Jamario Moon isn't a star, but Cleveland Cavaliers find a space for him http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/10/jamario_moon_isnt_a_star_but_c.html By Brian Windhorst October 23, 2009, 4:44AM Jamario Moon has a new team this year, which meant a move for his wife and newborn baby girl, change-of-address forms, finding a place to live and learning where in town he can get good Southern food. Jamario Moon今年加入了新球队，这意味着要带着他太太和新生的女儿改地址，找个新 家，还有在城里找个可以买到美味南方食物的地方。 For Moon, this is an annual ritual. He follows where basketball takes him, though admittedly his landing in Cleveland with the Cavaliers is the softest of his career. 对Moon来说这像是年度的例行公事，跟随着看上他的篮球队移动。随骑士队来到 Cleveland是他职业生涯中最轻松的搬迁。 Depending on who's counting, this is about Moon's 19th different team in the past nine years. Not counting the various summer league teams he was on for a week or so. All of it from the allure of his 6-8 frame and spring-box legs that always cause scouts to scribble on their notepads and, in turn, Moon to dream of the NBA. 依照不同人的计算，这大约是Moon在过去九年来所加入的第19支球队，这还不包括那些 只打了一星期左右的夏季联盟球队。他靠着6尺8寸的身材和一双弹簧腿吸引了球探的目 光，也获得了一圆NBA梦想的机会。 "I heard I had a Wikipedia page, so I went there and saw someone who I think has been stalking me listed all these teams I played for," Moon said. "But they missed a few." "我听说我有一个维基百科的条目，所以我去看了看，有人帮我列出来我所打过的球队，" Moon说。"不过他们还是漏掉了一些。" There's another arguable topic from Moon's past besides the number of stops. For example, what was his lowest moment from the time he became a prep star at Coosa Central High School in Rockford, Ala., to the time he became one of the best NBA Cinderella stories of the last decade? 关於Moon的过去，有比所待过球队数目更吸引人的话题。例如在他从阿拉巴马Coosa Central高中的明星球员到成为过去十年NBA最棒的灰姑娘传奇这段期间，甚麽时候是他 生涯最低潮的时期? Was it when he had to literally break out of a three-story brick house in Durham, N.C.? 是他在Durham, N.C.必须如同字面上"突破"三层楼红砖房的时候吗? He and teammate Steven Hunter, who now plays for the Memphis Grizzlies, were at Mt. Zion Academy, a basketball-centric private school he'd been recruited to play for with the promise of grade-fixing and a quick jump to the NBA. 他和队友Steven Hunter(现为灰熊队球员)那时被Mt. Zion Academy，一所私立篮球名校 所招揽，承诺学业成绩与登上NBA的捷径。 "We had no TV and no phone. We'd practice at the church and go to school at the church and then we'd go back to the dorm, the second floor. There was a dead-bolt lock on the outside and they'd put us up there and lock the door," Moon said. "Steven and I took nails out of the window in the hallway, wiggled out and jumped down. We ran over to McDonald's and I used the pay phone and called home. I said they had to come and get me, it was not what it was supposed to be. It was crazy." "我们在那没有电视没有电话，我们在教堂里练球，在教堂里上课，然後回到宿舍，就在 教堂二楼。宿舍门是从外锁死的，他们就把我们丢在那然後锁上门，" Moon说。"Steven 和我从走廊的窗户钻出去然後跳下楼，我们跑到麦当劳用付费电话打回家，我和家人说 他们一定要来接我回去，这和我们之前预想的完全不一样，真是太疯狂了。" Or was it in 2001, when Moon had lost his scholarship at Meridian Community College in Mississippi after poor grades, also losing a chance to attend Mississippi State, where he'd signed a letter of intent? He declared for the NBA Draft and wasn't selected, then went 0-for-4 in trying to get a training-camp invite after playing on various summer league teams and summer minicamps. 