Vlade knows what you're thinking He knows you must be wondering how we've gotten this far without getting into flopping. 他知道你一定好奇我們談了這麼久，為何還沒有提到他的演技。 You rarely hear an unkind word about Divac in basketball circles -- "It's impossible not to like him," West claims -- but this is that subject. 在籃球圈，提到 Divac的名字，你很少會聽到難聽的形容詞。「不可能不喜歡這個傢 伙。」West說，不過這與那些無關。 http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0407/nba_g_divac_300.jpg He prefers to talk about his passing, but Vlade -- like it or not -- is known for his flopping, too. So here is the long-awaited rebuttal/explanation/confession from the man who used all of his soccer instincts and acting mojo he gleaned from wife Ana's profession to earn an unshakable reputation for occasionally exaggerating the contact absorbed while playing defense. 接下來是這個男人對於假摔的反駁/解釋/自白。他利用了這個他老婆內行的足球技巧 和表演方式（ Divac的老婆疑為足球員）替他賺取了不少名聲，也成為他防守時避免過多 碰撞接觸的方法。 "First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper," Vlade says. "But flopping was, in some period of my career, a part of my game, especially against Shaquille O'Neal. It was the only way I could try to stop him. And I did well, I guess." 「首先，我比較希望大家記得我的傳球，而不是我的假摔。不過這也是我生涯的一部 份，我比賽中的一部份。特別是對抗Shaquille O'Neal的時候，這是我唯一能阻止他的方 式。我想我做得還不錯。」 Yet now that he is no longer flopping, er, playing, Divac might have actually lost some of his ability to enrage Shaq. 不過他不假摔（打球）的日子已經很久了， Divac已經在Shaq的記憶中漸漸淡化。 Given the opportunity to proclaim Divac as the NBA's worst-ever flopper, Shaq decided not to blast his longtime foe. 當問到Divac是不是NBA最會假摔的球員時，Shaq並認為並不是這位他長期的對手。 "It's the Collins boys," Shaq said, referring to twin brothers Jarron and Jason Collins. "They always get me." 「我想是Collins兄弟。他們總是搞毛我。」 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vlade's other vice I spent a lot of time in Divac's company during his March visit to Sactown. And I can confirm that I did see him smoke a cigarette or two from a pack peeking out of his coat pocket. 在 Divac三月到訪沙城的日子裡，我花了不少時間跟他作伴。我可以證明他幾乎沒抽 過幾根煙。 He doesn't have to hide the Camels anymore. In retirement -- and living back in Belgrade for the past year after a two-year stint as an executive with Real Madrid and nearly two decades away -- smoking is hardly taboo. 他不再需要把煙藏起來了，因為他現在已經退休了。要知道在球員生涯中，抽煙是一 個嚴重大忌。 But the feedback he gets for it now, as I also witnessed, might be more painful than the whispers about cigarettes throughout his NBA days. Taunting from his 11-year-old daughter, Petra, is frequent, with a go-to move of drawing her thumb and index finger to her forehead in the shape of an "L" to chide Dad for his inability to stop smoking. 不過他現在抽煙的時候所感受到的痛苦可能更大。因為他的十一歲女兒Petra 不停地 模仿他抽煙的動作，來嘲弄戒不掉煙的老爸。 （譯：http://www.novine.ca/arhiva/2005/1026/slike/m-%201026%20divac.jpg） Vlade's counter is that he's "really never been a heavy smoker." Vlade說他抽得其實不兇。 And that it didn't stop him from lasting 16 seasons in the NBA and joining that exclusive club mentioned earlier: Divac, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon and Kevin Garnett form the exclusive quartet of multifaceted NBA stars to amass at least 13,000 points, 9,000 rebounds, 3,000 assists and 1,500 blocks in their careers. 而抽煙也沒有阻止他成為成功的籃球員。他在 NBA奮戰了十六個球季，並且和Kareem Abdul-Jabbar、Hakeem Olajuwon、Kevin Garnett是史上僅有的四個 13000分、9000籃板 、3000助攻及1500阻攻的球員。 "Marc was telling me that I'll be picked between 5 and 15, but nobody picked me," Divac said of longtime agent Marc Fleisher, recalling the night in New York when he was drafted by the Lakers. 「Marc告訴我說我會在五到十五順位間被選，不過沒有人選擇我。」（Marc Fleisher 是Divac長期的經紀人）Divac回想著在紐約的那個選秀夜。 "Later on I found out everybody thinks I'm drinking and I'm smoking because I'm European. So it actually worked well for me because I got to [the] Lakers." 「我後來發現那是因為大家都覺得我是歐洲人，一定會抽很兇、喝很兇。不過也因為 這樣，我到了湖人隊。」 -- 過去式：Kayte Christensen 現在式：Aviv Casspi 未來式：Petra Divac --

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