In his third season with the Knicks, Carmelo Anthony has stepped up his game— on and off the court—turning a sometimes hit-or-miss career into the stuff championships are made of. Melo在尼克的第三个赛季，安东尼已提高了他的季赛目标，那是在他职业生涯有时一直都 在追求的东西：『总冠军』。 EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, a surreal moment occurs in the life of Carmelo Anthony. He will be out somewhere, maybe at a dinner or a business gathering, and he will be introduced to a person, perhaps a very capable person, who knows many things about many things, but does not know who Carmelo Anthony is. This seems improbable, given that the 28-year-old Anthony is one of the most public and scrutinized athletes in the media fun-house mirror of New York City, but it does happen. Sometimes the person has a vague idea. Sometimes they recognize just Anthony's first name—Carmelo, yes, it rings a bell—and nothing else. They don't know much about NBA basketball. They don't know much about the New York Knicks. 每一次在一段时间内，一个超现实的时刻发生在Melo的生活中。他在某个地方(也许在晚 餐或商务聚会)被介绍给一个人，也许是一个很能干的人，这个人知道很多事情，但不知 道谁是Melo。这似乎是不可能的，因为28岁的Melo是纽约媒体最有兴趣的运动员之一，但 它确实发生，有时人们有一个模糊的概念，有时，他们承认只知道Anthony's的名字 Carmelo(Anthony是姓氏)，他们不知道NBA篮球，他们不是很了解纽约尼克队。 This doesn't insult Anthony. Not at all. This is a relief. Anonymity makes him happy. "I love having those conversations," Anthony says on a January afternoon. He says this earnestly, as if he's describing a guilty pleasure he wishes he could enjoy more. "Because if there is a connection, it's a natural connection. It's not anything to do with basketball." 这对Melo不尽然都是侮辱，这是一种解脱，有人不认识他让他有时可以当个平凡人能让他 觉得很快乐。 Melo在1月的一个下午超认真的说：我爱那些谈话，好像他描述的是他享受的是更多的内 疚快感，因为那是一些自然的接触，不是做任何事情都只有篮球。 These moments do not happen often. Chances are they will be happening less and less. Anthony is deep into his third season in New York, and the Knicks are playing some of their best basketball in more than a decade—the primary reason being Anthony. This is not insignificant news. For most of his 10-season career, Anthony has been regarded as an offensive dynamo—Charles Barkley, the ex-player, TNT analyst and basketball's Simon Cowell, describes Anthony to me as "the best scorer in the NBA"—but there was the maddening suspicion that Anthony left potential on the table, that he lacked the crazy-eyed single-mindedness that separated the very good from the great. Melo was about Melo, too unengaged, perhaps ambivalent, the rap went. 这些时刻不会经常发生，而且机会越来越少。这是他到纽约的第三个第三个赛季，而尼克 打出了最近10年间最好的表现，而主要的因素是Melo，这不是个小新闻，在Melo的职业生 涯大部分时间都被视为进攻机器，很多人都介绍Melo是NBA最佳得分手，但有些质疑，他 缺乏野心是让他离最好的球员有点距离，但Melo依然是Melo。 That suspicion is fading. When we meet just after the New Year, the Knicks are in first place in their division, and Anthony has just been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week. The long hype of Carmelo Anthony in New York City has coalesced into something real, and there's a lightness to his mood. 这种质疑近来开始减少，当我们迎接过新年，尼克排在大西洋区首位，Melo刚刚被评为东 区本周最佳球员。经过长期炒作的Melo和纽约市已经融合成一体，让他的心情一直是明亮 、充满希望。 "This is what I envisioned, coming to New York," he says. "This was on my vision board. I'd sit back and be like, damn, I am going to run out there and be hitting game winners in the Garden in front of fans, getting them riled up. When they're stomping on the floors, yelling 'New York Knicks'—that's a great feeling." “来纽约这是我想要的，这是我的梦想地，我会坐下来，想着，该死，我真的来到这里， 可以在MSG的球迷面前打败对手，让球迷兴奋起来，当他们踩着地板，吆喝着“纽约 Knicks'，这是一个很棒的感觉。” We are sitting on plastic chairs in the empty Knicks practice facility in Tarrytown, New York. Practice is done. We look like a pair of ninth graders waiting out detention after gym class. Anthony is wearing an orange T-shirt and a pair of lightweight sweatpants cut at the calf—a version of basketball capris. He stretches his long legs across the floor. 我们正坐在纽约尼克队训练设的施塑料椅子上。练习已经完成，我们看起来像是九年级学 生体育课後等着下课。安东尼身穿橙T和一件篮球裤(修长的腿站在地板上) ...................................................................... 这个时刻，更需要一些励志性的文章，虽然这篇外电现在看来有点曦嘘，但黎明前总是最 黑暗的时刻，相信黑暗的时刻即将过去，黎明很快就会到来。 Melo 加油呦 ~^o^~ PS：这篇外电会分(上)(中)(下)三次PO文 --

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