AI’s Turkey days tragic, unbecoming to a legend - 籃球

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讓我想起當初他決定去土耳其的那個時候
真的覺得與其這樣到海外去打
不如當初直接在76人宣佈退休

教皇快把Iverson簽回來
布朗爺也可以啦

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AI’s Turkey days tragic, unbecoming to a legend

Former NBA great Allen Iverson is a player for Besiktas of the Turkish
basketball league. He scored two points in his debut.

前NBA明星Allen Iverson現在是土耳其籃球聯盟中Besiktas的一名球員。他在初登場
得了兩分。

It saddens me to see a player as great as Allen Iverson have his career fade
away like this. You hope that no matter the tendonitis in their knees, or the
ridiculous toll playing a game at such a level on the player’s body, they
don’t stop because they love the game. Or maybe all of the rumors of
Iverson’s gambling addiction are true and he will have to play basketball
for ten bucks a day in Afghanistan to support his family because his twenty-
million-dollar-a-year salary was lost on the craps table in Vegas.

看著跟Allen Iverson一樣偉大的球員，職業生涯卻是這樣衰退，真的令我感到難過。你
希望無論是他們膝蓋的肌腱炎或是打一場不符身價的比賽，他們仍不退出因為仍愛著比
賽。或是所有關於Iversone賭癮的傳言是真的所以必須為了十元收入去阿富汗打一場球
，去賺給家人用在一年兩百萬在賭城的骰子賭博上。

No matter how an athlete ends his career, never forget what they did in their
prime. Whether they end with a Super Bowl and then become a sports reporter
(well played, Jerome Bettis) or get sacked so many times they literally just
crumble into dust on the field (please stop playing, Brett Favre), a person’s
view of a player’s legacy is skewed by the athlete way they exit the game.

無論一個運動員如何結束他的生涯，千萬別忘記他們在鼎盛時期的所作所為。無論他們
最後去美國橄欖球超級杯大賽然後成為運動播報員(Jerine Bettis做的好)或是被開除
許多次到他們真正在球場消失成塵土(Brett Favre請別再打了)，一個人會因為一個運
動員離開球場的方式而扭曲他們留下的價值。

Nobody will forget how good Allen Iverson was: MVP in 2001, scoring champion
three times, NBA first team three times, All-star MVP twice and a 26.7 career
scoring average. Of course, all we remember his famous “practice” rant.

沒有人會忘記Allen Iverson是如此的好：2001年的MVP,三次得分王,三次入選NBA第一
隊,兩次全明星賽MVP以及生涯場均26.7分。當然，我們都記得他著名的"練習"爭吵。

It was time for Iverson to leave the game. He was coming off of the bench for
the Grizzlies and it was time for a change, a ride into the sunset. It is
hard for athletes to leave the game they love, it is hard for anybody to stop
doing something they love. But, athletes must learn how to leave the game so
their legacy remains intact.

那時候Iverson該退出球場。在灰熊當板凳球員時，是一個改變,騎去夕陽的結束的機會
要運動員停下自己喜歡的球賽是很困難的。但是，運動員必須學如何離開讓他們的價值
能完好無缺。

Maybe Jerome Bettis is the nicest man in the world — I don’t know him on a
personal level, so I cannot attest to that — but the way he left the game
magnifies his career. Want to know how Bettis is doing? You can catch “The
Jerome Bettis Show” on WPXI-TV on Saturdays at 7 p.m. and 1 a.m.

也許Jerome Bettis是世界上最好的人 - 我不知道他在私下的情形，所以我無法證實 -
但他離開他的比賽更誇大他的生涯。想知道Bettis在做什麼？你可以收看"The Jerome
Bettis Show"每週六晚上七點以及早上一點在WPXI-TV。

Allen Iverson will never have his own TV show.

Allen Iverson從沒有自己的電視節目。

The point is athletes must learn how to end their career the proper way. The
headline of the Turkish game was not the 17-point deficit Iverson’s “Cola
Turka” team overcame to eventually come out victorious, but his two points
in a game in which he sat a majority of. If you read The Maine Campus, Allen
Iverson, please read the following: Hold a press conference, read note cards
someone else wrote, tell everyone you love basketball and had a great time
and walk away from the game.

重點是一個運動員一定要學著用合適的方法結束自己的生涯。土耳其比賽的頭條不是『
逆轉十七分落後！Iverson的球隊"Cola Turka"贏得最終勝利』而是『Iverson只得兩分
其餘時間都在板凳上』。如果你在看Maine Campus,Allen Iverson,請看下面這些：
舉辦一個記者會，唸一張別人寫的演講稿，告訴大家你很愛籃球，而且籃球給了你一段
美好的時光，然後就退出球場。

Iverson deserves better than this.

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