[外電] Melo Time (上)

看板C_Anthony作者carmelo07 (瓜瓜)時間12年前 (2013/03/15 15:05)推噓1(1推 0噓 0→)

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In his third season with the Knicks, Carmelo Anthony has stepped up his game— on and off the court—turning a sometimes hit-or-miss career into the stuff championships are made of. Melo在尼克的第三個賽季，安東尼已提高了他的季賽目標，那是在他職業生涯有時一直都在追求的東西：『總冠軍』。 EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, a surreal moment occurs in the life of Carmelo Anthony. He will be out somewhere, maybe at a dinner or a business gathering, and he will be introduced to a person, perhaps a very capable person, who knows many things about many things, but does not know who Carmelo Anthony is. This seems improbable, given that the 28-year-old Anthony is one of the most public and scrutinized athletes in the media fun-house mirror of New York City, but it does happen. Sometimes the person has a vague idea. Sometimes they recognize just Anthony's first name—Carmelo, yes, it rings a bell—and nothing else. They don't know much about NBA basketball. They don't know much about the New York Knicks. 每一次在一段時間內，一個超現實的時刻發生在Melo的生活中。他在某個地方(也許在晚餐或商務聚會)被介紹給一個人，也許是一個很能幹的人，這個人知道很多事情，但不知道誰是Melo。這似乎是不可能的，因為28歲的Melo是紐約媒體最有興趣的運動員之一，但它確實發生，有時人們有一個模糊的概念，有時，他們承認只知道Anthony's的名字 Carmelo(Anthony是姓氏)，他們不知道NBA籃球，他們不是很了解紐約尼克隊。 This doesn't insult Anthony. Not at all. This is a relief. Anonymity makes him happy. "I love having those conversations," Anthony says on a January afternoon. He says this earnestly, as if he's describing a guilty pleasure he wishes he could enjoy more. "Because if there is a connection, it's a natural connection. It's not anything to do with basketball." 這對Melo不盡然都是侮辱，這是一種解脫，有人不認識他讓他有時可以當個平凡人能讓他覺得很快樂。 Melo在1月的一個下午超認真的說：我愛那些談話，好像他描述的是他享受的是更多的內疚快感，因為那是一些自然的接觸，不是做任何事情都只有籃球。 These moments do not happen often. Chances are they will be happening less and less. Anthony is deep into his third season in New York, and the Knicks are playing some of their best basketball in more than a decade—the primary reason being Anthony. This is not insignificant news. For most of his 10-season career, Anthony has been regarded as an offensive dynamo—Charles Barkley, the ex-player, TNT analyst and basketball's Simon Cowell, describes Anthony to me as "the best scorer in the NBA"—but there was the maddening suspicion that Anthony left potential on the table, that he lacked the crazy-eyed single-mindedness that separated the very good from the great. Melo was about Melo, too unengaged, perhaps ambivalent, the rap went. 這些時刻不會經常發生，而且機會越來越少。這是他到紐約的第三個第三個賽季，而尼克打出了最近10年間最好的表現，而主要的因素是Melo，這不是個小新聞，在Melo的職業生涯大部分時間都被視為進攻機器，很多人都介紹Melo是NBA最佳得分手，但有些質疑，他缺乏野心是讓他離最好的球員有點距離，但Melo依然是Melo。 That suspicion is fading. When we meet just after the New Year, the Knicks are in first place in their division, and Anthony has just been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week. The long hype of Carmelo Anthony in New York City has coalesced into something real, and there's a lightness to his mood. 這種質疑近來開始減少，當我們迎接過新年，尼克排在大西洋區首位，Melo剛剛被評為東區本週最佳球員。經過長期炒作的Melo和紐約市已經融合成一體，讓他的心情一直是明亮、充滿希望。 "This is what I envisioned, coming to New York," he says. "This was on my vision board. I'd sit back and be like, damn, I am going to run out there and be hitting game winners in the Garden in front of fans, getting them riled up. When they're stomping on the floors, yelling 'New York Knicks'—that's a great feeling." “來紐約這是我想要的，這是我的夢想地，我會坐下來，想著，該死，我真的來到這裏，可以在MSG的球迷面前打敗對手，讓球迷興奮起來，當他們踩著地板，吆喝著“紐約 Knicks'，這是一個很棒的感覺。” We are sitting on plastic chairs in the empty Knicks practice facility in Tarrytown, New York. Practice is done. We look like a pair of ninth graders waiting out detention after gym class. Anthony is wearing an orange T-shirt and a pair of lightweight sweatpants cut at the calf—a version of basketball capris. He stretches his long legs across the floor. 我們正坐在紐約尼克隊訓練設的施塑料椅子上。練習已經完成，我們看起來像是九年級學生體育課後等著下課。安東尼身穿橙T和一件籃球褲(修長的腿站在地板上) ...................................................................... 這個時刻，更需要一些勵志性的文章，雖然這篇外電現在看來有點晞噓，但黎明前總是最黑暗的時刻，相信黑暗的時刻即將過去，黎明很快就會到來。 Melo 加油呦 ~^o^~ PS：這篇外電會分(上)(中)(下)三次PO文 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 163.29.241.235