来源: http://0rz.tw/373KI Monday, March 3, 2008 Ding column: Taking a look back at a youthful Phil Jackson NBA: "Maverick" was Phil Jackson's first book, written when he was 29, but reading it now is an amazing peek into the then-developing mind of a now-coaching legend. 小丁专栏: 回头看看年轻的禅师 NBA: "野马"是禅师写的第一本书. 虽然是他第一本书, 但是现在回头 来看这本书, 能够让我们看到当时29岁还在成长的禅师是怎麽变成现在 这个教练界的传说的. Phil Jackson is now a grandfather of three, and that's not even counting Andrew Bynum and Jordan Farmar. Jackson, 62, has reached a far point on life's grid where he is what he is – everything new only tweaking how things look, not changing how they are. Should that NBA-record 10th coaching championship come in the near future, it will be accoutrement, not validation. 禅师现在不算霸男和法码, 也已经是有3个孙子的人了. 现年62的禅师已经 到了那新的事物只能改变自己看法, 而不能改变事情本质的年纪. 就算那 看起来很近能让禅师破纪录的第10个执教後的冠军戒指真的能拿到, 那也 只是锦上添花, 他已经不需要证明自己了. We have an idea by now of who this man is: established in principles, very much younger in spirit than bones, still so tantalized by new challenges brought on by Kobe Bryant and the daily crossword puzzle alike. Jackson is devoted foremost to honoring himself, even as he appreciates his life's opportunities to spread non-gospel from a modern-day basketball-themed pulpit. 也许现在的我们能够稍微了解他一点了: 他基本上是个成功的人物, 人老心不老, 新的挑战还是能让他打从心里发热, 不管是Kobe问题还是每天的填字游戏都一样. 虽然他对於能够有机会在篮球殿堂传教感到荣幸, 他心里最重要的事还是自己的 成长. Jackson's has been a spiritual journey of lessons flowed rather than forced, even if there's no way Siddhartha would've wasted his time theorizing about calling timeouts in between an opponent's two foul shots to break the guy's rhythm. Jackson wrote a book in 1975, back when he played only as well as most in the NBA but pondered real life far more than them all. The book, called "Maverick," is about Jackson trying to find what is right for himself, the league and the world around him. 虽然释迦牟尼佛可能不会浪费时间想办法解释为什麽在对方2罚的中间叫暂停 来打乱人家节奏, 不过禅师的教导, 比起强迫传教, 更属於能让你慢慢体会 的那种. 禅师在1975年还在NBA打球的时候, 就写了一本书. 虽然他打的很不 错, 但是他所想的比其他任合人更加长远. 那本叫"野马"的书, 写的是禅师 寻找要如何让自己更好, 让联盟更好, 还有要怎麽样让他身边的环境变的 更好的方法. It details, for example, his eventual shift from drug use to meditation. Before that, though, he does call a 1973 acid trip with an actress on the beach in Malibu "at least as dramatic as the Knicks winning the championship" months before. The LSD, he says, helped teach him to love himself – which got him ready to love second wife June and become a "totally team-oriented player" on the court. 举例来说, 书里详细的写出了他是怎麽把对毒品的依赖改为通过沉思来稳定 自己. 虽然在几个月前他曾经说过在1973年他跟某位女明星在Malibu海边吸 毒的那趟旅行, "至少跟Knicks拿到冠军一样戏剧化." 他说迷幻药让他懂得 怎麽爱自己, 让他做好爱上第二个老婆June的准备, 也让他成为了一个以球 队为中心的球员. It's a tremendously hard-to-find book, but it's incredibly enlightening as to Jackson's developing mind and worth reviewing now that he has the perch he does. This book's voice is searching, unlike the guru-on-the-mountaintop assertiveness that booms in the best-sellers to come: "Sacred Hoops" by Michael Jordan's famous coach in 1995 and "The Last Season" by Bryant's famous coach in 2004. 这本书现在非常难找到了. 不过从禅师现在的地位来看, 这本书对於让我们 能了解到他的成长也非常有帮助. 这本书的主题是寻找. 跟他後来在1995年 身为那个人教练写下的"Sacred Hoops(神圣的篮球)"和2004年身为Kobe教练 写下的"The Last Season(最後一季)"那2本畅销书, 那种已经登上顶峰的感 觉不一样. Just like "Sacred Hoops," "Maverick" goes all the way back, just with more honesty – to a shy boy who was so scared when staying all day at a neighbor woman's house that he dropped one in his pants rather than speak up and ask to use the restroom. It also resembles the gossipy style of Jackson's "The Last Season" – and in fact is hyped on the book cover as "A NO-HOLDS-BARRED LOOK AT THE SAVAGE WORLD OF PRO BASKETBALL." Jackson lists all the worst referees and sports writers, shares everything he knows about his teammates from Mike Riordan looking to steal from an unlocked car to Jerry Lucas' divorce and criticizes opposing players openly (Jackson states Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is "not at all a leader"). 