※ [本文转录自 MiamiHeat 看板 #1Fw7NfM_ ] 作者: l2l (快乐的潜水夫) 看板: MiamiHeat 标题: [外电] LeBron James' place among greats 时间: Mon Jun 25 22:29:59 2012 原文出处 http://tinyurl.com/87otzhn 翻译参阅 http://www.espnstar.com.tw/news/basketball/2012/0624/240424.htm LeBron James' place among greats By John Hollinger That howling sound you heard was the monkey being thrown off LeBron James' back and into the path of an oncoming locomotive. 你所听到的那声哀嚎，是由雷霸龙从自己背上甩掉的那支猴子口中发出的。它在被雷霸龙 甩掉後，掉到了路中间，迎面而来的，是一列呼啸而来的火车…… Like he said, it's about damn time. 正如他所说，这一切只关乎该死的时间而已。 With apologies to the ASPCA, these past two weeks were the defining career moment for the best player of his generation. Yes, the best. There can be no doubt any longer, as the lack of a championship was the one giant asterisk that allowed others into the discussion. 我要向美国防止虐待动物协会道歉，用了这样一个比喻来形容雷霸龙卸下了万吨压力。对 於这个时代最出色的球员而言，过去两个星期是其职业生涯最具代表性的时间段。没错， 我说雷霸龙是最好的球员，这一点已经不再有任何疑问。之前雷霸龙还会因为手中没有冠 军戒指而受到质疑，还有会其他伟大球星被纳入「第一人」讨论，可现在没有了。 So as Miami holds its first title celebration since July of 2010 ("Not one, not two, not three ..."), it's time to take a step back and look at the bigger view: Where does this put James in history, and where might it lead to him eventually ranking amongst the greats? 所以，在热火举办了他们自2010年7月份的第一次冠军庆典後（那年热火没夺冠，但三巨 头在记者会说出了，不是一个，不是两个，不是三个……），是时候来考虑这个问题了： 雷霸龙在NBA历史上能排在哪个位置？这个总冠军能让雷霸龙在所有伟大球员中排名第几 位？ It's hard to overstate how much the past two weeks have changed the perception of James, both in terms of where he stands among his peers and his place in the game's pantheon of greats. 很难用夸张的笔墨去描述过去两周对於雷霸龙而言到底意味着什麽，过去两周所发生的一 切改变了外界对於雷霸龙的认知。无论是他在同辈球员中的地位，还是他在NBA历史万神 殿中的地位，都得到了提升。 People forget this now, but it was barely two weeks ago that the soundtrack to Miami's season was a 9-year-old kid shrieking "Good job! Good effort!" after the Heat sleepwalked through a Game 5 home loss to Boston. That loss left them on the brink of elimination and ushered in a new round of psychological evaluations from the world's armchair shrinks. 人们现在可能已经忘记了，大约两周前，东区决赛第五场比赛热火在主场输给塞尔提克， 丢掉了天王山之战的胜利後，一个9岁的孩子曾尖叫着给热火打气，高呼：「干得好，你 们很努力！」那场失利让热火站在了被淘汰的边缘，他们陷入了世人新一轮的质疑中。 All James did since then was average 32.7 points, 11.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists on 51 percent shooting, leading his team to six wins in seven games en route to the championship. He was a man possessed, as Clay Bennett might say. 但在那之後的7场比赛中（东区决赛最後两场和总决赛五场），雷霸龙场均轰下32.7分 11.1个篮板6.3次助攻，投篮命中率达到了51%。他率领球队拿下了其中的6场胜利，最终 夺冠。他是一个疯狂的家伙，也许雷霆老板格雷-本内特会如此感慨。 And he was at his most pathologically locked-in during the darkest moment, that fateful sixth game in Boston when James single-handedly tore apart the Celtics with 45 points. James said afterward that he'd succeeded this season by rediscovering the "joy" in his game, but he had all the glee of a serial killer on that night and it provided the turning point of his career. 东区决赛第六场比赛，雷霸龙独力轰下了45分，几乎只手率队在波士顿花园球馆取胜。