※ [本文转录自 Kings 看板 #1C4OxrtF ] 作者: santabrelai () 看板: Kings 标题: [闲聊] 做GM容易吗？ 时间: Fri Jun 11 09:18:42 2010 http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/news/story?id=5261731 Thomas' final stat line: a crying shame There's Wilt's 100-point game and Oscar's triple-double season in 1962. There's Russell's championship-ring collection that dresses every finger and another. And, of course, there's Jordan's 866 consecutive games scoring in double figures. 张大帅单场轰下了一百分、奥斯卡单季平均大三元、罗素收集了十一只戒指、乔丹连 续八百六十六场得分双位数。 These are some of the NBA's most untouchable feats, but perhaps none of them measures up to Isiah Thomas' accomplishment while he ran the New York Knicks. No, it isn't the number of New Yorkers who renounced their identities as Knicks fans. This accomplishment is more cause than effect. 这些都是NBA 里的惊人纪录，但也许没有一个能跟Isiah Thomas为尼克做得相比。喔 我们要谈的不是多少尼克迷决定放弃他们爱的球队。这个成就太伟大了。 The feat? Isiah Thomas' fiscal irresponsibility became so extreme during his time as Knicks president from 2003-08 that he paid $120 million for a total of 82 games played. 到底有多伟大，Isiah Thomas在他担任尼克总管的期间，付了一亿两千万，换了八十 二场比赛。 To be fair, that nine-figure sum was given not to a single player, but to seven who played either partially for the Knicks or never at all. As a comparison, Michael Jordan received a record-breaking $33 million paycheck from the Chicago Bulls in 1996-97, a season in which he averaged 30 points a game and led the Chicago Bulls to a fifth championship in seven years. 事实上这一亿两千万可以分成九笔支出，分别给了七位曾或不曾为尼克效力的球员。 我们来对比一下好了，Jordan在96到97球季，拿了一笔破纪录的三千三百万，他单季平均 三十分且带领公牛拿下冠军。 The Isiah Seven? They averaged 10.6 points per game over the combined 82-game span, equaling a third of the production for three times the price of that Jordan season. 那麽Isiah 七人众呢？在这八十二场比赛里，平均是10.6分，得分只有三分之一，但 薪水却超过三倍。 If the $120 million figure sounds preposterous, that's because it is. In all, Isiah Thomas effectively lit $50.6 million on fire by paying Jerome Williams, Maurice Taylor, Dan Dickau and Stephon Marbury for seasons in which they did not play for the Knicks. While it's true that the Knicks may have been better off without them, $50 million is expensive kindling. By comparison, the Oklahoma City Thunder leveraged a similar sum of money into a playoff appearance and a near-dethroning of the defending champion Lakers this postseason. 为什麽这一亿两千万会如此可笑呢？因为其中有五千零六十万砸在Jerome Williams 、Maurice Taylor、Dan Dickau、Stephon Marbury 未出赛的球季上。不过尼克也许没有 他们会更好，但五千万就这麽放水流了。五千万可以干嘛呢？今年打进季後赛的雷霆就花 差不多相同数额的金钱。 So how did this all happen? During Thomas' reign, Madison Square Garden slowly turned into a quarantined depository for the league's diseased payrolls. Despite the common perception that Thomas routinely signed marginal players to exorbitant contracts, none of the players on the $120 million list was actually inked to a contract by Thomas himself. Thomas rescued other league executives and excused them for their colossal overvaluations. 一切到底是怎麽发生的？在Thomas时代，麦迪逊花园广场成了糟糕合约的聚集地。尽 管大家都觉得Thomas喜欢付出过高的薪水，这一亿两千万却没有一位是Thomas自已签下来 的。Thomas拯救了其他GM，让他们一一由巨额鸟约中解套。 