[外電] Lewis' early-season suspension puts Magic in tough spot

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http://www.nba.com/2009/news/10/08/magic.lewis.ap/index.html ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Just peeking inside the medicine cabinet these days gives Rashard Lewis chills. He won't even take headache medicine. He won't take anything, really, without approval. Being suspended by the NBA for the first 10 games of this season after testing positive for an elevated level of testosterone has made the Orlando Magic All-Star forward nervous about everything he ingests. 路易斯被檢查出睪丸激素過高，被NBA當局處以季賽前10場禁賽。但路易斯本人是個連感冒藥都沒在吃的球員，他現在很擔心自己究竟是吃了甚麼。 "I don't take anything except water now," Lewis said. "I'm scared to even take Advil." The positive test has done more than make Lewis a little fearful. His suspension presents plenty of challenges for a revamped Magic team looking to develop chemistry and make it back to the NBA finals. Not an easy task for a franchise with so many new parts. 路易斯表示，他現在除了水以外，別的幾乎都不太敢吃。魔術今年加入不少新血，但要讓充滿新血的球隊再次打進冠軍，不是件易事，因此他的禁賽使得魔術前景受到一點影響。 The Magic have been shuffling lineups through the first week of the preseason. Not only is Orlando trying to get players tuned up for when it counts, its searching for how it will get through those first 10 games without Lewis. They haven't found an answer yet. "The exhibition games are in some ways more important for us this year than they have been since I've been here because we've got to figure a lot of things out," Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said. "We're going to play a lot of different combinations, so it's going to be very hard for us early on to get into any kind of rhythm where we play the game really well for long periods of time." 魔術隊獲知消息後，已經開始研擬新的先發陣容，試圖降低路易斯缺陣的影響。但目前還沒有一個答案。「季前熱身賽對我們很重要，因為我們要研擬很多戰術陣容；現在我們擬定好的計畫受到影響，我們只能趕快再找新辦法。但現在這真的很難。」教頭大范說。 Getting Lewis ready is another matter. He is still allowed to play in preseason games and practice with the team during his suspension. Lewis will travel with the Magic on the road but has to be out of the arena three hours before tipoff. Lewis might not be able to tweet or blog live like teammate Dwight Howard did when the All-Star center was suspended for a playoff game last year because of the league's new rules. More likely, Lewis said he will probably just relax at home or the hotel and cheer on his team. 也許讓路易斯先回到正常狀況是一個辦法，因為他還可以打剩下的熱身賽。不過，他坐在場邊時，大概就不能像魔獸去年季後賽被禁賽那樣，快樂地玩他的推特還是部落格，因為聯盟已經禁止。路易斯說，他可能會回家度過這段時間，或是待在旅館，順便娛樂他的隊友。 "It's going to be weird," he said. "I don't know exactly how I'm going to feel. I'm sure it's going to feel weird, wishing I could be there to help them out and support them. But I can't." Howard, who was suspended for the Game 6 clincher in the opening round against Philadelphia for elbowing Samuel Dalembert last season, said watching from afar can be a hopeless feeling. 魔獸說，他對這件事感覺奇怪。他覺得新同學的加入使得球隊打球像一群小孩，需要一點重整，但他不在球隊中，所以現在使不上力幫忙。 "I felt like I was a kid again watching my team play," Howard said. "I had a lot of fun, but I just missed being around my team and it hurt not being able to help them." Lewis has said he took an over-the-counter supplement late last season that included a substance he did not realize was banned by the NBA. He will be docked about $1.6 million of his $18 million salary this season. Lewis' suspension could cost the Magic in the standings, with Cleveland and Boston challenging the defending Eastern Conference champions with big offseason moves of their own. Lewis also will miss the team's first game against the Cavaliers, who Orlando upset in the conference finals last year. 路易斯說，可能在上季末，他吃某種了被聯盟禁止的過量藥物成分，他自己不知道。他本季的一千八百萬美金薪水，因為這件事將會被扣除其中的一百六十萬美金。在騎士超賽的夾擊下，路易斯事件可能影響魔術本季排名；而他也錯過開幕戰對上騎士的機會，騎士隊是去年魔術在東區決賽擊敗的對手。 But Orlando is trying to make the best of a bad situation. Brandon Bass, acquired as a free agent from Dallas, will likely start in Lewis' place. That also gives extra opportunities for small forwards Matt Barnes and Mickael Pietrus to make an impression. "It isn't as bad as the gloom and doom that some people are painting," Magic general manager Otis Smith said. "The good could outweigh the bad. He still has 72 games, and he's donating a lot of money to charity." 魔術可能會啟用布蘭登貝斯(Brandon Bass)打路易斯的位置。魔術總管Smith說，至少路易斯還有72場比賽可打，情況不會那麼嚴重。他還說，路易斯捐給慈善機構很多錢(?)。 Lewis hasn't taken anywhere near the criticism as professional football and baseball players have for failed drug tests. Even though he is only the sixth player to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs since the NBA began testing in 1999, Lewis said the reaction has been mostly positive. Most people, he said, believe that he wasn't intentionally trying to gain an advantage and it was merely an accident. Part of the reason Lewis also hasn't taken much criticism is because he is a lanky, 6-foot-10 forward, even though the supplement he tested positive for contained the steroids precursor DHEA. But such products can, in some cases, do more for recovery and energy than add muscle. Lewis doesn't believe it did any of that, and he wants to prove this year that it didn't change things. "I've always been a real skinny guy and don't feel any different now than before," Lewis said. "The only thing that bothers me is just being suspended. I think the league knows I made an honest mistake." 美足與棒球選手被測出禁藥後的反應通常很強烈，但路易斯倒是很平靜。他是1999年NBA開始禁藥管制後，第六位在藥檢呈陽性的選手。他說，大部分的球員和他觀感一致，就是某些特定藥物可以增進運動表現。他也說，大部分的人都相信他的事件是意外，不是蓄意。路易斯平靜的原因可能還有，就是他被檢查出體內有過多的表雄酮(DHEA)，而表雄酮會刺激肌肉增生、使人有力，他身體都沒有這些反應，因為他看起來仍是個6呎10的瘦前鋒。「你也知道，我是標準的瘦大個，我也沒覺得身體有甚麼不同(暗指吃禁藥)，我只是很在意我被禁賽了。聯盟應該也很清楚，我很坦白承認我錯了。」他把本季目標設定為比上季進步，因此他不希望這件事影響了計畫。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 82.139.87.251