http://0rz.tw/R2h2t Kobe vs. LeBron: There’s no comparison NBC Sports: Toying with the city of Cleveland’s fragile psyche, calling the NBA’s reigning MVP “LeGone” James would just be piling on, rubbing in salt. Besides, that would be predicated on LeBron first being somewhere. Mike Wise(原文作者)拿克里夫兰这座城市开了玩笑，将今年的MVP称为「失落的王者」 (LeGone James)，顺便在他伤口洒盐。 For all the numbers, for all the surreal passes and forays above the rim, the most breathtaking young player in the game is still at base camp in the legacy game. LeBron is gazing longingly toward the top of the mountain, where Kobe Bryant is about to plant a flag. 即便拥有鬼神般的数据、惊人的妙传能力和轰炸篮框威力，这个史上最强力的年轻球员 的历史定位依旧还是在球星阶段。LBJ正远远看着那座山头，那座Kobe Bryant正准备插 上自己旗帜的山头。 After consecutive MVP awards, let’s look at the resume that matters: Rings? Zilch. NBA Finals wins? In his lone appearance three years ago, bupkis; four and out to the San Antonio Spurs. 在连两年拿下MVP之後，让我们从下面几件事情检视LBJ：冠军戒指? O个 ；冠军赛胜场 数? 0场 (三年前被马刺4：0) And to put a bow on what might soon become a seven-year career of unfulfilled championship promise, LeBron’s Cavaliers, the best team in pro basketball this season, are one game from bowing out in the second round against essentially three old guys with knee braces who Rajon Rondo found at the Dorchester Y. 我要向本季拿下联盟最佳战绩的骑士队致敬，他们对市民所做的冠军承诺眼看要七年了 却在第二轮就被塞尔提克扫地出门。 At 25, LeBron is in danger of becoming the NBA’s Alex Ovechkin — heavenly regular season, hellish playoff finale. 现年25岁的LBJ很可能成为NBA版的Alex Ovechkin--季赛一条龙，季後赛一条虫。 We’re all witnesses, all right — witnesses to Phil Knight’s Great American Hyperbole Machine, where we sop up commercials as reality. Witness to 3 for 14 in front of your home crowd. Witness to passivity, flat-out in-game apathy, unbecoming a player of LeBron’ s Hall of Fame caliber 好呗，We’re all witnesses，见证着Phil Knight伟大的美式夸饰机器，让我们吸乾 所有的商业讯息；见证着在主场观众面前投14中3的表现；见证在场上被动且毫无生气 的态度，与LBJ名人堂等级的身手无法匹配。 "He didn't even play," said Tim Legler, an ESPN analyst and former NBA guard. "He wasn't engaged. I've never seen a star-caliber athlete that uninvolved in a big game. It's like a Tom Brady or Peyton Manning audibling out of a third-and-eight passing down and just handing the ball off. Or Reggie Jackson taking three called strikes and not swinging. "At one point after he spotted up in the corner, I saw him holding onto his shorts and bending over. I could not believe what I was watching was a guy not into the game." 前NBA後卫Tim Legler目前是ESPN球评：「他没有认真投入比赛，我没看过一个明星等级 的运动选手会在这麽重要的比赛中置身事外。这就像Tom Brady或Peyton Manning在3-8 传球达阵战术临时改变打法时，将球交给别人；或像MLB的十月先生Reggie Jackson连续 吃下三个好球却毫无挥棒意愿。」 「在最後一场比赛时，我看到他在空手切入要不到球之後就马上放弃，我简直不敢相信 我所看到的。」 Legler could only come to one conclusion: Stress. LeBron felt the pressure of having to carry a franchise by himself, which Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen don't have to. If one of them has a bad game, the Celtics can still win. If LeBron lays an egg like Game 5, it's over. Legler只能推测压力压垮了小皇帝，LBJ感受到必须胜负一肩挑的压力，这是KG、包皮或 Ray-Gun不需承受的压力，当他们三人其中一个失常时，超赛仍然能拿下胜利。如果LBJ 像第五战一样慢热时，比赛就结束了。 Because Commissioner David Stern and his broadcast partners are very good at what they do, there is a tendency to make this NBA postseason simply about LeBron vs. Kobe, much the way it was once about Michael vs. Magic in 1990 — the young buck finally on the cusp of unseating the old champion. 受到史腾和其媒体夥伴的影响，从季前开始，整个NBA就弥漫着LeBron vs. Kobe的期待， 就如同90年代Michael vs. Magic的戏码--年轻的挑战者最终击败老冠军 But such a hoped-for showdown not only disrespects the Celtics, Magic and Suns, it completely short-changes Kobe. He will be 32 in August. Since Tim Duncan (34) and Shaquille O'Neal (38) are not getting any younger, chances are Kobe is going to break the tie among the three most accomplished players of the post-Jordan generation (LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony have been to only two NBA Finals between them) for championship rings. It's "the Race for Five" or "One for the Thumb." 