[外電] Nick Young's life-Swaggy P to Uncle P
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Nick Young's life - Swaggy P to 'Uncle P' - has followed an interesting
trajectory
Before a superstar girlfriend made him tabloid royalty and before a video
leak made him a pariah; before one coach sent him to the bench and a new one
rescued him from it; before he was Swaggy P or could even dunk, Nicholas
Young wanted to be in the movies.
在因為明星女友而成為八卦小報的熱門焦點之前，在因為影片洩漏而成為團隊的放逐之狼
前，在因為被坦克司令下放板凳又被天行者救起之前，在成為Swaggy P甚至不會灌籃之前
，Young最初的願望是成為電影裡的一角。
Specifically, he yearned for a life as a Hollywood stunt man.
而最讓他嚮往的是成為一名好萊烏特技演員
His mother, Mae, took Nick and his brothers to Universal Studios and the
future Lakers guard became enamored with the anonymous role players who ran
through fire and fought with swords and scaled walls without suffering a
scratch.
他的母親Mae，帶著Nick以及其他兄弟們到環球影城。這位未來的湖人後衛就被那些在刀
光劍影中穿梭，即使因此而受傷卻毫不在意的小人物們所深深吸引。
At home, Nick jumped off the roof of the garage and the family’s Culver City
apartment. He built ramps in the street to perform bicycle tricks.
“He was a very difficult child,” Mae Young said, “because he was
constantly bruised and cut and scraped up.”
Scared that Nick would eventually do real harm to himself, Mae enrolled him
in gymnastics, where he could hone his stunt skills.
回到家，Nick開始從車庫的屋頂上縱身而下，甚至在路上搭建了斜坡開始表演單車特技。
"他真的很難受控制" Mae這樣說，"他總是把自己弄得渾身是傷"
為了避免他真的把自己傷到無法復原，母親將他送至體育館，好鍛鍊他這些特技的技巧。
“He’d come home trying to put on shows,” his older brother, Terrell, said,
“show people what he’d learned. Then the next thing you know the rest of
his friends would try to do it. It would be funny, a bunch of kids trying to
take fake punches and (do) flips.”
"他開始試著表演這些技巧，讓大家欣賞他所學到的。接著你就會看到他的朋友們開始群
起模仿，一群小孩子嘗試著對打和假摔，這畫面真的很有趣！"他的哥哥Terrell這樣回憶
著
Stunt men, however, know only how to fall from buildings, not from grace.
然而，特技演員學會了如何從屋頂躍下，卻不知如何從人生的難題中脫困。
While Nick practiced the art of resilience, how to pop right up and smile
through pain, his hobby offered no lessons in what to do when a gentle
landing was not guaranteed, nor how to dodge blows he never saw coming.
It did nothing to prepare him for life with the Lakers.
Nick練習著如何帶著笑容立刻爬起，從那些痛苦中恢復。但他的這個興趣並沒有教他，當
無法保證平安帥氣地落地時，要如何降低傷害；也沒有教他那些看不見的謠言向他襲來時
如何躲避。
這些，並沒有讓他準備好未來在湖人的生活。
SMILING THROUGH MISERY - 笑著走過悲傷
“I became the bad guy over the last two years,” Young said one day in
October after the Lakers wrapped up practice. “That’s something I’ve never
been. I’ve been the good dude.”
"過去的兩年間，我成了反派角色。我從來沒有體會過這種感覺，一直以來我都是好人阿
！"在十月某次的湖人練習時Young這樣說
Right now, all is well in the world of the Lakers starting shooting guard. He
is averaging 14.7 points, knocking down 36.7 percent of his 3-point attempts
and, get this, has frequently been touted by Lakers coach Luke Walton as the
team’s best perimeter defender.
36.7%的三分命中率，場均14.7分，時常被藤總稱讚是隊上最佳的外圍防守者。現在，他
稱職地成為了湖人的先發得分後衛。
“This is most definitely a redemption year,” Young said. “That’s why I’
ve been working so hard, I believe in myself, believe that I’ve got talent.
There were just certain situations that made me take steps backwards.”
"這絕對是我最需要救贖的一年！因此我一直努力地訓練，相信自己，相信我有這樣的天
分！只不過是一些特殊的情況讓我倒退了幾步而已" Young said.
Where to begin? 但是要如何開始?
After a career year in 2013-14, in which he averaged a career-high 17.9
points per game Young, now 31, signed a four-year, $21 million contract that
promised to keep him in his hometown and with the team he grew up rooting for
through 2018.
