原文 http://tinyurl.com/ml9vw5k Billups: 'I know my gas light is on' Billups: 我知道我的燃料即将耗尽 AUBURN HILLS -- This wasn't how Chauncey Billups planned his return to Detroit. 这并不是Billups的复出计画 When Billups agreed to come back to the Pistons last summer, he knew what the short-term future held. He was going to be the starting point guard on a young team, and help take the franchise back into the postseason. 去年夏天当Billups同意重返底特律的时候，他知道短期的未来会是如何。他会成为这只年轻球队的先发PG，帮助球队重回季後赛。 That would have brought everything full circle, with Billups helping to end the decline that many people think started the day he was traded to Denver for Allen Iverson. 许多人认为从Iverson交易案以来的黑暗期应该就此结束。 Instead, Billups has been limited to 19 games due to a knee injury, including only one game since Jan. 10. He had surgery last week to finally solve the problem that has been bothering him since the first weeks of the season. 然而包括了1/10以後唯一的一场比赛，Billups因为膝伤只打了19场。他在上周接受了手术。 "I did when we played at Golden State in November, and since then, I've done everything in my power to try to get back on the floor," he said after Monday's 104-96 loss to the Warriors. "There was just nothing that worked, so they finally had to go in and repair my meniscus and clean up some other things." "我尽我所能了，但全都没有用，於是他们得修复半月板以及清乾净其他东西" Billups said that the knee feels better than it has all season -- he was having trouble with it even before the season started -- but he doesn't know if he's going to get back on the floor this year. 他说膝盖已经比这季的任何时候都要好--这问题甚至从季前就困扰着他--但他不知道 能不能在这季复出。 "I want to be out there, because I still believe that I can help this team," he said. "But I don't want to rush things and make it worse. I'm going to work as hard as I can to get back, but I have to be smart about it." "我希望能在场上，我依然相信我能帮助球队" "我不想急於复出让事情变糟，我依然在尽力复出，但我得对此聪明些" Billups could only shrug with a wry smile when asked if he wished he had just had the surgery after the injury, but it is obvious that watching the season from the sidelines has been tough for him. 当被问到手术後的事，Billups只能耸耸肩苦笑着，很明显只能旁观球季对他来说很难熬。 "If I had been healthy this season, I think we'd be a little higher in the standings, and right now, that would be a big deal," he said. "如果我能保持健康，我相信我们不会那麽糟" After Monday's loss, the Pistons are in ninth place in the Eastern Conference, but are now four games out of the final playoff position with only 25 games to play. With 16 of those games coming on the road, Billups knows that his young teammates have an uphill climb if they want to end the postseason drought. 活塞目前离第八名还差4场比赛，但接下来的25场比赛有16客场。 Billups知道如果他的年轻队友们想进季後赛的话还有一段路要努力。 "I keep telling them that they have got to stay together as a group," he said. "I know we've had some tough times this season, but the only way they can do this is by sticking together through all of it. There's talent in this locker room, but there isn't enough talent to go out there and win by playing as individuals. They've got to do this together." "我一直告诉他们必须要团结" "我知道在球季间有些难熬的时候，但唯一的方法就是我们必须团结" "在休息室里的天份是有的，但大家各打各的话这些天分并没有办法 带到场上以及赢球，他们要做的就是团结" At 37, in the middle of an injury-wrecked season where even his patented 3-pointer has deserted him, Billups knows that he's getting close to the end of his career. His free-agent deal included a player option for the 2014-15 season, but he doesn't have any plans to limp around the Palace for another year. 在受伤甚至他的招牌三分球抛弃了他的现在，Billups知道他离退休不远了。 他的合约中包含了球队选项，但他并没有明年的计画。 "It all depends on my knee," he said. "If it feels good and I feel like I can help this team, I'll be back, but I'm not going to do this again. I'm not ready to be done, but I do know Father Time is still undefeated. If I can't play well enough to be a big piece of this team, I won't be here." "这全要看我的膝盖，如果状况好转而我仍认为我能帮助球队，我就会回来， 但我这季并不打算复出" "我还没有准备退休，但我知道你无法打败时间" "如果我不能帮助球队，我将不会在这" Even with the best-case scenario -- a return late this season and a healthy year at the age of 38 -- Billups knows he's running out of a time on a career that was always a little strange. He was supposed to be a star when Boston took him with the third pick in 1997, but the Celtics gave up on him after just 51 games, and he played for four teams in his first four seasons. 即使是最好的剧本 - 在球季末回归，然後有个健康的38岁 -- Billups知道他的球员生涯即将结束，这感觉有点怪。 在1997年Boston选了他之後，他应该成为一个巨星， 然而在51场比赛後Celtics放弃了他。他在生涯前四年换了四支球队。 Nothing clicked until Joe Dumars signed him as a free agent in the summer of 2002, which is when he became the on-court leader on a team that made regular trips deep into the postseason. He was the NBA Finals MVP in 2004, and came within one game of leading the team to another title in 2005, but he was gone just two games in the 2008 season. Joe Dumars在2002签下他後，他成了球场上的领导者，进季後赛二三轮变成常态。 他是2004年FMVP，在2005年差一场比赛就能拿下另一座冠军，然後2008年只打了两场 比赛就被交易走。 That led to stints with the Nuggets, Knicks and Clippers before what was supposed to be a triumphant return to Detroit for a glorious last ride into the sunset. 之後他待过金块、尼克以及快艇，凯旋归来底特律成为生涯光荣的最後一站， 应该是这样的。 Instead, it might all end the way it does for too many aging players, with his body telling him he's done before his brain and heart are ready to quit. Fittingly for a Motor City star that loves a expensive automobile, he summed it up with a car analogy. 然而跟许多许多年纪大的球员一样，在他的还没准备离开时他的身体告诉他是时候了。 身为一个爱名车的汽车城巨星，Billups用汽车比喻来做总结。 "I know my gas light is on," Billups said with a smile. "I don't know if I've got 15 miles left or 30 miles, but I know the light is on." "我知道我的燃料即将耗尽" Billups笑着说 "我不知道他还能用15哩或20哩，但我知道它即将耗尽。" --

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