Vlade knows what you're thinking He knows you must be wondering how we've gotten this far without getting into flopping. 他知道你一定好奇我们谈了这麽久，为何还没有提到他的演技。 You rarely hear an unkind word about Divac in basketball circles -- "It's impossible not to like him," West claims -- but this is that subject. 在篮球圈，提到 Divac的名字，你很少会听到难听的形容词。「不可能不喜欢这个家 伙。」West说，不过这与那些无关。 http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0407/nba_g_divac_300.jpg He prefers to talk about his passing, but Vlade -- like it or not -- is known for his flopping, too. So here is the long-awaited rebuttal/explanation/confession from the man who used all of his soccer instincts and acting mojo he gleaned from wife Ana's profession to earn an unshakable reputation for occasionally exaggerating the contact absorbed while playing defense. 接下来是这个男人对於假摔的反驳/解释/自白。他利用了这个他老婆内行的足球技巧 和表演方式（ Divac的老婆疑为足球员）替他赚取了不少名声，也成为他防守时避免过多 碰撞接触的方法。 "First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper," Vlade says. "But flopping was, in some period of my career, a part of my game, especially against Shaquille O'Neal. It was the only way I could try to stop him. And I did well, I guess." 「首先，我比较希望大家记得我的传球，而不是我的假摔。不过这也是我生涯的一部 份，我比赛中的一部份。特别是对抗Shaquille O'Neal的时候，这是我唯一能阻止他的方 式。我想我做得还不错。」 Yet now that he is no longer flopping, er, playing, Divac might have actually lost some of his ability to enrage Shaq. 不过他不假摔（打球）的日子已经很久了， Divac已经在Shaq的记忆中渐渐淡化。 Given the opportunity to proclaim Divac as the NBA's worst-ever flopper, Shaq decided not to blast his longtime foe. 当问到Divac是不是NBA最会假摔的球员时，Shaq并认为并不是这位他长期的对手。 "It's the Collins boys," Shaq said, referring to twin brothers Jarron and Jason Collins. "They always get me." 「我想是Collins兄弟。他们总是搞毛我。」 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vlade's other vice I spent a lot of time in Divac's company during his March visit to Sactown. And I can confirm that I did see him smoke a cigarette or two from a pack peeking out of his coat pocket. 在 Divac三月到访沙城的日子里，我花了不少时间跟他作伴。我可以证明他几乎没抽 过几根烟。 He doesn't have to hide the Camels anymore. In retirement -- and living back in Belgrade for the past year after a two-year stint as an executive with Real Madrid and nearly two decades away -- smoking is hardly taboo. 他不再需要把烟藏起来了，因为他现在已经退休了。要知道在球员生涯中，抽烟是一 个严重大忌。 But the feedback he gets for it now, as I also witnessed, might be more painful than the whispers about cigarettes throughout his NBA days. Taunting from his 11-year-old daughter, Petra, is frequent, with a go-to move of drawing her thumb and index finger to her forehead in the shape of an "L" to chide Dad for his inability to stop smoking. 不过他现在抽烟的时候所感受到的痛苦可能更大。因为他的十一岁女儿Petra 不停地 模仿他抽烟的动作，来嘲弄戒不掉烟的老爸。 （译：http://www.novine.ca/arhiva/2005/1026/slike/m-%201026%20divac.jpg） Vlade's counter is that he's "really never been a heavy smoker." Vlade说他抽得其实不凶。 And that it didn't stop him from lasting 16 seasons in the NBA and joining that exclusive club mentioned earlier: Divac, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon and Kevin Garnett form the exclusive quartet of multifaceted NBA stars to amass at least 13,000 points, 9,000 rebounds, 3,000 assists and 1,500 blocks in their careers. 而抽烟也没有阻止他成为成功的篮球员。他在 NBA奋战了十六个球季，并且和Kareem Abdul-Jabbar、Hakeem Olajuwon、Kevin Garnett是史上仅有的四个 13000分、9000篮板 、3000助攻及1500阻攻的球员。 "Marc was telling me that I'll be picked between 5 and 15, but nobody picked me," Divac said of longtime agent Marc Fleisher, recalling the night in New York when he was drafted by the Lakers. 「Marc告诉我说我会在五到十五顺位间被选，不过没有人选择我。」（Marc Fleisher 是Divac长期的经纪人）Divac回想着在纽约的那个选秀夜。 "Later on I found out everybody thinks I'm drinking and I'm smoking because I'm European. So it actually worked well for me because I got to [the] Lakers." 「我後来发现那是因为大家都觉得我是欧洲人，一定会抽很凶、喝很凶。不过也因为 这样，我到了湖人队。」 -- 过去式：Kayte Christensen 现在式：Aviv Casspi 未来式：Petra Divac --

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