抑或是在2001年，当Moon在密西西比Meridian Community College因为成绩太差而失去 奖学金，同时失去密西西比州大入学机会的时候? 他宣布投入NBA选秀但却没被选上，在 加入几支夏季联盟球队之後，连续被四支球队拒绝邀请加入练习营。 Perhaps it was the time in 2004 when the owner of the Kentucky Colonels of what was called the American Basketball Association stopped paying the players. Moon played for free for a while before the team just folded. 或是2004年，当ABA联盟的Kentucky Colonels老板停止付球员薪水的时候? Moon在无薪 的情况下打了一段时间直到球队被收起来。 "I was making $200 a week and everybody would run to the bank to cash the checks before the money ran out," Moon remembered. "I was just happy playing; you have to be at that point." "我那时候一周只领$200镁，每个人拿到支票都立刻冲到银行兑现以免没钱可领，" Moon 回忆到。"我那时候相当乐於打球，在那种时候你必须如此。" There was his stint with the Harlem Globetrotters, where Moon feared being cut if he wasn't able to convert every alley-oop pass. There was the time he went to Russia on the promise of a good salary and spent four miserable days in a dreary suburb of Moscow waiting for his first check that never came. 那阵子Moon打过哈林篮球队，担忧着被炒鱿鱼只因为不能完成每一个空中接力传球。那 阵子Moon曾因为球队承诺不错的薪水而远走俄罗斯，却在阴暗的莫斯科郊区渡过可怜的 四天，只为了等待那张从未出现的第一张支票。 "That's too far away not to get paid. Maybe if I was in the states I would have stuck it out," Moon said. "They said to wait until the next week and I called up my translator and asked him to take me to the airport." "那实在是等太久了，如果我是在美国也许我会继续等，" Moon说。"他们叫我等到下个 星期，而我决定打电话给我的翻译请他带我去机场。" How about the year in the Mexican League, when he played in Monterrey? 在墨西哥联盟的那年又如何，当他在Monterrey队打球时? "When I got there some of the other guys I knew from the minor-league circuit said they liked it," Moon said. "I did it, it was nice, I'm still friends with the owner of that team and his son." "当我到那边时，一些我在小联盟认识的球员告诉我他们喜欢那里，" Moon说。"我确实 喜欢，那里不赖，我到现在仍然是那支球队老板和他儿子的好朋友。" And what of the long months spent with teams in Dodge City, Kan., Rome, Ga., Enid, Okla., Gary, Ind., and Albany, N.Y., and all the nowhere road trips in those leagues? 那在Dodge City, Kan., Rome, Ga.,Enid, Okla., Gary, Ind., and Albany, N.Y.,等地 渡过的那几个月呢? "In places like that, if you were hurt all we had was ice," Moon said. "People were afraid to say they were hurting. If you were hurt, you were out of there." "在那里，当你受伤时只有冰敷，" Moon说。"大家不敢说自己受伤了，假如你受了伤， 你就会被踢出去。" Three different times Moon made it on an NBA Development League team -- in places like Fort Worth, Huntsville, Ala., and Mobile, Ala. -- and three times he eventually was released. He was in his late 20s with a bleak future and yet he still didn't give up. Moon曾经三度加入NBA发展联盟球队，分别是Fort Worth, Huntsville, Ala., and Mobile, Ala. --但是三度被释出。即使快30岁，前途一片黯淡，他始终没有放弃希望。 "I was going to play until my legs didn't move anymore," Moon said. "You meet new people all the time and it was a wonderful life and I was ready to ride it until the wheels fall off." "我会打到我的腿不能动为止，" Moon说。"我不断遇到新的朋友，这样的生活很美好， 我会一直持续下去。" He turns career around in Albany: The wheels didn't fall off; in 2006 they started getting some traction. While with the Albany Patroons on the most recent incarnation of the Continental Basketball Association, Moon started playing for coach Michael Ray Richardson. 他来到Albany，加入了CBA联盟的Albany Patroons队，Moon在教练Michael Ray Richardson麾下打球。 