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https://youtu.be/1NP948HD9L4

Q: You had, like, you know, 12 points in four minutes. What's going through
your head early in the game?

你在開場四分鐘就得了12分，你當時的想法是?

A: Set the tone. Just got to set the tone. That's about it.

就是想要把比賽定調，就是這樣。

Q: Your dad almost didn't make it here, but he was certainly there by the end.
 What did it mean to have him, you know, as you go to your first NBA Finals?

你的父親差點趕不上，但最後他成功趕來見證了你第一次打入決賽，對你有什麼意義?

A: Yeah, a lot. They had a seven-hour delay, but he made it, so it meant a lot
 to be here.

當然意義重大，他們遇到7個小時的delay，但他們趕上了。

Q: You know, we've seen you do this before in Phoenix, where you just kind of
ripped the hearts out of the crowd on the road in the elimination game. What
is that, how would you describe that feeling to demoralize the crowd on the
road in this situation?

我們在對上太陽時也見證過你在客場關門戰撕碎主場觀眾的心，你對於這種客場關門戰的
想法是什麼?

A: It's a good feeling, man. I can't lie. Just go out there and, you know,
it's us against them. Just stay together. But that feeling, that feeling is
great.


A: Yeah.
Q: What was that about?
A: I can't tell you. If I tell you, I could sue him. But, you know, that gets
me going. Everybody knows that by now, so just got to do it.

你開場時是有特別針對場邊某個球迷嗎?
是的
是什麼事?
我不能告訴你，我告訴你的話我就會去告他。但你知道的，這會是我的動力，現在他們都
知道了，我必須讓他們知道。

Q: And then, you know, you guys, obviously, last year disappointing, end up in
 the lottery. To make this leap, what do you think were kind of the key
developments to make this happen just in the span of a year?

去年的戰績對你們而言想必非常失望，最後掉到樂透區。
你覺得是什麼讓你們在短短一年內從樂透區打進到總冠軍賽?

A: Insane. I think we've got a great team, but most importantly, we've got
great guys, great guys on the team. From players to coaches to everybody on
the team, we have great guys, and that's the most important thing. Like I said
, we stay together and we just play basketball, you know, especially. I think
we've beat three very, very, very good teams and are having home advantage,
which is pretty good for us.



Q: For you personally, growing up watching the NBA from afar, maybe watching
the NBA Finals late at night, what does it mean to you to reach this
milestone?
A: I didn't watch because it was 4 in the morning. I had school next day.
Q: What does it mean to you personally to reach this milestone 6 years into
your career?
A: It means a lot, man. It means a lot. It's not easy. It was a very hard road
. Very hard, but we are here. Obviously, we're not done. We need four more,
but I think today we all deserve to enjoy this win.

對你而言，從小在國外看NBA，或許要大半夜才能看到總決賽，對你而言打進總決賽有什
麼意義?
我沒有看過，因為對我而言那是早上四點，我隔天還要上學。
那在6年球員生涯後達到這樣的里程碑，對你有什麼意義?

Q: You've had great games and closeouts at home, but on the road, is it
sweeter?
A: Way sweeter, yeah.
Q: Why?
A: I mean, just because, you know, because... Just because, I mean, you know
the crowd is going to be in there. You know, when you scored a bucket, when we
 scored, it gets a little bit quieter. So, that's why it's sweeter. But it
doesn't matter if we win at home, if we win away. We just want to win.

你們在主場有打出很棒比賽和關門，但在客場這一切感覺是不是更棒了。
棒多了。
為什麼?

mind?

對於賽爾提克你有什麼想法?

A: I mean, they're the best team in the NBA. They have by far the best record.
 They have some incredible weapons on offense and defense. So, we're going to
have to play really hard and amazing basketball to beat them.

他們是NBA最強的隊伍，他們有最好的戰績，他們在攻守兩端都有很棒的武器，所以我們
必須非常努力，打出最好的籃球來擊敗他們

Q: Can you talk about how much Jason Kidd means to this team and what he has
given you guys this season?

談談Kidd對這支隊伍的意義及他這季帶給你們什麼?

A: A lot, in everybody too. You know, he understands me and Kyrie's role,
because he's been in that role, so he helps us a lot. But everybody, he kept
everybody together. You know, we were up, we were down a lot, especially
during the season. It was ups and downs all the time, but he kept us together.
A lot. Like I always tell you guys, it's been great to have him. He helped me
mature, he helped me see the basketball in a little bit different way, so
everybody's glad he's on our team.




