Source:http://tinyurl.com/yjxrcd4 Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Posted By Bethlehem Shoals 1:32 PM ************************************** This is a column on Allen Iverson. It will contain several references to some form of "polarization" or "controversial," nod to the sheer fantasy of Iverson's best games and invoke the pound-for-pound metric. It will also generate more comments than anything else posted here all month, most of them made by readers who made up their minds beforehand. The same is probably true for its author, who didn't even bother to make notes for this one. 这是篇关於AI的文章。 其中包含了某种程度的 "两极化" 或 "争议性" 的资料，我们将使用像拳击赛的分级制度 ，回首战神过去的那些辉煌战绩。 ******* Allen Iverson has cut ties with the Memphis Grizzles. As with everything else in Iverson's career, some of us will put it all on the veteran guard, others, the second party involved. As usual, it is the kind of situation that seemed doomed from the outset. Should the Grizzlies have realized that Iverson wouldn't come off the bench, and really didn't need him making a claim on the starting slots of their young guards? Or is this the time that AI should have either swallowed his pride and, as a Hall of Famer on a subpar team, either become a quasi-assistant or pay his dues in the rotation to prove his humility? AI 与灰熊终止了合约。如同所有在 AI 职业生涯中发生过的事，我们总是先把责任推到 他身上，其他的才由别人 (球队) 来承担。跟过去一样，这种情况似乎一开始就注定了。 灰熊是否早该意识到 AI 根本不愿坐板凳，而且球队也不需要他来到这里来抢年轻人的 饭碗？还是这个时候，这个名人堂的球员，得在这个年轻球队里吞下他的骄傲，甘愿地做 一个轮替名单中拿 3.5M 的人该做的事，来证明他自己的谦虚？ Of course, Allen Iverson didn't out and out retire. Then we would at least be able to pronounce his career, and thus this final chapter, finished. But for all we know, this might turn out to be a false start to this pivotal season (as if anything ever really changes for, or around, AI). He could very easily resurface in a matter of months, or weeks, on a playoff team that can approach him with more leverage, or is in more desperate straits. He might end up a box office bonanza for an otherwise moribund Knicks team, stolen by the Nets and Jay-Z to prove a point, or give, say, Boston or Houston a bolt of offense they can make use of on its own terms—within their framework. AI 当然还没完全的退休。然後我们至少可以"代言"他的职业生涯，也因此，他的最後一章 就这样结束了。但我们都知道，这决定性的一季根本就是错误的开始 (假使 AI从来不曾改 变过)。AI可以轻易地在数周或数月内加入那些更有竞争力、更吸引他、更需要他的队伍。 他可能在一蹶不振的尼克成为票房保证，可能被篮网偷过去，或可能加入超塞或火箭， 融入他们的攻守两端。 Or maybe that last option is just the same old dilemma. Allen Iverson won't ever change, and teams won't ever figure out how to make him the focal point. Maybe he's defying basketball by thinking his game has real superstar functionality; maybe basketball is foolish for, aside from one year of Larry Brown, having never made the most of Iverson's potential to anchor some kind of team formation. Half-empty, half-full—that Iverson is long gone, and yet what's left is hardly an ineffective slouch. 或者，最後的选择只是个同样的老难题。战神是永远不会改变的，球队也总是无法把他放 在正确的位置。或许他在挑战篮球，认为他有主宰球赛的能力；或许除了 Larry Brown， 篮球从来都没办法在团队中把 AI 的潜力发挥到极致。或许让人又爱又恨的 AI 早就不在 了，剩下的恐怕只是空有影响力的累赘而以。 I used to think Kobe Bryant was the player who most split fans into love/hate camps. And it's true, given his current prominence, and over-exposure, Bryant is subject to the most mass-ambivalence. But with Iverson, it still runs deeper. At this point, few can deny that Bryant is one of, if not the, premier players of his generation, a complete player and tireless student of the game whose basketball IQ trumps your GRE scores. Facial tics, other mannerisms, and other superficialities ... these are still grounds for quibbling. For the most part, though, Bryant's become a beaming constant, if one that can work the nerves of some fans. Even in his darkest days, the "great but flawed" tag attached to Kobe had nothing on the conflicting views of Iverson. 