Richardson, a former star with the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets, knew a little something about overcoming adversity. He was trying to put a coaching career together after his NBA career ended after a long battle with drugs. He helped Moon channel his abilities for the first time. Richardson，纽约尼克及纽泽西篮网的前明星球员，知道如何克服困境。他在结束了球 员生涯以及与毒品的长期奋战之後，开启了他的教练生涯。他首次帮助Moon活用他的能 力。 "I always scored points and got rebounds, but one day I asked coach Richardson what I had to do to get in the league. He told me to find something that a lot of people don't do because they have scorers and rebounders," Moon said. "I came the next day and asked to defend the best player on the other team and devoted myself to it. Ever since that day I've been at it." "我能够得分，能抢篮板，但是有天我问教练Richardson，我要如何才能进NBA。他告诉 我去找出许多人做不到的事情，在NBA已经有太多的得分与篮板高手了，" Moon说。"隔 天，我请求教练让我防守对方最好的球员，并且致力於此，就从那天开始。" The Toronto Raptors saw him in Albany and invited Moon to a minicamp in the summer of 2007. So did the Cavs, but he never made it to Cleveland. After seeing him, the Raptors signed him to a contract and within months he was in their starting lineup. With his athletic ability he became a cult hero in Toronto, and with his willingness to defend, he became popular with people in the NBA. Toronto Raptors在Albany看到他的表现，并且邀请Moon参加2007的暑期训练营。骑士当 年也有邀请他，不过他并没有来Cleveland。看过他的表现後，Raptors签下他，几个月内 他就成为先发球员。靠着出色的运动能力，他成为多伦多球迷眼中的英雄，而他的积极 防守态度也使他在NBA中越来越广为人知。 The then 27-year-old rookie is now a 29-year-old key free-agent signing by the Cavs, mostly because of his interest in defending. 当年的27岁菜鸟现在已经是个29岁的自由球员，如今被骑士队签下，最主要的原因就是 他积极的防守。 They gave him a two-year, $6 million contract; the $3 million this season is significantly more than he made in two years with the Raptors and Heat, plus all those years in the minors combined. 骑士队开给他一份两年共$6,000,000的合约，今年的$3M薪水比他过去两年在暴龙与热 火，还有其他所有待过球队的薪资总和还要高。 "He's the same guy now as he was as a rookie and knowing him. I'd bet he's probably got the same attitude and approach to life as he did when he was going through all that stuff to get to the NBA," said Cavs teammate Anthony Parker, who played with Moon when he came into the league in Toronto. "他仍然和当年菜鸟时还有我认识他的时候一个样，我打赌他的态度还是和他当初争取 加入NBA时一样，" 现为骑士队友，过去在暴龙一起打过球的Anthony Parker这麽说。 "He worked at it because he loves it. People say they'd play the game for free and sometimes you're asked to prove it." "他努力打球因为他热爱打球，人们常说他们愿意不求回报的打球而有时候你会被要求 证明它。" No one will question that Moon's proved himself. He's a basketball survivor and now expected to contribute on a team with championship aspirations. It was a long journey to get here, one Moon truly still can't get his mind around, but he lives the creed of the journeyman. To make this stop home. 没有人怀疑Moon证明了他自己，他在篮球世界中存活了下来，如今被期望对一支有机 会获得总冠军的球队做出贡献。这是一段遥远的旅程，一段仍然令Moon难以置信，但靠 着坚持自己的信念走了过来，他期望能把这一站当做家。 "Maybe if I had an opportunity at [age] 22 I would have wasted it," Moon said. "Maybe God wanted me to be a better man so I wouldn't waste. It wasn't my time. Now it is and it was a great delivery." "假如我在22岁时有这样的机会，我可能会浪费了它，" Moon说。"也许上帝希望我不至 於浪费而能成为更好的人，那时候时机还未到，现在时机已成熟，这真是太棒了。" --

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