http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703833204576114344139523616.html The Wall Street Journal(喔一行刚好我就不缩了，缩了怕跑掉。) He's Quietly Taken the NBA by Surprise NBA的一场宁静风暴 A Second-Round Draft Pick, Low-Key Landry Fields of the Knicks 'Keeps Picking Things Up at an Incredibly Fast Pace' LF尼克队的一个二轮选秀，以惊人的速度成长。 By JEFF PEARLMAN When one comes to New York to star for the Knickerbockers, he is required, by law and history, to rule the town. 若提及尼克队的球星，接下来这位先生，在各个层面来看，都具备风靡纽约的能力。 It's what we expect of our sports heroes, and from Walt Frazier and Joe Namath to Keith Hernandez and Derek Jeter, the stories of metropolitan social domination are endless. It is often not enough for our athletic standouts to merely dunk and pass and hit with unparalleled greatness. They need to live The Life. To revel on a higher plane. To be seen out and about, smiling from ear to ear, a young vixen on each arm, a bottomed-out bottle of Cristal left spinning on the nearby table. 他正是我们所期待传承各家前辈永无止尽的英雄故事，对我们来说那些能统御球场的 球星并不足够，他们还要能够活得更普罗大众，更有深度、生活化、亲切。 Which leads us to Landry Fields. 这些特点引导我们找到LF。 As one of the Knicks' hotshot newcomers and, with averages of 10.1 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, an unlikely candidate for NBA Rookie of the Year, Fields has taken the city by storm. The team's starting shooting guard can be spotted everywhere, eating at the hottest bistros, strolling down the sidewalks, offering up high-fives to well-wishers left and right. 一个尼克队中手感炽热的新人，坐拥场均10.1分和7.1个篮板，看似不可能成为NBA年度 新人菜鸟，竟然能够席卷全城，这位先发得分後卫也亲切地随处可见，不时会撞见他 在小酒馆吃吃喝喝、在人行道散步，和球迷击掌（大概吧......） "I can't tell you how much I like it here," said Fields. "The stores, the people.…White Plains is just a wonderful place to be." 「我非常喜欢这里。」LF说，「店家、人群等等，白原市是个好地方。」 Eh, White Plains? 呃，白原市？ Based on the city's proximity to the Knicks' Westchester practice facility, as well as his desire to keep distractions to a minimum, Mr. Fields rents a small apartment not on Central Park West or in the East Village, but across from White Plains's City Center shopping complex. 由於白原市邻近尼克队的Westchester练习场，以及他希望能远离诱惑的缘故，LF租了 一间既不在上西区也不在东村而是在白原市市中心购物商场对面的小公寓。 "Almost every morning me and [fellow rookie] Andy Rautins hit up the Atlanta Bread Company for breakfast," he said. "Then we shop at Nordstrom Rack—that place is awesome. Brand names at half the price. There's also a Barnes & Noble, just in case we want to get our read on." 「每天早上我和前队友（Andy Rautins）都会去Atlanta Bread Company吃早餐，」他 说，「我们在Nordstrom Rack购物，那地方大多好东西都能拿到半价，而且还有间 Barnes & Noble，要买书也可以。」 Mr. Fields can go on for hours, blathering about Legal Seafood and Target and blasé suburban bliss. But while the talk is somewhat peculiar, it is by no means contrived. Having been largely ignored during his four seasons at Stanford, then waiting until the second round and 39th overall pick of last April's draft to find an NBA home, Mr. Fields has long thrived by keeping a low profile and limited public expectations. "One day I might move to Manhattan," he said after a recent practice. "But I'm really not a glitzy type of guy." LF可以讲很久关於白原市有多麽可亲可爱，但语气一点也不会让人觉得故作姿态，一 个大学几乎沉寂了四个球季而且第39顺位才获选进入NBA的人来说，LF能够大放异彩 和他的低资历和低知名度不无关系。「也许有天我会住进曼哈顿。」一次练习後他 这样说，「但我真的不是那种名流。」（现在看来有点婊到JLinXDDDDDDDD） Mr. Fields goes up for a shot against the Rockets' Patrick Patterson on Jan. 19.Indeed, before he signed a two-year contract with the Knicks last June, most of the team's players and coaches had never heard of Landry Fields. Although he led the Pac-10 with 22 points and 8.8 rebounds per game as a senior, Mr.Fields was widely thought to be too slow, too unathletic, too predictable, too limited, too developed, too tweener-ish to make any sort of NBA impact. LF1月19日(2011)对战火箭缴出好表现，的确，在六月和尼克签两年约以前大多他的 队友教练都没听过他这号人物，尽管他在Pac-10缴出场均22分和8.8个篮板的好成绩， LF总被认为速度太慢、太不运动员、太容易预测、太多限制、过度发展等等，大概无法 带来什麽惊艳联盟的表现。 