來源: http://0rz.tw/073KY If Bryant regretted having popped off, he never showed it. His legendary ability to play through distractions was made clear during the 2003-04 season, when on several occasions he jumped on a morning flight to Colorado to appear at court proceedings involving his rape case (charges were eventually dropped) and arrived back at Staples Center right before tip-off. Then he would drop, oh, 40 points on a defender who appeared more tired than he did. "There is no player in the history of our game," says Fisher, "who can compartmentalize and separate on-court and off-court like Kobe. It was like all [the trade talk] never happened." 老大從來沒有表現出對自己當初發火的後悔．他在壓力下打球的能力我們 在２００３－０４球季應該看得很清楚了．他那個時候常常得早上坐飛機 為了那件事的關係去科羅拉多出庭，然後在晚上跳球前回來．然後呢？在 那些看起來比他還累的防守球員身上拿下４０分．”在我們這個時代，從 來沒有任何一個球員能跟他一樣，把場內外的事情分的這麼清楚，感覺起 來就像當初那些關於交易的肥皂劇從來沒發生過一樣．”小魚說． Indeed, with Bryant willingly sharing the ball but still taking over when he had to, the Lakers became one of the league's surprise teams. Bynum, Kobe's whipping boy, was a particular revelation, averaging 13.1 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.06 blocked shots to spark a 24-11 start before he went down with a dislocated left kneecap and bone bruise on Jan. 13. With sieve-handed Kwame Brown -- who calls to mind Yeats's words, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" -- replacing Bynum, L.A. seemed likely to tumble from the playoff race. 在本季老大願意分球以及在必要的時候跳出來稱霸球場的情況下，湖人成 了ＮＢＡ的黑馬．霸男，那個當初被老大嫌棄到不行的傢伙，表現的也特 別突出，在受傷前湖人戰績為２４－１１平均１３．１分１０．２籃板以 及２．０６個火鍋．接下來的湖人由奶油手（套句ｙｅａｔｓ的話”一切 都在崩壞中，而中間也撐不住”-[這句好狠,再度酸了奶油]）替代，湖人 看樣子進入季後賽的機會又少了不少． "But then," says Bryant, "came the coup de gra^ce." ”然後，”老大說”致命一擊的時候到了．” coup de grace - 這個是說, 當一個快要掛了的人在妳面前痛苦, 補刀讓 他不要繼續痛苦的行為. 很難解釋. 有點像是, 一定要 有犧牲, 湖人才能浴火重生這樣. THE G.M. Front-office types make their bones on big deals that produce contenders. Unlike his predecessor and mentor Jerry West, who before bringing Shaquille O'Neal and Bryant to L.A. pulled off several smaller trades that helped the Showtime Lakers own the 1980s, Kupchak hadn't made any blockbusters in his seven years at the helm. But on the first day of February he snagged talented frontcourtman Pau Gasol from the Grizzlies, while dumping the underachieving Brown. True, Memphis was in full fire-sale mode, but the deal was still so larcenously one-sided that Kupchak's picture should be in post offices coast-to-coast. Suddenly, Kupchak was the toast of the message boards instead of the guy who couldn't carry West's valise. ＧＭ 管理階層是靠交易吃飯的．Kupchak不像他的前輩Jerry West(在KO連線之前, 就有用小交易幫湖人弄到了Show time王朝)在７年的總管生涯裡，一次讓人 驚艷的交易都沒有．不過在２月的第一天，他從灰熊那裡以水貨狀元偷來了 耶穌．雖然灰熊是在跳樓大拍賣沒錯，可是Kupchak這次的表現讓人想幫他 出紀念郵票．突然之間，每個人都說Kupchak多好多好，忘了之前大家是怎麼 批評說他沒資格接West的棒． Predictably, the deal made him even more uncomfortable and desirous of a background role. "There's a word that describes you," a reporter told him last week. "Self-effacing." "I'll have to look that up," said Kupchak. 這交易讓他不自在，更想回到當初小人物的位置． 有個記者對他說，”我想到有個字很能形容你，超不愛出風頭．” Kupchak的回答？　”我回去查字典看看．” While Bryant had long let it be known that he was happier when West was in charge, Kupchak never returned fire, and so there was no scorched earth to irrigate when his star finally got happy. "I understand where Kobe is coming from and always have," says Kupchak. "He tasted winning early in his career, then began to think he wouldn't taste it again. He didn't want to get to that stage when the window was starting to shut and he was in another rebuilding situation." 雖然老大一直都表現出他在West當總管的時候比較快樂．Kupchak從來沒 有為了這件事反擊過，所以在他們的戰爭結束後，２方還是可以繼續共事． ”我理解Kobe的出發點，一直都知道．”Kupchak說”他在很年輕的時候 就拿到了冠軍，之後就害怕自己在也看不到冠軍戒指的影子．他不想在自己 開始變老的時候待在重建中的球隊裡．” Kupchak points to the big board in his El Segundo office listing the personnel of every NBA team, a G.M.'s standard wall accoutrement. "Kobe's not the first player to voice frustration with his team," he says. He stops there, but he could have thrown out names such as Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, Jason Kidd and Paul Pierce. Though none did it as loudly as Bryant. Kupchak指著自己辦公室那個有全ＮＢＡ人名的大板子說，”Kobe不是唯一 一個指責自己球隊的球員．”