赛 後，雷霸龙表示本赛季他能取得成功是因为他开始重新找到了比赛的乐趣。那个夜晚，雷 霸龙享受到了作为一个「连环杀手」的「乐趣」，那也成为了其职业生涯的转折点。 Nobody will ever question his "closer" credentials again, not after he made all the big plays in these last six wins -- including clutch bailout 3s from several feet behind the line in Game 7 of the conference finals and Game 4 of the Finals. (Perhaps now that he's a certified closer®", he'll feel liberated to take horrible 30-foot hero shots with impunity, like Paul Pierce or Kobe Bryant.) That's a pretty stark contrast to February, when everybody piled on him for not taking a wild jack at the end of the All-Star Game. The freaking All-Star Game. 没有人会再去质疑雷霸龙在胶着时刻的表现，在热火最後六场胜利中，雷霸龙投中了他应 该投中的所有关键球。东区决赛第七场比赛，他投中了一个三分线外几英尺处的关键三分 ；总决赛第四场比赛，他在腿部肌肉抽筋的情况下，面对塞弗洛萨投中了反超比分的致命 三分。他现在已经可以像皮尔斯、柯比那样轻松去投30尺处的英雄球。可时光倒退回2月 份，全明星赛後所有人都在质疑雷霸龙关键时刻选择传球的举动，这在注重表演的全明星 赛中非常罕见。 Instead, James' new legacy is one of the most amazing top-to-bottom seasons in NBA annals. Amazingly, virtually nobody discussed this while it was happening; that's how all-consuming the will-he-choke-or-won't-he meme became. In the modern history of the league, the only seasons that can really compare are Shaquille O'Neal's first championship season with the Lakers and Michael Jordan's first three championships with the Bulls. Everything else is orders of magnitude below. 翻阅NBA编年史可以发现，雷霸龙本赛季的表现堪称史上最疯狂之一。在联盟现代历史中 ，能够跟雷霸龙本赛季相提并论的，也不过只有夺得个人第一座总冠军奖杯时的湖人中锋 欧尼尔，以及效力於公牛时夺得个人前三座总冠军奖杯时的乔丹，其他人都没有达到这麽 高的境界。 Check it out: James led the league in PER by a wide margin at 30.80, the 10th-best mark of the post-merger era. In the playoffs, he kept it up with a 30.39, which was doubly amazing because the competition in the postseason is so much tougher. It goes without saying that he led the league in both regular-season and playoff PER, and did so by wide margins. He also had the best adjusted plus-minus in the postseason, and nearly the best in the regular season. 具体来说，雷霸龙本赛季的PER（个人效率值）高达30.80，他以巨大的优势排名联盟第一 位，同时也是自NBA和ABA合并之後的第10高纪录。在季後赛，雷霸龙的个人效率值仍保持 在了30.39，这一数据凸显的是不可思议，因为季後赛的竞争强度明显更高。更不用说， 雷霸龙的例行赛PER值和季後赛PER值全部都是联盟第一，且相较第二名优势巨大。季後赛 期间，雷霸龙的+-值同样是联盟第一；他在例行赛时的+-值仅以微弱的差距没有排在第一 位而已。 He wasn't just the best player in the league; he dominated it from start to finish, in a way only three players had done in the past four decades. Jordan. Shaq. LeBron. That's the list. 雷霸龙不只是联盟最好的球员，从赛季开始一直到赛季结束，他都占据着统治级地位。过 去40年间，只有三个球员做到过，除了乔丹和欧尼尔，就是雷霸龙，仅此三人。 Similarly, we are now forced to contemplate James' status as an all-timer, both when we consider the body of work and what he might add to it. By any analysis, LeBron is pretty darned high on the list. 同样，我们若现在就强行总结雷霸龙职业生涯地位，考虑他目前惊人的体能表现，及未来 可能会再加冕多少成就头衔，无论怎麽分析，雷霸龙在数据榜单上的排名都极高。 Let's start with the numbers. According to basketball-reference.com, James' career PER is the second-best all time, trailing only Jordan's. Two caveats come with that: First, it is basically a post-merger stat since we don't have turnovers, blocks and steals for the older generation; and second, it's destined to go down a bit once he gets into his past-prime years. 