译者：黎睿蓝 已徵得译者同意转载并修改部分不同惯用语。 译文：http://bbs.hupu.com/4016432.html 原文：http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2012/07/the-jeremy-lin-debate-no- one-wants-to-have.html The Jeremy Lin Debate No One Wants to Have By Devin Gordon 关於Lin的一个没人愿意讨论的话题 The New York Knicks letting Jeremy Lin walk out the door—for nothing— was the dumbest decision in the history of professional sports. 纽约尼克队白白放Jeremy Lin离开，是职业体育历史上最愚蠢的决定，没有之一。 But let's forget about that for a moment. The words "dumb" and "Knicks" are so interchangeable at this point that the notion of the franchise choosing an option with a $15 million downside (the excess luxury tax the team faced if it matched Houston's offer) over an option with a billion dollar downside (Lin's potential career marketing value if he kept up his level of play) is actually unsurprising. This is the Knicks. This is what they do. Let's move on. Let's have the other conversation, the one nobody seems to want to have because "dumb" seems to explain it all. No, dumb explains 98 percent of it. Let's talk about the other 2 percent. 不过我们暂时不谈这些。尼克选择了省下1500万美元（若跟进休士顿的报价，队伍 要多付出的豪华税的金额），损失十亿美元（若保持水准，Lin职业生涯潜在的市 场价值）。尼克做出这个决定并不让人吃惊。在此刻愚蠢等於尼克，尼克等於愚蠢 ，两词可以完美替换。这就是尼克，这就是他们会做的事情。 现在让我们向前看，谈点别的。没人想谈接下来的话题，因为尼克历来的「愚蠢」 就可以解释一切。不，愚蠢只解释了这个决定的98%，我们要探讨的是余下那2%。 The moment I knew for certain that the Knicks were done with Jeremy Lin was on Sunday, July 15, when Carmelo Anthony publicly called Lin's offer from the Houston Rockets "ridiculous." At that point, the Knicks were still saying their minds weren't made up, and maybe that was true—maybe they were only 99 percent sure. Even still, Melo's remark was like an X-ray of his psyche, and, because Melo is the only person other than owner Jim Dolan who really matters in the Knicks organization, it was a glimpse into what the entire franchise thinks about Lin. 在7月15日这个周五，我真正的确定尼克跟Lin玩完了。Carmelo Anthony公开声称 火箭对Lin的报价是荒唐的。在那个时候，尼克仍然表示他们还没下决定，可能这 是真的，可能真实性是99%。Melo的表述就像是透射出他心中所想的X光，因为在 尼克这个泥潭里，除了潭主Dolan，最有份量的就是他了。从Melo的这个表述我们 也可以瞥见整个尼克对Lin是个怎样的态度。 What's relevant here is not whether Melo was right or not about Lin's contract. Plenty of NBA players surely agree with him. What's relevant is that he said it out loud. Bad-mouthing another player's deal is a serious breach of the unwritten code among pro athletes, which is why it happens so rarely, no matter how many stupid deals get handed out, no matter how many franchises are crippled by bad contracts, no matter how many superstars find their paths to a title blocked by the bonehead decisions of their teams' front offices. It's also why, conversely, players almost always praise each others' deals in public, and offer congratulations – we've all seen the tweets – for getting every penny that the market could generate. It's a fraternity. Melo对Lin合约的评价是对是错根本无关紧要。大多数的NBA球员实际上都同意他的 说法。重要的是他大大咧咧的说出来了。 恶意批评另一个球员的合约违背了职业球员中不成文的准则，所以这样的行为才少 见。不管出现了多少愚蠢的交易，不管有多少球队被烂合约裹得举步蹒跚，不管多 少巨星发现球队管理层的脑残阻碍了自己通往冠军的道路。 这也是为什麽跟Melo不同，球员们总是在公开场合赞美彼此的合约，并送上祝福， 这些我们经常在推特上看到，市场能给你提供多少，你就拿多少。