'3 Points' shows basketball's Tracy McGrady's African aid journey 踢妹在非洲的日子 By John Horn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 16, 2008 转自hoopchina 翻译出处:http://0rz.tw/df4Kj 原文出处:http://0rz.tw/d94K5 Basketball all-star Tracy McGrady certainly enjoys a good life. "Am I spoiled?" he asks. "Yes, I'm spoiled." 全明星球员踢妹毫无疑义的过着美好的物质生活。“我被生活宠坏了吗？” 他自言自语。“是的，没错。” McGrady's first paycheck came from Adidas in a $500,000 endorsement deal, and his first job was playing in the NBA. The Houston Rockets guard/forward lives in a mansion, has no shortage of jewelry and clothes, and flies on private planes. 踢妹的第一份薪水来自爱迪达的50万美金的合约，在 NBA打球是他的第一份 工作。这名休士顿火箭队的摇摆人住在别墅里，首饰和衣服多到用不完，还 拥有私人飞机。 Unlike so many professional athletes, though, McGrady chose to leave all such luxuries behind and see firsthand how the world's least fortunate survive. His riches-to-rags journey is chronicled in the new documentary, “3 Points,” an account of McGrady's visit last year to three African refugee camps. 不像其他许多职业运动员那样，踢妹选择暂时把奢华抛在身後，去当地看看 我们这个星球上最不幸运的人们是怎样生活的。他的这次从富足到贫穷之旅 被编入了纪录片“3 POINTS”，这是敍述踢妹在三个非洲难民营旅程的影片 Africa's genocidal crisis, sparked by a civil war between Sudan's Arab leaders and the country's ethnic Africans in its Darfur region, has triggered any number of documentary films, including George Clooney's "Sand and Sorrow," Don Cheadle's "Darfur Now" and former Marine Brian Steidle's "The Devil Came on Horseback." But few of those films have at their center as compelling a chronicler as McGrady, who travels to Africa “3 Points,” openly admitting he knows next to nothing about what's going on in Darfur. 这场由一场苏丹的领导人和部落之间进行的内战所挑起的种族灭绝的惨案（ 即大名鼎鼎的Darfur问题），已经催生了一大批与之相关的纪实片，包括乔 治克隆尼的“大漠与哀痛”，唐‧齐德尔的“当今的Darfur”，以及前海军 上校史岱多的“马背上的恶魔”。很少有电影是以踢妹的足迹为线索的，他 自己也公开承认，他永远不知道Darfur下一步将要发生什麽。 His honest reactions 他诚实的回应 "I had no clue what genocide was, and I'm still learning about it," he says in the film before he travels to refugee camps in eastern Chad. "I really don't know what I am going to see." “我曾经不知道种族灭绝是什麽，直到现在我仍然在了解这个概念，”他在 纪录片当中说，当时踢妹还没有前往东Chad的难民营。“我真的不知道我将 要看到什麽。” Teammate Dikembe Mutombo helped spark McGrady's concern for Africa's dispossessed. McGrady contributed to a Congolese hospital Mutombo opened last summer, and soon thereafter McGrady saw Luol Deng (a Chicago Bulls player whose family is Sudanese) talking about the steep cost of the civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of Sudanese. 队友老木试图燃起踢妹对於非洲无依无靠现状的忧虑。踢妹也为老木去年夏 天在刚果开张的医院做出了贡献，然後不久後看到公牛队的卤蛋（苏丹人的 後裔）谈论苏丹内战带来的巨大成本，无数的苏丹平民遇害。 McGrady organized a visit, working with documentary filmmaker and photographer Josh Rothstein and humanitarian John Prendergast of the Enough Project. Yet it's not simply what McGrady observes during his trip that anchors "3 Points," which was just completed and is now in search of a broadcast or theatrical distributor. Rather, it's how he reacts to the tragedy that he witnesses: He doesn't really know what to do. 踢妹与纪录片的制片人Josh Rothstein和ENOUGH计画的人道主义者John Prendergast 安排了一次访问。目前这部纪录片正在寻找发行人，虽然它的内容不仅仅是 踢妹在非洲所观察到的。从某种意义上来说，这部电影记录的是踢妹在他目 击这人间悲剧後的惨案後的反应：他完全不知道该做什麽。 After encountering children playing soccer without a field, McGrady says he'll pay $1,000 for a new pitch only to be told that green grass isn't really the refugees' greatest need. 在邂逅了一群在坑洼地里踢球的孩子们後，踢妹表示将要投资1000美金来建 块球场，但被迅速告知，草地并不是难民营最需要的东西。 "A lot of the film has to deal with his being out of his element," says Rothstein. "And he realized that was maybe the most important part of the trip for him." “这部电影需要处理的很多东西在於，踢妹在难民营对所见所闻显得非常的 不适应。”