Allen Iverson Wants to Play 6 More Years Source: http://tinyurl.com/nlo29z At this time last summer, Allen Iverson was one of the highest-paid players in the game and generally regarded as a superstar enjoying the final years of his prime. One failed season in Detroit, he's become a complete afterthought. What happened? For one, all of the stereotypes that have surrounded him his entire career proved to be still true: he needs an offense custom-made for his abilities to be effective; he can no longer finish consistently at the rim; he's a sieve on defense; he'd rather sit out than concede a starting job. Scoring guards are generally the easiest asset to find in the NBA, and considering the undeniable evidence that Iverson's game has slipped, it now longer makes sense to make him the primary focal point. Nevertheless, Iverson, 34, is in no hurry to leave the game the game behind, revealing in a recent interview with his hometown paper in Newport News, Va., that he hopes to play until he's 40. From David Teel of the Daily Press: Q: You said hopefully the next stop is a place you can retire. How many years do you think you might have left? 您希望下一站是您可以退休的地方，那妳覺得多久後妳才會離開球場? A: I used to say that I didn't want to go over 40. I see young guys emulating the way I play ... and I used to think it would be weird to be 40 years old and doing the things I do. You can't be 40 years old still trying to cross people over and stuff like that. ... 我以前常說我不想到40歲，我看到很多年輕小伙子在模仿我打球，而我會覺得奇怪的是我 到40歲後還有人模仿我打球。很難想像到40歲還在試著帶球過人。 But the one thing God gave me is the stamina to be able to run all day, as far as being a freak of nature. My teammates always say that about me. I honestly feel like I'm not slowing down. I'm just thinking I don't want to go past 40. I'll push it to the limit. I hope God gives me six more good years. 不過很慶幸的是上帝給我很好的體力讓我持續整天的跑動，到目前為止是很奧妙的事。我 隊友總是會談到我，我很誠實的感覺到我並不是怠慢，我只是在想我到40歲前還要不要打 球，我會將自己衝到極限。我希望上帝能給我六年的籃球生涯。 Iverson seems to realize that his skills are no longer valued quite as much as they used and seemed to accept the fact that he'll have to take a significant pay cut if he hopes to prolong his career. Iverson似乎覺得他的技巧已經不再像以前人們評價那麼的好，也接受可能會減薪打球的事 業。 Iverson: Man, if money is a concern to me at this point in my life, after all that I've made, then I've got a problem. So that's not going to be a big deal. The biggest deal is going to be being happy. That's it. ... In Denver I was happy all the way through, but that was what, two years? I'm talking about a steady diet of happiness all the way through. That's all I want at this point in my career. Iverson說:男人，在人生中的這一刻，總是會非常關心錢的事，但畢竟我已經賺夠了，然 而我也出現一個問題。所以就不會有一很大的交易。有一場大交易固然是很開心的一件事 ，那就是在丹佛我真的很快樂在那裡打球，但那又如何，兩年而已?我很堅決談到打球還是 要以快樂為優先。在我籃球生涯中快樂才是我最想要的。 Obviously I want a championship, but I don't care about statistics anymore like I did when I was younger. I don't care about All-Star games. I don't care about scoring titles, MVPs, none of that. I just want to play basketball, be effective and be happy. Be a great teammate. I don't even care about being dominant on the court like I used to be. I don't have any more individual goals . I've done basically everything you can do in a basketball game. 很明顯的我現在很想要一個冠軍，但我不在很關心的我的打球數據如何。我也不在忽NBA明 星賽，我也不在忽得分排行，MVPS，都不是在忽這些。我只是想要打籃球!有效率而且很快 樂。並當一個很好的隊友，我甚至不在忽在球場上我是不是領導者。我已經不在也有更多 個人的目標，那些個人目標我在之前都已經完成了。 Maybe his time in Detroit taught something, or maybe he's simply saying all the right things -- if you recall, he made virtually the same comments while being introduced in Detroit, claiming he'd do anything if it meant winning. When push came shove, "anything" didn't include coming off the bench, trusting the team's renowned medical staff to treat his back injury or showing up to the arena to support his teammates while he was injured. His skills may be in decline, but his ability to say exactly what everyone wants to hear while proceeding to do the exact opposite is still in peak form. -- ○○○○○ □□□ ⊙⊙ ◎◎ ☆ ☆ ○ □ ⊙ ⊙ ◎ ◎ ☆☆ ○ □□□ ⊙ ⊙ ◎ ◎ ☆ ○ □ ⊙ ⊙ ◎ ◎ ☆ ○ □□□ ⊙⊙ ◎◎ ☆ --

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