Q: Luka, your smile says it all. Looking at your path with this team, seeing
the MVP trophy in front of you today, guiding this group to the finals, what
are those emotions, those feelings?
(這題是西班牙文，我只能相信chatGPT)

分享一下你拿下西區冠軍MVP，並且帶隊打進NBA總冠軍賽的心情

A: Those are great emotions. This trophy is for everybody. It's for the whole
team. Without this team, without these players, I wouldn't be here. So, thanks
 to them, I can have this trophy.

感覺很好，這個獎盃是大家的。沒有他們我不會在這裡，感謝他們讓我拿到這個獎。


Q: Luka, two years ago you guys were here as the younger team playing against
an experienced Golden State team. Now that role kind of reversed. Do you feel
the difference in experience from 2022 to now?

兩年前，你們是以一支比較年輕的球隊之姿面對有經驗的勇士隊。而今天面對比較年輕的
灰狼隊，這角色似乎反轉過來了，你認為跟2022的經驗比起來，現在有什麼不同?

A: I wouldn't say reversed. I think we have a young team. I'm sorry Kyrie, you
 know, Kyrie getting old. But, you know, we just, we're a young team still. Do
 you feel the difference? No, I think we, there's a lot of people that wasn't
in playoffs. We had that talk before playoffs, you know, everybody together.
And we just play, we like to play basketball, we like to play together.
That's it.



你是要說你也老了嗎?

A: Oh, I'm old too. Yeah, me and Kyrie, we're the old heads on the group. And
Keith. We're the past 30 years.


A: Home, home. I don't know where.
Q: What's in the middle? Is that Euro basket still?
A: I don't have that trophy. I wish I had. I have the Euroleague trophy, but I
 don't know. We'll see.
Q: Maybe four more wins, you might have one to go in the middle.
A: Hopefully. That one for sure. If we make it. Thank you.

你會把MVP獎盃放在哪裡，正中間嗎?還是邊邊?
總之先帶回家，還不知道放哪。
你櫃子的正中間放的是什麼? 歐洲杯的冠軍嗎?
那個不在我手上，我想要，但不在我手上。我有歐洲聯賽的冠軍盃，但我們再看看吧。
或許再四場勝利之後，你就能拿到一個能放在正中間的了。
希望是這樣，如果我們做到了，那個肯定會放在正中間。

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https://youtu.be/9iMlCRlPN1A

Q: Kyrie, you've mentioned many times during this postseason you've been
waiting seven years to get back to the stage. How does it feel, and especially
 coming off the way things went last year after you got to Dallas?

KI你提過很多次你已經等了七年要重返這個舞台，尤其在你去年到達拉斯後的風風雨雨，
現在是什麼感覺?

A: It feels great. Definitely don't take this moment for granted because of
how hard we had to work to get here. We had to earn our spot into the NBA
Finals. We had to go against some great opponents, OKC, Clippers, Wolves, and
I feel like they got us better as a team. They really challenged us on the
defensive end, made us focus in. I thank every single one of them, like I did
the previous two series, for making me better. It has been seven long years,
but it's also felt like the right amount of time in order to reward myself, be
 in the locker room with my teammates and enjoying it. A long time coming, so
we are going to enjoy this, but we obviously know this is just a pit stop in
the journey. We've got to get ready for that court turning gold, as I like to
say. The shoes turn gold, the jerseys turn gold. As a kid, that's what you
dream of getting to is the Finals and being able to play against the best of
the best with the whole world watching.




Q: Tonight, Luka obviously comes out and he's hitting shots, he's staring at
the crowd. It's kind of the full Luka experience to start things off. What's
your feeling when you see him in that mode to open the game?

今天開場Luka很明顯跳了出來，得分、挑釁觀眾，開場可以說是一個Luka體驗大禮包。
對於開場就看到他進入那個模式，你有什麼想法?

A: Man, I was enjoying it just like everyone else was. We had 20 points, I
think, in six minutes or seven minutes. You're just watching a special
performance take place. As a teammate, you just want to continue to do little
things to bring the lead a little bit further along. Just continue to play
well. We were happy where we were, but we weren't satisfied because it was a
long game. When Luka starts off the game like that, we're a tough team to beat.
Kudos to him having a great series, a great playoff run in general. Just
leading us that way and being able to ease the tension a little bit and the
emotions starting off the game. When you see our guy, Luka, scoring 20 like
that, it eases everybody's pressure a little bit.



Q: When was going through your mind? It's zero, you guys have the ceremony,
you're walking into the locker room with the trophy. What's kind of racing
through your mind at that time?

當比賽結束，你們辦了頒獎典禮、帶著獎盃回到休息室時，你腦袋中在想什麼?