It hardly helped that his accomplishments took place during a notoriously poor year for the conference. That's why Mr. Fields wasn't invited to the NBA's annual pre-draft camp or listed on the Top 100 draft prospects list by Chad Ford, ESPN's respected basketball "insider." 他的数据在相对贫瘠的一年中看来没有什麽突出，而他也被忽视没有受到NBA年度选秀前 的练习营，也没有上到一份号称相关人士编列的选秀最受期待100人名单。 "I speak with a lot of teams, and now they all say they would have picked Landry had he been on the board, or if they hadn't traded their pick, or… whatever," said Chris Emens, Mr. Fields's agent. "The bottom line was these teams simply made a huge mistake. Landry played forward in college, and the experts had trouble envisioning him as a guard. And he was at Stanford for four years, and there's an enormous bias these days against seniors. So that's why he lasted so long." 「我和很多队谈过，都说他们都想选LF，但就是心有余而力不足。」Chris Emens，LF 的经纪人说，「事实是这些人都错了，LF在大学打前锋，专家们都认为他打後卫令人 忧心，然後他还在史丹佛念了四年，大家都知道联盟对於高年级生有很多偏见，所以 他一直等到这麽後面才被选上。」 What most franchises didn't know—couldn't know—was that Landry Fields was, in a literal sense, made to play basketball. Though he might lack the sinewy brilliance of Washington's John Wall or the all-around physicality of the Nets' Derrick Favors, Mr. Fields, a 6-foot-7, 210-pounder, boasts an uncommonly deep and detailed hoops pedigree. 大多数人不知道的是，或该说无从得知的是，LF是生来打篮球的，完全是字面上的意思 ，他也许没有巫师队John Wall华丽的身手或是篮网Derrick Favors活跳跳的体能，LF 六尺七，210磅，还流有篮球世家的血统。 His father, Steve Fields, was a 6-foot-6 guard at Miami of Ohio who was selected by Portland in the seventh round of the 1975 NBA Draft (he never made an NBA roster). His mother, Janice Fields, was a 6-foot forward at Highland Community College in Highland, Wash. Janice's two sisters, Sue and Trish, both played basketball at the University of Puget Sound, and Steve's uncle, Davis Barker, was a guard on Ohio State's 1960 NCAA championship team. Randy Ayers, the former Philadelphia 76ers coach, is married to one of Landry's cousins, and another cousin, Northern Arizona senior guard Cameron Jones, is a three-time all-Big Sky Conference selection who is projected to be picked in the 2011 NBA Draft. 他的父亲，Steve Fields，六尺六，大学篮球员，在1975年的时候曾在第七轮选进 拓荒者队，但从未真的上场。母亲Janice Fields，六尺，在大学球队里打前锋，两位 阿姨也都在大学里打篮球，然後他的舅公(Steve的舅舅)Davis Barker是1960年NCAA冠军 队伍的後卫，姻亲里还有Randy Ayers，七六人的前教练，还有一个表亲Cameron Jones 在Northern Arizona打球，2011选秀会可能榜上有名(现在我记得应该是在D-League， FWN, 活塞-溜马-公鹿的队伍)。 "The game runs deep in our family," said Steve Fields. "We never, ever pressured Landry to play, but he gravitated to basketball very naturally. You can definitely say it's in his blood." 「篮球的确是在我们家颇有渊源。」LF父亲表示，「但我们从来没有逼他打球，但 他很自然就被篮球吸引了，若说家学渊源，那的确是家学渊源。」 Raised in the small Orange County city of Los Alamitos, Calif., Mr. Fields spent much of his boyhood either studying or shooting hoops. He was a quiet kid, and though his long, skinny arms and Big Bird-like legs made him a gawky sight to behold, Janice recalls a boy with, in her words, "a very old soul." 在加州橘郡一个小镇Los Alamitos长大，LF平日不是练习篮球就是念书，他是个安静的 小孩（天啊长大反差有点大XDDDD），外貌因为修长的四肢让他看来有点笨拙，但就他 母亲的眼底看来，她的孩子心底有一个早熟的灵魂。 "Landry's always been a thinker, an observer," she said. "He was a very late talker—a little older than 2 when he finally said something. I had been waiting for a word or two, and one day he just looks at me and says, 'Mom, will you please get me some milk out of the refrigerator?' It's as if he had the words, but he wanted to wait for the right moment to spring them on me." 「LF是个思考家也是个观察家。」她说，「他很晚才开口说话，至少等到他过了两岁以 後，他才开口说第一句话。我本来想他大概会说个一两个字，但有天他看着我，然後 就开口说：妈，你可以从冰箱里拿点牛奶给我吗？这感觉好像他一直都会说话，只是 想要等到最合适的时候才向我开口。」（我没养过小孩，但这听起来正常吗??