来源：http://goo.gl/5p6lA4 Kris Dunn ready to display his toughness for Timberwolves -Kris Dunn faced hardship as a child, but rose above it. Kris Dunn准备好展现他的韧性 -Kris Dunn在童年时就面临了艰困的时刻，但他克服了一切。 By Kent Youngblood Star Tribune JUNE 25, 2016 — 8:05AM John Dunn didn’t think he was going to cry Thursday night. 在这之前，John Dunn并不认为他会在周四选秀夜晚上哭泣… But then his kid brother was taken with the fifth pick in the NBA draft. Then Kris Dunn got up, walked across the stage at the Barclays Center in New York, cameras flashing. 但接着他看到他的弟弟Kris Dunn在第五顺位被选中，他的弟弟站起来、走上纽约Barclays 体育馆的中央舞台上，而镁光灯闪烁个不停。 “I cried for like 10 minutes,” John Dunn said. “It’s just crazy. It’s crazy to see how far we’ve come. To see how far he’s come.” 「我大概哭了有十分钟，」John Dunn说着。「这真是太疯狂了，很难以想像我们走了多 远才达到这个目标，他花了非常多的心血努力。」 Friday at their downtown Minneapolis practice facility, the Timberwolves introduced Kris Dunn — the star Providence guard — to the Twin Cities. In the front two rows to the right of the stage was family, a group that included John Dunn and his family and their father, John Seldon. 周五在Minneapolis的球队训练中心，灰狼队向双子城球迷介绍了Kris Dunn，来自Provid- ence大学的明星後卫，在最前两排的观众是Dunn的家人，包括John Dunn一家以及他们的父 亲John Seldon。 All smiles this time, no tears. Wolves General Manager Scott Layden praised Kris Dunn as the rare two-way player coming out of college. Tom Thibodeau, coach and president of basketball operations, praised Dunn’s toughness. 这一次John Dunn不再流泪，脸上挂满着笑容。灰狼队总经理Scott Layden赞扬Kris Dunn 是少有的兼具攻防的NCAA球员。总教练兼篮球事务总裁Tom Thibodeau则赞扬了他的韧性。 Dunn? He talked longingly about playing with teammates Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Zach LaVine, simply responding “Alley-oops,” when asked what he liked most about the idea. Dunn呢？他说他渴望与队友KAT、Wiggins、LaVine打球，当被问到特别期待其中的哪个 部分呢？他简单的说「第一时间灌篮。」 He promised to trade the glitzy Gucci shoes he wore Thursday night for sneakers and a blue collar. 他开玩笑地保证说他会把在选秀夜上穿的炫目的Gucci鞋卖掉，换来运动鞋跟蓝领衣服。 But then, seriously: “We’ve been through a lot of ups and downs,” Dunn said. “My brother knows how hard I worked for this. I worked 22 years for this. The fact I can make my brother proud, after he sacrificed so much for me when we were little, he understands.” 但接着他开始严肃起来。「我们经历了许许多多的起伏，」Dunn说。「我的哥哥知道我做 了多大的努力，我努力了22年才争到了今天，为了让我的哥哥感到骄傲。在我们还小的时 候他为了我牺牲了很多，他懂得我在说什麽。」 Unsettled upbringing 动荡不安的童年 Dunn’s story is well-known. John and Kris’s mother, Pia, took the boys away from Connecticut to Virginia when John was 5 years old and Kris was 1; Seldon came home to find them gone, without a trace. Dunn的故事家喻户晓，John跟Kris的妈妈Pia在John 5岁、Kris 1岁的时候把他们从Conne- cticut带到Virginia，他们的爸爸Seldon回到家时才发现人都不见了，一点线索都没有。 When Kris was 9 and John 13, his mom was jailed and the two brothers found themselves alone, in a small Alexandria, Va., apartment. 当Kris 9岁、John 13岁时，他们的妈妈因犯罪入狱，兄弟俩只能孤单的待在小公寓里。 For months they didn’t tell anybody, afraid they would be separated. They sold their sneakers and some of their clothes. Kris played 1-on-1 basketball against older kids for $20 a game, making the bet with no money in his own pocket. 他们数个月没有告诉任何人，担心他们会被迫分离，他们卖掉他们的球鞋和衣服，Kris 找一些年纪较大的孩子单挑，每场下注$20美金，但其实他口袋里一毛钱都没有。 Sometimes he lost. 有些时候他还是会输球。 “Sometimes I ran away, got away,” Dunn said. “Sometimes I got caught and had to fight.” 「这时我只能选择逃跑，」Dunn说。「有时候我被抓住了，就只能跟他们打架。」 