In Houston, Jeremy Lin and James Harden Plot Revenge on the NBA by Jake Simpson The Atlantic's Entertainment channel 在休士顿，林书豪和大胡子将对NBA展开反击。 杰克辛普森 大西洋娱乐频道专栏 11/1/12 http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/in-houston-jeremy-lin -and-james-harden-plot-revenge-on-the-nba/264391/ 原址 http://0rz.tw/YSvBJ 短网址 The NBA's most fascinating backcourt is not in Miami, where Dwyane Wade is joined by pedestrian point guard Mario Chalmers. It's not in Brooklyn, despite the billboards throughout New York featuring Deron Williams and Joe Johnson. It's not even in Los Angeles, where Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant have five NBA titles and three MVPs between them (but have played a combined 2,315 games and more than 78,000 minutes). NBA最吸引人的後场不在迈阿密，不在布鲁克林；甚至也非LA. No, the backcourt tandem to watch this year is in Houston, where Jeremy Lin and James Harden enter the season with a lot to prove. Those two kids, with a combined age of 47, are setting out to show their former teams and the rest of the league that they are worth every penny of their contracts and then some. And one of them just happens to be among the biggest breakout stars/cultural icons the NBA has ever seen. 没有後场串连像休士顿今年那麽值得注目。阿豪和大胡子本季都在许多需要证明中开始。 两个年轻人合计才47岁。他们将告诉他们之前的球队和整个联盟他们是货真价实。而其 中一人才刚成为联盟有史以来最受注目的明星和文化象徵。 Eight months removed from bursting onto the scene in New York and spawning the Linsanity meme, Lin enters the season as a starting point guard for the first time in his career. The 24-year-old point guard has yet to show he can be a day-in, day-out success in the NBA, but he has the ball-handling skills, preternatural court vision, and insatiable drive to be an All-Star point guard if he puts it all together. And there's no doubt that Lin's global fame is unmatched by anyone in the NBA not named LeBron or Kobe. 经历了八个月来Linsanity在纽约的轰轰烈烈，林书豪首度以先发控卫开始球季。24岁的 他已经展现了他可以在NBA中成功因为他拥有好的控球，全场观念和切入技巧这些如果他 将之巧妙融合就可以成为全明星控卫的条件。而且无庸置疑的阿豪带起了一波全球性的 NBA热潮，这非是LeBron或Kobe所能有的。 Lin's persona is part of what drew Rockets' general manager Daryl Morey to offer him a three-year, $25-million contract in July that was based on marketability and future performance, rather than existing results. The deal was backloaded with a third-year salary of $14.8 million, a so-called poison pill designed to impose the maximum luxury-tax penalty on the Knicks if they matched the offer. New York owner James Dolan, the bane of Knicks fans for nearly two decades, refused to shell out the extra cash, and just like that Lin was a Houston Rocket. 林书豪的个人特质是使火箭队经理Morey 给他一份 基於市场价值与未来表现3年2千500万 合约的一部分，而非仅有的成绩。这个合约包合了第三年的一千四百八十万。是一份背 後式毒药合约用来阻止有豪华税的尼克队匹配。尼克队的老板Dolan，尼克队球迷20年来 的罪魁祸首，拒绝支付额外的钱就好像林书豪本来就是火箭队的。 Dolan's snub and unprofessional dealings with Lin (the young star found out about the Knicks' trade for Raymond Felton while surfing the Internet) will look much worse if the point-guard sensation lights up the scoreboard in Houston. Like so many NBA stars before him, Lin has the added motivation of proving that he's worth the money. Dolan的冷落和不专业的谈判(林书豪自己在网路上发现尼克透过交易得到肥顿)会使得 假如林书豪的控卫感觉照亮火箭队的计分板看起来更糟。就像许多NBA巨星，阿豪有强烈 的动机证明自己货真价实。 