比如，根据basketball-reference.com的数据统计显示，雷霸龙职业生涯PER值为史上第 二高，仅次於乔丹。两点说明： 第一，这基本是自ABA和NBA合并之後的数据，上古时代没有失误、阻攻和抄截数据统计。 第二，等到雷霸龙状态下滑，生涯开始进入下坡阶段，他的PER值肯定会有所下降。 The big asterisk with LeBron, however, has always been the playoffs. History says they haven't been as bad as you think. Jordan trumps him on this metric, and so do Shaq and Tim Duncan, leaving James a distant fourth in career playoff PER. Nonetheless, he outranks a pretty formidable list of talents, including guys with names like Earvin, Larry and Kobe. He also has the best single-season playoff PER ever, again by a wide margin: a ridiculous 37.43 in 2009 (check it out). 对於雷霸龙，人们对其最大的质疑是其季後赛表现，但历史告诉我们，他的表现没世人想 像中那麽差。乔丹在这一数据统计上以较大的优势压过了雷霸龙，但伟大如欧尼尔、欧拉 朱万、邓肯，他们的PER值跟雷霸龙都很接近。取决於雷霸龙30岁後的表现如何，雷霸龙 在生涯结束时，也许能够排在第五位的位置。尽管如此，他仍超过了一票伟大球星，比如 「魔术」强森、「大鸟」伯德、柯比。他还创造了一项联盟纪录：单赛季季後赛PER值最 高纪录为37.43，创造於2009年季後赛。 Of course, he's been the best player in the game for a while, he just hadn't backed it up in June until now. James had won three of the past four MVP awards, and the one exception was immediately called into question after James suffocated Chicago's Derrick Rose in the 2011 Eastern Conference finals. In two of his three MVP years his team also had the NBA's best record, and in the third it won the championship. 当然，雷霸龙早已是联盟最好的球员，只是在夺冠之前，这论点还不够紮实而已。过去四 个赛季，雷霸龙拿到了三个例行赛MVP，唯一一次无缘MVP在2011年，那年季後赛东区决赛 ，雷霸龙完封例行赛MVP德瑞克-罗斯，这也让人开始质疑雷霸龙未能捧得MVP奖杯一事。 在其夺得MVP的三个赛季中，他所效力的球队有两个赛季拿到了联盟最佳战绩；在其第三 次夺得MVP奖杯时，他的球队赢得了总冠军。 Want more? James has become one of only three players in the post-merger era (Jordan and Shaq are the others) with multiple seasons of PER greater than 30 (he has three), and this year joined those two as the only ones with multiple seasons of playoff PER greater than 30 (minimum 10 games). 还想要列举更多数据？好吧，雷霸龙成为了自NBA和ABA合并之後，能够在多个赛季PER值 超过30的三个球员中的一个，另外两个是乔丹和欧尼尔；他还比肩乔丹和欧尼尔，成为了 NBA历史上仅有的三个曾做到多个赛季季後赛PER值超过30的球员之一。 In other words, if you ended his career today, at the age of 27, James is already in select company. Only 20 players have at least one MVP and one championship; only 16 have done it with multiples of one or the other. And virtually none of them did it while dominating to the extent James did. If LeBron retired tomorrow, he'll have had a top-10 all-time career. 换句话说，如果雷霸龙的职业生涯今天结束，那麽27岁的雷霸龙已经可以进入最伟大球员 的选择圈。只有20个球员至少拿到了一个MVP奖杯和一个总冠军戒指；只有16个球员曾多 次做到两项之一；事实上，他们中没有一个人的统治力能够达到雷霸龙本赛季的级别。如 果雷霸龙明天退役，他一定可以排进历史前10位。 To put it another way: In terms of players you could genuinely compare to James, even at this point, who is there? The one player lots of people use is another guy who had to leave Ohio to get his championship ring, Oscar Robertson, but the Big O had just one MVP and one championship, and the latter didn't come until he was near the end of his career. 