Tracking phone records, Seldon got a lead on where the boys were. One night, he drove from Connecticut down to Virginia and brought the boys home. John Dunn knew his dad, but Kris had no recollection, so the transition was hard. Seldon remembers wondering what he was getting himself into on the drive north. 根据电话纪录的线索，Seldon找到兄弟俩住的地方。一天晚上，他开车从Connecticut到 Virginia，准备带兄弟俩回家。虽然John Dunn知道他的父亲是谁，但是Kris一点回忆都 没有，所以当他们面对面时，那个心境上的转换对於Kris是非常的煎熬的。 “I was just trying to show them everything was OK,” he said. “I just wanted my kids. It worked out. It was great.” 「我努力让他们知道所有事情都是OK的，」他说。「我只是想要回我的孩子，而最後这终 於说服他们。」 Eventually. The transition was difficult, but it worked; Seldon had played college football, so sports brought them together. John Dunn was able to stop being a father and become a kid again. He and his kid brother were home. 孩子们心态的调适很艰难，但最终那终於成功了，Seldon曾经打过大学橄榄球队，那让他 与孩子们有了连结。John Dunn终於不用再兄兼父职，可以再次当回一个小孩子。他和他的 弟弟终於回家了。 “You have to build that relationship and trust,” Kris Dunn said. “My dad was great at that. Didn’t put too much pressure on me. He loves sports, I love sports. He saw I was good at football, basketball, and he did everything in his power to help me become the best player I could be.” 「你必须建立起关系和信任，」Kris Dunn说。「我的父亲很擅长於这点，他没有给我过多 的压力。他爱运动，我也爱运动，而他看到我橄榄球跟篮球打得不错，所以他努力让我成 为最佳球员。」 Learning toughness 学会坚韧 His point: After hustling pickup games just trying to make it through a day, the prospect of jumping from college to the NBA is more thrilling than intimidating. 他的观点：经历过那些只为了挣一点钱过活的斗牛比赛後，Dunn对於从大学跳到NBA是兴奋 多於害怕。 “I came from a tough background, so you had to be tough,” he said. “Tough, gritty, don’t bend down or nobody.” 「我经历过一个艰难的童年，所以你必须变得坚韧，」他说。「韧性、坚忍不拔，你不能 俯首投降，否则你谁也不是。」 And that is the way he plays. There will be time to discuss how — or if — he will play with Ricky Rubio. Or whether his jump shot needs to improve. But right now, the Wolves have a 22-year-old mature beyond his years, tough enough not to flinch, athletic enough to defend. 这也正是他打球的方式。或许接下来会讨论他要如何或说是否会跟Rubio一起打球，而他 的跳投也需要改善，但现在灰狼队有了一个比他22岁的年龄还要成熟的球员，他够强硬不 会退缩，而他也有着足够的运动力来防守。 He has already shown a few times he is confident enough to follow his gut. Like when he finally told his dad he was quitting football to play basketball full-time. “He didn’t talk to me for a whole two weeks,” Kris Dunn said. “ I kid you not.” 他已经几度展现出他对於自己的自信，例如他终於下定决心告诉父亲他要停止打橄榄球， 全心全意的投入篮球。「他整整两个礼拜没跟我讲话」Kris Dunn说。「我是说真的。」 Or when, against the advice of some family members, he decided to go back to Providence for his junior season, which ultimately got him higher in the draft and got him a college degree. 或着是去年他不顺从家族成员的建议，决定退出选秀回到Providence大学打他的大三球季( 是他入学的第四年，也就是本季)，让他最终在今年选秀顺位飙涨也让他有机会完成学位。 “He trusts himself, that’s the big thing,” John Dunn said. 「他相信他自己，这是很重要的事情。」John Dunn说道。 But confidence like that is usually found in people with close, tight families. Kris Dunn has that, even fond memories of his mom, who died in 2013. 这种自信通常来自於亲近、紧密的家庭关系中，而Kris Dunn有的，甚至他也感念他那位 经常入狱的母亲，他的母亲死於2013年。 Because his older brother was always there for him, protecting him, Dunn said one of the first things he will do after signing a contract is buy him a house. 正因为他的哥哥永远帮着他、保护他，Dunn说当他签下合约拿到收入後的第一件事情就是 要帮哥哥买一栋房子。 “Family,” he said, “means everything.” 「家庭，」他说。「意味着所有事情。」 --

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