这是一个兄弟友 爱同盟会。 Apparently, to Melo, Jeremy Lin is not in the fraternity. Or at least, Lin's place in it is dubious enough that he has not earned the omerta that every other player gets. Anybody wanna try to convince me it has zero to do with Lin being Asian-American? Because, and let's cut to the quick, Carmelo Anthony never ever would've made that remark about a black NBA player's contract, and I doubt that he ever would've said it about a white player's, either. If Melo thought that Lin was being wildly overpaid but still, fundamentally, belonged in the club, he would've kept his mouth shut. He didn't because he doesn't. 很明显的是，对Melo来说，Lin并不在这个同盟里。或者至少，当每个其他的球员都 享受到了同盟会的待遇时，Lin在这个同盟会里的地位还有待确认。有谁想尝试去说 服我这跟Lin是个亚裔美国人毫无关系吗？让我们直指问题关键，Melo从未对任何一 个黑人的合约做出这样的评价，我怀疑他也从未这样说过一个白人球员。如果Melo仍 觉得Lin的合约太过溢价，那麽隶属於这个联盟，他也应该闭紧他的嘴巴。 From the beginning, Melo has always been the Knick most threatened by Linsanity, and the most skeptical about it. There is no question that Lin's ethnicity is a huge factor in his popularity—a bigger factor, even, than his actual play on the court, as splendid as it has been—but there's also no question that Lin's ethnicity is a huge factor in the ongoing suspicion that his marvelous play thus far is a mirage. Now obviously I can't read Carmelo Anthony's mind, but it sure seems like he still believes what a lot of people did in those flush first few days of Lin's meteoric rise: he can't really be this good because he doesn't look like a guy who's really this good. 从一开始，Melo就是最被Linsanity威胁到的那个尼克球员，也是对此最持怀疑态度 的人。毫无疑问Lin的种族是造成这股热潮的重要因素之一，甚至比起他在场上的表 现，种族更对这股热潮起到了推波助澜的作用。 Lin的种族，很大程度上让人怀疑这如夏花般绚烂的一切都只不过是短暂的海市蜃楼 。现在我读不懂Melo的心，但是目前看起来，正如在Linsanity迅速崛起的开始那几 天里大多数人们对Lin的看法一样，Melo仍然相信：他不可能有这麽厉害，因为他看 起来不像那种真正厉害的人。 (A quick aside: Lin's three year, $25 million contract isn't "ridiculous." It's a great deal for the Rockets, who get a bargain for two years and at worst an expiring contract / trade asset in the third. It arguably would've been ridiculous for the Knicks because of luxury-tax implications, but when you have the Knicks' contract history to defend, and Jim Dolan's bottomless wealth, what exactly does ridiculous mean? Before you answer, consider that in the last year of Carmelo's deal alone, he will make … $24 million. Let's hope he's won more than one playoff game for the Knicks by then. The average annual salary in the NBA is a bit over $5 million. Lin's contract classifies him as "above average." Is paying Lin the salary of an above average NBA player really "ridiculous"? So ridiculous that he should be called out publicly for it?) （顺便一提，林的三年2500万美元的合约并不荒唐，对火箭来说是笔不错的交易，先 便宜着用两年，再不济的话也可以在第三年把他当交易筹码。从豪华税角度考虑，对 尼克来说可称得上荒唐，但是想想尼克历史上的那些个合约，以及Dolan深不见底的 钱包，这时说Lin的合约荒唐是怎麽个意思啊？在你回答之前，考虑下Anthony最後一 年的薪水，2400万啊。让我们一起祈祷今後他能为尼克赢下更多的季後赛，而不是目 前的一场。联盟平均年薪略高於500万，Lin的合约将其归类於平均水准之上的球员。 付给Lin联盟平均薪金以上的薪水真的很荒唐？