换句话说，如果让你找出一个球员跟雷霸龙比较，你能选出谁来？很多人会选择奥斯卡- 罗伯特森，当年他也曾为了夺冠离开了俄亥俄州。但是「大O」只有一个MVP奖杯和一枚总 冠军戒指，他的那枚总冠军戒指，直到退役前才拿到。 Moreover, James can still add to his take. And the "not one, not two, not three ..." boast applies just as much to his MVP collection as it does to the championships. Voter fatigue is the biggest threat James faces to getting a ridiculous MVP haul. Jordan won five and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a record six; matching those totals looks very attainable now, especially since voters can't hold his postseason failures against him anymore. 更重要的是，雷霸龙的荣誉库还会增加，他的那句「不是一座，不是两座，不是三座…」 不只适用於其夺冠次数，还适用於其捧得MVP的次数。对於雷霸龙而言，将来捧起MVP奖杯 最大的障碍，是投票者对他超凡表现感到疲乏。乔丹生涯拿到了五座 MVP，贾霸则有历史 最多的六座，现在看来，雷霸龙未来能够比肩前辈的可能性很大，尤其是现在投票者们已 经无法再用其历届季後赛的失败来作为否定他的理由。 The ring is the harder thing, but as everybody is pointing out, Jordan was older when he finally broke through. Nonetheless, now that they've seen how hard it was to get just one, the Heat would probably reconsider that boast from their over-the-top welcome party in July 2010. 相对而言，再次夺得总冠军的难度更大，每个人都在指出，乔丹最终破茧而出时，年龄还 更大些。无论如何，他们已经意识到了夺冠有多困难，热火需要重新考虑他们在 2010年7 月份三巨头隆重亮相时所发出的豪言壮语。 There's that Jordan comparison again, but I'd argue Shaq is the better comparison. Like Shaq, James is a physical freak of nature, got swept in a trip to the Finals, changed to a glamour market as a free agent, and had to endure some serious drama and questionings in his first title run (anybody remember Game 7 against Portland?) before finally breaking through. 刚刚的比较又提到了乔丹，但我认为雷霸龙跟欧尼尔是一对更理想的比较对象。跟欧尼尔 一样，雷霸龙天生神力，身体素质惊人。他们曾在生涯第一次总决赛之旅中惨遭横扫，在 成为自由球员後他们皆选择了一个迷人的市场。在他们荣获第一次总冠军途中，他们都曾 忍受各种戏剧化情节及质疑，而後有所突破。(有人记得欧尼尔带领的湖人00年西冠决赛 第七场对拓荒者大逆转?) Shaq won only one MVP award but is LeBron's contemporary in many of the statistical charts when we start talking about 30-plus PER seasons and playoff runs. And, of course, his total of four championships seems a decent enough bar for the "over" for LeBron. 欧尼尔职业生涯只赢得了一座MVP奖杯，但在那个时代，欧尼尔的数据非常华丽。他的夺 冠4次—对雷霸龙而言也是个很值得去超越的标竿。 But even in that comparison, James comes out ahead -- he's been more consistent, more durable and a better teammate. 但在这组对比中，雷霸龙仍位居优势，因为他更稳定、更耐操、出勤率更高，他也是一个 场上更好的队友。 So at the end of the day, it's scary to think how highly LeBron may rank in the pantheon. He has work to do, but it's not unreasonable to think he may go down as the second-best player of all time behind Jordan. Nobody else is going to match his combination of peak value, durability and (likely) longevity; the thing he was always missing was a championship. 所以最终，去思考雷霸龙最终能够在NBA历史万神殿中排名第几是一件很恐怖的事情，他 必须得努力，但认为他也许是NBA历史上在乔丹之後排在第二伟大的球星并非不切实际。 将最大价值、耐用性等组合在一起考虑，还没人能跟雷霸龙相媲美，他所缺的，只是一个 总冠军奖杯。 He's got one now, and it may be the first of several. Good job, good effort, indeed. 现在，他拿到了，这个总冠军奖杯也许仅是他生涯所获得的总冠军奖杯中的其中一个。 「干得好，你很努力！」确实，雷霸龙他做到了。 --

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