[外電] IT:我會努力招募KD
看板Celtics (波士頓 塞爾提克)作者piercepaul (Never too late)時間10年前 (2016/06/06 02:37)推噓108(108推 0噓 143→)留言251則, 25人參與討論串1/1
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As Isaiah Thomas sat on his porch at home in Tacoma, Wash., last Monday after
watching the Thunder lose Game 7 of the Western Conference finals to the
Warriors, he had an idea.
The Celtics point guard knows, like everyone else, that Oklahoma City forward
Kevin Durant will become a free agent this summer. He also knows, like
everyone else, that adding Durant to a roster would have a seismic impact.
And in that moment on that porch, be thought it might be a good time to spice
up the Durant-to-Boston narrative, no matter how unlikely a prospect it might
be. So he grabbed his iPhone, opened Twitter, and posted Durant’s No. 35
next to a green shamrock. It was simple, but not especially subtle.
“I just wanted the world to know, that’s who I’m trying to get,” Thomas
said.
Thomas has 356,000 followers on Twitter, and the response, unsurprisingly,
swelled in an instant. After a couple minutes, Thomas deleted the tweet. He
said he was not instructed by anyone to do so; he just realized that his
timing might not be appropriate.
“I just thought it was something nice to do for the world to see, “ Thomas
said. “But I didn’t think it was gonna be as big as it got.”
In a telephone interview with the Globe on Sunday from Shanghai, where Thomas
is taking part in an NBA initiative to promote the game, Thomas made it clear
that his courtship of Durant will not end with one vague and quickly deleted
tweet. He said he acquired Durant’s phone number and intends to call him
sometime soon.
“I definitely want to give him some time,” Thomas said. “I know that was a
tough series and a long season for him. I wouldn’t want anyone calling me up
about the biggest decision of my life right after the season’s over. So I’
ll probably give him some time and casually talk to him, and then go all-in.”
What would going “all-in” entail?
“I mean, do everything I can to get him to sign, somehow, someway, hopefully,
” Thomas said.
Of course, the prospect of Durant actually joining Boston remains a bit of a
longshot, particularly after Oklahoma City’s stirring playoff run in which
it nearly dethroned the mighty Warriors. Still, Thomas intends to do all he
can to lure Durant, and, for that matter, anyone else Boston pursues.
He said the Celtics’ decisions to extend the contracts of head coach Brad
Stevens and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge sent a “great
message” to current and prospective players.
“I think it starts with knowing your foundation is set, and you’ve got to
go from there,” Thomas said. “Hopefully, even with the free agents and
things like that, players looking into coming to Boston see they’re
committed to Danny and Brad and the future.”
Over Memorial Day weekend Thomas hosted his third annual “Zeke-End”
basketball tournament in Tacoma. His team included Celtics forward Jared
Sullinger and guard Terry Rozier, and Celtics guard Evan Turner attended as
well but did not play.
Sullinger will become a restricted free agent this summer and Turner is an
unrestricted free agent, but Thomas said he mostly avoided that topic because
he just wanted his friends to enjoy themselves. He said he does hope that
they return to Boston.
“It’s a business and whatever both sides decide is gonna happen,” Thomas
said. “But I just wish those boys luck, because those are good friends.”
Thomas was the Celtics’ representative at the NBA draft lottery last month,
when Boston secured the No. 3 overall pick. He said he has no sense what
Boston will do with the selection
“I know they’re gonna do their best to try to make the Celtics a better
team for next year, so whether that’s to use the draft picks or trade them
away and get players that can impact the game right now, I don’t know,”
Thomas said. “But I do know those guys are gonna do their job; I’m
confident in that.”
In addition to this China trip, Thomas has already had a busy summer, from
the lottery to his basketball tournament to co-hosting NBA Countdown on ESPN
during the Eastern Conference finals. He has been watching these playoffs
intently, he said, paying close attention to how Steph Curry and LeBron James
stay so poised and under control at all times, regardless of the moment.
The playoffs have also intensified Thomas’s hunger, particularly after the
Celtics lost in the first round for the second consecutive year.
“I need more,” Thomas said. “I want my team to not just make the NBA
Finals but go further in the playoffs. It’s killing me that we had an early
exit, but I’m using it as motivation to get back in the gym and work even
harder. We know we can compete with the best, so we’ve got to do it.”
In China, Thomas has been taking part in basketball clinics and helping
promote the NBA in a country that already has a deep passion for the sport.
He spent three days in Shanghai and is scheduled to leave for Beijing on
Monday.
At one event in Shanghai, Thomas and Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell drafted
their own teams of teenagers — Thomas’s players wore Celtics jerseys and
Russell’s donned Lakers attire — as the two NBA stars served as coaches.
Russell’s team won by 3 points.
Thomas has been stunned by how many Chinese fans are familiar him; he even
saw some wearing his old Sacramento Kings jerseys.
“It’s kind of surreal,” he said, “when you sit back and think about how
you can impact lives from so far away.”
懶人翻譯
1.IT在推特的發文(35+幸運草)，他的說法是為了讓世界知道他想招募他。
2.他知道KD剛結束系列賽，應該還需要一點時間，所以他不會立馬跟他講
來波士頓的事。而IT已經有KD的電話，會先有意無意的跟他聊(你就加他
LINE，這半個月先天天傳貼圖，然後再跟他聊嘛)。
3.關於胖蘇他們的未來，IT:聯盟很商業啦，希望他們幸運啦我們還是朋友啦。
這幾天在看薪資結構，如果要裸簽KD+AH，基本上Amir、JJ、Zeller、Sully
都要讓他們成為自由球員，Turner的cap hold也要丟掉，然後再交易掉一個
1M薪資的球員即可，#16或#23交易掉也行。雖然走了JJ、Turner很可惜，但
IT、AB、Smart、Crowder、Rozier、Mickey跟#3都不用動到，而且能用例外
條款簽老將，最重要的是明後年可能有機會抽狀元...感覺真的很討厭耶XD。
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