八月就要21岁的Kobe，有机会甩开石佛和欧肥，拿下後乔丹时代最多枚的冠军戒(第五枚) Because rings are used as measuring sticks for legacies (see Bill Russell's 11, Jordan's six and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's eight combined), this is huge. Shaq told me so a year ago. "One more ring equals Magic and that would mean the world to me," O'Neal said. Since LeBron is the main reason the Daddy would get his fifth, and maybe Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili will have as much or more to do with the Spurs winning a fifth than Duncan if that ever happens, really this comes down to Kobe's legacy. He is still the top banana on his team. 因为冠军戒是检视球员历史地位的准则(Bill Russell：11、Jordan：6、Magic Johnson & Larry Bird：8)，欧肥曾经告诉我：「再一枚冠军戒，我就能与魔术强森并列，这对 我而言意义重大。」所以LBJ才会是吸引欧肥来骑士队的最大原因。 Kobe won his first title at 21 years old, although Shaq was the best player on that Lakers team. Yes, he learned to win at the game's highest level like LeBron is learning to win at the game's highest level, like Jordan once learned. But after that defining Game 5 in Detroit in 2007 that seemed to mark the beginning of the "LeBron as NBA Poster Child" era, he has yet to get back to the Finals. Unimportant individual numbers and awards aside, is the Kobe comparison fair anymore? Kobe在21岁时拿下生涯第一座NBA总冠军，虽然当时对上头牌是欧肥。是的，Kobe学着如 何在最高等级的竞赛中拿下胜利，正如同LBJ正在学习的，值正如同MJ过去所学习的。但 在07年对活塞的关键第五场比赛後，似乎就开始了「LBJ是NBA掌旗手」的时代，可是他 却未能再回到总冠军赛。把无关紧要的个人数据和奖项放下，拿LBJ和Kobe相比，公平吗? "You know who woke up the happiest guy in life when the sun came up today?" Legler asked. "Kobe. Because there was a general consensus that LeBron had surpassed Kobe as the best player in the game a year ago. Kobe Bryant wakes up today, watches LeBron get killed for a week after they go down to Boston — and I think they will — and Kobe is thinking, 'I told y'all, it's not that easy, is it?'" Legler问：「你知道今天太阳升起时，谁起床後会是最愉快的?」 「Kobe。因为舆论都认为在一年前LBJ就已经超越Kobe成为NBA最佳的球员 当他起床後看到骑士败给超赛的比赛，他心里一定想着『我早就跟你讲 过了呗，没那麽好过的咩~』」 See, the problem with being referred to as "King James" since high school is that at some point people actually expect you to climb atop the throne. Seize the scepter from Kobe, who eventually took it from Michael Jordan. 当LBJ从高中就被称做「King James」，不知怎麽地，人们就会期待他爬上巅峰，夺下 Kobe从Michael Jordan手中拿到的统治权杖。 And nothing about LeBron's play in Game 5 bespoke of royalty on Tuesday night, not even close. If you don't win that game, you at least have to show up and not let a long-in-the-tooth team such as the Celtics blow your doors off at home. 但LBJ礼拜二的表现丝毫看不出来这个迹象，甚至可说看不到MJ和KB的车尾灯。即便你 无法拿下比赛胜利，但至少要尽力表现，而不是让年事已高的塞尔提克在自己的家中肆 虐。 If Thursday is indeed the last game for LeBron in a Cavaliers uniform, if free agency takes him to Manhattan or Brooklyn or beyond, the emotionally wounded sports fan in Cleveland who hasn't won a major championship since the Browns in 1964 — must be feeling like a lot of America's hoopers and 'ballers long awaiting Kobe vs. LeBron: 如果礼拜四的比赛真的是LBJ在克里夫兰的告别作，要移师到曼哈顿或布鲁克林甚至更远 的地方，那情感上满是伤痕的骑士迷将要接受自1964年後未曾赢过冠军的命运。Kobe vs. LeBron的戏码也许也持续会是漫长的等待。 Let down. Betrayed. Sold a bill of goods by Nike and everyone else pushing LeBron to be the chosen one, it now appears, too soon. "I don't want to throw a blanket on it, because it was just one game and I love LeBron for many reasons as a player," Legler said. "But this was such a defining game in his career. And his mind just seems very muddled, distracted, almost unengaged." 希望塑造LBJ救世主形象的NIKE似乎操之过急。Legler表示：「我不想过度解读这场比赛 因为这不过就是一场比赛，且我有很多LBJ值得被喜爱的理由，只是他的心灵可能还未臻 完美。」 Unless LeBron has something left in his tank we didn't see in Game 5, it's time to face facts: He's not yet ready to be king. And whether he leaves Cleveland or not, he should not have fussed so much earlier this season about whether to ditch the No. 23 because he believes Michael's old number is too hallowed. 除非LBJ还有甚麽独家致命杀着还未在那场比赛使出，不然现在就是面对现实的时候： 「LBJ还不是个王者」 不管他後来是否离开克里夫兰，他都不该对是否该退休23号球衣做出评论，即便是因为 他认为乔丹的背号太过神圣。 Right now he should worry about not switching to the Nos. 8 or 24, because that would be very disrespectful to Kobe, almost as disrespectful as someone comparing the two players' legacies at this point in LeBron James's title-less career. 现在他该担心的是不能换成8号或24号，因为这会对Kobe有所冒犯；冒犯的程度，大概就 像拿无冕王LBJ去和Kobe比较历史地位一样的过份。 -- 非常无脑的文章，但却是成王败寇的血淋淋例子，不好好努力，Kobe也会被抓来鞭屍。 仅供参考，严禁转载。 --

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