在13-14球季打出場均個人生涯新高的17.9分後，Young和湖人簽下4Y/21M的合約，照理說
能讓他待在家鄉為湖人打球直到2018。
If only it was that easy.
但是事情沒有這簡單...
“It’s my fourth year and I was supposed to be gone a long time ago,” he
said.
He assumed he would be playing overseas by now. All summer, that’s what he
heard. That he would be traded or released and probably end up in China. He
can joke about it now, but over the past two seasons under former Lakers
coach Byron Scott, his productivity and opportunity nosedived.
"這是我的第四年合約，但是我覺得我早在很久之前就該消失在這了" Young said.
Young認為他現在應該在海外打球。這就是他整個夏天聽到的。他會被交易或是釋出，甚
至流落到CBA。現在Young可以將這些想法當作是個玩笑，但過去兩年在坦帥底下打球時，
他所呈現的效率以及打球的機會，都是急遽地降低(，那時這些想法可不是玩笑)。
Despite a glowing spread in Sports Illustrated in January 2015 that dubbed
him “the man behind the swag,” Young became the goofy face of the Lakers’
downward spiral. In each of his first three seasons, the Lakers set a new
franchise record for losses.
“They was just putting everything on me,” Young said. “That’s why this
was the big summer for me. I heard the worst.”
在湖人的前三季，湖人每年都打出破隊史紀錄的敗場數。儘管SI在2015年1月將Young譽為
"the man behind the swag"，Young卻成為失速湖人的小丑代表。
"他們將這一切都怪罪於我！所以這個暑假對我來說太重要了"
His engagement to Australian hip hop star Iggy Azalea was called off in the
summer, three months after a leaked video, recorded by teammate D’Angelo
Russell, caught Young discussing intimate relationships with women other than
Azalea.
One of the NBA’s most ebullient personalities had been muted. He felt that he
’d become a whipping boy for Scott. His influence on young players such as
Russell and Jordan Clarkson was questioned. On the court, he took a backseat
to Lou Williams, a 2015 free agent arrival whose game mirrored Young’s. He
became acquainted with the bench, which Young says was the greatest indignity
of them all.
和Iggy的訂婚，在Dlo流出影片後的三個月告吹。
曾經是NBA中數一數二令人沸騰的個人特質從此消失。他覺得他就像是犯了錯而被BS鞭打
的小男孩一樣。他對年輕球員如Dlo及JC的影響受人質疑，新簽來的魯長老打得就像加強
版的複製Young一樣，BS也因此將Young冰至了板凳的末段，這是讓Young感到最受侮辱的
。
“When you see Nick smiling all the time, you think that’s a smile of joy,”
Young’s father, Charles, said. “He ain’t happy all the time he’s
smiling. It’s what’s behind the smile.”
It was, in fact, a miserable year for Swaggy P.
“You can’t get no lower than that except death,” Terrell Young said.
"你看到Young無時無刻都掛著笑容，但他不是都是開心的。那些笑容的背後，是深深地隱
藏" Young的父親 Charlie說道。
這對Swaggy P來說真的是悲慘無比的一年。
"除了死亡，應該沒有比這更低落的時刻了" 哥哥Terrell說道。
ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS - 專心致志
When Luke Walton arrived as Scott’s successor in the summer, he didn’t know
what to expect from Young. Walton knew about the Russell video, and the
divide it created in the Lakers locker room. He also had seen Young play over
the previous decade, and believed he would be an ideal fit for his up-tempo
offense.
當藤總在這個夏天取代了坦帥，藤總並不知道該對Young有怎麼樣的期待。藤總知道影片
事件在湖人的休息室畫下了一道傷口，但他也看到了Young在過去十年間比賽的內容，並
相信Young會相當適合他將要帶來的快節奏進攻。
But where was he? While other players were practicing daily at the Lakers
facility, Young rarely came in.
“I didn’t know if he was training or if he was just in the ‘I’m not going
to be there anyway’ type of mode,” Walton said.
但是Young人勒?當其他球員都已經在湖人場館進行每日訓練，Young卻不見蹤影。
"我不清楚他是在進行訓練或是他已經進入放棄模式了" 藤總表示
Young was training, actually. Two weeks after the conclusion of a 17-win
Lakers season, Young returned to the gym with Terrell, a former center at
Biola University. They worked out as often as three times a day, either at a
sports complex in Calabasas or the nearby Shepherd of the Hills Church.
