THE LITTLE PEOPLE: CARLOS MAPLES, LAKERS ASSISTANT EQUIPMENT MANAGER http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3265115 Los Angeles Laker employee Carlos Maples has seen a lot in his 21 seasons with the team. Starting as a ball boy at the age of 13, Maples graduated to assistant equipment manager eleven years ago. And while he does deal with towels, don't you dare call him the towel boy. 洛杉矶湖人队员工Carlos Maples (简称CM)随队的这21个球季中经历过各种情形。从13岁 当球僮开始，CM在11年晋升到助理球具经理一职。尽管他的确经手毛巾业务，但是不可以 随便叫他towel boy. NO RECYCLING: CM: We go through at least 250 towels a game. We use a brand new towel for every player for every timeout. So if a towel touches a player's hand, that's it, it's done. 不回收 CM：每场比赛我们至少使用250条毛巾。每次暂停都会提供全新的毛巾给每个球员。所以 如果球员只要稍稍碰到那条毛巾，那条毛巾最後就会被丢弃。 R-E-S-P-E-C-T: CM: I have this thing with rookies, I feel it's my job to school them since I've been here so long: my locker room, my rules. Anything that needs to be done really quick, if my guys are busy, you ask a rookie to do it. Rookies, as Coach Phil likes to call them, are 'lower than pond scum.' 尊敬 CM：我对菜鸟有个怪癖。因为我在这里待的很久了，所以我觉得是我的责任要教导他们。 我的休息室，我的规则。如果有必须马上完成的工作，而我的手下们全都在忙的话，我也 会叫菜鸟们去作。菜鸟，如PJ所言，比湖底的烂泥还不如。 BEST TIP: CM: It was about $300, from Horace Grant. Magic used to take care of me all the time. Kobe's very generous as well. They're very generous with giving us tickets. We used to get tickets all the time, but the times have changed. Dr. Buss was very generous with tickets for about eighteen years. But the last few years he hasn't been able to give us any. 最大方的小费 CM： 约略300美金，是眼镜侠给的。魔术强森还在的时候时常会照顾到我们。KOBE也同样 得很大方。他们都很方的给我们球赛门票。我们之前常常拿的到球赛门票，但是时代。变 了。巴斯老板曾经有18年的期间对於门票都很大方看的开，但是近几年他没有办法给我们 。 WORST TIPPERS: CM: Some guys just don't know. Over the years, times have changed. A lot of these guys have been pampered the whole way up. When I started, guys used to carry their own stuff. Nowadays, they don't carry anything. They can barely carry a basketball to the floor. 最差的小费 CM：有些人就是搞不懂。经过一段时间，某些习惯也改变了。很多球员都是从小被宠上来 的。我刚开始干这一行的年代，球员都很习惯的拿自己的东西。现在，他们甚麽都不拿。 他们去球场的时候甚至不会自己拿球。 GRAB THOSE DIGITS!: CM: Over the years, some visiting players wanted my guys to go into the stands for a number or two. Our players are used to seeing beautiful women, so we don't get requests like that from them. Plus, most of them have girlfriends who are watching their every move from the stands. 去取得那些号码 CM：有时候，一些客队球员会要我的手下们到观众席去要一两个电话。我们的球员大致 都已经习惯看到美女，所以不会对我们提出这样子的要求。况且，他们绝大多数都已经 有女朋友，并且在观众席上监视着他们的一举一动。 FUNNY MAN: CM: The funniest guy this season is Ronny Turiaf. He just brings life to the room. When we wore the short shorts in Boston, he came in and looked at the shorts and pulled them up to his waist and said, 'Are you serious?' Then he proceeded to pull them way up, like a nerd would. I was crying. But Shaq is by far the biggest jokester in the history of the Lakers. He's wrestled with the ball boys, and he threw me in a laundry basket for talking back. 搞笑球员 CM：跳跳虎是这球季最搞笑的球员。他为休息室充满活力。当我们在波士顿穿着超短裤子 的那场比赛，他进入休息室，看到那超短裤子，然後穿上并拉到腰部并且说道：「你是 认真的吗！？」然後他又继续往上拉，就跟一些呆子会作的事情一样。我笑到哭出来。 不过，毋庸置疑的SHAQ是湖人史上最搞笑的。他会跟球僮摔角，并且把我丢到洗衣栏里， 只因为我对他顶嘴。 THE BIG OOPS: CM: One day I was really ill. I had food poisoning. And I came in in the morning, and tried to get the locker room all set up. That night, I'm at home sick, and, on the air, Stu Lantz says: 'We'd like to wish Carlos a get well soon. And, by the way, Carlos, Shaq doesn't have two left feet.' I had left him two left shoes by mistake. 离谱的错误 CM：有一天我生病很严重。大概是食物中毒。我早上进来，尝试把休息室的东西打理好。 那天晚上我在家里养病，然後在转播中Stu Lantz说「我们希望CM可以尽快恢复。附带 一提，CM，SHAQ并且是没有两只左脚」我不小心给了他两只左鞋。 CHAMPIONSHIP ATTACK: CM: I just gotta make sure the guys have everything they need. And, I always tell everybody, we're partially like a shrink, because you have to be there when times are good and when times are bad. You are pretty much part of the team, whether or not people like to think of us like that or not. 冠军之路 CM：我的工作就是确保球员们有他们需要的东西。另外，我也一直告诉别人，我们多少跟 心理医生等同，因为我们不论情况是好的还是坏的，都要陪伴在那里。你基本上就是球队 的一部份，不管别人是否同样的这样看待我们。 --

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