翻译的品质不够好请见谅，谨献给没时间查字典或阅读不够快的版友 也欢迎提出更正 原文:http://tinyurl.com/yd5v9t8 Top 50: Vince Carter, no. 25 The definitive ranking of the NBA’s best players. by Adam Fleischer Vince Carter plays with no heart. Vince Carter没有用心打球。 Seriously, it’s true. You think Vince Carter so, don’t you? 「严格来说，这是真的。」你是这麽想的吧，不是吗？ You hear it a lot. You might believe it, and you’ve probably said it. In the very least, the thought has crossed your mind during the man’s twelve NBA seasons. And who can blame you. We’ve been fed such a theory so often that it ’s become widely accepted. But it’s not true. Really, it’s not. 你常听到这种评论，你也许相信它，甚至你可能还说过。最少，这种想法曾经在过去的12 个球季闪过你的心中。但谁能责怪你呢？我们太常听到这种说法，导致这说法被广泛接受。 但是，这并非事实。 What’s true is that we just wanted a reason to justify why Vince let us down. Because that’s what he did. Let us down. Fall short of our hopes. Fail to meet the goals we set for him. Whatever you wanna call it. 事实是我们想要找出一个理由，去解释为何Vince没有达到我们的期望，没能完成我们为 他设定的目标。 你想怎麽说都行。 He came out of North Carolina with boatloads of potential, poised to be one of the game’s next megastars. So we opened out hearts to him. His hops took him beyond the Milky Way—where our expectations similarly soared—and his smile won over channel surfers across the country otherwise disenchanted with the sport. And the Jordan comparisons—in the wake of MJ’s retirement and at the height of the search for an Air Apparent—only served to further illuminate his growing star. 他怀着无穷的潜力走出北卡，准备成为下一个超级巨星。他的弹跳超越了随着我们的期待 而攀升的银河，他用他的笑容赢得了原本已不对篮球抱有任何期待的观众。这有资格被拿 来跟比拟乔丹的男人，在MJ退役之时，在众人寻找飞人接班人之时，照亮了他冉冉上升的 明星之路。 At first, we were anything but disappointed. Nah, matter of fact, VC gave us what we asked for and then some. Rookie of the Year in the shortened lockout season. All-Star, Third Team All-NBA and the architect of the greatest Slam Dunk Contest performance of my lifetime (and probably ever) the next year. Plus, he took Toronto to their first playoff appearance in franchise history. Year three, more of the same. Forty-seven wins for the Raps. Top five in the L in scoring for Vince. It was his time. 最开始，他没有让我们失望，事实上，VC给了我们想要的、甚至更多：那个缩水赛季的最 佳新秀，全明星赛，NBA第三阵容，还有第二个赛季我毕生所见的（也许是史上）最伟大 的灌篮大赛冠军。另外，他带领多伦多人历史上第一次闯入季後赛。第三个赛季，例行赛 四十七胜，得分榜排名第五。 这是他的时代。 Simultaneously as we were taking him for granted, he was being taken away from us in his mid-twenties like he was a rap legend or some shit. But Vince didn’t get capped (although when he put one on for graduation and heard the hate ring out. Hey, let’s criticize one of the few guys in the League that values education and actually finishes his degree! That’s a great message for kids! Basketball over books!). Instead of some quick bullets, though, he was taken away slowly, injury by injury, loss by loss, season by season. 当我们识这些成就为理所当然时，二十多岁的他却抽离了我们的视线。像是只存在於虚幻 中的传说，或者只是一推狗屎。但是Vince并没有被掩盖住， (虽然因为他去了毕业典礼而引来轩然大波，并骂声四起；嘿，尽量骂吧，骂一个在联盟 中少数肯正视教育并完成其学业的球员。这就是你们想要传达给孩子们的讯息吧!只要乖乖 打球就好，读书？那是啥？能吃吗？) 他并非突然消失在NBA的舞台，但是翱翔於天际的华丽身影却随着时间慢慢的褪色， 随着一次又一次的受伤，一再的输球，浑浑噩噩的度过了那些悲惨的球季。 