事實上，Young是努力在訓練著。湖人悲慘的17勝球季結束後的兩周，Young就和哥哥
Terrell(也是前Biola大學中鋒)，回到了體育館進行訓練。他們常在附近的體育館中一天
練習三餐。
“It has always upset me that people have a misperception of Nick,” said
Mark Bartelstein, Young’s longtime agent. “He is actually an unbelievably
hard worker who takes tremendous pride in his game.”
"人們對於Young的錯誤印象是很令人沮喪的。他總是帶著對於下場比賽的驕傲，令人難以
相信地刻苦訓練著。"Young一直以來的經紀人Mark說道
Walton and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak stayed in contact with
Bartelstein and their message was clear: Young needed to eliminate the
distractions if he wanted to remain a Laker.
藤總和米奇和Mark保持著聯繫，並透露出明確的訊息─若Young還想留在湖人，他必須要
消除一切外在對他的影響。
“We made a decision this summer ... let’s not give anybody something to
talk about other than his game because that’s what has always been most
important to him,” Bartelstein said.
經紀人Mark 表示 "我們在這個暑假做了這樣的決定，不讓外界任何人有機會再去對Young
除了比賽以外的事情加以評論"
The organization faced an Aug. 31 deadline to cut its losses, waive Young and
pay out the $11.1 million remaining on his contract evenly over five seasons.
Young sweated that deadline until it passed.
在8/31前，湖人可以選擇將Young裁掉，並將剩餘的11.1M平均分配到接下來的五年支付。
Young焦慮的等待那個日期過去
“Of course it humbled me,” he said. “I told myself I’m just going to go
out there and play my heart out this year. I don’t want to hear all the
rumors. Just go out there and dive on floors, and just be Dennis Rodman if I
had to this year.”
"這件事讓我懂得該更加謙虛。我告訴我自己，我該做的就是下場盡我的全力去打完接下
來一年的比賽。我不願再去聽那些謠言，單純的下場奔跑。如果有需要，要我在今年變身
為Dennis Rodman也可以" Young said.
NEW BEGINNING - 嶄新開始
Charles Young spoke loudly to combat the crowd that filled his living room to
watch Young start against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night. Charles
blames Scott for the sharp negative turn in his son’s career.
Young先發出戰國王的那晚，Charles大聲地和客廳裡的人們對話。他譴責BS如何荼毒他兒
子的籃球生涯以及帶來的明顯負面影響。
With a new coach on board, he recognized the opportunity before his son, but
knew it was tenuous.
當新教頭來到，他知道他兒子的機會來了，雖然那僅僅是非常微薄的機會。
“They already don’t want you there,” he said he told Nick, “so don’t
give them no other reason to not want you there.”
"他們已經不想要你了，所以不要再給他們其他理由討厭你" 他這樣對Young說
Before training camp, the video with Russell lingered. Even though Young and
Russell said they could coexist, many had their doubts. Charles Young cries
hypocrisy on that subject.
“Donald Trump (said) the same thing Nick did and he became President of the
United States,” he said. “Nick told his boy something in confidence and
they wanted to trade him. Everybody said he shouldn’t even be in the league.
”
訓練營開始之前，影片事件的影響仍在媒體間流竄。即使Young和Dlo都表示他們能共事，
人們卻對這抱持著懷疑。Charles認為這根本就是一個虛假的議題。
"川普說過和Young類似的話都當了美國總統，但人們卻因為Young和兄弟間的閒聊而要交
易他，甚至認為他根本不應該出現在NBA聯盟中" Charles said
Walton intentionally did not make a big deal about Russell and Young
coexisting in the locker room, but said “we were going to keep an eye on it.
”
Today, they comprise the Lakers starting backcourt.
藤總對於Dlo及Young未來如何相處這件事情上，故意地降低人們的注意，僅表示"他之後
會花點心思注意"
如今，他們成為了湖人的先發後場
After the first day of training camp, Walton thought Young seemed somewhat
distant, so he pulled him aside. He told him, “We don’t have judgments on
anyone here. So if you come in and you work and you buy into what we’re
doing, you can earn playing time on this team.”
訓練營的第一天結束後，藤總發現了Young似乎和隊上有點疏遠，所以將他拉到旁邊並說
道，"我們對於這裡的所有人都沒有成見。所以如果你努力訓練，持續地相信你所做的努
力，那麼你就可以得到該有的上場時間"
For the first time in years, Young felt empowered.
It was a reversal from the feelings that tugged at him all summer.
