Oden Blog的7/1新文章 - 波特蘭拓荒者 Portland Trail Blazers

My New Home
submitted by gregoden
Posted: July 01, 2007

Im in Portland, Oregon it is a very beautiful place. A place
that i can now call home for a long time. Being drafted # 1 is great but to
be drafted by Portland and # 1 is the best thing in the world. Im feeling
really good right now in my life. Im finishing off the greatest year of my
life. Enough about my feelings let me tell you about how great the place im
going to be living and representing for sometime. The summers here are the
greatest thing in the world. It rarely rains in the summer, the temperature
is always perfect, there is no humidity, and when theres a breeze you can
feel it. Now the winters on the other hand, thats a different story. I
haven't experienced it but from what people have told me that it rains not
very hard, and not a lot at a time just slow drizzled spread out through a
long time. Im sure ill be able to handle it.

以上大為稱讚了Portland這個地方，說很漂亮、天氣好、夏天太陽很大又不下雨，
氣溫剛剛好，空氣中也沒有潮濕的氣味，不過很多人都警告過他
"winter is a different story" 不過他說他確定到了冬天，他應該沒問題
(你要確定喔～ 去年Aldridge還被冬天的雨天嚇到>.<)

The people here are great, they
love their Trailblazers. When i got here i went to the Rose Garden and meet
the staff, they all had on ODEN shirts and gave me a big welcome I loved all
of it. They showed me the video of what had happen draft night when people
went crazy and stormed the court after they called my name. The staff is
really cool i cant wait to get to know all of them. After i meet the staff
the staff and i all went to downtown Portland where they had a rally for me.
It was a whole lot of people there. When im in interviews and i say i dont
want to put a lot of pressure on myself, it is very hard when you see all of
these people and the excitement they have for the Trailblazers how they look
at me as the savior. It hard cause you want to be, to make everyone happy and
just have a good time and enjoy basketball. A lot of people do not get to do
that for there city or themselves. The rally was fun i got to introduce my
family, i introduced my brother first so he got all excited he think he gonna
get every lady in Portland now.

這邊的人也很棒，當我來了之後我先去球場認識那邊的人，每個人都有一件Oden上衣
穿在身上並且熱烈的歡迎我，我覺得很棒！他們還給我看了選秀當晚球迷在Rose
Garden瘋狂慶祝的影片，(請搭配服用http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0pCtkxun9g)
大家衝入球場中並且叫喊我的名字。這些工作人員都很酷，我迫不及待要認識他們
每一個了。

之後我就去市中心的球迷慶祝會，人真的很多。在訪談中我說過我我不想給自己太多
壓力，但是看到這麼多人為你感到興奮，把你當成救世主，真的很難不這麼想。因為
你會想要讓他們高興並讓他們享受籃球。在慶祝會中我介紹了我的家人，我第一個介
紹我弟弟(or哥哥?) 他很興奮他要開始認識每位Portland的女士了

After the rally i went and did media, where
the length of the week really hit me. I just had nothing in me, but after
that i had a photo shoot, jumbo tron video, and audio voice over. Actually
the guys who were doing all that stuff gave me energy so those were fun. I
also got to see one of my good friends that night Josh McRoberts. Hes here
with me and thats gonna make everything that much better to be here in this
great city with one of my good friends is awesome. I love it here and im glad
to represent this city and i will do everything in my power to give this team
the chance to bring back a NBA championship, and i know it will not be easy.

慶祝會結束後我去和媒體見面，這一整個禮拜似乎都有見不完的媒體。當天晚上還和
Josh McRobert見面，這讓來這打球這件事變得更加的美好了。我喜歡這裡，我也會盡
我所能為他們再拿回一個冠軍，而我知道這並不容易。

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