就像"Sacred Hoops"一样, "Maverick"也是从以前写到现在, 只是更加诚实. 从一个在邻居妈妈家因为害怕而不敢问厕所在哪里, 宁愿弄脏自己裤子的害 羞小男孩写起. 也跟"The Last Season"一样充满八卦味道, 封面上可是打 着"毫不隐瞒的看这野蛮的职业篮球"的旗帜宣传的. 禅师把最滥的裁判和体 育记者一一点名, 连他的队友也不放过. 写出了Mike Riordan想从没上锁的 车子里偷东西, Jerry Lucas的离婚事件, 甚至还公开的批判别队球员(禅师 还说贾霸"根本就不是一个领导者") There is no sense that Jackson will become a coach or become truly famous: "Twenty-five years from now the only people who'll remember that I was a pro player will be a few trivia experts." But in the book, the seeds of the legendary coach are there; it's a simple garden where he is essentially coaching himself, unaware that one day he will stretch his scope fantastically. 虽然那个时候的禅师一点也没有以後会变成教练甚至是有名的迹象: "25年後 的今天, 还会记得我是个职业球员的, 大概也只有几个万事通了吧" 不过在书 里, 他会成为今天这种传奇教练, 已经有脉络可寻. 那是本他如何教导自己 的纪录, 只是没人知道後来的他能把那些教导范围拉的这麽开. The fact that Jackson felt compelled to write a book at 29 is an indication where his life will lead, even if "Maverick" ends with him stressing these words: "I'm much more of a student of life than I am a teacher." Just read these excerpts and see how much sense it makes that the ideas would eventually come to flower as the greatest coach in basketball history. 事实上, 在年仅29就能有写书的冲动似乎就能让我们看出他的未来是怎麽样的. 虽然在"Maverick"里他是这样结尾的:"比起老师来说, 我更像是生命的学生." 仅仅是读着这些节录的句子, 彷佛就能看到他後来成长为篮球界里最伟大教练 并不只是偶然. "I don't think I was a great athlete; it was just that I was also good under stress and could deal with complicated things." "我不觉得我是个很好的运动员, 只是我的抗压力不错, 也能理解复杂的事情." "Pro ballplayers come from hometowns and college environments where they are regarded as heroes and total celebrities. They become conditioned to this kind of relationship, and it's hard for most of them to recognize the validity of another player's feelings and needs." "职业球员都是家乡和大学里的偶像和英雄. 他们久了就习惯了这样被人看待, 所以对大部分的球员来说, 要关心别的球员的感觉和需要很困难." "Watching the ball games from the stands (while injured) made me much more critical about what was going on out there. I observed teams instead of individuals, and I developed a finer perception of what a specific ball club could and couldn't do." "受伤後坐在场边看球让我对比赛有了更敏锐的理解. 我看的是整个球队而不 是个人. 这让我能更明白的理解到任何球队的优缺点." "As far as I'm concerned, the only way to win consistently in the NBA is to have several selfless players who are willing to do things even when the spotlight's on somebody else." "我觉得, 要能持续在NBA赢球, 必须要有几个不在乎大家焦点是在别人身上的 苦工才行." "Working at something you love is one of the happiest states which an individual can attain. You reach a state where there are no extraneous thoughts in your head and you seem to be carried along with the joy and the intensity of your labor." "能够做自己喜欢的工作, 是身为一个人最能感到幸福的状态之一. 在那种状 态下, 其他的一切都不重要, 彷佛光靠着快乐的感觉和劳动下的努力就可以 一直走下去一样." Too many people are ashamed of who they were when they were more ignorant and less impressive. In reality, self-improvement is the entire story of life. 有太多人为了过去无知和没用的自己感到丢脸. 可是实际上, 人生本来就是 不断的成长而已. I told Jackson the other day that I was reading "Maverick." 我那天告诉禅师说我正在看"Maverick." "Good for you," he said. 他的回答就只是, "那很好啊," 而已. Contact the writer: [email protected] --

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