The same can be said for Harden, a top-25 NBA player who was treated like a fungible commodity by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the offseason. Though casual fans may know Harden because of his awe-inspiring beard, the 23-year-old shooting guard has shown himself to be one of the most dynamic offensive players in the league, a more-athletic Manu Ginobili with a knack for creating space in the lane with his herky-jerky dribbling style. Harden's biggest strength may be his shooting: He made 49 percent of his field goals and 39 percent of his three-point shots last season for Oklahoma City. 大胡子的故事也差不多，一个NBA前25的顶级球员被当雷霆队提供薪约时当作一个替代品 一样的对待。虽然大多数球迷认识大胡子是他那令人敬畏的胡子。但这位仅仅23岁的得分 後卫早就展现出他是联盟拥有最强力攻击的球员之一，一个活动力更强的Ginobili且具有 用他那不拘一格的运球方式在罚球区创造空位的能力。大胡子最大的优点在他的投篮。 他上季在雷霆队拥有49%的两分球命中率和39%的三分球命中率。 Harden had a breakout spring and summer: averaging 16.3 points per game in the playoffs as the Thunder reached the NBA Finals, and winning a gold medal on the U.S. Olympic team in London. But with star teammates Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook signed to max-level contracts and power forward Serge Ibaka getting a high-cost deal of his own, Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti was unwilling to give Harden a no-trade clause or a four-year, $60-million contract, the most he could have offered under the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement. 大胡子在春夏大有斩获，且季後赛平均得分16.3分。帮助雷霆队打入总冠军赛还在伦敦奥 运拿下金牌。但因为他的队友Durant和Westbrook都签顶约，大前锋Ibaka也拿到一个大约 。雷霆队的经理Presti只能勉强给他一份待有禁止交易权的4年6千万的合约。这已是他在 NBA新CBA限制下所能提供的最大约。 When Harden balked at those terms, Presti shipped him off to Houston in exchange for inferior shooting guard Kevin Martin, draft picks, and salary-cap flexibility. The Thunder were immediately excoriated by the sports media for choosing profits over championships, and Harden was suddenly Lin's new backcourt mate. 当大胡子拒绝这约，他就被马上打包送去火箭换了Martin和新秀及选秀权和薪资弹性。 雷霆马上遭到媒体挞伐因为选择了利益而非冠军。而大胡子就成了阿豪的後场夥伴。 Like Lin, Harden was snubbed by his team, deemed unworthy of the asking price, and unceremoniously shipped out of town. Harden may even have the bigger gripe, because he had demonstrated his worth by steadily improving over three seasons and becoming one of the five best shooting guards in the league. Now he will have the chance to lead a team to the playoffs, a task he actively shunned in 2009 when he lobbied Presti to draft him to be the Robin to Durant and Westbrook's Batman. 就像阿豪，大胡子马上遭到原来球队的冷落，说不值得开那麽高价。并被粗鲁的送走。 大胡子可能更火，因为他早就证明他的价值超过三季也早是联盟前五的得分後卫。但现在 他有机会带领自己的球队杀进季後赛。这他曾在2009游说Presti选秀选他去当Durant和 Westbrook的蝙蝠侠的罗宾时所避开的挑战。 The rest of the Rockets are either unproven or ineffective, except for defensive specialist Omer Asik. The offensive burden will fall on Harden and Lin night after night. And the two players have very similar styles that depend on being the dribble man on pick and rolls, a role that will likely be split between them now. They will have to develop a symmetry on offense that allows them to leverage the best part of their respective styles: Harden's outside shooting and careening drives to the basket, and Lin's interior passing and pick-and-roll game. 火箭整队都是还没证明自己的价值或不怎麽样的球员，除了防守专家Asik。攻击的重任 将会落在大胡子和阿豪头上。而他们有着非常相似的特质在做为Pick&Roll的带球者。 他们两个将分工合作扮演这个脚色，他们将在攻击上建立默契将使他们各自的优势产生 加乘的效果:大胡子的外线和斜切与阿豪的内线传导和Pick&Roll。 Whether Lin and Harden can succeed without a competent big man or bench help remains to be seen. But the long-term reputation of both men is at stake, and if sports history has shown anything, there are few more powerful motivators behind greatness than pride. 阿豪和大胡子在没有内线和板凳的帮助下能否成功有待观察。但两人都面临重大挑 战。如果运动史告诉我们什麽即是伟大与荣耀的背後总有一些强而有力的动机。 -- 不专业的翻了一篇觉得不错的文章，词不达意或翻译错误请多指教见谅。 --

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