天哪有够长的！不如大家来接力翻译。 我来开第一枪，但我翻译功力很烂请多包涵XD A Basketball Fairy Tale in Middle America 在美国中部的篮球童话故事 N.B.A. scoring champions are, as a rule, weirdos and reprobates and in some cases diagnosable sociopaths. Something about dominating your opponent, publicly, more or less every day of your life, in the most visible aspect of your sport, tends to either warp your spirit or to be possible only to those whose spirits are already warped. Michael Jordan, when he wasn’t busy scoring, was busy punching a teammate in the face and gambling away small fortunes. Allen Iverson, in his spare time, recorded an aesthetically and morally terrible rap album and gave an iconic speech denigrating the very notion of practice. Kobe Bryant is and shall forever be Kobe Bryant. Wilt, Shaq, Pistol Pete, Dominique, McGrady, McAdoo, Rick Barry — it’s a near-solid roster of dysfunction: sadists, narcissists, malcontents, knuckleheads, misanthropes, womanizers, addicts and villains. While it’s true that plain old N.B.A. superstars do occasionally manage to be model citizens (cf. Tim Duncan, Grant Hill, Steve Nash), there is something irredeemable about a scoring champion. 在NBA中的得分王咧，通常来说都是一些怪人、恶棍，或是在某些情况中， 是那些在诊断之下具有反社会倾向的人。 关於那些控制对手和公众的事情，在生活上，最明显是在运动的观点上， 每天往往都或多或少要嘛扭曲精神，或可能只扭曲那些已经扭曲的精神... 当MJ没有忙着得分时，他正忙着扁他队友的脸以及为了那些小钱赌博； AI在他的业余时间里，录制了在美学观点和道德观点上都非常可怕的饶舌专辑， 并且用一个象徵性的演说毁了有关练球的概念。 湖人队老大，就是，并且将来也永远会就是这个老大。(译注：看到这我笑了) 张大帅、侠客、Pistol Pete、Dominique、梯妹、McAdoo、Rick Barry... 这些则是近期有这些障碍的固定班底：虐待狂、自我感觉良好、总是不满的人、 笨蛋、独行侠、耽溺女色的人、成瘾者和恶棍。 尽管老NBA的一些超级巨星偶尔把自己变成模范市民(例如TD、好好先生和飘发哥)， 但关於得分王的一些印象还是无法挽回的。 (译注：第一段有够难翻的，一堆专有名词查死我惹...Orz) Kevin Durant, the star of the Oklahoma City Thunder, is the youngest scoring champion in N.B.A. history. At 24, he has led the league in scoring for three consecutive seasons, and all signs point to him keeping that up for the foreseeable future. It follows, then, that Durant should also be a prodigy of a head case. He should have been arrested for reckless driving at around age 9, broken his hand in a strip-club brawl at age 12 and accidentally shot his chauffeur no later than age 15. KD，OKC雷霆队的球星，是NBA史上最年轻的得分王(译注：奇怪不是喇叭詹吗?)， 在24岁的时候他就已经连续三届在得分榜上领先排行， 而且所有的评分和迹象都显示他在可预见的未来都会保持这样的状况。 以下是在篮球天才KD身上应有的情况： 他应该在大概9岁的时候因为危险驾驶而被逮捕、在12岁的脱衣舞夜总会斗殴中断手、 然後在不超过15岁的时候意外枪伤他的司机。 Instead, Durant has a reputation roughly on par with Gandhi. He seems to be — not just for a scoring champion, but for anyone — almost inhumanly humble. His motto, which he intones constantly, is “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” His pregame ritual involves kissing his mother, as does his postgame ritual. Once, in college, during probably the greatest freshman season of all time, a reporter asked Durant if he realized that he had just single-handedly outscored the entire opposing team in the second half of a game. Durant answered, with absolute sincerity, “Who, me?” When I asked the Thunder coach, Scott Brooks, to tell me about his superstar, he laughed. “Whatever you say nice, you can print it out and I’ll just say I said it,” he said. “Because it’s true.” 相反的，Durant已经有了大致上和甘地差不多的名声。 他似乎是─不单单为了得分王，也为了任何人─这几乎快变成不人类的谦卑了。 他的座右铭，也是他常常念着的，“当天分偷懒时，努力会击败天分”。 他在赛前仪式中会亲吻他的母亲，就像赛後仪式一样。 有次在大学中，或许是史上最威的新生赛季的时候， 有个记者问Durant他知不知道他自己得到了对面整队在下半场的分数， Durant很真诚地回答了：“蛤，谁？ 我？” 当我请雷霆教练Scott Brooks和我说说有关他们队上这个超级巨星， 他笑了，“不管你说了什麽好的，你可以直接把他印出来然後说是我说的” “因为那都是真的。” 快，谁接一下接力棒！我要开会去了~~~ 过了痛苦的第一段之後简直就是翻得欲罢不能..... ※ 引述《Ambre1110 (Amber)》之铭言： : A Basketball Fairy Tale in Middle America : by Sam Anderson : from the New York Times ( http://ppt.cc/mBFA ) : 分享一下我在纽时看到的这篇关於OKC的文章，是快一个多月前的旧文了，不过个人觉得写 : 得很棒，作者Sam Anderson的笔触很细腻，观察的视角很温暖，他谈到的不光光只是这支 : 球队而已，还有谈到OKC这座城市以及当中的人。通过自己对球队以及OKC这座城市的探访 : ，他或许没有真的点破什麽，但却给了读者一个引子，告诉你那是座什麽样的城市、那是 : 支什麽样的球队。 : 因为篇幅多（共有十一页），再加上我最近快期末了比较忙，可能没有办法马上帮大家翻 : 完，所以就先分享原文给大家了！原文还有附多人高清美图欸，大家一定要去看XDD : 至於中译的话，如果还是有人想看，我再找时间慢慢翻好了：） --

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