Kobe Bryant: Chris Paul Would Have Been Perfect Fit For Lakers
After the Los Angeles Lakers agreed to trade for Chris Paul in 2011, he and Kobe Bryant had a phone call that lasted about 20-30 minutes.
回顧2011年當時湖人透過交易獲得 Chris Paul 短暫的瞬間,他跟 Kobe Bryant 通了大概
20-30分鐘的電話
"You know me. My dream isn't to win games," Bryant recalled to ESPN this week. "It's like, 'How many of these titles are we going to win [together]?' Because if we don't win, we're a failure."
"It was crazy," Paul told ESPN this week. "It was exciting. We talked about potentially being teammates and all that stuff like that. Then, in the blink of an eye, gone."
Chris Paul:「真的很難想像,當時真的好興奮,我們談很多像是會同隊一起打球的隊友啊 之類的,但就這麼一眨眼,就沒了。」
The NBA vetoed the trade and Paul was ultimately traded to the Los Angeles Clippers.
當時NBA官方直接否決了這次交易,而輾轉讓Chris Paul變成保羅船長,前往洛杉磯快艇隊
Bryant and Paul would have to share the ball in the Lakers' backcourt.
Bryant和Paul本來可以變成湖人後場搭擋。
"It worked for the Olympic team and stuff like that," Paul said. "I played in a lot of All-Star Games with Kobe. I don't know how many, but I remember one of them, we said, 'As long as we're both on the same team playing this game, we're not going to lose,' just because we both know how competitive we are."
"When we played together in every All-Star Game, we never f---- around," Bryant said. "It was like, 'Listen, the guys have their fun, but now let's do what we do.' I knew how competitive he was, and I knew it would be a perfect fit. We just kind of talked about what we're going to do, how we're going to scheme to get things done. Unfortunately, it never happened."
Kobe:「當我們在明星賽一起打球的時候,我們他媽根本沒在玩,反而像是"聽好,讓他們 自high,但我們打我們該打的",我也知道 Chris 有多硬,所以我覺得我們根本天造地設。 我們當時大概聊了一下我們會怎麼做,應該怎麼計畫把事情搞定,但最終,夢就醒了。」
The trade is one of the biggest what-ifs of NBA history.
這筆交易,最後成為NBA歷史上最令人扼腕的一次。
"Things would've been very, very, very different around here," Bryant said, "with two of the most competitive people the league has ever seen."
As Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul prepare to play their last games against each other, the star guards look back at the 2011 trade that would've made them Lakers teammates, Baxter Holmes writes. ...