http://myurl.com.tw/4p06 Posted by Gary Dzen, Boston.com Staff 在PTT上打嘴炮不过瘾，也来看看Boston.com和LA Time的专栏作家怎麽打。 Topic No. 2: Who should America be rooting for in the NBA Finals? 主题二：美国人应该支持哪一队? Gary Dzen, Boston Globe: 波士顿说法： It's inevitable. 这是不可避免的。 During every sport's major championship, bandwagon fans come out of the woodwork to swear their allegiance to one side or the other. During the Super Bowl, it was everybody against the Patriots (the Super Bowl is the NFL's championship game, in case someone is reading this from Los Angeles). During the last World Series, people attached themselves to those loveable, huggable Red Sox. 每项运动的冠军赛开打前，许多战绩球迷就会突然跑出来宣示着他们的忠诚。例如超级盃 开打时，每个人都恨死了爱国者队 (因为输给纽约巨人队)，而世界大赛期间，大家又爱 死了红袜队(因为拿到总冠军)。 And so it goes. 现在也是如此。 Putting our prognosticating glasses on, it's easy to see that the Celtics are going to win over a nation of wannabe basketball fans during the NBA Finals. 拿出我们的水晶球，你会看到在冠军赛系列中，超赛轻易地赢得全国球迷的心。 Start with KG, whose intensity has earned him a cult following around the world. It's impossible not to like Kevin Garnett if he's playing for your team. KG will draw people in, no doubt. 先说KG吧，他的认真使他成为全世界崇拜的偶像。如果KG在你支持的球队里，怎麽能不爱 他? 不用怀疑，KG将会吸引很多球迷。 Besides Garnett, the Celtics have plenty of other guys who fans will want to root for. Ray Allen is a smooth-talking, smooth-shooting class act. Paul Pierce has never abandoned his home team and has never asked for a trade. 除了KG之外，超赛还有许多球迷想支持的球员。雷枪说话声音悦耳、投球动作流畅，是个 经典﹔PP从未离弃自己成长的球队、从未要求被交易，是个好汉﹔ Rajon Rondo tries like heck on every play. Leon Powe and Glen Davis bring lunch pails into the paint. Eddie House alternates between nailing three-pointers and standing on the bench to cheer for his teammates on every possession. 还有你看软豆每天发狂练习、阿炮和大宝贝连午餐都带到禁区里吃、房子如果没上场投三 分就在板凳上为队友们拼命加油...多麽的感人? There's also this little issue of what would be good for the NBA. The league needs the Celtics to be good. Boston has revitalized professional basketball on the East Coast this season, and lord knows the Knicks and Sixers aren't going to be of any help for a while. When the Celtics are good, the NBA is marketable to an entire region of the country. 另外还有个小争论：NBA想要什麽? 答案是--NBA想要超赛变强大。 这一季以来，超赛振兴了东区积弱不振的职业篮球，加上尼克和七六人短时间内看来还无 法振作，所以如果超赛强大，NBA就可以在全美各地行销无碍了。 (东西区的球迷都醒来了，还不赚钱吗?) And then there's this: Kobe can market the Lakers by himself. The league's most popular player doesn't need rings for people to watch him. But if he loses, it's just another reason for the country to cheer. People love seeing an MVP, but there's nothing people love more than seeing an MVP fail. 而且再说：Kobe自己一人就可以推销湖人队。联盟最受欢迎的球员并不需要冠军戒来吸引 球迷的眼光。但如果他输了，全国就多一个可以欢呼的理由--因为大家爱看MVP，但更爱 看MVP输球。 (有够狠~~) Brian Kamenetzky, LA Times: 洛杉矶说法： Despite making my living on the Internet, I'm not a big believer in conspiracy theories. 尽管我是靠网路维生的，但我并不是阴谋论的信徒。 Yes, these playoffs have seen some controversies favoring the Lakers and Celtics. No punishment for KG after his shove-in with Eddie Rush in the Atlanta series. (A good call by the NBA. Just because they freaked out during the Phoenix-San Antonio series doesn't mean they have to compound the error by sticking to precedent.) No call on Brent Barry at the end of Game 4. (A bad call, but the refs botched the previous play and besides, at that point in a game players have to maul each other like hungry pumas to force a whistle. Had the famous McHale clothesline of Kurt Rambis happened in the last six seconds of the fourth, it probably wouldn't have been called.) Whatever. The two best teams in the NBA made it to the Finals, as it should be. 