在本赛季初与灰熊队不欢而散后，阿伦-艾弗森(Allen Iverson)曾经公开发表过一份退役声明，但不久后他选择与昔日的母队、当年曾为他带来无数荣耀的费城76人签下了一份新约。而在最近接受采访时他表示，除76人之外，当时如果是其他任何一支球队向他发出邀请——甚至包括湖人、骑士这样的总冠军级别球队——他都不会予以考虑。 当时的艾弗森已经回到亚特兰大的家中开始了自己退役生活，并且在76人队打电话给他之前他都没有考虑过再回到联盟效力。如果不是费城发出邀请，眼下的他会在家中与家人一同享受退役后的时光。 “退役对我而言是最好的选择。”艾弗森说，“（费城）是唯一能够让我回到这里的原因。当时的我已经开始享受生活了。” “我以前一直认为，当我离开这项运动的时候我会非常痛苦，并会异常怀念它。但在那次离开之后，我发现我并没有怎么纠结，因为我的家庭填补了这个空白。能够每天都与家人在一起，每天都见到我的妻子和孩子，这对我而言太美妙了。” “没有合同，没有媒体，没有所有这些杂事。这种感觉真的太好了。” 艾弗森同时也表示，就算他在剩余的职业生涯没有机会得到总冠军戒指，他也不会太过于介怀。 Allen Iverson(notes) said it wouldn’t have mattered if the New York Knicks had second thoughts and called. Or even if Kobe Bryant(notes), LeBron James(notes), Dwight Howard(notes), Kevin Garnett(notes) – really anyone outside the City of Brotherly Love – had phoned and tried to change his mind. Iverson was beginning to enjoy retirement. And he didn’t foresee himself returning to the NBA unless one team – his beloved Philadelphia 76ers – wanted him back. Had the Sixers never called, Iverson figures he’d still be back in Atlanta happily hanging out with his family, done playing basketball. “Retirement was the best for me,” said Iverson, whose official retirement lasted about a week. “[Philadelphia] is the only thing that could have brought me back, to play in this situation right here. I felt like I was having the time of my life. More From Marc J. SpearsNash continues to defy age, skeptics Dec 30, 2009 O'Neal cast in new role as he returns to L.A. Dec 25, 2009 “I always thought that once I gave the game up that it would be miserable for me and I thought about how I would miss it. But at the time that I was out, I didn’t miss it because my family took over all of that. Just being there with my family every day, being able to see my kids and my wife whenever I felt like it, it was a great feeling to me. “No obligations. No media. None of that type of stuff. It was a good feeling, man.” q “我并不介意没有得到总冠军。”艾弗森说，“我从一开始就是这么说的。上帝给我的才华已经让我得到了尊重，我对于自己在球场的表现也很满意。总冠军这样的荣誉对我而言并没有特别大的意义。如果我们能够有机会争夺总冠军，我希望自己是其中必不可缺的一环。” --

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