Napping on Game Day Is Prevalent Among N.B.A. Players 午觉皇帝大 By JONATHAN ABRAMS Published: March 6, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/sports/basketball/07naps.html?_r=2&ref=sports 这篇文章不是全部跟 Suns 有关，可是还满有趣的，让大家了解一下说 Nash 还有其他球员 ，到底是如何保持体态的。 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The All-Star point guard Steve Nash is 37 and knows that decline may come fast at his age. But his solution is not to increase his conditioning or to lift more weights. Instead, he plans to increase his naptime, seizing on an element of N.B.A. life as common as a 3-point shot. 明星控卫Steve Nash已经三十七岁了，他知道说衰退或许就在不远的将来了，但他的答案并 不是增加训练、多举重。相反地，他打算增长他的午睡时间，一件在 NBA 平常得就有如射 三分球的事。 The Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nash, 37, said he planned to nap more as he grew older. 凤凰城太阳队的Steve Nash 三十七岁，说他打算年纪越大睡越多。 “If you nap every game day, all those hours add up and it allows you to get through the season better,” Nash said. “I want to improve at that, so by the end of the year, I feel better.” 『如果你每次有比赛时都有睡午觉，这些小时会一点一滴加起来，让你可以更轻松的度过球 季』Nash 说『我想在这方面更进步，这样我到年底时，可以感觉更好。』 Nash is among a great majority of N.B.A. players who swear by their pregame nap. Most are interested in its restorative benefits, although a few may just be trying to counter boredom. Whatever the reason, balls stop bouncing and shoes stop screeching every afternoon. Nash就像其他绝大多数的 NBA 球员一样，固定睡午觉。大部分是为了修补精力，虽然少数 只是为了打发时间。无论什麽理由，每天午後，球会停止跳动，鞋停止摩擦。 “Everyone in the league office knows not to call players at 3 p.m.,” said Adam Silver, the league’s deputy commissioner. “It’s the player nap.” 『每个在联盟办公室的人都知道说，绝对不要在下午三点时打电话给球员。』联盟风纪组长 Adam Silver 说 『球员在睡午觉。』 In the United States, napping is often stigmatized, seen as evidence of laziness or a lack of purpose. But in the world of sports, and certainly in the N.B.A., the attitude is entirely different. 在美国睡午觉通常会被指责，认定是懒惰或是无所事事的象徵。但在体育界 （至少在 NBA ），态度是截然不同的。 “You’re nocturnal in terms of what you do, playing at night, so your body adjusts to the rhythm of being up late, getting in early in the morning,” said Grant Hill, Nash’s teammate with the Phoenix Suns. “You’re tired around midday. Naps are important. It refreshes you. It gets you ready for competition. ” 『因为工作的关系，你都是夜型动物，晚上打球，白天练球，身体适应了晚睡早起的生 活。』 Grant Hill 说 『你下午时就疲倦了，睡午觉很重要，让你恢复精力，为比赛准 备好。』 N.B.A. players appear to be the kings of nap, although professional hockey players seem right behind. Of the roughly two dozen N.B.A. players interviewed for this article, all said that they usually took naps in the hours before games. NBA 球员睡午觉睡赢其他职业球员，不过NHL的冰上曲棍球员也是紧追在後‧这篇文章访问 了差不多有近两打的NBA 球员，每位都说他们通常在比赛前都会睡好几个小时的午觉‧ N.F.L. players are least likely to nap because they play only once a week, usually during the day, and much of their work schedule, revolving around team meetings and practices, resembles that of a traditional 9-to-5 worker. NFL 美式足球员最不可能睡午觉，因为他们一个礼拜才打一次‧通常都在白天，而他们的工 作表都是开会跟练习，跟朝九晚五的上班族没两样‧ In baseball, major leaguers have less disruptive lives on the road than N.B.A. players because they almost always spend several days in one city before moving on. They also do not have to deal with morning practices, making it fairly easy to sleep in. 在棒球，大联盟在客场的生活跟NBA比以来比较没那麽的混乱，他们通常在一个城市都会待 上好几天才会去下个城。他们也没有晨训，早上可以睡饱饱。 Still, some baseball players nap in the clubhouse. A mild controversy erupted last season when several Seattle Mariners told a newspaper reporter that Ken Griffey Jr. was asleep in the clubhouse during a game. 不过还是有些棒球选手会在更衣室睡觉，几年前有个小争议就是有几个水手队的球员，跟新 闻记者打小报告说，Ken Griffey Jr 在球赛中睡在更衣室。 