馬丁是個全明星，Marbury不是 - 布魯克林籃網 Brooklyn Nets

※ 引述《jiaherwu (smallriver)》之銘言：
: http://www.nj.com/nets/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1075878749274710.xml
: Nets: Martin's a star; Marbury isn't
: 馬丁成為全明星，馬布理卻沒有
: After stuttering his way through grammar school,
: being ignored by college recruiters in high school and
: having the offensive side of his game continually questioned in college and
: the early parts of his pro career, Kenyon Martin made his first All-Star team
: as a reserve yesterday.
: 在歷經了初中時講話結結巴巴(馬丁曾經有過言語障礙)，在高中時代又被大學球探所忽視
: ，在大學與職業生涯初期又因為攻擊籃框的能力被人所疑問，K-MART終於在昨天以替補的
: 身分入選了第一次的全明星。
: And, no, it's probably not going to remove the tree-sized chip from his
: shoulder. That's just part of what makes Martin who he is.
: But for a guy who has battled his way through all that,
: plus a couple of broken legs, being able to represent the Eastern Conference
: at the All-Star Game in Los Angeles on Feb. 15 will be sweet vindication.
: 然而，這或許仍改變不了K-MART好勇鬥狠的個性。這種個性已成了K-MART的一部份。
: 但對於過去的不受重視，再加上一雙曾摔斷的雙腿，能在2004/2/15於LA的全明星賽
: 代表東區明星隊出賽將證明了當初NETS以第1順位選擇K-MART是一個正確的選擇。
: "It's a great thing," said Martin, the Nets' leading scorer.
: "I'm excited, obviously. It's something we all wanted and
: have been waiting for."
: 目前暫居籃網得分王的馬丁說，這當然是一件很棒的事情。我當然很興奮。這是我們等待
: 已久的事情。
: Across the river, guard Stephon Marbury,
: who has led the Knicks' resurgence since his trade from the Phoenix Suns,
: shrugged off his snub.
: 在河(River Hunson)的對岸，自從被太陽交易至尼克後就帶領尼克中興的後衛Marbury則
: 對本身的被冷落不以為意。
: "Hey, that's what they felt like was supposed to be,"
: Marbury said before last night's game against the Indiana Pacers at
: Madison Square Garden. "All I can do is go out and play,
: and I've been doing that, so it wasn't meant for me.
: I felt like I was supposed to be on the team, but things you can't control,
: you can't get mad over. If it rains outside, I can't get mad over the rain.
: So I just let it be."
: 在主場迎戰溜馬隊之前，Marbury說：嘿，這只是那些東區教練所認為的事情。我所能做
: 的就是上場打球，而且我已竭盡所能的打球，所以不能入選全明星對我而言一點意義也沒
: 有。雖然我覺得我應該入選全明星隊，但有些事情是你無法控制的，你不需對那些事情抓
: 狂。如果外面下雨的話，我不會對此抓狂的。我會順其自然的。
: Marbury will attend All-Star weekend to participate in the NBA's Sports Skills
: Challenge, which was won by Nets guard Jason Kidd last year.
: Marbury將參加全明星周末的"nba運球技巧比賽"，去年由kidd隊長贏得這項比賽。
: Pacers coach Rick Carlisle, who will coach the Eastern Conference All-Stars,
: thought Marbury was hurt by his move from the Western Conference to
: Eastern Conference.
: 뜊: 溜馬的教練Carlisle，做為東區全明星隊的教練，認為從西區被交易到東區在某種程度
: 上傷害了Marbury。젊: (待續)
(接上文)
"A guy like Marbury, because of the trade and he's only been in the conference
for two weeks, that's why he doesn't make it," Carlisle said.
"But he's an All-Star."

Carlisle說：像Marbury這樣的球員，因為上次的交易而且只在東區打了2個星期的球，這是為何他無法
成為本屆全明星的理由(譯：就是說小馬在尼克的時間還不夠久，給東區各教練的印象分
數還不夠)，但小馬仍是個全明星。

The Eastern Conference coaches voted Kidd to his seventh All-Star team
(third as a Net), marking the second time two Nets have been named to the NBA
All-Star team in the same year. Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson were honored
in 1994.

本屆的東區全明星總教練將他的票投了kidd隊長，間接促成了kidd第7次入選全明星隊
(kidd在nets已經是第3次入選了，意思就是自從kidd來到nets之後，每年都入選全明星
隊)，這使得籃網隊在同一年有兩位球員同時入選全明星隊。第一次則是1994年的
Derrick Coleman(現於七六人)與Kenny Anderson(現於溜馬)同時入選全明星隊。

No team had more than two All-Stars, making the Nets' roster as star-studded
as any in the league. And while Kidd's selection was a foregone conclusion,
the Nets were sweating out Martin's fate -- especially after last year's
snubbing.

今年全聯盟中沒有一支隊伍擁有多於2個全明星球員，使得籃網的全明星光環比起其他
隊伍毫不遜色(譯：比如擁有F4的湖人，五星上將的小牛)。雖然Kidd的入選早在眾人意料
之中，籃網仍焦慮地期待著馬丁的未來-特別是在去年未受青睞以致不能入選全明星。

In the end, Martin's averages (17.5 points and 9.7 rebounds) and his reputation
as one of the league's premier on-ball defenders were enough to put him over
the top. The recognition from coaches was nice for Martin, but what made it
most satisfying was recognizing the hard road he had taken to get there.

最後，馬丁的17.5分與9.7個籃板以及被視為聯盟中頂尖的對持球者防守者的美名讓他能
置於聯盟的頂端。能得到教練的認同對馬丁而言當然很棒，但讓馬丁最滿意的則是，他面
對著荊棘滿佈的前途仍然一路走來，始終如一。

"Just knowing where I've come from, being injured my rookie year,
winning 26 games, and then, three years later, I'm here," Martin said.
"I didn't even dream about being in the NBA until my junior year of college,
really. But once I got here, I learned hard work pays off.
So I just kept working. A lot of guys play their whole careers without making
an All-Star team, so to do it in four years is great."

馬丁說道：你只要知道我的過去，在新秀年受傷(摔斷腿)，球隊只贏了26場球，但三年後
，我入選了全明星。直到我大三那年，我仍然不敢夢想有一天我會進入NBA。但一旦我進
了NBA，我了解到努力工作是有回饋的。所以我繼續努力工作(譯按：對，你要繼續抓籃板
，一個全明星PF常常籃板數輸給PG是不被允許的)。有許多球員終其NBA生涯仍然無法入選
全明星隊，所以我能在生涯的第4年入選是很好的。

Martin, who returned to New Jersey from New Orleans in the small hours of
yesterday morning, received the news at 1 p.m. yesterday,
not long after he woke up. He called his mother and sister in Dallas,
and was planning to call his college coach, Bob Huggins.

從在昨天午夜才從紐奧蘭回到紐澤西的馬丁在昨天下午1點，醒來沒多久後，得知此消息ꄊ。他打電話給在達拉斯的母親與姐妹並且打算打電話給他的大學教練，Bob Huggins。

"I just wish my son (Kenyon Jr.) was old enough to understand," Martin said.
"But someday he'll be able to say, 'My Dad's an NBA All-Star.'"

真希望此刻我的兒子(Kenyon二世)已經懂事了，但未來他會驕傲的說，我父親是個NBA
全明星唷！(結束)


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