[教皇] Home and Away (I)

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Sloan是一個我看球生涯中很微妙的一個人他每次都是坐在Malone跟Stockton旁邊面無表情在90年代在我的心中他是絕對的反派我甚至覺得他是Hornacek 的父親或是叔叔因為長得好像直到我有機會踏上Uniter Center看球的那天屋頂的三件球衣(Pippen的還沒上去)了竟然有一件是他的我才知道他是IL出生的也曾是公牛隊的球員他一直以來得低調跟優秀的執教生涯想不到是這樣難堪的離職網路上關於他的生平不多抽空看了一篇文章跟翻成中文也讓大家多多瞭解他這是一篇他老家當地的專訪時間點應該是在2008年 http://www.evansvilleliving.com/business/articles/home-and-away#top 原文 At the end of the long driveway leading to Jerry Sloan’s home outside the small town of McLeansboro, Ill., is a lone basketball hoop, but don’t expect to find this former University of Evansville and Chicago Bulls star shooting around outside when the sun sets and summer temperatures mellow. He’s likely enjoying the evening on his back porch, listening to the hum of insects, gazing over the rolling green Southern Illinois hills, and watching the deer and turkeys come out at dusk. His only distraction? “The coyotes,” he says, “get a little noisy.” 在一個很長的開車旅程帶領我們到了教皇在依州 McLeansboro 這個小鎮外面的家家外面有著籃球框但並不期待在這樣個夏天傍晚可以看到這個前公牛隊球員在這邊投籃 Jerry喜歡坐在他的門廊看著南伊州美麗的山丘景致聽著蟲鳴跟享受這樣的夜晚看著黃昏中的野鹿跟火雞, 唯一有點吵鬧的是那些獨行的小狼 Home for the summer off-season, Sloan sports a blue Utah Jazz polo shirt but says he feels worlds away from his hectic career. “I just enjoy the different lifestyle from my business — we go here, there, and everywhere,” he says from beneath a John Deere baseball cap. This fall, Sloan begins his 21st season as head coach of the Utah Jazz NBA team; he has the distinction of being the longest-tenured coach of any team in any professional sports league. http://tinyurl.com/4jfvr7t Sloan照片這是穿著藍色Jazz隊polo衫的Sloan 在夏天休賽季時候的家他感覺到在這裡可以遠離那些忙忙碌碌囂鬧的生活他戴著一頂工人帽說 "我只是要過一點不同的生活型態因為在我的工作裡總是旅行到這旅行到那旅行到不記可數的地方" 這個秋天教皇就要開始他的在爵士執教的第21個球季, 他成為了所有職業運動中單一球隊中存在最久的一個隊教練 But distinction is exactly what Sloan shies away from. He has a laundry list of accomplishments — including 17 trips to the NBA playoffs and an NBA Coach of the Year award from his peers — but as his longtime colleague, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, told The New York Times: “He doesn’t of loyalty, humility, and simplicity. The same philosophies guide his coaching as well as the charitable efforts of the Bobbye and Jerry Sloan Hand-in-Hand Foundation, created in memory of his late wife of 41 years, his high school sweetheart and mother of his three children who lost her battle with pancreatic cancer in 2004. In August, the foundation will hold its first event in Evansville, and in true Sloan form, it isn’t an exclusive black-tie dinner or ritzy celebrity gala. Instead, he returns to Evansville to host “ Bobbye Socks and Bobbye-Que,” a 1950s sock hop-themed dinner and dance in the city that helped propel him to a legendary career in professional basketball — a career that nearly veered off-course before it had barely begun. 在NBA工作並沒有讓Sloan失去他的小鎮出生習得的價值觀: 忠誠謙遜跟單純不管是在從事他的教練工作還是成立以他跟他太太為名建立的慈善機構當中這些價值觀跟想法一直以來引領著他他的太太在2004在經過6年與癌症的抵抗下過世這個基金會成立是要紀念這位與他結縭41年的愛人 Bobbye Slaon, 今年(2008)八月這個基金會會在當地的Evansville辦一個讓大家都能參與的餐會而不是僅給上流社會或是名人才能出席的活動大家可以一同同樂聚餐跟跳舞因為沒有這個城市的養成 Sloan可不能達到如此傳奇的教練生涯 YOU CAN TAKE THE boy out of McLeansboro, but you can’t take McLeansboro out of the man. 你可以從McLeansboro這裡帶走小男孩但你不可以把McLeansboro從男人那邊帶走! (表示不管Slaon離開了多久他還永遠是McLeansboro的人) At heart, Sloan, 66, is — as former Jazz player John Starks once described him — “no-nonsense, an old country boy.” Despite decades in the volatile and media-saturated world of professional basketball, Sloan’s speech is matter-of-fact and unpretentious (“I’ll take two more questions,” he told his audience at a Jazz sponsors’ luncheon in 2004. “Got to go feed my dog.” ). He doesn’t write books, do motivational speaking, or endorse sports drinks or deodorant. Instead, he collects antique John Deere tractors. He lives in a tasteful yet elegant home on a farm, and his giant feet, which once pounded the basketball court in a successful playing career, are planted firmly on the ground. “Jerry Sloan believes in home. In roots,” wrote former Evansville Courier columnist Don Wade in June 1997, when the Jazz stood just two wins from an NBA championship (they lost to the Bulls, Sloan’ s old team, in the finals). “And they are put down deep in McLeansboro, Ill., where the marquee at the Dairy Queen wishes Jerry and the Jazz good luck.” 