Harold Reynolds, an MLB Network analyst and a former player, recalled that at his first All-Star Game, in 1987, no one could find Rickey Henderson for a meeting. He was eventually discovered asleep, taking his usual power snooze. MLB的球评兼前球员Harold Reynolds 记得他第一次参加明星赛(1987)，没有能找得到 Rickey Henderson开会，他们最後发现他跟平常一样在睡觉。 N.H.L. schedules closely resemble those in the N.B.A., which is why naps are prevalent there, too. Players work late, quickly move on to another city and often have morning skates to prepare for games. Sleep is disrupted. So players shut down in the afternoon for 20 minutes to two or three hours. NHL 的时程表跟NBA的比较相近，这也是为什麽NHL也很迷午觉。球员工作晚，很快的到另一 个城市，通常早上要溜冰为比赛准备。睡眠都是破碎的。所以球员们下午时都会休息20分钟 到二甚至三小时。 “There are not too many times when I don’t sleep,” Devils forward Patrik Elias said. “Even if it’s just for a bit, it’s something I do.” 『我很少不睡觉。』Devils 的前锋 Patrik Elias 说『就算只是眯一下，我就是会做。』 Elias, 34, said his naps typically lasted 90 minutes, sometimes two hours. Asked if every hockey player napped in the afternoon, he said: “I don’t know if everybody does, but I do. Everybody wonders how you can just shut it off in the middle of the day, but it’s a routine, and you get used to it. You do want to relax and get some strength.” 34岁的 Elias 说他的午睡通常有90分钟，有时两小时。被问到说是不是每个冰上曲棍球员 都会在下午午睡，他说『我不知道是不是每个人都有睡，但是我有。很多人问说你怎麽就可 以在大白天想睡就睡，但这是个例行程序，你习惯了就会了。你要休息，补充精力。 In the N.B.A., LeBron James swears by his siesta. Derrick Rose sleeps three hours before every night game. Kobe Bryant checks into a hotel before home games for his pregame nap. 在NBA，LeBron James 以他的午休之名发誓说， Derrick Rose 每次夜间比赛前都会睡个三 小时。Kobe Bryant 会去饭店睡。 Some N.B.A. teams have received an education in the art of napping from Dr. Charles Czeisler, the director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the sleep medicine division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. 有些NBA 会请午觉达人哈佛医学院睡眠医学科的 Dr. Charles Czeisler 来演讲。 Czeisler, known in the N.B.A. as the sleep doctor, has consulted with the Boston Celtics, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Minnesota Timberwolves about the virtues of receiving enough sleep. Napping was a significant piece of the tutorial. Czeisler 有给 Celtics、Blazers跟Timberwolves 上过睡足眠的益处。午睡是课程中很关 键的一部分。 Czeisler said he thought that N.B.A. players needed more sleep than the average person, about nine hours a day. Typical N.B.A. games end about 10 p.m., and with showering, eating, interviews and unwinding factored in, many players do not get to sleep until much later. If they are traveling to the next city after a game, they may arrive at their hotels after 3 a.m. There may then be a morning shootaround that requires getting up by 9 a.m. or earlier. Who wouldn’ t want a nap? Czeisler 说他觉得NBA球员们比平常人更需要睡眠，应该睡9小时左右。大部分球赛晚上10 点结束，洗完澡、吃完、访问完，大部分球员要更晚才有得睡。如果他们要移到另一个城市 的话，可能3点才会到饭店，一大早可能有射球练习，需要九点前就起床了。谁会不想睡午 觉呢？ establish a more reliable sleep pattern for players. But for the most part, shootarounds remain an N.B.A. staple. And every player seems to nap. 有些NBA球队尝试着缩短早上的射球练习 ，让球员的睡眠时间更固定，但是射球练习依然是 NBA的神主牌。而每个球员似乎都会睡午觉。 “That’s probably the most consistent sleep that you get, based on travel and game schedule,” said Jason Kapono of the Philadelphia 76ers. 『这大概是在客场飞来飞去及赛事中，能得到最完整的睡眠。』76ers 的Jason Kapono 说 。 Czeisler said that players who got nine hours of sleep were more likely to react quicker, remember plays better and generally maintain their health more consistently. He said that biologically, the body rests best at night or in the midafternoon, enhancing the value of a nap. Czeisler 说有睡九小时的球员，反应会比较好、记得战术好些、身体更健康。他说生理上 ，人身体在晚上跟下午最能发挥休息，午睡就更有用了。 One N.B.A. trainer, Gregg Farnam of the Timberwolves, said he contacted Czeisler because of his team’s relatively young roster. 。 