Rothstein说。“他也认识到这正是此行最重要的地方。” McGrady's journey was both personal and emotional. To visit the barren camps, he had to forsake any number of usual niceties. That included McGrady's having to sleep in a tent for the first time. His trying to get along without air conditioning. Eating food that wasn't prepared in a four-star restaurant. As McGrady's wife, CleRenda Harris, notes in the film, "Tracy is definitely stepping out of his comfort zone." 踢妹这是一次带有强烈情感的私人旅行。为了去这些贫瘠的难民营访问，他 放弃了许多东西。包括他平生第一次睡到帐篷里面，而且没有空调，吃着是 不四星级酒店准备的饭菜。就像踢妹的妻子 CleRenda Harris在电影中注明 的那样，“(这次非洲行）Tracy完全离开了他过去习惯的那些生活。 But it wasn't all such trivial concerns. He had to worry about land mines. Listen to stories of rape, murder, torture. And his eyes were quickly opened. 但并非所有都是这些略显琐碎的担心，踢妹必须担心脚下的地雷。听着暴力 ，刑求，谋杀的故事，踢妹朦胧的双眼迅速张开了。 Precisely because he is not an expert in Sudanese politics, the 29-year-old McGrady can serve as a conduit for the audience. He may be supreme on the court, but he's like almost everyone else when it comes to the outside world: He's unsure of what's going on. 正是因为他不是个苏丹问题专家，29岁的踢妹能够给予观众许多启迪。他或 许是球场上最闪亮的那颗星星，但当在外面这个世界时，踢妹像所有人一样 不知道将要发生什麽。 "People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something -- but what's the big deal?" McGrady says in an interview to discuss the film. "I'm not ashamed about that at all. And my going out and saying, 'I don't know a lot about this' will make people feel OK that they don't know about it, either." “当人们要表达并不知道那件事情的时候，总会表现的十分犹豫，而对於大 人物们来说呢？”踢妹在一个讨论电影的采访中说。“我并不为此而惭愧， 我准备说“我确实对这不知道很多”，而这也会让那些不怎麽知道这件事情 的人们感觉更好些。” Adds his longtime manager and assistant, Elissa Grabow, who accompanied McGrady on his Africa trip: "This is not to market his brand. It's not about that, but about what I don't know, and that I am not afraid to say that I don't know." 踢妹长期的助手，Elissa Grabow 也参加了这次非洲行，他补充说“这不是 销售他的品牌商品，这是关於我不知道的事情，同时我也不害怕说我并不清 楚这件事情。” "By the end of my trip," McGrady says, "I started to realize what they really needed -- and that's schools." When he returned to the United States, McGrady decided to try to help build them. “在这次旅程的结尾。”踢妹说“我开始意识到他们真正需要什麽，学校” 当他回到美国的时候，他决定试着去帮助修建一批学校。 Others in the game 其他一些碎碎念 So this week, McGrady is taking his film to -- and asking for more donations from -- players in the National Basketball Assn., which is helping to show "3 Points" to teams. (In addition to the long-range field goal, the movie's title refers to three strategies to fight genocide: peace, protection and punishment.) The goal is to raise awareness and money; players who, like McGrady, contribute $75,000 can build a new school in a camp, train teachers and purchase educational supplies. 这个星期，踢妹把他的电影推荐给了许多 NBA球员，为了获得更多给难民 营的援助。事实上。这部电影的名字3 POINTS并不仅仅意味着 3分球，还 表示 3个对抗种族灭绝的策略，和平，保护和惩罚。踢妹的目标是提高大 家的认知度和募集一些捐款。75000 美金可以援建一个新的学校，训练教 师，购买些教学设备。 McGrady has enlisted his Florida high school as a sister school to a new school in Chad, the first of which is to be built later this year. So far, Grabow says, six NBA players have made donations, including Derek Fisher and Jermaine O'Neal. 踢妹已经成功的让他在佛罗里达的高中与乍得的一所新学校结成姐妹学校 ，那将会是他在乍得的第一所援建学校，将在今年晚些时候建成。另外， Grabow 表示，包括渔人和小欧在内的6名NBA球员也进行了捐赠。 "Some of the players need to be educated," McGrady says. "But some of them are caring guys, know that something has to be done and are willing to help." “有些球员需要进行些（援助难民）的教育”踢妹说，“但是很多球员都 是些关心他人的好家伙，知道什麽事情该做，而且准备好了去帮助别人。” --

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