来源: http://0rz.tw/913RD Ding column: Bryant's genes, work led him here You know Kobe Bryant's father played in the NBA. His mother's brother did, too. Looking back on it, you might say the genes preordained that he would be a basketball maven. 你知道老大的爸爸打过NBA. 他妈妈的兄弟也一样. 这样看起来的话, 也许我们可以说他之所以有这样的成就是天注定的. That, however, would be glossing over the work he has put in to maximize his considerable potential. And if you really want to talk about genetic potential, consider this never-before-told story: 不过这样说的话, 似乎转移了他为了达到顶尖而做的努力. 好吧, 如 果你真的想说基因问题的话, 有个没公开过的故事可以告诉你: Bryant's maternal grandmother, Mildred, went to West Philadelphia's Overbrook High School with Wilt Chamberlain. 老大的外婆(Mildred)高中就读於West Philadelphia的Overbrook High School, 跟Wilt Chamberlain是同学! "He asked her to the prom," Bryant said, smiling. "But she shot him down. She was dating my grandpa." 老大笑说: 他有邀请我外婆去舞会, 不过被打枪了, 为什麽? 因为我 外公正在跟她交往中. Just imagine … Bryant with Chamberlain blood! Crazy, huh? 你想想看 --- 老大加上张柏伦的基因! 狠可怕吧~~~ "Bizarre," Bryant said. "That's kind of cool, though." 老大说: 是很怪啦, 不过还是很帅啦. As it turns out, Bryant scored more points in high school than a certain other Pennsylvania schoolboy called "The Stilt" anyway. Then he actually came within shooting distance of Chamberlain's epic scoring. Yet only in this season, with Bryant surrendering the league scoring lead to LeBron James, has he achieved more than long-shot standing for the NBA's MVP award. 不过, 老大在高中时候的生涯得分也超过了那个绰号The Stilt的费 城小子了. 他也很接近过张伯伦的百分传奇. 不过他却是在这季把 得分王宝座让给LBJ之後, 才第一次这麽有机会拿到MVP. How did Bryant get here? Because Jerry Buss kept a poker face and Mitch Kupchak kept his cool, Andrew Bynum grew up and Pau Gasol jumped out of that giant gift cake, Lamar Odom stayed healthy and Derek Fisher reminded that having a trusted friend around is priceless. 老大是怎麽做到的? 因为Jerry Buss维持住了他的扑克脸, Mitch Kupchak也维持住了他的冷静, 霸男长大了, 炮加锁成了天上掉下来 的礼物, 老二保持健康, 渔夫提醒了我们有个能相信的朋友在身边 有多苏胡. He is here because Phil Jackson knew just how much Bryant could want to run away before eventually missing certain comforts of home, and he is here because media MVP voters know it's no longer chic to hate on Kobe, clearly the best player in the game. 他能这样, 是因为禅师清楚的知道老大愿意为了什麽而离开家的温暖, 他能这样, 是因为有MVP投票权的记者终於理解到反科已经不流行了. 他, 很明显的是现在最好的球员之一. Ask former critic Shaquille O'Neal. Upon being solicited recently for his MVP vote, O'Neal answered: "The Kobester." 问问那个以前一天到晚批评的Shaq. 最近被问到他MVP会投给谁, 他的答案是: "The Kobester." But Bryant is also here because of Mildred's man, Bryant's maternal grandfather. John Cox died in 2001 — affecting Bryant more than he expected — and when Bryant had his second daughter five years later, she was named Gianna, the Italian feminine form of John. 不过老大能这麽接近顶点, 也是因为他的外公在2001过世了. John Cox对老大的影响之大, 可以从他女儿被命名为Gianna看的出来. 这 是John在义大利文的女性名字. He was not Wilt Chamberlain, but John Cox was the man in many other ways. While Bryant was growing up in Italy, Grandpa Cox was the one who sent Bryant stateside-produced videos of NBA stars for him to study, fueling Bryant's love for the game. That process also established Bryant's work ethic in basketball, which only this season got fully transmitted to a group of teammates. 的确, 他不是张博伦, 可是在很多方面上他才是背後的原因. 当老大 在义大利的时候, 是外公寄那些NBA明星录影带给他的. 这让老大有了 对篮球的兴趣. 这也让老大养成现在的工作态度. 直到这季, 他的队 友们才完整的理解到他的努力. And that's where this MVP award should be won — with all due respect to what Chris Paul, Kevin Garnett and James have done this season. 