Czeisler met personally with the team and offered his thoughts. Players not in the league long enough to believe in the value of naps began to change their view. Czeisler 跟球队亲自见面，分享他的见解。有些刚进NBA的球员开始被说服了。 “Guys make more time for naps now,” Farnam said. “Before, they’d just take a nap when they were really tired instead of building it into” their routine. 『大夥都排出时间来睡更久了。』Farnam 说『之前他们只有累挂时才睡，现在会让午睡成 为他们例行程序的一部分。 There are routines for before and after naps. Tyson Chandler of the Dallas Mavericks gets a massage, Ronny Turiaf of the Knicks seeks bread pudding and Antawn Jamison of the Cleveland Cavaliers carefully irons and lays out his clothes before shutting it down. 有些人在午睡上有些怪僻。 Mavericks 的Tyson Chandler在睡前会马杀鸡一下。Knicks 的 Ronny Turiaf 要吃面包布丁。Cavaliers 的 Antawn Jamison 睡前会烫好跟折好他的衣服 。 drowsy feeling some feel right after waking up. (After talking extensively about naps for this article, he said, he had trouble napping the next day.) Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors said he once tried to bypass his pregame nap out of curiosity to see what would happen. He found himself out of rhythm on the court. Utah Jazz 的Raja Bell 起床後要喝咖啡才会从睡眠清醒 (他说在被访问这麽多关於午觉的 事，他隔天睡不好)。Warriors 的Stephen Curry 曾经因为好奇，而跳过午睡过，他发现他 在场上的节奏乱了。 “When you wake up from a nap, you know what time it is, you know it’s time to get ready and get focused and go to the game,” Curry said. 『当你从午睡清醒，你知道这是什麽时间，你知道说该准备认真打球。』Curry 说。 As a player, Denver Nuggets Coach George Karl napped, a ritual he passed on to his team. But Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons said that when he played in Chicago, one of his coaches, Scott Skiles, once admonished the team to limit naps after he found his players slogging through a practice. Denver Nuggets 的教练George Karl 想当年当球员时也会睡午觉，他把这招传给了他的球 队。但Pistons 的Ben Gordon 说他在Chicago打球时，他教练Scott Skiles 试图控管队上 的午休时间。 “He was saying the naps should only be 45 minutes or an hour long and maybe guys were sleeping too long,” Gordon said. 『他说午觉睡个45分钟顶多一小时就好了，或许他们有些人睡过头了。』Gordon 说。 Some enter the league with a better understanding of sleep science than others. While at Stanford, Landry Fields, the Knicks rookie, participated in a sleep study under Cheri Mah, a researcher at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory. 有些早进NBA的球员在睡眠科学上比其他人更了解。Knicks 的菜鸟Landry Fields在史丹佛 时就参与过校内教授的睡眠研究了。 Fields wore a watch — “kind of like a mini-seismograph,” he said — that charted how much sleep he got each night. Fields 戴个会记录他睡眠时间的手表。 Mah, who said she had also consulted with N.B.A., N.H.L., college teams and Olympians, said sports teams had started paying attention to the topic more in the last two years. She said athletes, in particular, were susceptible to sleep debt: an hour less of sleep a night here and there quickly accumulates. Mah 说她也跟些NBA、NHL、大学球队及奥运选手开导过，她说球队近两年也开始对这方面注 意。这边少一个小时那边少一个小时，一点一滴加起来对球员都有影响。 “Many athletes have optimized physical training and recovering, and nutrition plays a large role,” Mah said. “There really hasn’t been the same emphasis on optimizing sleep and recovery.” 『很多球员对於体能训练、休养、饮食都已经达到最佳状态。』Mah 说『但是关於睡眠这方 面的注重，还是没有相同待遇。』 Of course, beyond all its physical benefits, a nap also offers the simple satisfaction of taking a break from the day. You don’t have to play basketball to be tempted. 当然除了这些生理上的优点，睡午觉也提供休息後的满足。不用打篮球都会被吸引。 “If you were in the corporate world, you’d love to take a nap,” the 76ers’ Kapono said. “So why wouldn’t you, if you could?” 『如果你在上班，你也会想睡午觉。』76ers 的 Kapono 说『所以你能的话为什麽不呢？』 Dave Caldwell contributed reporting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 现在这种关於训练的文章都一定要找Nash 开场，他真的是不老神人的代言人。 --

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