[新聞] AI:若不是費城，我早已退役
在本賽季初與灰熊隊不歡而散后，阿倫-艾弗森(Allen Iverson)曾經公開發表過一份退役聲明，但不久后他選擇與昔日的母隊、當年曾為他帶來無數榮耀的費城76人簽下了一份新約。而在最近接受采訪時他表示，除76人之外，當時如果是其他任何一支球隊向他發出邀請——甚至包括湖人、騎士這樣的總冠軍級別球隊——他都不會予以考慮。
當時的艾弗森已經回到亞特蘭大的家中開始了自己退役生活，并且在76人隊打電話給他之前他都沒有考慮過再回到聯盟效力。如果不是費城發出邀請，眼下的他會在家中與家人一同享受退役后的時光。
“退役對我而言是最好的選擇。”艾弗森說，“（費城）是唯一能夠讓我回到這里的原因。當時的我已經開始享受生活了。”
“我以前一直認為，當我離開這項運動的時候我會非常痛苦，并會異常懷念它。但在那次離開之后，我發現我并沒有怎么糾結，因為我的家庭填補了這個空白。能夠每天都與家人在一起，每天都見到我的妻子和孩子，這對我而言太美妙了。”
“沒有合同，沒有媒體，沒有所有這些雜事。這種感覺真的太好了。”
艾弗森同時也表示，就算他在剩余的職業生涯沒有機會得到總冠軍戒指，他也不會太過于介懷。
Allen Iverson(notes) said it wouldn’t have mattered if the New York Knicks had second thoughts and called. Or even if Kobe Bryant(notes), LeBron James(notes), Dwight Howard(notes), Kevin Garnett(notes) – really anyone outside the City of Brotherly Love – had phoned and tried to change his mind.
Iverson was beginning to enjoy retirement. And he didn’t foresee himself returning to the NBA unless one team – his beloved Philadelphia 76ers – wanted him back. Had the Sixers never called, Iverson figures he’d still be back in Atlanta happily hanging out with his family, done playing basketball.
“Retirement was the best for me,” said Iverson, whose official retirement lasted about a week. “[Philadelphia] is the only thing that could have brought me back, to play in this situation right here. I felt like I was having the time of my life.
More From Marc J. SpearsNash continues to defy age, skeptics Dec 30, 2009 O'Neal cast in new role as he returns to L.A. Dec 25, 2009 “I always thought that once I gave the game up that it would be miserable for me and I thought about how I would miss it. But at the time that I was out, I didn’t miss it because my family took over all of that. Just being there with my family every day, being able to see my kids and my wife whenever I felt like it, it was a great feeling to me.
“No obligations. No media. None of that type of stuff. It was a good feeling, man.”
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“我并不介意沒有得到總冠軍。”艾弗森說，“我從一開始就是這么說的。上帝給我的才華已經讓我得到了尊重，我對于自己在球場的表現也很滿意。總冠軍這樣的榮譽對我而言并沒有特別大的意義。如果我們能夠有機會爭奪總冠軍，我希望自己是其中必不可缺的一環。”
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