是的，这个季後赛已经出现了一些拥护湖人和超赛的争议。超赛vs老鹰第三战，KG对 Rush严重犯规後没被处罚；马刺vs湖人第四战，Barry被犯规後也没被送上罚球线。 无论如何，这两支联盟最佳球队总算是打进了总决赛，似乎也该如此。 Obviously, Bostonians are pulling for the green, while LA is all purple and gold. But the rest of America has a choice to make. Who should they want to see hoist the Larry O'Brien? 不用说，波士顿人支持绿色、洛杉矶人支持紫金色。但其他地区的球迷则得做个抉择：他 们比较想看谁举起那座总冠军盃? (编按: NBA总冠军盃在1984年更名为Larry O'Brien冠 军盃，为了纪念Larry O'Brien在篮球运动上的贡献) The answer, and I'm not just saying this to keep my apartment from getting egged, is the Lakers. Here are a few reasons why: 我不是怕我的公寓被蛋洗才这麽说，但答案是--湖人。以下是我的理由： ˙A title for KG is a nice story, but would have nothing on the dramatic arc of Kobe and the Lakers winning it all this year. A year ago, the Lakers were in shambles. Their star player wanted out, the owner's son was questioning the coach while the owner was getting pulled over for DUI while a 23-year-old woman rode shotgun. Andrew Bynum is shredded by said star in an Orange County parking lot, blows up on the NBA before blowing up his knee. A promising season is in doubt until Mitch Kupchak steals Pau Gasol from Memphis. Now they're four games from an NBA title. You could make a movie out of this stuff, and this being LA, someone probably will. １. KG拿到第一座冠军头衔是个好故事，但还不足以阻挡Kobe和湖人今年的运势。 一年前的湖人混乱不堪：他们的明星主将闹出走、老板儿子对教练有意见，而老板自己酒 後驾车被抓，身边还有个23岁的妙龄女郎。另外，Bynum在膝盖受伤之前，已先被那位明星 主将的言语刺得遍体鳞伤。一直到Kupchak把Gasol从灰熊队偷过来之前，这一季的湖人摇 摇欲坠，然而现在，他们距离总冠军只剩下四场胜利。 把这些元素集合起来简直可以拍成一部电影，而这里是LA，什麽事都有可能。 ˙Death, taxes, and no rain on parade day in LA. Those are the only guarantees in life. ２. 生命中只有三件事不会改变﹕死亡、税金、还有LA的游行日不下雨。(什麽东东…?) ˙What's good for Jack Nicholson is good for America. ３. 杰克尼克逊喜欢的，就是美国人喜欢的。 ˙Derek Fisher. You should be ashamed of yourself for ever rooting against a team for which he plays. Don't like him? Try Ronny Turiaf, a player so enthusiastic and exuberant that fans decided they'd rather watch him cheer from the bench via Yellowbook Cam than any of the dudes on the court during the Western Conference Finals. Finally, there's Lamar Odom, who has seen more tragedy and death in his family than anyone should, wears his heart on his sleeve, and is as solid a guy as you'll find in the Association. ４. Derek Fisher。你如果不支持Fisher的球队，那真应该感到羞愧。 不喜欢他？那麽试试Turiaf，他是这麽的热情有活力，球迷宁愿看他在板凳上当啦啦队， 也胜过西区决赛时在场上的其他人。最後是Odom，他的家庭里发生太多悲剧，他表里如一 ，他是联盟里最坚强的男人之一。 ˙The ninth place team in the Western Conference won 48 games. The Lakers have defeated 50, 54, and 56 win teams just to make it this far. They finished atop the most brutal conference in recent memory. The Celtics could have lost every game they played after the All-Star break and still made the playoffs, then beat one good team to make the Finals. Justice demands the Lakers win in the end. ５. 在西区排名第九的队伍都有48胜。湖人必须打败50胜、54胜还有56胜的队伍才能走到 这里，才能在残酷的西区拿下冠军。而超赛即使在明星赛後输掉每场球都还是可以进入季 後赛，然後打败一支好队就能进入总决赛。正义最後会站在湖人这边。 -- 专栏作家果真犀利～以上不代表本人意见，请别嘘我…:P -- ◢ ◣ ￣￣ 28 ─● ●─ ◥██◤ --

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