我过去常以为 KB 是那个可以把球迷分成爱他不然就恨他的人。而这也是真的，正因为 KB 目前杰出的表现，以及媒体的曝光度，使他可以变成这样的人。然而对於 AI，这情况却 更为严重。现在很少人可以否认 KB 是当今联盟第一人，是如此完美的球员，具备比你GRE 成绩还高分的篮球智商，却孜孜不倦地学习如何比赛的好学生。脸部抽蓄、作风习惯，以 及其他表面的东西等等，这些都只是吹毛求疵而已。如果有个可以挑动球迷神经的球员， KB肯定是其中的常客。就算在他最黑暗的日子，KB 身上那张 "伟大却有缺陷" 的标签，对 於AI 矛盾的形象并没有任何影响。 Allen Iverson was, and still is, heaven or the great below. He shakes basketball to its very foundations or, according to some, is foolish enough to think he can. He changed the game, though not necessarily for the better. We have been forced to take him at face value, and in the process awaken all sorts of even more inspirational, or degrading, feelings about race, culture, and the structure of American society. "Ambivalence" doesn't even fit. That was Kobe; Iverson is a player who exists in two different worlds. AI 曾是，现在仍然是，一神之下万人之上的球员。他把篮球运得出神入化，有 些人却愚蠢的以为他没办法。他改变了比赛，虽然这可能不是必要之好。然後我们不得不 去面对，在这过程中唤醒那些关於种族、文化以及美国社会结构的感觉。"矛盾" 甚至不是 个最好的说法。对於KB 或许是的；但 AI，他是个处於两个不同世界的球员。 Someday, Iverson will hang it all up, the war will end, and we'll all breathe a sign of relief. There will be a column for that. It could denounce his career, or all the right rhetorical notes to let you know that, really, you never really understood Allen Iverson. Regardless, the tone will be triumphal. Maybe he will have a ring by then; that's either vindication or proof of what he should've been all along. You can see his fingerprints all over the league, albeit it in more subtle ways; that plays into the hands of both sides, but either way, it's proof that Iverson contributed something to the development of today's NBA. 有天 AI 会停止这一切，战争也会结束，我们也将获得舒缓。那时也会有文章出现，可能 会是谴责他的职业生涯，或者所有浮夸的正义都指出，你从未真正地了解 AI。无论如何， 那都会是充满胜利的语调。然後 AI 或许又会出面澄清他从来都是个怎样的人。 你将会在联盟里各个角落发现 AI 的足迹，即使是以较隐蔽的方式存在着，(那些双方过去 角力的结果) 但无论如何，它证明了，AI 对於现今 NBA 的发展，贡献了某些东西。 When Allen Iverson does really call it quits, and you get that column, it will also mark the beginning of the healing process. Iverson zealots will have no battle left to fight. They know what they know and can harbor it for generations. Those in search of a villain can move on to someone more timely. That's the closure. The lines will remain drawn, but postures will soften. We'll come to agree that Iverson was a rare gift who just didn't, or wouldn't get it. 当 AI 真的宣布退休了，而且你也得到了一篇专栏，表示着治癒的过程才正要开始。AI 的 拥护者将没有战争可以打了。他们了解他们所了解的，并可以世世代代的保有着。那些寻 找新"战"神 的人可以将目标转移到时下的某个人。这意味着结束了。界线或许仍然很明显 ，但态度会软化的。我们终将意识到，AI 是个如此特别的天才，但人们却不愿去承认。 Whether he was given the opportunity, or should have made it for himself, will have become like arguing over the bench of the 2002-03 Nuggets: pure trivia. We'll watch those MVP year games with Philly, all shake our heads in disbelief, and finally be free to say: Whatever Allen Iverson was, he was that like no one before or since. Given the awe his best play generates, especially when win/loss records and coaching beefs fall away, that's about the highest honor we can all agree to pay the man. "他是否有机会"或"他应当为自己挣得机会"的这种争论，会像是在 02-03 年板凳上的争 论一样是个微不足道的事情。我们会想着在费城的 MVP 年，那场场让我们不可置信地摇 着我们双手呐喊的比赛。然後说： 不论 AI 是怎麽样的一个人，他是那个前无古人後无来者的人。当那些输赢的记录、与教 练的抱怨这些繁琐事情逐渐远走，给予 AI 该有的敬畏，那将是我们能够给予这男人的， 最高的荣耀。 ************************************** 这篇堆积了实在有点久...今天一口气把它翻完了.. 翻到最後其实自己感觉是 就这样了吧 没什麽好吵的了 AI 会是 NBA 众多洪流中的其中一支 AI 会是个名人堂的伟大球员 这些事情早就注定了 当他拖着这样的身躯、背景以及意志力走向 NBA 时就已注定了 至少他曾经是个靠着自己一个人杀番全联盟的战神 绝对没有否定队友们的意思 Allen Iverson 与其拿低薪靠拥冠军队而做不了你自己 身为球迷的我们其实为着现在的你而深深的自豪着。 --

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