翻译by akainorei & sibannac （本译文不接受任何形式的转录） http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8179196/nba-jeremy-lin-six-degrees- separation-houston-rockets http://0rz.tw/jTXZK How happy are the Rockets that Jeremy Lin is back in Houston? They feel like they won two lotteries. 图: 能把Jeremy Lin带回来，火箭有多开心咧？就像中了两张大乐透！　 == Funny thing about the contract that introduced the mighty, famously extravagant New York Knickerbockers to the bottoms of their pockets for the very first time in the James Dolan era: (翻译 by akainorei) 这个合约最好笑的是在杜兰这个年代, 第一次让威猛, 有名奢华的尼克第一次觉得 “靠 , 口袋没钱!” The three-year offer sheet worth just over $25 million that the Houston Rockets bestowed upon Jeremy Lin wasn't even the most lucrative deal they could have presented to Lin. 休士顿给林的差不多2500万美金的三年合约还不是休士顿可以提供的最大约咧! If the Rockets wanted to be as aggressive as the rules allowed, they actually could have signed Lin to a four-year offer sheet worth $40 million. 如果火箭想要在规则范围内作出最猛烈的攻势, 他们可以丢出四年四千万喔 But a deal that rich, they decided, was too aggressive. Too rich to contemplate even in what they saw as the extremely unlikely event that Dolan would let emotion trump reason and let an incredibly valuable asset (as ESPN.com's own Larry Coon and John Hollinger so adroitly explained here and here) just walk. 但是这个好康的约连火箭都觉得太扯了 (直翻: 太积极). 这约太大, 大到你不得不考虑 在Dolan 完全不可能会放走他最有价值的资产, 也说不定会让情感征服理性而放林走 (重新诠释一下, 就是这约大到就连死脑筋的杜兰嘴硬说不放也可能松口放林走) So they opted for the three-year offer, laced with what is known in the NBA as a "poison pill" in Year 3, and hoped for the best. 所以火箭退而求其次给三年约, 然後在第三年丢了一个毒药合约, 然後希望得到最好的回 报 And now? 结果咧? The Rockets suddenly feel like they've won two lotteries. 火箭突然觉得自己中了两个大乐透 Because ... 因为… ‧ After a wait of just seven months, they've managed to undo one of the great regrets in franchise history by reacquiring Lin. They've wanted him back pretty much ever since Lin was waived in December when the Rockets needed a roster spot to sign Samuel Dalembert and felt they had no alternative but to ditch their most inexperienced point guard -- whose contract wasn't fully guaranteed -- with Kyle Lowry and Goran Dragic on the roster. 等了七个月以後, 他们总算弥补了整个球团历史上最大的遗憾, 重新签了林. 事实上, 自从在12月因为火箭需要队里清出空间来签Samuel Dalembert 并觉得他们只能 丢掉最没有经验的PG – 非保障合约的林 – 来让Dalembert加入Lowry, Dragic. 从那时 候起他们就觉得做错了想要林回来 (这马屁拍太大了…) ‧ The Rockets brought back Lin on their terms, which is a welcome departure from what happened in December. That, remember, is when NBA commissioner David Stern stepped in -- acting as the league-owned Hornets' lead decision-maker at the time -- to cancel a three-team Chris Paul blockbuster trade that was poised to deliver Pau Gasol to Clutch City ... and also keep Lin in Houston as the No. 2 point guard because Dragic, in that deal, was bound for New Orleans. 火箭用他们的条件迎回林, 也跟12月的不愉快说掰掰. 记得吗? Stern 跳进来 – 把自己 当成联盟拥有的黄蜂队的决定者 – 取消了Chris Paul 的交易, 间接取消Gasol 来休士 顿 – 也间接抹灭了林有可能成为队上第二控卫的机会 (那时候交易会把Dragic 丢去 New Orleans) Team insiders, though, insist that the Rockets' strategy when it came to the recent change of terms in Lin's official offer sheet was pretty transparent. Amid charges that the unspoken ethics of NBA negotiations were somehow violated when a four-year offer sheet valued at just under $29 million suddenly became the most onerous three-year offer possible under the rules (worth $25.1 million), Houston has scoffed at that suggestion from the start, as well as the notion that gouging the Knicks was ever a serious consideration. 火箭队里的内部人士坚称火箭在给林的合约改变中的策略是非常透明的. 虽然有些人指控 把四年稍稍低於2900万的合约突然换成三年规则内最毒的合约 (2510万)是违反大夥默认 的NBA交易谈判伦理. 