http://0rz.tw/USZJT He is not yet eligible to claim a spot in the international wing of the Basketball Hall of Fame, but you suspect that Vlade Divac won't have to wait through too many more Septembers. 他还没有在国际篮球名人堂里获得一个位置，但你可以预期 Vlade Divac不用等得太 久。 Not when you could start in Portland and scour the globe and still struggle to find a bigger trailblazer in the game. 除了在波特兰之外，你应该很难找到另一个比他更大只的篮球拓荒者。 The résumé stands up well nearly five years since he last played, no matter what you think of his famed, uh, defensive theatrics. Divac's huge, soft hands entrenched him as Europe's first successful long-term export to the NBA. He is one of just four players ever to amass at least 13,000 points, 9,000 rebounds, 3,000 assists and 1,500 blocks. His name likewise answers this rather significant trivia question: Who is the only player in league history to be traded for Kobe Bryant? 距离上次出赛已经有五年多了，不管你对 Divac影帝般的演出怎麽想，他巨大而柔软 的手段确立了他是第一位成功欧洲输出作品。他是仅有的四位球员能达到 13000分、9000 篮板、3000助攻、1500火锅。由下列的问题可以证明他的身价：谁是历史上唯一一位被拿 来交换Kobe Bryant的球员？ Hoop historians will put that name right up there with Bill Walton and Arvydas Sabonis in the pantheon of slick-passing big men and remember him even more readily as one of the groundbreakers in the NBA's globalization. It was precisely 20 years ago that Divac began to break down the barriers that helped make it possible for Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov to reach an agreement this week to buy the New Jersey Nets and become the league's first foreign majority owner. Two decades later, meanwhile, Divac has convinced countless countrymen that he will wind up serving as president of Serbia someday, such is his post-NBA devotion to humanitarian causes. 篮球史学家们在排列优秀传球长人时，总会提到他与Bill Walton、Arvydas Sabonis ，他使用地板传球的技巧真是出神入化。 Divac的成功带进了文化交流，所以在他加盟NBA 的二十年後，我们看到了史上第一位外籍老板。而退休後的 Divac也承认有许多国人都希 望他有朝一日成为塞尔维亚的总统，因为他的博爱形象已深入人心。 Eligibility for the Hall remains another two years away, in 2011, after five full seasons in retirement, but Vlade has already scored the ultimate stamp of approval from The Logo himself. 虽然距离名人堂的票选还有两年的时间（必须确定退休五年）， Divac因自身形象所 获得的支持票却已超标。 Asked recently about the pioneering center he drafted in 1989, Jerry West said: "He's the finest person I've ever been around in my life. 被问到这位他1989年所选进的中锋时，Jerry West回答：「他是我一生中遇过最好的 人。」 "Ever." 「最好的！」 Bigger names and more prodigious talents have certainly blipped in and out of a lifetime so closely associated with the NBA that West's silhouette was the inspiration for the league's insignia. The reality is that Divac played in only one All-Star Game in 16 seasons. But it's also true that no endorsement will mean more to Divac, who, to this day, refers to the Lakers' former top executive as "my favorite man in the NBA." West这位 NBA标志人物和太多伟大球员有过连结。虽然 Divac生涯十六季只有入选过 一次明星赛，不过有了West这一句的背书，他也不需要太多其他的证明。因为他是这位前 湖人名将最喜欢的NBA人。 Not even the sting of West's informing him back in the summer of 1996 that L.A. had no choice but to trade him to Charlotte for the rights to Bryant -- and the salary-cap space that ultimately helped the Lakers sign Shaquille O'Neal -- could dent Divac's regard for his old boss. Divac insists, furthermore, that no bitterness lingers from the Sacramento Kings' oh-so-close failure to get past the Shaq-and-Kobe Lakers in 2002, or from the detractors who ignore West's gushing assessments and prefer to remember Divac's flopping more than his passing. 虽然在1996的选秀会上他被湖人交易给黄蜂，只为了换来Bryant的选秀权以及给Shaq 的薪资空间，2002年又以如此近的差距被湖人所击败，Divac 却坚持他对於老东家没有什 麽不好的印象。 He's too busy and giddy, at 41, to dwell on the negativity, fully engaged in his new job as president of the Serbian Olympic Committee and still reveling in the afterglow of the ceremony in late March when the Kings retired his No. 21. 他实在是太忙了，41岁的 Divac没有时间消极，他现在正以塞尔维亚奥委会主席的身 份奔波，还刚参加完三月国王为他举办的球衣退休仪式。 Fresh off a brief return to the floor for a legends trip to Korea and the Philippines with Dominique Wilkins, Tim Hardaway and Robert Horry, Divac has also been helping to organize the forthcoming American tour of his original club team back home. Partizan Belgrade is scheduled to play two exhibition games against an all-star team led by former Kings teammates Scot Pollard and Mateen Cleaves during a weeklong stay in Chicago and Detroit that starts Thursday, followed by Partizan's two preseason games in early October against NBA teams: Denver on Oct. 3 and Phoenix on Oct. 6. 