[外電]So the curtain falls, and some will take their
我到該報紙The Commercial Appeal的網站找到這篇報導，
但JWill的那句PS好像拿掉了！
閱讀它的新聞內容要註冊，亂填資料後就可看了！
因為貼網址好像沒用、所以我直接貼上來
內容還是小感傷 難得這麼好的陣容 可能球季後就要解體了
然後Bonzi這系列之所以上場時間太少
看來就是他與教練Mike Fratello有心結
但小感人的是 今天比賽JWill和Swift都掛6號的護腕上場比賽
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(有人可以幫忙翻出全文嗎)
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Calkins: So the curtain falls, and some will take their leave
By Geoff Calkins
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May 2, 2005
The clock ran out, the buzzer sounded,
and Shane Battier leaned down to untie his shoes.
He does this at the end of every season,
when the shoes aren't much use to him anymore.
Battier tossed one shoe into the crowd on one side of the court.
He tossed the other shoe into the crowd on the other side of the court.
He walked off, in stocking feet,
and into a future that will have a very different look.
"I'd be shocked if our lineup looks like it does this year," he said.
"We had a good run, four years."
The Phoenix Suns defeated the Grizzlies on Sunday night,
sweeping them out of the playoffs, 123-115.
It wasn't just the end to a season, really.
It was the end of this team,
this collection of players that forged a bond with the city
that didn't exist before.
Earl Watson said he thought about how fast it all went by,
how many people he'd like to thank.
To his right,
Stromile Swift took off his Grizzlies jersey for what could be the last time.
Bonzi Wells never made it to the goodbye party.
He was asked to stay away.
Jason Williams was escorted out of the locker room after
-- how to say this? -- taking a pen out of my hand.
He didn't like a column I wrote. He asked where I live.
But you know what?
If Williams is part of the changes, I'll miss covering the guy.
Miss the basketball genius, the brilliant sleight of hand.
"We're going to have a different identity," said Battier.
"That's just the way it goes."
Well, yeah.
But people are still learning that down here.
As far as Memphis fans know, Williams has always been a Grizzly.
Same with Swift. Same with Battier. Same with Gasol.
Same with Lorenzen Wright.
Can you imagine the Grizzlies without the Stro Show?
Without J-Will? Without Bonz ... oh, scratch that.
A day after Mike Fratello said the media had created a rift
between Wells and the staff out of thin air,
the coach announced Wells wouldn't be participating in the final game.
"Bonzi and I decided that in the interests of the team,
he would not be on the bench tonight," Fratello said.
So not only did the media invent a rift between a player and a coach,
they made the player disappear!
Wells was still in evidence, however, on the persons of Williams and Swift.
They both wore Wells's No. 6 armband.
Solidarity between gazillionaires.
It was a fitting end to a turbulent season,
a season that ended the same way as last year,
but bore absolutely no other resemblance to that unforgettable joy ride.
Hubie Brown retired. Don Poier died. The players revolted more than once.
Wells was at the core of it. So much for the rosy promises, eh?
"He's not going to be a bad citizen," said Jerry West,
the day after he shipped a first-round draft pick to Portland for Wells.
Evidently, just bad enough to be sent away.
But give the team credit for making the playoffs a second straight year,
and for summoning some pride at the end.
The Suns blazed to a 39-20 lead at the end of the first quarter.
The Grizzlies then invited an alleged fan -- he might have been a plant --
to win two tickets by eating a cockroach.
Talk about your bad timing.
Who would eat a cockroach to watch more of that?
But the Grizzlies rallied.
There were times when they even looked like the old Griz.
Earl Watson stole a ball. James Posey flew around like he did last year.
Dahntay Jones raised this question with his play: Bonzi Who?
The Grizzlies got close. The crowd got loud.
It was good to see everyone into it, one last time.
"I thought I saw a genuine kind of pulling and
hanging in there with each other," said Fratello.
For old times' sake?
The Grizzlies lost, of course.
The Suns were too good and the Grizzlies too flawed.
Gasol missed two huge rebounds down the stretch and,
geez, haven't we seen that before?
Through three quarters,
Gasol had exactly one more rebound than the exiled Wells.
Fans booed. More than once. That's another thing that's changed.
It used to be that making the playoffs was enough, but not anymore.
So next season will have a different cast, and a different plot,
and a very different feel.
The innocence is gone. Isn't it, Shane?
He sat there in his stocking feet, not quite ready to give in.
"I don't know," he said, at last. "I only heard the cheers."
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