休士顿从一开始就对这些指控一笑置之, 也从来没有认真考虑要 刨尼克的底 (以上的翻译感谢专业的akainorei大!) "We think he's a very good player [and] still surprisingly underrated," Rockets general manager Daryl Morey told TrueHoop TV on Wednesday. "I think there's a feeling that he was a flash in the pan. Obviously we don't agree. I think it's fair to say that it would be hard for anyone to sustain what he did, but he really doesn't have to. He just needs to be the quality player we think he is. I think his intelligence, his work ethic, his character and his underrated athleticism give him a real shot to be a very good player going forward. 「 我们觉得林是个非常好的球员，而且他很大程度上还是被低估」，本周三，火箭GM Morey在TrueHoop TV的访谈中这样表示，「有人说Lin的表现不过是昙花一现，显然我们 火箭不同意，的确，要一直维持(林来疯那样的数据)对任何人来说都很难，不过那其实也 不是必须的，只要Lin像我们所想的，是个够资格的好球员就好了，Lin有天份，有训练的 态度，很棒的人格，还有被低估的身体素质，这些要素都让他有朝一日能成为超赞的球 员。 」 "To expect him to sustain what he did, especially that one run, would be unfair to anyone to expect that," Morey continued. "Few have ever attained that level. We don't need that. What we need is a quality point guard that we feel what we're getting. We feel he's a guy we can build around with our other young players that have been playing well and we're excited about. We like the future." Morey又说：「不管如何，去期待他维持一样的数据是不太对的，过去也很少人能达到这 种水平，这也不是必需，我们需要的就是一个够格的控卫，我们认为Lin就是那个对的 人，期待他和火箭其他的年轻球员会打的很棒，我们爱这种未来性。」 Yet even the Rockets, eager as they were to bring Lin back to town, had their limits. They were only prepared to do a three-year deal, highlighted by the well-chronicled spike from $5.2 million in Year 2 to almost $15 million in Year 3, just in case Dolan -- who sources say made the call based on his dismay with the process as much as anything -- surprised them and let Lin go. 然而即使火箭这麽想把Lin召唤回休士顿，他们还是有个上限，火箭准备的是一份三年约 ，合约上的爆点就是从第二年的520万冲到第三年的接近1,500万，这个上限是因为，毕竟 凡事有万一，火箭是说万一这个Dolan真的出人意料地，不跟进合约，把Lin放走了呢 Make no mistake, though. They genuinely are surprised. 尽管结果真的是如此，他们还是满惊讶的。 The Rockets, deep down, never expected this outcome with Lin. 老实说，火箭队的内心深处，其实没预料到这个结果。 Again. 如同Lin的爆发，火箭又一次的没料到。 Like most teams in the NBA, they were sure that the Knicks would match an offer to Lin at virtually any number. Even when the Knicks tried so hard Friday and Saturday to avoid delivery of the Rockets' offer sheet -- requiring the intervention of representatives from the league office and NBA Players Association to get the three-day clock started Saturday night, according to sources close to the process -- Houston officials struggled to imagine any other outcome but the Knicks ultimately matching no matter how the contract was structured. 其实就像NBA其它的队伍一样，火箭也觉得尼克一定会匹配林的合约，不论金额为何，尽 管尼克在周五和和周六两天用力的跑给火箭追，想尽办法阻止火箭把合约交给他们，以争 取匹配期限前的运作时间，甚至联盟办公室和球员公会，都得出面干预，这才让事情顺利 进行，从周六晚上开始倒数为期三天的匹配期限。就算这样，火箭这边还是很难想像，任 何尼克不跟进合约的可能性。 How pleased they were to be wrong. Again. 不过这一回，「意料之外」的发展，对火箭来说是很开心的。 "We've always been very high on him," Morey told ESPN.com, after finally letting it sink in that Lin was indeed back on his roster. "We just weren't high enough on him the first time." 在一切尘埃落定，终於让Lin回到火箭的球员名单的此刻，Moreye告诉ESPN.COM： 「一直以来我们都很期待Lin，毕竟上一次，我们只是缺了那一点点的信心。」 --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 220.136.110.175 ※ 编辑: sibannac 来自: 220.136.110.175 (07/21 01:41) ※ 编辑: sibannac 来自: 220.136.110.175 (07/21 01:47) ※ 编辑: sibannac 来自: 220.136.110.175 (07/21 01:50) ※ 编辑: sibannac 来自: 220.136.110.175 (07/21 02:01) 其实就是说，四年4000万的约是条款的上限 提是可以提 但也实在太毒了 即使火箭原本预期杜兰一定会跟 但假使这约大到让放话杜兰松手 那火箭就要自己签这张offer sheet 这个数字他们也不一定能/愿意承担 所以最後的结果 火箭有想过 三年2500万左右是一个，可以对尼克造成威胁的报价 然後就算尼克不跟，火箭自己用这数字跟豪哥签约 也OK没问题的 ※ 编辑: sibannac 来自: 220.136.110.175 (07/21 02:56) ※ 编辑: sibannac 来自: 114.43.139.132 (07/23 13:40)