原文出处： http://0rz.net/e211H -- AUBURN HILLS -- There must be days when Pistons president Joe Dumars looks out from his suite at The Palace, in the din of yet another sellout crowd, his basketball team the absolute scourge of the NBA on the court and the toast of it off the court, and thinks, "No way this can be happening." 奥本山讯 -- 已经有一段时间了，活塞总管J.Dumars坐在他於奥本山宫殿的包厢往外 看着一场又一场球票售罄的比赛，一面享受满场球迷为活塞加油的叫嚣声，一面看着他那 支在球场上是其他球队梦靥，在场外广受球迷欢迎的活塞队打球，心里一面想着"这真是太 神奇了，杰克。" Two years ago, the Pistons were champions. Last year, they fell one game short. Today, they are 38-6 and marching steadfastly toward a third straight NBA Finals appearance. 活塞於两年前赢得总冠军，去年则只差一场就能完成连霸。现在他们战绩来到38胜6败 ，稳稳地走在连续3年挥军总冠军赛的路上。 The Pistons are a model of efficiency, the league standard in terms of team building, salary-cap management, marketing and community service. 活塞是高效率的典范，是联盟其他球队在球队重建、薪资上限管理、行销及社区服务 等方面的模范。 "I have spent a great portion of my career trying to define and refine a system where a well-managed team can do well without regard to market size," NBA commissioner David Stern said in a telephone interview. "That is done through the draft, through trades, through free-agent signings and through cap management. Detroit, under (owner) Bill Davidson, Joe Dumars and (Palace Sports and Entertainment president) Tom Wilson, has been a poster child for that approach." NBA理事长D.Stern在接受电话访问时表示"我已经花了我职业生涯大半部分的时间试着 藉由完善的选秀、交易、自由球员签约及团队薪资上限制度去规划和推动一个能让管理良 好的球队可以不受市场大小限制而有出色表现的大环境。而底特律活塞在老板B.Davidson 、J.Dumars及宫殿运动娱乐事业总管T.Wilson的带领下已经成为一支足以为其他球队学习 对象的榜样。 Again, Dumars has to pinch himself. Dumars必须再一次捏自己一把，才能确定自己并不是在作梦。 Less than six years ago, none of this seemed remotely possible. 不到6年前，这些成就看来还遥不可及。 -- Road less traveled 重建之路 Dumars retired after a glorious 14-year playing career in 1999. His last game was the deciding Game 5 of a first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks, played in front of a small crowd, in a dank college gym outside Atlanta (Philips Arena was being constructed). Dumars结束了灿烂的14年球员生涯後於'99年退休，他最後一场比赛是在决定球队能否 突破老鹰，晋级季後赛第二轮的第一轮第5场比赛，该场比赛在亚特兰大外某个大学一个潮 湿的体育馆所进行，观看球迷为数不多。(老鹰主场飞利浦体育馆当时正在兴建) Amidst reports of heavy partying by several of his teammates the night before, the favored Pistons fell flat, 87-75. 趁着中场报导时好几位Dumars的队友为他举办了盛大的退休践别会，而原先被看好能 晋级的活塞最终却以75比87输掉该场比赛。 "That gave me some insight, right there," Dumars said. "I had been through the days of totally unselfish teams (with his Bad Boys of the late 1980s and early 1990s), where winning is the only priority, to the selfish, individual, I-gotta-get-mine mentality. I saw how that evolved. Dumars说"待在这支球队增长了我的见识。我在这支完全不自私的球队待了好长一段日 子(活塞在'80年代後期、'90年代初期是人见人怕的Bad Boys)，相对於自私、个人、我要 有足够的表现空间等心态，赢球是队上每个人唯一的目标，我亲眼看着这样不自私的打球 方式在这支球队根深蒂固。" "I remember when I took this job, I told Mr. Davidson, 'We have to get back to the mentality of the team comes before anything else.'?" "我记得当我接下这工作时，我告诉Davidson'我们必须重建球队表现优先於任何个人 表现的团队合作心态。'？" But the deck appeared stacked against him when he took over basketball operations the summer of 2000. The team had just been swept out of the first round of the playoffs by Miami, and was operating under interim coach George Irvine. 