[外絮] Lin Gets His All-Star Weekend Close-Up

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在NBA 全明星專頁找到的專欄文章，我覺得內容是還好，但底下網友的評論很有意思，大家可以看看XD http://ppt.cc/5hUP ORLANDO – Fortunately, Jeremy Lin’s first press conference at NBA All-Star Weekend included a question about Jeremy Lin having any sort of press conference, period, at All-Star Weekend. Even though it had only been three weeks since Lin “blew up” as the NBA’s biggest story – underdog Asian-American kid from Harvard coming off the bench to revive one of the league’s marquee franchises in America’s media capital – the frenzy had become the new normal for many. Oh, of course Lin would be on the cover of Sports Illustrated (again). Oh, of course he would outsell every NBA All-Star in replica jerseys. Oh, of course he would have his very own press conference in an interview room that went SRO 10 minutes before he arrived. （以上簡略描述了這陣子的Linsanity現象，並說Lin會『再次』上運動畫報的封面，他的球衣銷量超過NBA全明星，他還有自己的專屬記者會。XD） Screeeeech! Someone finally stopped the Linsanity and asked Lin – who never asked for any of the hype or mania surrounding him – if he could appreciate how surreal this was. From sleeping on his brother’s couch a few weeks ago to a private audience with a global sporting press, beyond what the actual All-Stars were getting. “Oh, absolutely,” the second-year point guard said. “Just any press conference of my own in general, let alone All-Star Weekend. Just to be here and to see the company and all the players that are here is just – it’s been unbelievable, and I’m just trying to take it all in and embrace it and enjoy it every step of the way.” （記者問Lin對這樣圍繞著他的瘋狂炒作的想法，他說會試著接受並享受這一切） The legend of Jeremy Lin is pretty well known by now: Undrafted out of Harvard. Signed by Golden State as a free agent in July 2010. Modest rookie season with the Warriors (2.6 ppg, 1.4 apg in 9.8 mpg). Cut in December 2011. Picked up and quickly dumped by Houston. Signed by New York two days after Christmas but barely used through nine appearances, averaging about six minutes, across five weeks. Then – kaboom! – Lin scores 25 points off the bench against New Jersey. Twenty-eight vs. Utah. Twenty-three with 10 assists at Washington, 38 against the Lakers … and the Knicks win nine of 10 games. He becomes the NBA’s flavor of the month and beyond, a wholly unexpected, happy story in an odd post-lockout season. A downright phenomenon that – even after losses to the Nets and the Heat in recent days (and an ugly stats line vs. Miami of eight points, eight turnovers and 1-of-11 shooting) – shows little sign of abating. Though Lin expects it to soon. “Hopefully as the season progresses, it will go from [Linsanity] to ‘New York Knicks,’ ” he said. “We can make a good push after the All-Star break and people will start talking about the Knicks and not necessarily me.” New York is 17-18, at No. 7 in the East and chasing a second consecutive playoff berth after a six-year drought. （現在大家都對Linsanity的傳奇耳熟能詳，但Lin本人希望隨著賽季持續進行，大家的注意力能從Linsanity轉移到紐約尼克隊身上） Lin shared some other tidbits with the inquiring minds Friday, in the hours before he played in the Rising Stars game at Amway Center. – Landry Fields, Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and Jared Jeffries have been the New York teammates who have been most supportive and helpful as he has learned, and been tested by, the league. （Lin表示 Landry、甜瓜、泰森及Jeffries 是給予他最多支持及幫助的隊友） – Had Knicks guard Iman Shumpert not gotten hurt and dropped out of Saturday ’s Slam Dunk contest, Lin might have participated with a replica of his famous couch: “Landry was going to roll a couch out with a cover over it, I was going to be sleeping underneath it and then we were going to pull the cover. I was going to throw to Iman an alley-oop from the couch. And he was going to jump over both me and the couch, windmill it and then sit down and have Landry hand him a Sprite.” （這段說明關於灌籃大賽的idea） – He hasn’t splurged on any purchase. “I’m still a minimum [salary] guy. That hasn’t changed.” （Lin說自己仍然是個minimun guy——這裡的minimun，底下有網友評論指的應該不是底薪，而是他個人的生活方式） – His job security was precarious enough in January that he said a prayer in pregame chapel in Miami, as the date for guaranteeing contracts (or dumping those without them) approached. （他說自己曾在邁阿密的祈禱室祈禱自己不要被裁掉） – Yet he never had a solid Plan B in his back pocket, in the event New York did cut him. “Obviously I was thinking about three main options: overseas, D-League or to just take a break or give up basketball for a while,” Lin said. “I was just trying not to think about it, basically.” – Lin met head-on a question about his ethnicity and whether it worked against him with NBA scouts. “I think it has something to do with it,” he said. “But I think just being Asian-American, obviously when you look at me, I’m gong to have to prove myself more so, again and again and again, and some people may not believe it. “I know a lot of people say I’m ‘deceptively athletic’ and ‘deceptively quick,’ and I’m not sure what’s deceptive. But it could be the fact that I ’m Asian-American. But I think that’s fine. It’s something that I embrace, and it gives me a chip on my shoulder. But I’m very proud to be Asian-American and I love it.” （雖然身為亞裔美國人造成很多人對他有刻板印象，但他以這樣的身份為榮）下面有網友評論Lin 是個 incredible speaker，總是能很棒地回答其實很無聊的問題，還有人他說話對人們很有啟發性，從他身上可以看到部份的自己。（從這些網友的評論可以看出他們真的很喜歡Lin的人品與談吐XD） -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 114.32.91.124