這段話，讓Young在過去的這一年間，第一次感到充滿了能量
這段話和整個夏天他所受到的壓力形成了強力的對比
“I felt like it was over here for sure,” he said. “Felt like it was over
here and I was going to get bought out and have to prove myself all over
again. But I am still proving myself and I still got a ways to go.”
"我感到之前的事件結束了，徹底結束了。我再來只要持續地相信自己，並再次證明我的
能力。但我仍在證明自己地過程而已，我要努力的地方還很多" Young表示
Said Charles Young: “All Nick needed was a chance; a coach to believe in him.
”
Charles: "Nick所需要的就只是個機會，一個教練相信他的機會"
Young continues to live in the Tarzana home he once shared with Azalea and
works to grow his own clothing label: “Most Hated Player.” He has
semi-seriously retired the moniker Swaggy P and now jokes that the young
Lakers should call him “Uncle P.”
Young持續地住在曾經和Iggy同住的家中，並發展他的衣服品牌"Most Hated Player"。
他表示他已經從Swaggy P半退休了，並說現在的年輕湖人球員們，應該要叫他Uncle P。
In a recent home game against Dallas, Young scored the Lakers’ first 13
points. Two nights later, in a dizzying fourth-quarter sequence against the
Kings, he grabbed a rebound and went coast-to-coast for a layup, then, back
on defense, poked the ball loose from All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins and
sprinted back in time to swish a 3-pointer.
在前一場主場面對小牛時，Young攻下了湖人的前13分。兩個晚上之後，在面對國王的關
鍵第四節，他抓下籃板快速推進上籃得手，然後回防。再從表弟手中將球偷走，回頭飆進
了三分球。
The Kings called timeout and Young did not run to the bench. He skipped.
國王叫了暫停，但Young卻沒有(被換下)回到板凳。
“There were some real low points,” Bartelstein said. “That’s why I get so
much joy out of seeing him so happy now. It’s real. He’s not just putting
on the smile. He’s having the time of his life.”
經紀人Mark說 "他曾經經歷過嚴重的人生低潮，所以當我現在看到他能這麼開心，我也很
欣慰。他現在是真的很開心，不是只是掛著笑容，而是發自內心的。"
Nick Young has fallen. He knows where the bottom is because it nearly broke
him.
Young曾經跌倒，他知道人生的深淵是什麼樣子，因為那差點就摧毀了他。
“I don’t want to end my career the way it almost ended,” he said, “being
forced out of the league. I want to go out when I can’t move my legs no more.
”
"我不想要我的球員生涯就這樣結束，被聯盟趕出去。我要在場上奔跑，直到我的雙腳都
無法移動那刻，我才願意停止"
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終於翻完了....好累
早上看完這篇徹底地感受到Young從谷底爬出的艱辛，想說來翻給版眾們分享
誰知道居然這麼看一篇10分鐘的文，打字翻譯要快三個小時這麼久....
感謝各位耐心看完，哪裡有翻錯的再麻煩指出來讓我修改
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11/14 05:33, 126F
推
11/14 06:12, , 127F
11/14 06:12, 127F
推
11/14 06:18, , 128F
11/14 06:18, 128F
推
11/14 06:38, , 129F
11/14 06:38, 129F
推
11/14 07:05, , 130F
11/14 07:05, 130F
推
11/14 07:06, , 131F
11/14 07:06, 131F
推
11/14 07:47, , 132F
11/14 07:47, 132F
推
11/14 08:18, , 133F
11/14 08:18, 133F
推
11/14 08:56, , 134F
11/14 08:56, 134F
→
11/14 08:57, , 135F
11/14 08:57, 135F
推
11/14 08:58, , 136F
11/14 08:58, 136F
推
11/14 09:36, , 137F
11/14 09:36, 137F
推
11/14 09:42, , 138F
11/14 09:42, 138F
推
11/14 09:51, , 139F
11/14 09:51, 139F
推
11/14 10:16, , 140F
11/14 10:16, 140F
推
11/14 11:39, , 141F
11/14 11:39, 141F
→
11/14 12:08, , 142F
11/14 12:08, 142F
推
11/14 14:12, , 143F
11/14 14:12, 143F
→
11/14 14:16, , 144F
11/14 14:16, 144F
推
11/14 15:14, , 145F
11/14 15:14, 145F
推
11/14 20:21, , 146F
11/14 20:21, 146F
→
11/15 11:25, , 147F
11/15 11:25, 147F
推
11/15 16:21, , 148F
11/15 16:21, 148F
推
11/18 11:55, , 149F
11/18 11:55, 149F