他並沒有繼續說下去，不過，ＫＧ，ＬＢＪ， 小孩，還有Pierce都做過一樣的事，雖然沒有一個人做的這麼明顯． THE SUPERSTAR Gasol and Bryant "hit the ground running," in Bryant's words, partly because both have high basketball IQs, partly because the center position, which the 7-foot Gasol will occupy until Bynum returns (possibly in early April), is the easiest one to learn in Jackson's triangle offense. Bryant feels that he now has his ideal supporting cast: two established vets who don't want the responsibility of leading (Gasol and forward Lamar Odom); a bunch of young "gym rats," as he calls forwards Luke Walton and Ronny Turiaf and guards Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic; and an old pro in Fisher, whose steady professionalism leavens Bryant's grinding, get-after-it-every-minute M.O. "I don't have to be as in-your-face as I used to," says Bryant. "I had to do it in the past because guys weren't working as hard as I was. Now everybody's on the same page." 明星 耶穌和老大按照老大的說法是”從一開始就很合得來．”可能因為他們２ 個都有很高的籃球智商，也可能是因為三角戰術中中鋒的位置最容易學． 老大開始覺得自己有了輔助：有２個不愛出風頭的好球員（耶穌和老二） ；一群年輕有動力的小將；還有那個願意努力到最後一分鐘的魚夫．”我 不再需要跟以前一樣老是跟在他們身邊囉說．以前我必須這樣做是因為大 家都沒有跟我一樣努力的動力．現在大家的目標都一致了．”老大說． THE COACH "Leadership is something I've always talked about with Kobe," says Jackson, "sometimes in conversations, sometimes through books I've given him. [One was John Heider's The Tao of Leadership.] Kobe's not big on subtlety, but his style of leadership has matured, gotten less confrontational. Of his [league-leading 12] technicals this season, half have come from fighting for his teammates, not from calls that even involved him." 教練 ”我一直都跟Kobe提到領導能力的重要，”禪師說，”有時候是在我們說 話的時候，有時候是藉由我給他的書．kobe不是個內斂的傢伙，可是他的 領導方式也慢慢成熟了，不再那麼帶著指責性．在這季他１２個Ｔ中，有 一半都是為了隊友出頭，而不是為了自己．” THE SUPERSTAR Asked what his MVP ballot would look like, Bryant says, "I'm not even thinking about that." But when somebody mentions that the Cleveland Cavaliers' James is a favorite because he's a near one-man team, Bryant, who was averaging 28.1 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.3 assists through Sunday, snaps, "Put me in the East and see what happens." 明星 當被問到他ＭＶＰ會拿到什麼樣的票數的時候，老大的回答是，”我沒有 在注意那個．”不過當被人提到ＬＢＪ因為數據關係本季是ＭＶＰ熱門的 時候，老大（２８．１分６．１籃板５．３助攻）說”你可以把我放到東 區然後看看會是什麼結果．” Bryant has taken steps to repair his image, mostly by communicating "with [his] fans around the world" on his website (KB24.com). He gets gentle grief from teammates for the Nike "Pure Genius" spots that appear on there, featuring Bryant dressed as different historical characters -- George Washington Carver, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and his favorite, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Why the composer? 老大借著開放他個人網站（KB24.com）和他全世界的球迷溝通來慢慢修復 自己的形象．雖然因為Ｎｉｋｅ最近讓他打扮成George Carver,達文西,愛 因斯坦,還有他個人最喜歡的莫札特而被隊友調笑．不過為什麼最喜歡莫札 特呢？ "He was the most talented among them, right?" says Bryant. (That could be debated, of course.) Then Bryant adds this: "And I've known more than my share of Salieris." ”他是這些人裡面最有天分的不是嗎？”（雖然很有爭議的空間啦）接著 老大加上了這句話”嫉妒我打壓我的人(Mozart的Salieri)也沒有少過吧．” He does not elaborate. Chances are, though, that he sees Mozart in himself, the controversial wunderkind (Bryant had just turned 18 when his NBA career began in '96) trying to play through the jealousy and rage of those less talented, which is pretty much everyone. 他並沒有多說．不過大概是因為他在莫札特身上看到了自己，受到爭議的 天才在旁人的嫉妒和打壓下努力． Bryant's redemption is a good L.A. story, but it's not the main one playing out at Staples Center right now. That one's about a team which discovers that, as Jackson says, "adversity made us a little more resilient and appreciative of the things we have." It is also an unfinished tale, as the G.M. begs everyone to remember, but one that will be compelling to the end. 老大的重返榮耀絕對是一個很有趣的ＬＡ故事，可是這並不是staples center 目前的重頭戲．這是一個發現到，套句禪師的話”逆境才能讓人成長，以及 了解到自己擁有的東西，”的球隊．這也是個還在進行中的故事，不過，一定 絕無冷場． ----------------- 脫稿有點久 orz 最近比較忙.. (笑 不過週末過了.. 應該比較好了啦 今天這場球, 看的我心慌慌阿 3分雨不停 --

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