这才应该是MVP的评判标准 -- 虽然这季CP3, KG, 还有LBJ都表现的 很好. However others around the globe viewed Bryant's manic offseason, the important thing was that his Lakers teammates believed that his harsh words rose out of rich soil, not dry dirt. He wound up telling them he wanted to win a championship again, pure and simple — which they understood. 不管大家是怎麽看老大开赛前的肥皂剧的, 重点是他的队友都相信他 之所以爆发, 是出至好意. 他後来也告诉他的队友, 他要的, 从来都 只是想再拿次冠军, 而他们也能理解. And so Bryant did the sort of thing he has always done — work — yet with more of an eye toward how it affected those around him. Listen closely to Jackson's performance review: "Just measuring what the team needs and how to get it done and including his teammates." 所以老大做了他一直以来做的事, 继续努力, 不过也影响到了周围 的其他人. 听听禅师怎麽说的: 他算出球队的需要并且去达到它, 同时, 也让队友有所发挥. Even though the Lakers are playing at a faster pace this season, Bryant is down to 20.9 shots per game this season — only slightly higher than the 20 he averaged in the Lakers' three championship seasons. Two years ago, he took 27.2 shots per game. 虽然湖人这季的球风比以前快, 老大出手次数却降为20.9次, 只比 当初三连霸的20次多了一点点. 2年前, 他每场出手次数为27.2 The less he has shot, the more he has thought. He has made it a tradition that postgame showers are a place for honest, analytical discussions with teammates. As the sweat from the Feb. 29 loss in Portland was replaced by steam, Bryant was quoting the team's exact, ugly 3-point tally and promising that next time the Lakers would take away certain Trail Blazers' favorite shots. 他出手越少, 他想的越多. 他让赛後的淋浴室变成了队友间冷静诚实 的讨论场所. 2月29输给拓荒者之後, 他准确的告诉队友今天难看的3 分数据, 并且保证下次一定会让拓荒者不能那麽轻易的出手. On Wednesday, by doing what Bryant already had in mind then, the Lakers avenged that loss to Portland. And more than an hour after that game ended, there was Bryant … just getting to his Range Rover in the Staples Center tunnel, the last Lakers employee to leave the office. 礼拜三, 他们靠着老大那时候的想法, 对拓荒者进行了复仇. 那天比 赛结束後的一个小时, 老大才准备上车, 他是湖人从上到下最後一个 离开球场的人. Even though Bryant came to doubt it, this is how he wanted to do it all along — rebuilding the Lakers from the ground up. Hard work, indeed, but just the kind that John Cox, Philadelphia firefighter, always undertook with a stone face — including that summer when he visited Bryant in L.A. to close the rift between Bryant and his parents. 虽然老大会否认, 不过这才是他一直以来的梦想--从无到有的重新盖 起湖人新王朝. 的确很辛苦, 不过这也是一直以来john Cox面无表情 做的事. 包括那年暑假他来LA看老大顺便修复老大和父母关系的事. If Minnesota had accepted Bynum and Odom for Garnett last summer, no way would it have felt like this. 如果去年暑假灰狼接受了霸男加老二换KG的交易, 今年感觉一定不同. Bear in mind why Bryant changed his number (and would have changed it if the league had let him for that first Shaq-less season that crash-landed in the lottery): because he wore No. 24 as a freshman on the Lower Merion High varsity team that went 4-20. 知道老大为什麽要换背号吗? (其实早在Shaq刚刚走那年的恶梦期就 想换了, 只是被联盟驳回) 他在Lower Merion High School的时候 穿的就是24号, 那年, 球队战绩是4-20. Three years of work later, Bryant brought that team a state championship and won every national prep MVP award. 3年的努力後, 老大带着这个球队拿到了州冠军, 而且一路上拿下了 所有的MVP奖座. It has now been three years since Bryant and the Lakers struggled to that 34-48 record. Bryant has worked before — but never quite worked this way. 在湖人拿下34-48战绩到现在已经三年了. 老大那个时候很努力, 也 从来没有停止努力过. It's the work of the NBA MVP. 这才是NBA MVP的作为! Contact the writer: [email protected] -------------- 对不起 我错了 orz 下次尽量早点回来 --

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