悦。 Lin was special. And it made us all feel special. It made us all feel lucky to get to watch it. Lin很特别。他也让我们感觉到自己同样很特别，很幸运有机会躬逢其盛。 Lin may return this year, and he'll probably return next year —the Knicks would be fools not to match any offer for him, for marketing reasons alone— and we'll have more great Lin moments. But we will never forget those glorious two weeks, when the best story in sports was happening right here, when we had our own superstar emerge, in front of our eyes, in the best possible way. This isn't how it was supposed to end. But then again, it's not over. Lin今年还有机会再上场，明年也可能重返尼克──单从商业观点来看，不跟进 别队任何报价都会显得尼克愚不可及──我们将拥有更多Lin的精彩演出。但 我们永远不会忘记那光彩夺目的两星期，见证体育界最棒的故事在纽约诞生， 专属於我们的超级巨星用最棒的方式出现在我们眼前。 负伤暂别不是这个故事该有的结局。话说回来，故事尚未结束。 --

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