http://0rz.tw/2c47a Singular force We live in an Age of Hype, and we have become conditioned to expect letdowns. 我们生活在一个媒体宣传的年代，而我们已经习惯於期待失望。 The Next Great Thing never turns out to be quite that, unless, of course, it does, and then it has a distinct, unforgettable name: LeBron. 下一个大发明从来不曾真的变成那样重要，除非，当然罗，它真的这麽大，而且它有个 与众不同的、难以忘记的名字：LeBron。 "Le" means "the" in French. I'm going to guess that "Bron" is just something that popped into the head of his then 16-year-old mother, Gloria, when he popped out of the womb on Dec. 30, 1984. We don't know whether she had any grand designs for this baby boy, but after watching him play basketball for several years, I hereby declare that "Bron" means "Chosen." “Le”在法文意思是”the”(这个/那个)。我要猜”Bron”是某样当他16岁的母亲Gloria 在1984年12月30日生下这个婴儿时，忽然浮现在脑里的东西。我们不知道她为这个宝贝 有什麽伟大设计，但是看他打了几年篮球之後，我在这里宣布，那个”Bron”意味着” 救世主”。 Check out that birth date. LeBron has embedded himself into our consciousness so deeply that we feel as if we've known him for at least a decade. But LeBron James is only 23, and if you'd like to put his accomplishments in perspective, consider that Larry Bird turned 23 a little under two months into his rookie year. And at the end of that season, as great as he was, we knew he had a lot to learn. 看看他的出生日期。LeBron已经把他自己深深刻印在我们的意识中，彷佛我们好像已经 认识他至少十年了。但是LeBron James只有23岁，如果你把他的成就列入考虑，Bird的 菜鸟球季时才比23岁多几个月。而到了那季结束之後，即便像是大鸟那样伟大，我们也 都知道他还有很多要学的。 LeBron is a different kind of 23, and never mind the face that could pass for 33. At 23, LeBron is a four-time All-Star. He is the leading scorer in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers, doing in 380 games what it took Brad Daugherty to do in 514. He is a member of the Olympic team. He has been to the Finals. If there's an accomplishment with the word "youngest" attached to it, LeBron has done it. LeBron是不同种类的23岁，还有不要在乎他的脸可能已经超过33岁了。在23岁，LeBron 已经是四次全明星。他是克里夫兰骑士队的队史得分王，只花了380场比赛就达成Brad Daugherty花了514场比赛的成果。他是美国奥运篮球代表队的成员。他已经打过总冠军 赛。如果有哪些成就跟”最年轻”连在一起，LeBron都已经达成了。 Was it supposed to be this way? Why, yes, it was. LeBron is simply living up to everything that was predicted for him when he was, oh, 14. 事情应该是这样发展的吗？为什麽？是的，它应该是。LeBron只是达成了每件从他，喔 ，14岁就被预测要办到的事。 He had to have been the toast of Akron youth basketball society at 8, 9, 10, and 11, but let's pick him up at 14, when he became a starter for St. Vincent -St. Mary High School. He averaged 20 points and 6 rebounds a game, and the team won the Division 3 state title. 自从8岁、9岁、10岁和11岁，他都是 Akron少年篮球社团的王者，但就挑14岁吧，当时 他成为 St. Vincent-St. Mary高中篮球校队的先发。他平均每场20分6篮板，球队赢得 第三级的州冠军。 That was the first of three state crowns, the only disappointment coming in his junior year, when the team moved up in class and was defeated in the tournament by Cincinnati's Roger Bacon. By that time, LeBron was so far out of his class individually that he very much wanted to forgo his senior year in order to enter the NBA, right then and there. 这只是三个州冠军的第一个，唯一个失望是在高二，球队在巡回赛输给辛辛那提Roger Bacon中学。在那时，LeBron已经是远远超过同侪，而他非常想跳过高三直接进入NBA， 就在那时而已。 You needn't ask how David Stern felt about that. Put it down as a "No." 你不用问David Stern有什麽感觉。就当它是个”不”吧。 By this time, the 6-foot-7-inch swingkid had already appeared on the covers of Slam, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN The Magazine, and you'd really have to be living in a deep, dark, cable-less cave to be an American sports fan and be unaware of LeBron James. 到那时，这个6尺7寸的小孩已经是Slam、运动画刊、ESPN杂志的封面人物，你大概住在 又深又黑优没有网路、第四台的洞穴里，才可能身为美国运动迷却不知道LeBron James。 His senior year was rather eventful. His team became the most sought-after attraction in the history of high school basketball. The team began practicing at the University of Akron and began playing in far-flung time zones. Having some national matchup games televised on ESPN2 was one thing. Having plain ol' ordinary Ohio games televised on regional pay-per-view was quite another. 他的高三是更多采多姿的。他的球队变成高中篮球史上最多人追逐的球队。球队开始在 Akron大学练球，在不同的时区飞来飞去比赛。在ESPN2频道有好几场全国对战转播是一 件。一场单纯的俄亥俄州比赛，却有区域性看者付费转播是另一件。 