In the summer of 2003, the Bulls were desperate to pawn the Jerome Williams contract they had inherited from the Toronto Raptors, who had recklessly signed the glorified reserve to a seven-year, $41 million deal three summers earlier. Once Isiah came calling for Jamal Crawford, the Bulls found their safety net and successfully unloaded Williams' contract to the Knicks. After one underwhelming season in New York, the Knicks waived Williams but were still responsible for the remaining $21 million paid out over the next three seasons. 2003暑假，公牛想要甩掉Jerome Williams 的合约，这笔约是暴龙惹的祸，他们一口 气就签了七年四千一百万的长约，此时约还剩四年。Isiah 对公牛的Jamal Crawford很感 兴趣，而公牛也很开心。在Williams打完一个没啥表现的球季後，尼克挥弃了他，剩下的 两千一百万却还紮紮实实地停在帐上。 Williams wasn't the only salary dump absorbed by the Knicks. The Knicks freed the Rockets from paying the remaining two years and $18 million on Maurice Taylor's contract after Thomas traded for him during the 2004-05 season. Taylor received a cool $7.5 million for the 2006-07 season after getting as much playing time in a Knicks uniform as you did. Dan Dickau was a $3 million afterthought in the infamous Zach Randolph trade with the Blazers, and we all know the bitter ending of the Stephon Marbury contract. Williams不是唯一一笔尼克吸收的烂帐。他们也在 04-05季中帮火箭吸收了Maurice Taylor的两年一千八百万合约。06-07 球季，Taylor坐在场边，穿着尼克队服，和你上场 一样多的时间，就能赚进七百五十万。Dickau的三百万则是Zach Randolph 的小赠品。此 外还有大家都知道的Marbury 合约。 But this list doesn't completely capture the scope of Thomas' fiscal follies. Notice the absence of Jerome James. Thomas signed James to a much-scrutinized five-year, $30 million deal after he tripled his regular-season per-game numbers in the 2004-05 playoffs. But the four games that he totaled in his final two seasons in a Knicks uniform would prove to be too many for our 82-game quota. 不过这份名单还不包含Thomas的经典之作Jerome James。在James 季後赛的数据三倍 成长後，Thomas给了他一份五年三千万的约。不过如果再加上他最後两季效力尼克时所出 赛的四场，我们就超过八十二场配额了。 Sure, Thomas crippled the long-term flexibility of the franchise by absorbing enormous contracts that pushed the Knicks deep into the luxury tax, but it's easy to forget how his willingness to relinquish future draft picks stunted the franchise's development as well. Thomas吸收的合约让尼克队失去了薪资弹性，始终在豪华税的泥淖中打转，也让人忘 记计较他丢掉了多少选秀权。 Consider that in the deal for Eddy Curry, Thomas gave up the rights to four future draft picks -- four picks that eventually turned into LaMarcus Aldridge, Joakim Noah, Kyrylo Fesenko and Jon Brockman. On top of that, the Utah Jazz will pick in the Knicks' ninth slot in this year's NBA draft thanks to Thomas' blockbuster trade for Stephon Marbury six years ago. 在Eddy Curry交易中，Thomas送走了四个未来选秀权，最後他们分别选择了LaMarcus Aldridge、Joakim Noah 、Kyrylo Fesenko、Jon Brockman。而今年爵士手上还有尼克的 九号签，他们要好好感谢六年前Thomas为了拿到Marbury 做的好事。 No one understands the ramifications of salary-cap abuse more than Larry Coon, the author of the indispensable NBA Salary Cap FAQ and an administrator at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Coon, as he's called by ESPN.com's Marc Stein, points out that the NBA's salary-cap structure compounded Thomas' poor decision-making by turning misguided deals into debilitating ones. 没有人比Larry Coon这位加州大学的校长、NBA Salary Cap FAQ的作者更了解滥用薪 资了。在上ESPN节目时，Coon教授说NBA 的薪资结构和Thomas的狗屁决策让尼克队成了狗 屁倒灶的集合体。 "It's not so much the money the franchise had to spend," Coon says. "More importantly, he tied up the team's cap room on overpaid, marginal players who consequently were difficult to move." 「并不是他花了多少钱，更重要的是他让球队的薪资总是卡住，即使想要动小刀也很 困难。」 Andrew Zimbalist agrees. As a sports economist and a professor at Smith College, Zimbalist has written several acclaimed books that focus on the business of sports. Zimbalist contends that the NBA, with its "convoluted salary-cap rules," requires GMs to show stronger fiscal responsibility as opposed to impulsively throwing money at their problems. 史密斯大学的运动经济学教授Andrew Zimbalist也同意Coon教授说的话。Zimbalist 教授主张在NBA 复杂的薪资规则之下，GM们要有更多的财政责任而不是冲动地砸钱清问题 。 "The NBA teams that have tried to do this since the 1998 lockout have failed utterly," Zimbalist says. "Thomas should have known this." Instead, Thomas became the poster boy for executive incompetence. 「在1998封馆以来，球队们总是在丢钱，Thomas应该对此有所了解。」不过Thomas最 後却成了失败经营的代表人物。 As Thomas' replacement, Donnie Walsh has primarily spent his time scrubbing away the mess left behind by Thomas, who's now head coach at Florida International. 在Thomas走後上任的Donnie Walsh现在很努力地在帮前任擦屁股。 "Walsh's job wasn't doing something," Coon says of the current president's body of work. "It was undoing what Thomas had done." With a phone as his scouring pad, Walsh has worked the lines to clean the books that were sullied by his predecessor. Yet two years later, Thomas' fingerprints remain. 「Walsh 不是不用做任何事，而是要把Thomas做的复原。」Walsh 把电话当成他的抹 布，不停的擦拭前任留下来的痕迹。两年时间过去了，我们还是看得到Thomas的指纹。 As most Knicks fans know, the Jazz will occupy the Knicks' lottery seat in this year's draft. Furthermore, Walsh still must find a taker for Eddy Curry's $11.2 million contract, which expires next season, if the Knicks want to be serious bidders for LeBron James or Dwyane Wade this summer. 尼克迷要知道，爵士还有尼克的乐透签。如果尼克真的想追求詹皇和炎皇，Walsh 也 得找地方脱手Eddy Curry最後一季的一千一百二十万。 If anything, Isiah Thomas' tenure teaches us that a Hall of Fame basketball career shouldn't be considered a valid prerequisite for a GM job. Armed with a bachelor's and law degree from the University of North Carolina, Donnie Walsh represents a different kind of NBA executive, with a strong business background and zero playing experience in the league. Isiah Thomas告诉我们，篮球名人堂不是GM的条件。拥有法律学位的Donnie Walsh代 表着另外一种背景，没有篮球经验却很会做生意。 "For those who were not already convinced," Zimbalist says, "Thomas should have left no doubt that great players are not necessarily great GMs." 「Thomas证明了好球员不一定是好总管。」Zimbalist 说。 -- Isiah七人众 Player Year Gms Salary Steve Francis '06-07 44 $15,070,000 Stephon Marbury '07-08 24 $19,012,500 Eddy Curry '09-10 7 $10,500,523 Anfernee Hardaway '05-06 4 $15,750,000 Eddy Curry '08-09 3 $9,723,983 Stephon Marbury '08-09 0 $20,840,625 Jerome Williams '07-08 0 $7,639,400 Jerome Williams '06-07 0 $7,014,400 Jerome Williams '05-06 0 $6,620,063 Maurice Taylor '06-07 0 $7,500,000 Dan Dickau '07-08 0 $2,990,028 PPG RPG APG FG% 3P% FT% MP G GS 10.6 3.0 3.5 .411 .376 .777 26.7 82 49 -- (／‵Д′)／~ ╧╧：关国王屁事？ <(￣︶￣)>：有Jon Brockman啊！ (o一-一)=○# (￣#)3￣) -- 随便乱翻，当下雨天没事看看就好 --

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