不过当他在'00年夏天接管篮球事务时立即就感受到横亘面前的阻碍，活塞该年季後赛 在代理总教练G.Irvine的带领下，第一轮就被迈阿密热火扫地出门。 Grant Hill, the team's franchise player, was a free agent. Less than two months after Dumars took over, Hill informed him he was going to Orlando. 球队阵中的超级巨星G.Hill当时刚好成为自由球员，在Dumars接掌活塞2个月不到， Hill就告诉他说他想到奥兰多另求发展。 On the Pistons payroll at the time were the albatross-like contracts of Lindsey Hunter (owed $13 million at the time), Loy Vaught ($15 million), Christian Laettner ($6 million), Jud Buechler ($12 million) and Eric Montross ($10 million). 当时活塞的薪水册上还摆着猎人(总值1千3百万)、L.Vaught(1千5百万)、C.Laettner( 6百万)、J.Buechler(1千2百万)及E.Montross(1千万)等人的大烂约。 Somehow that summer, from that tablet, Dumars began forging the foundation of a championship team. 就在那个暑假，Dumars一步一步开始打造起一支冠军队的基础。 It started with arranging a sign-and-trade for Hill, which brought Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins. He got Dallas to take Vaught and Laettner and Milwaukee to take Hunter, creating the cap space he needed to start building a team. 那从Hill即签即换开始，为球队带来班蛙和C.Atkins。他将Vaught、Laettner送至达 拉斯小牛，将猎人送至密尔瓦基，创造了他打造球队所需的薪资空间。 "Joe is a special guy," said Grizzlies coach Mike Fratello, who has helped build playoff teams in Atlanta and Cleveland. "He's blessed with great ability to understand what great, championship teams are made of, the chemical balance, so to speak. 曾帮助亚特兰大和克里夫兰打造季後赛球队的现任灰熊教练M.Fratello说"Dumars是一 个特别的人，他很幸运拥有卓越的能力去了解一支伟大的冠军球队该如何打造，该有怎样 的化学效应，好比说。" "I got the chance to talk to him at that time about how he was going about building the team, and he had a game plan. He had it all mapped out." "我有次有机会和他交谈，向他讨教如何打造一支球队。他有完善的球队比赛策略，且 是事先就规划好的。" But it was a different kind of map. Dumars wasn't interested in using any of the time-worn formulas. 但那是一个与众不同的计画，因为Dumars对於任何陈腔滥调的公式、准则都没兴趣。 "I just thought that keeping the status quo, doing it the way it had been done the last 30 years, that meant that you got in a long line with everybody else," Dumars said. "And you wait and you hope over a 20-year period that your number would come up and you'd be lucky enough to win. Dumars说"我只是认为持续现状，持续过去30年人们在做的事，意思是你要跟随每个人 走过的路，等待，期待个20年，看哪天运气来了，运气好就能获得胜利。" "I just thought the status quo was a mundane, boring way to go about it. I felt like there were different ways to have success." "我只是认为现状是一种世俗、令人厌倦的方法，应该还有其他的方法能追求成功。" The book on team-building at that time said you had to get two superstars and then fill in your roster around them. The superstars ate up the bulk of your cap space and you tied yourself to them and hoped it would float. 当时打造冠军队的准则是你必须延揽2名超级巨星入队，再以他们为中心在球员名单填 上其他球员。这2名超级巨星会吃掉球队大部分的薪资空间，你把自己全部的希望都赌在他 们身上，期待他们带领球队夺冠。 Dumars knew that wasn't going to work, especially in his market. Too many losing years, too much fan apathy at that time -- superstars weren't lining up to come to Detroit. Dumars知道那样做并不会奏效，尤其是对他那支小市场球队而言。当时球队失败太多 年了，很多球迷都选择冷眼旁观 -- 根本不会有超级巨星愿意到底特律为活塞效力。 Dumars had to write his own book. Dumars必须用他自己的方法走自己的路。 "What impresses me about Joe, he built that team and he didn't do it with known quantities," said Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh, who has built title-contending teams in two different eras. "He has real insight into players and how their talents would fit into the system he was trying to build. He built that team without what you would say were any real star players. That's tough to do." 