才刚与 Dominique Wilkins、Tim Hardaway、Robert Horry等人结束一趟访问南韩的 行程。Divac 也还在替他的初只效力球队归划美国赛行程。Partizan Belgrade 将会在芝 加哥与底特律和他的前国王队队友Scot Pollard及Mateen Cleaves所率领的明星队打两场 表演赛。接下来在十月Partizan还有两场与NBA 球队的季前赛，分别是十月三号对金块及 十月六号对太阳。 In honor of Partizan's U.S. visit and the 20th anniversary of his rookie season -- with a bow to the No. 12 that Divac was wearing the first time I saw him play, alongside Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc and Dino Radja for a still-unified Yugoslavia on the best team you probably never saw -- ESPN.com has collected a dozen remembrances and updates from Divac's life to fete one of the sport's most heralded ambassadors. 为了替Partizan访美造势，以及他的第二十个新秀纪念日。 Divac将会再度穿上十二 号球衣（这是我第一次看见他时所穿的号码，也是Drazen Petrovic、Toni Kukoc、Dino Radja 等人所组成的最强南拉斯夫队。）ESPN也收集了十几个 Divac球员生涯最值得记忆 的时刻，来招待这位运动大使先驱。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hooray for Hollywood The legend, as it is written in Lakers lore, holds that West went around the room on the night of the 1989 draft asking every team official present to submit the name of the player he should take with the No. 26 overall pick. None of his basketball people tossed out "Divac," but that's the name West called in to New York, having kept the secret from his own staff. 让我们将故事由1989年说起，在选秀会时，West询问了每一只球队的总管，他应该在 26顺位选择谁？没有任何人回答 Divac，但这正是West在台上宣布的名字，他连对自已的 团队都保守了秘密。 http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0407/nba_g_divac-lakers_200.jpg One of the greatest passing big men the game has ever seen. West says it's all true. "There hadn't been a lot of foreign players in the NBA draft at that point," West recalls. "But I had watched him play the Celtics over there [in the McDonald's Open with his national team], and I just felt this guy, because he had played in international competition, was ready to play right away. You wondered if he was going to work hard enough to succeed over here and he wasn't the most gifted player athletically, but his hands were like Super Glue and you could see that he could do all the little things. He was the guy for us." 「当时的外国球员还不多，但当我看完他对抗塞尔提克的比赛（麦当劳公开赛），我 觉得就是他了，他有许多国际比赛的经验，让他能够马上上场。你会怀疑这个球员是否能 努力获得成功，他也不是最有天赋的球员，但他有一双像胶水般的手，他也能做好所有的 小事情，他就是我们的人选。」West回忆说。 Yet West also concedes that he immediately had to fight the urge to second-guess himself upon greeting Divac and wife Ana at the airport, where the 21-year-old's notoriously ragged look was even rougher than usual after all the international travel. With Divac carrying two duffel bags -- and with his trademark beard in full sprout -- West doesn't deny having some what-have-I-done convulsions. 不过West也承认当他前往机场迎接Divac及他的老婆Ana时，不禁开始怀疑起自已的决 定。这位二十一岁的球员破烂的穿着在经过长途飞行後使他更显狼狈。他们全部的行李只 有两个粗呢包， Divac的招牌胡子也乱七八糟。当下的West也有一种「我到底做了些什麽 ？」的感受。 "But the one thing I could tell right away," West says, "is that there was an unbelievable warmth that just radiated from him." 「但那时我也感觉到一股不可置信的温暖。」West说。 Dropping all the way to the penultimate pick of the first round, when he thought he had a shot to go as high as No. 5 in what turned out to be one of the most ridiculed drafts in league history, worked out for Divac as well as it clicked for West. He admits that he put his name into the draft thinking that "I would go to the NBA for a couple years, get strong and come back home." He came to America speaking no English and never having seen a live NBA game on television. He wound up with the legendary West as his boss, Pat Riley as his first coach and Magic Johnson as his mentor. Divac 原本预想自已最高能以第五顺位中选，却没想到自已一路跌到第一轮的倒数第 二顺位，不过这也让West有了机会。 Divac承认自已一开始对 NBA没有太多想法：「我可 能进去个几年，变得强壮，然後回家。」抵达美国的这一天，他还不会说英文，一场电视 比赛都没看过。但他非常兴奋能当传奇人物West旗下的一员，以及Pat Riley、Magic分别 担任他的良师益友。 Pervis Ellison might have been the No. 1 overall pick that year, but Divac won the lottery. Pervis Ellison是当年的选秀状元，可是抽中了乐透的却是Divac。 Says Vlade: "If I went somewhere else, no English, no Magic, no Pat, it could have been [a] disaster." 「如果我去了其他地方，不会英文，又没有Magic、Pat的帮忙，那一定是灾难一场。 」Vlade说。 待续.... -- 这篇翻得很乱，感谢并希望帮忙指正，或着文句不通顺处也可以告知。 如果有人愿意接力翻译，也非常感谢，不过为了避免撞刊，还请您推文告知。 --

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