一個老Jazz球員 John Starks打從心裡說到Sloan: "他就是一個標準的鄉下男孩" 儘管幾十年來在這個複雜充斥鎂光燈得的教練生涯當中 Sloan面對大家的演說還是同樣的不矯飾不做作的在2004的一個餐會時, Slaon說: "我可以再接受兩個問題提問, 因為我要回家餵狗了!" 他不寫書不會做激動人心演說也不喜歡錢財跟名聲...(本來不會翻問了朋友) 反而是喜歡收集古董的John Deere拖曳機他住在一個田園裡稱不上高雅但挺有品味的家中 1997年的當地專欄作家 Don Wade寫到 " Sloan相信他的出生也信賴他所仰仗的價值來源" 當時的Jazz再贏兩場就可以在對戰他本身的老東家球隊公牛手中拿到NBA總冠軍 McLeansboro的當地在速食店的看板上祝福著Jerry跟它的Jazz球隊會有好運! Gerald Eugene Sloan grew up 16 miles outside McLeansboro, “just over the hill,” he says, pointing beyond the dining room window he’s just finished cleaning after 10 months of absence. One of 10 children, Sloan was just four years old when he lost his father. Growing up poor, in a sheltered rural locale and attending a one-room schoolhouse left the young Sloan with a pronounced social anxiety: “I was scared to say hello to people,” he says. When he first entered McLeansboro High School, with its student body of 400, the size of the gymnasium overwhelmed him. He thought it was the biggest place he’d ever seen. 本名Gerald Eugene Sloan的教皇是在小鎮McLeansboro外16英哩的地方長大 Slaon從他的餐間窗戶往外指著那個方向說: "就在越過那個山丘的地方 " 此時他正把他10個月因為NBA賽季還荒蕪的房子清掃好他有9個兄弟姊妹在Sloan 四歲得時候父親就過世了成長環境非常鄉下又貧困的他加上去的是一個只有一間教室的小學校讓他有著很大的社會恐懼他回憶著: 當我後來第一次進入到McLeansboro高中的時候他們有著400個學生跟超大的運動設備真是把我嚇壞了他以為這是他看過最大的一個地方了 Even more stunning to Sloan was the proverbial new girl in town. Barbara Lou Irvin, known as “Bobbye,” had just moved to McLeansboro when he spotted the pretty brunette at the movies one night. But he was too shy to introduce himself — “Wow,” he remembers thinking, in typical understated manner. “ She’s pretty tall.” At 5-foot, 9-inches, Bobbye was a long-legged baton twirler and freshman class president – popular, outgoing, and independent. Sloan was three inches shorter than she was and, as he recalls, “scared of my shadow.” So how did the match get made? 更讓Slaon 感到震驚的是遇到也同時搬到鎮上的一個褐髮妹妹, Barbara Lou Irvin 又叫做 "Bobbye" 他在一個看電影的晚上發現Bobbye的但是Sloan當時太害羞而不敢去自我介紹他心裡有一個念頭 : "Wow 她好高唷" 五呎9 （175 cm）的Bobbye是樂儀隊指揮跟當時高一年級的會長非常的外向獨立跟受到歡迎 Slaon回憶當時的自己比她還要矮上三英吋 "我被我的影子嚇到" 當時的宅男怎麼成功的？ “I got taller,” he laughs. He still doesn’t know how he mustered the nerve to ask Bobbye to the movies, but the pair began dating while they were freshman, and Sloan shot up in height. As a 6-foot, 5-inch basketball star at McLeansboro High School, the small-town boy captured the attention of the state’s largest university, and when Bobbye headed to St. Louis to enroll in a three-year nursing program, Sloan moved to the big city of Urbana-Champaign to attend the University of Illinois on a basketball scholarship. But overwhelmed by the 22,000-strong student body, the small-town boy “was lost, ” he says. He dropped out, returned home, and took a job in the local oil fields. Sloan笑著說: "我後來長高了" 不過他還是不知道怎樣可以顯得比較聰明自若的邀請Bobbye去看電影不過後來多久就在同一年長高到六呎五的Sloan就開始跟她Dating了 <3 這個來自小鎮的男孩後來得到了依利諾大學的關注在Bobbye去了聖路易斯開始了一個三年的護士課程 Sloan接受了去了在大城市香檳的依利諾大學的籃球獎學金. 不過他沒多久就因為這個誤闖大城市的鄉村男孩他迷失在有著2萬多個學生的校園裡他休學回到老家開始了一個當地的油田工作 Bobbye — determined to finish school and become a registered nurse — was furious. Quitting school was “the most devastating thing I did,” Sloan says. “I didn’t know if she’d have anything to do with me again.” The pair didn’t speak for a long time, and Jerry — both heartbroken and disillusioned by hard, monotonous labor in the oil fields –– knew something had to change. Bobbye則是積極得想要完成學業成為小護士 Slaon說: "放棄學業真是我做過最糟糕的一件事我當時甚至不知道 Bobbyes是不是還想跟我繼續下去" 他們好長的時間都沒有講話 Jerry不但感覺心碎和破滅還要被繁重的油田工作打擊著他知道他必須要有所改變! -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 131.193.22.174 ※ 編輯: eertllams 來自: 131.193.22.174 (02/24 02:57) ※ 編輯: eertllams 來自: 131.193.22.174 (02/24 02:58)

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