The final days in Toronto weren’t pretty and there’s no two ways about that. But Vince made the Raptors relevant. You didn’t watch them on national TV before, and haven’t since. Those few years of playoff runs were Vince at his most awe inducing and us at our most willing to consume his game, his style, his persona. 在多伦多的最後日子并不美妙，剧本里写下了令人遗憾的结局。VC成就了暴龙，之前你从 未看过暴龙队比赛在全国直播，自那以後可能也不会有。VC带领暴龙连年杀入季後赛，在 他最辉煌的那些岁月、也是我们狂恋於他的比赛，他的球风，他的性格的时候。 His final year(s) above the border truly turned many people off. But New Jersey was supposed to be a new beginning, another shot at doing what we knew he could. In some ways, it was. Teaming with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson, he helped lead them to a playoff birth his first year in New Jersey and an Atlantic Division title during his first full year in 2005-06. 他在暴龙的最後一年的确令很多人失望，但新泽西又是新的开始，另一个让我们再次知道 “他可以做得到！”的场景。在某种程度上它是的。和Jason Kidd、Richard Jefferson 并肩作战，他在新泽西获得了新生，带领篮网杀进季後赛，并在他第一个完整球季并拿下 大西洋组第一。 The years that followed were more of the same: the Nets as an above average team, but never one surfacing as a true threat for a title. Maybe it was because Vince wasn’t able to bring them to that elite status, even when he had legitimate talent around him. It’s also possible that the talent was never elite enough to claim that status. It’s most likely some combination of the two. 接下来的几年情况又变回了令人厌烦的回圈，篮网始终处在联盟中游，而非一只能冲击总 冠军的劲旅。这有可能是VC能力不足以带领还算可用之兵的战力，也可能是队友的天赋还 是远不足以成为强队，或者跟两个原因都有关。 Yet, his play has been a constant during that time. Not looking anything like we had once hoped it would, but still, in many ways, performing like we had always imagined. He usually scores in the mid-twenties. He rebounds and dishes out assists at a better rate than he did in T Dot. He logs serious minutes and hits it respectably from the stripe and the field. 然而，他的表演仍始终如一，如果不抱着以前对他的高标准期待的话。但即使如此，在很 多方面，他还是能表现的像是我们初相遇时料想的那般华丽。他还是能在20尺跳投得分， 他用更棒的效率抢下更多的篮板、送出更多的助攻。他还是能在场上任何一角进球得分， 他还是能一次次的在关键时刻写下纪录。 The hate, animosity, and relative irrelevancy of the Nets have each helped to often mask this. No longer. 但是，讨厌VC的人、憎恨VC的人、不关心篮网的人却彷佛是串通好般，掩盖这些事迹。 彷佛它不曾存在。 As he prepares to suit up for the Eastern Conference Champs and an actual contender in Orlando, there’s a chance for another life. A third one, a second one, a fifth one. I don’t know. But there’s another shot for us to accept him and for him to give us the right to. 当他已经准备好成为东部冠军和总冠军竞争者的一员，接下来将是生涯新的篇章。我不知 道下赛季魔术会达到怎样的高度。但这让我们有了新的机会重新认同VC，而VC也将会给我 们这个机会去见证它。 Stan Van Gundy has already admitted that the ball will be in Vince’s hands down the stretch, and that’s something to look forward to. The question isn’ t whether or not he’s still got it. Cause he does. It’s not even to what level he’s still got it. The question is how often he’ll show us. What will happen when he’s faced with his first meaningful playoff game in nearly a decade? Stan Van Gundy已经证实将会把球权交给Vince去发挥，而这也是我们所期待的。问题不在 於他是否仍拥有他所有的，而在於他的作为；也不在於他还能达到什麽样的高度，在於他 多久後他将秀给我们看的。在十年後，他将会如何面对生涯第一个能为荣耀而战的季後赛？ I’ll bet that heart’s still got some pitter-patter left in it. 我敢打赌在他的血液里仍然沸腾着这样的雄心壮志。 --

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