A: Man, just trying to enjoy the moment with my teammates and just think about
 the way we felt during shoot-around. All the preparation it took to get to
this moment. We couldn't avoid the future if we wanted to. It was coming
anyway. I just had that utmost confidence when I was going to sleep last night
, waking up in the shoot-around, like I said. Just feeling like we were going
to play one of our best games. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but I
 felt that way. That's the type of confidence that I felt the majority of
these playoffs. No matter what's going on, in the beginning of the game,
middle of the game, before the game, our words of affirmation and positivity
go a long way. Just making sure we settle the group and get ready.




Q: Someone who got here early in his career, then had an absence, and then got
 back to it. Where's your appreciation level for him?

以一個生涯早早就打進決賽，然後缺席了這幾年，再度回到總決賽舞台，你的想法是?

A: I had three years of losing. Yeah, I had three years of losing in Cleveland
, as people like to remind me of, where I did nothing without certain guys on
the team. So, you know, I like to relish in those challenges, because even
when you are a young player, you do take it for granted to a certain degree.
But now that I'm in my 30s and I'm able to kind of stand on my own square more
 comfortably, more confidently, and know what my presence holds, know what my
leadership is capable of doing when I'm around good people, and they're
supporting me selflessly. You know, you just look back at all the failures,
you know, just on the other side of success. So, just continue to chop wood,
carry water, stay poised, make sure that we keep the main thing the main thing
, and acknowledge how far we've grown and how long it took to get to this
moment. So, I try to quantify the last seven years, but it's really been my
whole entire career. You know, this is a long career, and I like to look at
that way as a journey. So, grateful to be here with my teammates, though, and
our staff, and everybody doing the little things for us to stay prepared, and,
 you know, just give us that good energy. I felt it all around us tonight.





Q: Kyrie, to that point, as this team came together and kept getting better,
your teammates, your coaches, they talked a lot about the impact you have off
the court, your leadership style, and your voice. Really, your story feels
like it's changing a bit, right now. On the one hand, I know you've always
tried to block that out, but what does it mean to have some of that energy
starting to get recognized?



A: What do you mean?

什麼意思?

Q: I mean, the way you interact with your teammates, the way you lift the guys
 up, and coming off a couple years of a lot of negativity, and to have the
energy. Just in the public, I mean, Brooklyn, Boston, you're going to see your
 own team now. I mean, the mood has changed. How does it feel to have it
recognized?

我指的是你和隊友們的互動，以及你如何拉拔他們，以及你這幾年的負面消息。不管是布
魯克林、波士頓，你都會見到你的老隊伍。這種被認可的感覺是怎麼樣?

A: What do you mean, like, recognized for what?

什麼意思? 被認可是指?

Q: The way that you're impacting the team.

對於你如何影響、帶領球隊的方式被現在的團隊認可這件事。

A:  I think I'm grateful because it was an easy road, and I was able to grow
 as a person way beyond, you know, as quick as I was growing as a player. And
when you're in a professional environment such as this, and you can only be
judged by your own court performances, and what people say off the court, and
they don't know who you are, I think that's a little unfair. But that's the
life we live in, and that life is not fair all the time. So I just stopped
being a kid towards this industry and really grew up and grew my wings. You
know, I had another phrase I wanted to say, but, you know, I just developed
the mentality to be able to brush off a lot of that stuff and realize that,
you know, when they're talking about me or saying things about me as a
teammate, it's been a lot of people. You know, I don't want just too many
people to name, but that's not where my focus has been. It's always been on
making sure my teammates understand who I am and what I want to accomplish
with them and being selfless in my approach and also realizing that, you know,
 everyone's going to have a past. Everyone's going to be judged for that. But
I think putting your best foot forward and focus on the future is the best
place to be. You know, all the stories and narratives are going to exist
forever. I'm sure I'll hear it until I retire. But again, this is what comes
with this industry. This is a very young league. It's 75 years, 76 years in
the making. People think it's like 100 plus years like other leagues, but
there are no rules in this. And being a professional and coming to work every
single day, that's what I want to be remembered as. And my off-the-court
aspects of making people better and them making me better is something I like
to lay my hat on, too, because it matters as a human being. I've been there
for these guys. They've been there for me. I've told them some very intimate
things, very vulnerable things about who I am and what I've dealt with, and
they've been able to really shower me with the support and love that's needed
for any human being, not just because I'm Kyrie Irving and the way that they
see me in the public eye. They really protect me and I protect them, and I'm
grateful for them. That's all I've ever asked for from an organization or my
teammates is for them to protect me the same way I protect them, because I go
out of my way to speak good things about people, to be in the right place for
them. And I understand that human emotions get the best of you, but how you
respond is how you're going to be remembered.





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KI最後一題的回覆有半張A4紙....

恭喜小牛再次挑戰總決賽

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