荒唐到他要在大庭广众之下发表这个 高见？） And then there's Jim Dolan, whose fury over Lin's "betrayal" has leaked over the last 72 hours into every single sports publication with a working NBA beat reporter. There's no point in parsing the reasons why Dolan feels betrayed and whether they're valid. The real question is, why is Dolan taking it so personally? Lin was reportedly disappointed the Knicks told him to shop around in the first place—he wanted to stay put—but he got over it. Why was Lin aggressively testing the market (i.e., doing what the Knicks told him to do) such an affront? Could it be that Dolan thought the nice, quiet, devout Christian Taiwanese kid would be too cowed by The Great Man to play hardball over money? Could it be that he thought he owned Lin, had made him, and became furious when Lin refused to behave like it? Could it be that he expected Lin to be more – ethnic stereotype alert – submissive? 然後再说说这个Dolan，由於Lin的「背叛」他怒从心头起。他为什麽感到被背叛，他 是不是应该感到背叛，解析这些毫无意义。真正的问题是，为什麽Dolan这麽往心里 去？据报导尼克让他自己去试水自由市场，在那时Lin就感到很沮丧，但他走了出来 。Lin积极在市场上寻找下家（这也是尼克让他去做的事情）为什麽就是侮辱了他？ 是不是Dolan认为这个性格良善，内心沉静，信仰虔诚的台湾孩子在面对别的队甩给 他大合约的时候，会太过惊吓以至於不敢接受？是不是他觉得自己拥有了Lin，创造 了Lin，所以当Lin没拒绝火箭那份报价合约的时候他就怒火丛生？是不是由於对种族 的刻板印象，他期望Lin本应该对他更加顺从？ And how do we explain leaks about Dolan (reportedly) using words like "betrayed" and "deceived" to describe Lin over the same weekend that newly acquired Knick Jason Kidd got so fall down drunk that he crashed his car into a tree—with nary a word of criticism from Dolan? Jeremy Lin is the bad guy here? 我们如何解释Dolan用来形容Lin时使用的诸如「背叛」和「欺骗」那样的言论是怎 样泄露出来的？在同个周末尼克新进成员Jason Kidd喝的醉醺醺的，让车子跟树来 了个亲密接触，Dolan对此却未做出批评？Lin这时候反而成了坏人？ I'm doing more mind-reading here with Dolan—never a safe proposition. But here's what I am confident saying about Dolan on the subject of Lin's ethnicity: he has absolutely no grasp of what Jeremy Lin really means as a cultural phenomenon. It does not pierce his bubble. It stirs no emotion in him. He doesn't understand what it means for millions of people in this country, and around the world, to watch the first Asian-American superstar athlete excel on the highest stage, and what it means to have that player wearing the uniform of his team. The pride, the joy, the inspiration, the transformative effect it can have on an entire generation of kids. 我对Dolan的心思予以解读，在Lin的种族这一主题上，我敢很自信的说「他完全没 有领略到作为一个文化现象Lin的意义到底是什麽。」这一切都没刺穿他的外壳， 没有从内心深处让他有所感悟。他不理解对於这个国家里的数百万人，以及全世界 的人们来说，看着第一位亚裔美国人身份的巨星运动员在最高水平的舞台上发光发 热，看着这个球员穿着他的球队的球衣，这一切意味着什麽。他不理解这意味着的 那种荣耀，那种愉悦，那种激励，那种对整整一代孩子们产生的变革性的影响。 That stuff is real. It only becomes hokey when people like me try to capture it with words on a page. If Dolan got that, he never would've let the Lin situation unravel over scratch money (to him, anyway) and petty animus. He would've sat the kid down, talked it out, buried the hatchet. And then he would've signed the deal. 这些都是真的，只是当人们像我一样试着在纸面上用语言阐述它的时候，变得略微 做作了。如果Dolan能懂得以上那些，他就不会斤斤计较那些美金，以至於造成现在 的这种情况。他会让这个孩子坐下，带他出去，言归於好。他会签下那笔合约。 Instead Dolan let him walk away. For nothing. Go ahead and call it stupid. Just don't say that's all it is. 而Dolan却白白的让他走了。来吧，尽管来诉说他是有多麽的愚蠢。但请不要说愚 蠢就能概括这一切。 --

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