在2个不同时期都打造了具有争冠实力球队的溜马总管D.Walsh表示"Dumars给我的印象 是他并不是以已知的、一般的方式来打造球队，他对於球员是否能融入他尝试打造的系统 具有相当的洞察力，他打造了一支完全没有任何超级巨星的冠军队，那真的很难办到。" -- 'Joe understands team' Dumars了解球队 Dumars didn't build the foundation on talent, he built it on character. He wanted a team that reflected the ideals of the city it played in -- tough, strong work ethic, show up and fight every night. Dumars并非以天份为诉求打造这只球队的基础，而是以球员的特质为考量。他希望一 支可以反射出球队所在城市精神的球队 -- 艰硬、强壮的拼战精神，每一晚的比赛都认真 地与对手搏斗。 "It's going to sound simplistic, but you have to get good people," Dumars said. "Once you have that, anything is possible. People talk about the dynamics of sports, about bringing guys together to become a team -- I don't see how the people aspect doesn't become the biggest thing. Dumars说"这样说听来似乎太过单纯了，但你确实得招揽一些好人入队。一旦你做到了 ，任何事都有可能发生。人们谈论运动动力学，关於把一些人组成一个队伍 -- 我不看球 员的外观，那并不是什麽大不了的事。 "Talent is obvious. You can see talent a mile away. You've got to get beyond that. You are talking about cohesive basketball and there is no sport that takes more cohesion than basketball. You have to be on the same page. Understand this, we have turned down some trades for some really good players because we felt personally they wouldn't fit with what we are doing here." "天份是很明显的，你在一哩外就能看出一个人是否有天份。你必须跳脱这点，篮球是 讲究团队合作的比赛，没有任何其他运动比篮球更注重团队合作，球员们必须站在同一阵 线。因为了解了这点，我们拒绝交易来一些真的相当出色的球员，因为我们觉得他们的人 格特质和球队所需的不符。" Understand this, too -- and Dumars is the first to admit it -- he got some breaks. 同时也因为了解了这点 -- Dumars头一个跳出来承认 -- 他搞了些改变。 He had no idea Wallace would become such a dominant defender and the eventual face of the organization. Trades for me-first players like Allen Iverson fell through. Chris Webber turned down a maximum contract offer. 他没想过溪蛙会成为一个如此具有主宰力的防守者及活塞夺冠的最後一块拼图。交易 来我最想要的球员例如A.Iverson成为泡影，C.Webber拒绝了一份最高额度的合约。 "For me to sit here and make it sound like everything we did was part of some master plan would be insincere," Dumars said. "We got some breaks. Some deals that we were looking at doing, that didn't happen, turned out to be incredible for us. You make mistakes. There was the Rodney White draft and Mateen Cleaves and some other stuff. Dumars说"对我来说，坐在这然後说我们做的每件事都是大师级的计画的一部分，这太 虚伪了。我们做了一些破坏，一些我们期待发生的交易却没发生，那叫我们难以相信。你 可以犯错，例如我们选秀会上选了R.White('01年第一轮第9顺位)和M.Cleaves('00年第一 轮第14顺位)之类的。" "Not everything has worked out perfectly, but enough has worked real well that we have become one of the elite teams in basketball." "不是每件事都可以做得很完美，不过已经有足够的事做得相当好，所以我们已经成为 联盟中的一级劲旅之一。" Dumars, mistakes and all, changed the culture of the organization. It started with Wallace, Rick Carlisle, Jerry Stackhouse, Corliss Williamson, Cliff Robinson and Michael Curry. It took a huge step forward when Chauncey Billups was signed and Stackhouse was traded for Richard Hamilton. Dumars的功过改变了这个组织的文化，从班蛙开始，R.Carlisle，J.Stackhouse，C. Williamson，C.Robinson到M.Curry，当枪蜥被签下及以牛排屋向巫师换得RIP後活塞向前 迈进了一大步。 Add a brilliant late first-round draft pick in Tayshaun Prince, and Dumars' improbable three-team trade that landed Rasheed Wallace, and here we are. 增加了'02年第一轮後段(第23顺位)挑进的小王子及Duamrs执行的不可思议的三队交易 偷进溪蛙後，活塞成了现在这般风貌。 "Sitting back as a fan and watching Joe Dumars, he has an uncanny ability to see something in a player that relates to his particular system that other teams just don't see," Stern said. "Whether you are talking about a Ben Wallace or a Chauncey Billups or, I mean, name a player." Stern说"以一个球迷的角度旁观Dumars的所作所为，他有超乎寻常的能力去分辨一个 球员是否具有符合他那特别系统所需的东西，而那是其他球队都看不出来的。不管是班蛙 或枪蜥或谁，我的意思是，随便一个球员。" The Pistons were in the lottery in 2000-01. Their record since is 246-126 -- better by far than the 12 other lottery teams from that season. Only five of those teams have winning records since 2001. '00-'01球季活塞还在乐透区，然而自该季後他们例行赛的战绩是246胜126败，那比当 时其他12支在乐透区的球队都还要好，而那12支球队中更只有5队自'01年後曾击败活塞。 "Joe understands team," said ESPN analyst Greg Anthony, who has been considered for general manager positions with several NBA teams recently. "Basketball is not about having the five best players. It's about having five players that play the best together. It's a puzzle. You have to know how to fit the pieces together and that's what Joe Dumars has been able to do better than anybody." 最近被好几支球队考虑要延揽为球队总管的现任ESPN球评G.Anthony表示"Dumars很了 解球队。打篮球不是非得要有5个最棒的球员，而是要5个一起打球能表现最出色的球员。 这是个谜，你必须知道如何将每一块拼图凑在一起，而这正是Dumars做得比任何人都还要 优秀的部分。" -- No end in sight Here's the scary part: 这是活塞令人害怕的部分： With the age of the core group of players, the mix of veterans and youth and the salary cap flexibility still intact, Dumars has the Pistons poised to be good for years to come. 看看核心阵容的球员年龄，他们融合了经验丰富的老将及精力充沛的年轻小将，还有 很完整可供运用的薪资空间，Dumars让球队在未来几年都还具有相当的竞争力。 "One thing I learned in sports is, you don't stay the same," Anthony said. "You either get better, or you get worse, as an athlete, a team and as an organization. Joe gets that. Anthony说"我从运动学到的一件事是你不能待在原地，不管是球员或组织，一定是不 进则退，而Dumars充分掌握了这个原则。" "You think about his moves, people questioned the firing of Rick Carlisle, but he got Larry Brown and took his team to another level. Then when Brown left, he went out and got Flip Saunders, the guy he needed to take his team to an even higher level. "你想想他做的异动，人们质疑他火掉R.Carlisle，但他雇用L.Brown并把球队带到另 一个境界。Brown走了之後，他找来老桑，这个有能力带领他的球队到一个更高等级的教练 。" "The key is, the players have been young enough where they still hadn't played their best basketball. Chauncey and Rip are having career years. Rasheed and Ben are just 31. And Tayshaun might be the most talented of all of them. He's nowhere near the player he's going to be in three years. There is going to come a point where Tayshaun becomes the (main) guy." "关键在於球员们还年轻，他们的篮球潜力还没完全发挥出来。枪蜥和RIP正值职业生 涯的黄金时期，双蛙才31岁，而小王子可能是先发五人里面最有天份，他在迈入黄金时期 前这3年哪都不会去，到时他会成为活塞的主力球员。" Which is why Dumars locked Prince into a six-year deal earlier this season. Hamilton is on the books through 2010. Rasheed Wallace is here through 2008-09. Billups can opt out of his contract after next season. 这就是Dumars在季初以一张6年长的合约绑住小王子的原因，RIP在'10年都会在这，溪 蛙会在这待到'08-'09球季结束，枪蜥下个球季结束前都不能行使选择权跳脱合约。 This summer, Ben Wallace will become a free agent, but Dumars already has structured his payroll in a way that will enable the team to make Wallace the richest Pistons player ever. 今夏班蛙将成为自由球员，不过Dumars已经准备好足够的薪资空间让他成为活塞有史 以来最富有的球员。 "Moves that we made two years ago (trading Williamson, not re-signing Mehmet Okur) we made because we knew this day was coming," Dumars said. "We are prepared for this. We didn't just wake up six months ago and say, 'Uh-oh, Ben's going to be a free agent.'?" Dumars说"我们在2年前做的异动(交易掉Williamson，未与欧酷儿续约)是因为知道这 一天会来临，我们为此做准备。我们并不是在6个月前才突然惊觉说'唔喔~班蛙快成为自由 球员啦？'" This proactive management style has won admiration from a master of proactive management, Stern. 这样积极主动的管理风格已经赢得积极主动管理大师Stern的赞赏。 "It's about managing for the future," he said. "It's thinking not just about how many wins you may get this year, but where are you going to be three or four years out. It's understanding that the success you may have now will force you to make some adjustments financially down the road. The reward for the success of your players is that they may cost you some more money. 他说"这是未来管理的趋势，那不只在乎到今年球队可能能赢得多少场球赛，而是连未 来3、4年都考虑进去了。那是了解现在的成功可能一路上都会迫使你做一些财务上的调整 ，而你的球员对於成功所要求的回馈可能会让你再多花一些钱。" "You have to manage ahead, and Detroit has done that." "你必须连未来都一起考虑进去，而活塞确实做到如此。" The Pistons, though their $57 million payroll is over the cap, were about $5 million under the luxury cap threshold this season. If all goes as planned, they could have a $9 million cushion next summer. 尽管活塞的团队薪资5千7百万超过了薪资上限，不过还低於豪华税开徵的门槛约5百万 。如果一切都照着计划走，明年夏天他们将能拥有900万的薪资空间可供运用。 That kind of financial flexibility on a championship-contending team is almost unheard of these days. Dumars says it's all a product of the culture here. 一支具有冠军实力的球队还能有这样的财务灵活度近来简直闻所未闻，Dumars表示那 是汽车城文化下的产物。 "We have created such a culture of unselfishness here, nothing is bigger than the team," Dumars said. Dumars说"我们已经在这建立了不自私的文化，没有什麽比球队更重要的。" "It's sort of feeding off itself now. When people come here, they expect to fit into a system. They know we don't have that new wave, individual mentality. They know we don't tolerate that here. So, if you choose to come here, when you step in here, you know what the law of the land is." "这有点像是反馈的机制，当球员加入球队，他们期盼能融入这个体系。他们知道我们 不耍什麽新花样，也非个人主义挂帅。他们知道我们不能容忍那样的东西，所以如果你选 择加入球队，一旦你加入了，你就该知道这里的规矩。" That law extends into contract negotiating, as well. 那规矩也延伸至合约的谈判上。 "We've been able to negotiate with guys because they understand this is something special and they want to be a part of it," Dumars said. "Maybe they could squeeze a few dollars more out of somebody else, but they realize that the few extra dollars they may get won't trump what's going on here." Dumars说"我们已经能跟这些球员交涉，因为他们知道这里很特别，他们也都想成为其 中的一份子。也许他们能跟其他球队签下一张较大面额的合约，但他们也了解多领那些钱 并不会让他们和在这里一样成功。" What's going on here is a phenomenon. Making a run at one of the best records in NBA history, shooting for a third straight Eastern Conference title, playing before sellout crowds at home, being one of the league's hottest road acts, hearing visiting crowds chant, "Deetroit Basketball" at every venue, with the security of knowing the window isn't closing any time soon -- if it's a dream, Dumars doesn't want to wake up. 这里将发生奇蹟，活塞会写下NBA史上前几名的例行赛纪录，瞄准连续第3年的东区冠 军，在主场打还没开打前门票就已售罄的比赛，成为联盟中最火热的客场杀手之一，听到 观众席上传来球迷的加油声，在每个地方都听到有人喊着"底特律篮球"，并确信这情形短 时间内并不会有改变 -- 如果这是场梦，Dumars一点都不希望醒来。 "Let me enjoy this for a minute," he said. "Please." 他说"就让我自我陶醉一下吧。" --

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