[外絮] 史騰將入選2014名人堂
原文連結: http://ppt.cc/KACp
David Stern remembers the days when an NBA staff that numbered about two
dozen was just trying to keep some teams in existence long enough to get them
on national TV.
史騰還記得當初NBA工作人員只有20幾人時，他們的工作是想辦法讓一些隊伍繼續生存下
去。
Now the former commissioner looks at a league whose 1980 championship series
was not broadcast live but now has games televised around the world, whose
players average more than $5 million a year in salary as the highest-paid
team athletes in sports, and sometimes can't believe he and his colleagues
pulled it off.
現在這位前NBA總裁回顧起1980年總冠軍從完全沒直播到現在全球電視都有轉播，以及現在
球員薪水平均5百萬美金為現代運動員上薪水平均最高。現在回想起來自己都很驚訝當初
能成就這一切。
"You can't even do justice to everything that everybody has done," Stern said
in a phone interview. "All you can do is focus on small chunks of it, but
it's great fun to contemplate how the NBA family has pulled together to be at
a place where our players are now at the top of the celebrity period.
"Pretty, pretty amazing and great."
"你現在根本無法完整說出當初是那些人是如何帶領NBA走到今日的，只能一點一點的
慢慢說出。但現在回想起我們這個大家族是如何撐過來並走到現在這階段還蠻有趣的"
It helped to have marketable stars like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael
Jordan.
But now comes an honor for the person most responsible for it.
Stern will be enshrined Friday in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame, part of a 2014 class that includes former players Alonzo Mourning and
Mitch Richmond, along with NCAA championship-winning coaches Nolan Richardson
and Gary Williams.
這一切成就了一代巨星如魔術強森、大鳥和MJ還有他們的商業價值。
而現在該是讓這一切成真的人接受表揚了。
史騰將在周五的時候和Alonzo Mourning, Mitch Richmond還有帶領隊伍或得NCAA冠軍的
教練Nolan Richardson和Gary Williams一起被入選名人堂。
Stern ended his run as commissioner after exactly 30 years on Feb. 1 -- he
won't say retired, because he's still working -- and once thought he would
wait five years for induction, same as players. Officials from the NBA and
Hall of Fame persuaded him otherwise, and nobody is arguing that he belongs
immediately.
史騰在今年2月1號結束了自己長達30年的總裁期間，但他拒絕說自己是退休，因為他依
然在工作。他也曾想過跟一般球員一樣要至少等退位5年後再接受入選名人堂，但NBA
官方則說服他今年就接受。
"It would be hard to overstate the impact I think David has had on the game
of basketball. Admitting that I'm prejudiced toward basketball, David Stern
could go down in our era as the greatest commissioner of all-time in all
sports," said former NBA coach and ESPN analyst P.J. Carlesimo.
"我想史騰隊NBA的貢獻是非常巨大的。我想在我心目中他是運動史上最偉大的總裁
沒有之一" 前NBA教練和ESPN分析家 P.J. Carlesimo
For Stern, it will be the first official basketball function he's attended
since leaving the commissioner's office in the hands of Adam Silver. He's
remained busy advising some communications companies and technology startups,
giving speeches and traveling on behalf of the league, and is anxious to
catch up with the growing list of supporters he has learned will be in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
"It's very nice and very enjoyable," Stern said, "and the Hall of Fame is
always a kind of reunion in any event. And so this will be just one more,
which is great."
這將會是史騰退位後第一次參加任何NBA的正式聚會。退位後他依然在依些通訊公司做顧
問，也有受邀去參加演講，或是替聯盟出差辦事。
"我想這將會非常棒且我也會很享受這一切。就某種程度而言名人堂感覺像是每年的
聚會一樣。"史騰表示
Inducted in the contributor category, Stern is mostly being recognized for
his accomplishments as commissioner. But things like free agency and the
merger with the ABA came much earlier, when he was working with the league as
a lawyer, before he joined the NBA as its general counsel in 1978. Some of
those advances are the ones that occasionally come to mind when he's talking
with old co-workers.
"It was a great run," he said. "We had a lot of fun together and the success
was as a result of the efforts of an extraordinary number of people."
史騰將被入選到貢獻者這個類別，主要因其任命總裁期間的作為。但像是FA的開始和
與ABA的融合都是他在NBA做律師顧問期間的貢獻之一。
"我想這一切都非常有趣，而NBA的成功都是因為極多人的努力。"史騰說
Stern talks often with Silver and is impressed with the way his successor has
handled a number of challenges in his first six months, most notably the
Donald Sterling controversy. Yet it would be hard for Silver -- or anyone
else -- to ever match the career of Stern, who oversaw the addition of seven
teams, the creation of the WNBA and NBA Development League, and the growth of
revenues to about $5 billion annually.
"You just look at where the game is today, and his fingerprints are all over
that. My dad tells me stories all the time of how the league used to be -- it
was great -- but nothing compared to what it is now," said Golden State
All-Star Stephen Curry, whose father, Dell, started his 16-year career in
1986.
"When it comes to how much presence we have across the globe, playing
conditions, how the league has expanded, he's had every part in leading the
charge."
Stern calls his induction a group award, citing the efforts of owners,
players, referees and league employees, and jokes that "I haven't bought the
napkin yet" on which he would write his acceptance speech. But the honor is
Stern's, and he's excited to accept it.
"To me, it's a very important award, a recognition by your peers in a sport
where you spent your adult life working," he said, adding it's "at the top of
the chart in terms of the way it makes you feel and the recognition of it."
後面都一堆捧史騰的話懶得翻。史騰做為NBA總裁貢獻確實很大，但也有不少詬病這篇
都沒寫出來。可能因為這是官方寫的吧。還蠻期待有第三方寫篇綜合評價的文章，
優缺點都寫一寫，不要一直拍史騰馬屁，翻到都想吐了= =
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