They won the state championship, naturally, with LeBron averaging 31.6 points, 9.6 rebounds, 4.6 assists, and 3.4 steals per. The only loss was a technicality , a forfeit after LeBron had been suspended for an incident we shall call Jerseygate. It seems that LeBron had accepted a couple of freebie throwback jerseys (Wes Unseld and Gale Sayers). Oh, and let's not forget Hummergate. 当然，他们赢得州冠军，LeBron 每场平均31.6分9.6篮板4.6助攻3.4抄截。唯一的败场 是技术性地， LeBron因为一件我们称之为「球衣门」的事件而被惩罚。看起来好像是 LeBron接受了几件免费的复古球衣 (Wes Unseld和Gale Sayers)。喔，还有不要忘了「 悍马门」。 Somehow or other, Gloria James was able to leverage her son's name to secure a loan, enabling her to buy an $80,000 Hummer H2 for her son's 18th birthday. So, yes, the Ohio High School Athletic Association had a query or two before the whole thing blew over. 因为不管某种原因，Gloria James发现他儿子的名字可以拿来贷款，让她有八万美金可 以买台H2悍马车当他18岁生日礼物。所以，对了，俄亥俄州高中体育协会在事情爆发前 好像有质疑过一两次吧。 Let's just say that nothing about LeBron's high school career was what you might term "normal." 所以你可以乾脆地说，LeBron的高中生涯不是你会用”正常”归类的。 The same can be said of his game. For LeBron James really is a singular basketball package. His lineage is pure Elgin Baylor, but we are now 50 years on, and the evolutionary process is relentless. 你也可以这样形容他的比赛。LeBron James有整个卓越的篮球天份包裹。他是Elgin Baylor的後裔，但是现在我们已经过了50年，而进化的过程是不间断的。 Elgin gave us Doctor J, who gave us Michael, and now we have LeBron, bigger, stronger, and in possession of more technical skills than his predecessors. Elgin给了我们Dr. J，後者又给了我们Michael，现在我们有了 LeBron，更大只、更强 壮，比他的祖先们有更多技术技巧。 Baylor changed the game more than any individual in the last 70 years by making it diagonal, and not merely horizontal, or, occasionally, vertical. Baylor比任何人都更多地改变了过去70年的比赛，使它成为对角线的，不只是平面的， 偶尔，还是垂直面的。 And he did it as a midsized player (6-5). He combined forward and guard skills in a larger physical package than the game had previously known. Julius Erving put his own flourish on it, and then Michael Jordan took it all to another level, combining the physical skills with a will to win and icy bloodlessness that only Bill Russell had ever possessed. Baylor还只是个中等身材的球员(6尺5寸)。他以较佳的体能融合了後卫和前锋的技巧， 使比赛到达前所未见的程度。Julius Erving使它茁壮，而Michael把它提升到了另一个 层次，融合了体能技巧和求胜意志、还有只有Bill Russell才有的冷血。 And that, really, is the only question we have concerning LeBron James, who is the most physically gifted player in the history of the game. He is 6-8, 250 or so, very strong and astonishingly quick. He is a better rebounder than Michael. He is a better passer than Michael. But Michael wanted to win badly enough to make himself into the best defensive player in the league as well as the best offensive player. LeBron has improved defensively, but he has yet to make that commitment. 而这个，是我们对LeBron James仅有的顾虑，他是史上最有体能天赋的球员。有6尺8寸 高，250磅左右，非常壮而且令人惊讶地快。他是个比Michael还好的篮板手。他是个比 Michael还好的传球者。但是Michael是如此想要赢得胜利，让他成为联盟中最佳防守球 员，同时也是最佳进攻球员。LeBron的防守有进步，但是他还没有这种决心。 There are no yeah-buts at the offensive end. LeBron's offensive instincts are pure unselfish. Like so many virtuosos we've known, he would have been better off if basketball had become a four-on-four or three-on-three game, rather than five-on-five. (A conspicuous exception: Bird, who would have been a great seven-on-seven or nine-on-nine player.) Then he could simply take over a higher percentage of the time. 在进攻时是没有”啊是呀不过呢….”的。LeBron 的进攻本能是无私的。像很多我们知 道的篮球大师，如果篮球是个四打四、或是三打三的比赛，他会是比较好的；而不是五 打五。(一个明显的例外：Bird可能会是个伟大的七打七、或是九打九的球员)。这样他 可以直接去接管更高比率的比赛时间。 But LeBron understands that it's a five-man game, a team game, and he knows how vital it is to have the other four feel sufficiently involved. The only ti me people criticize him is when they think he passes when he should have shot. 但是LeBron了解这是个五打五的比赛，一个团队运动，而他知道让另外四个家伙感觉到 足够参与有多重要。人们唯一批评他的时候，是当他们认为他应该投篮却传球出去的时 候。 If you're a Celtics fan, this is what you wanted. LeBron will be here either two or three times and at some point he will take your breath away, guaranteed. You will see him do things, and you will say, "Don't tell me he's 23," but he is, and you'd better hope the Celtics can deal with him now because he will get better. 如果你是个Celtics球迷，这就是你想要的。LeBron 会在这里两到三次，而某个时间你 会屏息，我保证。你会看到他作一些事，然後你会说”不要告诉我他才23岁。”，但是 他是，而且你最好希望Celtics现在就可以解决掉他，因为他会变的更强。 --

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