好长的句 子@_@） Like many of his ilk, Mr. Fields took the relatively conventional AAU-and-high school-varsity route to college. Yet having grown up with sayings like IF YOU'RE GONNA TAKE SOMETHING—TAKE RESPONSIBILITY and LEARN TO GIVE—IT MAKES TAKING EASIER taped to his father's refrigerator (Steve and Janice divorced when Landry was 12, though they live mere blocks apart and maintain a friendly relationship), he wasn't merely aiming for the first college basketball scholarship 和其他打球的人一样，LF进入大学的方式也是循着在比赛中取得好成绩换取大学入学资 格的路线，不一样的是，他的父亲贴在自家冰箱上教育孩子的警语：无论你做什麽，就要 像什麽；学会给予，才有可能获得（我大概翻了意思，没有照字面翻），（中间有段补 述他的双亲在他12岁的时候离婚了，但离婚以後还是住得很近，并且保持良好的友谊） 这些警语影响他并不仅是锁定申请第一流篮球大学的奖学金而已。 A B+ and A student at Los Alamitos High, Landry dreamed of attending Stanford, and even took the SATs four times in order to earn the necessary score. "Landry could have gone to Arizona, he could have gone to Gonzaga," said Janice. "But we instilled a value of education in him. He wanted Stanford for basketball, but mainly for the pedigree. The decision was based on getting a great education and a diploma." Hence, on draft night Mr. Fields knew he wouldn't be selected near Mr. Wall, the consensus No. 1 pick. So he sat in his bedroom in his father's apartment and waited. And waited. And waited. 一个成绩大概在中上偏上的高中生，LF希望能够进史丹佛，而为了进史丹佛他还考了 四次SAT直到考到足够的成绩为止，「他可以去Arizona或是Gonzaga。」母亲表示： 「但我们教导他教育的重要性，所以他想去史丹佛打球，最重要的还是更好的教育和 文凭。」因此在NBA选秀之夜LF知道他自己不可能会在状元John Wall之後很快就被选 上，所以他只是坐在父亲公寓里他的房间里等待，等待，等待。 "It was all a mystery to me," he said. "I knew I wouldn't go very high, but I'd worked out for a lot of teams and heard good things. I was hopeful." 「等待的过程我很困惑。」LF说，「我知道我不可能很快被挑中，但我也听到很多 队伍对我都赞誉有加，因此我还是抱持着希望。」 Though they lacked a first-round pick, the Knicks possessed back-to-back selections in the second round. They used No. 37 on Mr. Rautins, the Syrcause guard who has become Mr. Fields's closest friend on the team (and near-daily Xbox rival in FIFA Soccer 11). 尽管没有第一轮的选秀权，尼克在第二轮却有个连续签，他们在第三十七顺位选了Andy Rautins,Syrcause(瓜瓜母校)的後卫，日後也在队上成为LF的好朋友，两人几乎每天都 一起在XBOX上的FIFA对战。 When Mr. Fields heard his name called next, he jumped off his bed and began screaming. He ran into his father's room, then into the room of his 16-year-old sister, Celena. 接着LF听见了他的名字，他从床上跳了起来然後放声大叫（这让我想到Novak说的话XDD Screaming like girls），他跑进他爸的房间，然後他妹的房间。 "People have asked me if I was disappointed going low," he said. "No way. I just wanted to be picked and have the chance to prove myself." 「有人问过我这麽晚才被选中会不会很失望。」LF说，「怎麽可能，我只希望有被 选上和有机会打球来证明自己。」 If Mr. Fields's roll continues and, as team president Donnie Walsh said, "he keeps picking things up at an incredibly quick pace," the familiar narrative of the out-of-nowhere rookie making good can turn significantly more interesting. 如果LF持续表现得好，就像当时球队总管Donnie Walsh所说的：「LF学习的速度惊人 地快。」那这个本来名不见经传的菜鸟崛起故事就会更加有意义和有趣。 Though the Clippers' Blake Griffin (who missed all of last season with a knee injury) looks to be the sure-shot Rookie of the Year, Mr. Fields seems destined to become the first second-round pick to make the league's All-Rookie team since Golden State's Marc Jackson a decade ago. He has contributed hope and stability to a franchise long lacking in both. 尽管快艇的葛里芬稳定会拿下今年的年度新人，LF看起来很有可能会是十年内唯一一个 进入新人第一队的第二轮顺位，前一位是金州的Marc Jackson，LF带给尼克的希望和 稳定正是尼克长久以来所需的。 "When you're drafting late, you can't expect a kid like Landry Fields falls your way," said Mr. Walsh. "And when he does, you thank your stars. You thank your lucky stars." 尼克球队总管说：「并不是每次选秀的後面顺位都有机会选中像LF这样的球员，但当你 选中了，你会感谢上天，感谢祂庇佑你。」 －－－－ 翻了两天，这文章真长。 大部分维基对於Landry Fields的介绍都取材自这篇，虽然是超旧闻，但是可以帮助 大家认识Landry在去年引起的一阵注意，虽然规模远小於Linsanity，但是也是相同 的故事，都是Nobody然後变成Somebody的故事，我想JLin的更为曲折，也当然就更 吸引人。 不可否认的是，他不和JLin做那个书呆子打气法我也不会认识他，但认识他以後， 觉得他是个很不错的球员，虽然现在有点低潮，但希望他能在季後赛带给尼克一些好的 表现!!! 如果有翻错的地方，还请各位不吝指教。 感谢收看。 --

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