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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703833204576114344139523616.html
The Wall Street Journal(喔一行剛好我就不縮了，縮了怕跑掉。)

    He's Quietly Taken the NBA by Surprise
    NBA的一場寧靜風暴

A Second-Round Draft Pick, Low-Key Landry Fields of the Knicks 'Keeps Picking
Things Up at an Incredibly Fast Pace'

LF尼克隊的一個二輪選秀，以驚人的速度成長。

    By JEFF PEARLMAN


When one comes to New York to star for the Knickerbockers, he is required, by
law and history, to rule the town.

若提及尼克隊的球星，接下來這位先生，在各個層面來看，都具備風靡紐約的能力。


It's what we expect of our sports heroes, and from Walt Frazier and Joe
Namath to Keith Hernandez and Derek Jeter, the stories of metropolitan social
domination are endless. It is often not enough for our athletic standouts to
merely dunk and pass and hit with unparalleled greatness. They need to live
The Life. To revel on a higher plane. To be seen out and about, smiling from
ear to ear, a young vixen on each arm, a bottomed-out bottle of Cristal left
spinning on the nearby table.

他正是我們所期待傳承各家前輩永無止盡的英雄故事，對我們來說那些能統御球場的
球星並不足夠，他們還要能夠活得更普羅大眾，更有深度、生活化、親切。

Which leads us to Landry Fields.

這些特點引導我們找到LF。


As one of the Knicks' hotshot newcomers and, with averages of 10.1 points and
7.1 rebounds per game, an unlikely candidate for NBA Rookie of the Year,
Fields has taken the city by storm. The team's starting shooting guard can be
spotted everywhere, eating at the hottest bistros, strolling down the
sidewalks, offering up high-fives to well-wishers left and right.

一個尼克隊中手感熾熱的新人，坐擁場均10.1分和7.1個籃板，看似不可能成為NBA年度
新人菜鳥，竟然能夠席捲全城，這位先發得分後衛也親切地隨處可見，不時會撞見他
在小酒館吃吃喝喝、在人行道散步，和球迷擊掌（大概吧......）


"I can't tell you how much I like it here," said Fields. "The stores, the
people.…White Plains is just a wonderful place to be."

「我非常喜歡這裡。」LF說，「店家、人群等等，白原市是個好地方。」


Eh, White Plains?

呃，白原市？


Based on the city's proximity to the Knicks' Westchester practice facility,
as well as his desire to keep distractions to a minimum, Mr. Fields rents a
small apartment not on Central Park West or in the East Village, but across
from White Plains's City Center shopping complex.

由於白原市鄰近尼克隊的Westchester練習場，以及他希望能遠離誘惑的緣故，LF租了
一間既不在上西區也不在東村而是在白原市市中心購物商場對面的小公寓。


"Almost every morning me and [fellow rookie] Andy Rautins hit up the Atlanta
Bread Company for breakfast," he said. "Then we shop at Nordstrom Rack—that
place is awesome. Brand names at half the price. There's also a Barnes &
Noble, just in case we want to get our read on."

「每天早上我和前隊友（Andy Rautins）都會去Atlanta Bread Company吃早餐，」他
說，「我們在Nordstrom Rack購物，那地方大多好東西都能拿到半價，而且還有間
Barnes & Noble，要買書也可以。」


Mr. Fields can go on for hours, blathering about Legal Seafood and Target and
blasé suburban bliss. But while the talk is somewhat peculiar, it is by no
means contrived. Having been largely ignored during his four seasons at
Stanford, then waiting until the second round and 39th overall pick of last
April's draft to find an NBA home, Mr. Fields has long thrived by keeping a
low profile and limited public expectations. "One day I might move to
Manhattan," he said after a recent practice. "But I'm really not a glitzy
type of guy."




Mr. Fields goes up for a shot against the Rockets' Patrick Patterson on Jan.
19.Indeed, before he signed a two-year contract with the Knicks last June,
most of the team's players and coaches had never heard of Landry Fields.
Although he led the Pac-10 with 22 points and 8.8 rebounds per game as a
senior, Mr.Fields was widely thought to be too slow, too unathletic, too
predictable, too limited, too developed, too tweener-ish to make any sort
of NBA impact.

LF1月19日(2011)對戰火箭繳出好表現，的確，在六月和尼克簽兩年約以前大多他的



It hardly helped that his accomplishments took place during a notoriously
poor year for the conference. That's why Mr. Fields wasn't invited to the
NBA's annual pre-draft camp or listed on the Top 100 draft prospects list by
Chad Ford, ESPN's respected basketball "insider."

他的數據在相對貧瘠的一年中看來沒有什麼突出，而他也被忽視沒有受到NBA年度選秀前
的練習營，也沒有上到一份號稱相關人士編列的選秀最受期待100人名單。


"I speak with a lot of teams, and now they all say they would have picked
Landry had he been on the board, or if they hadn't traded their pick, or…
whatever," said Chris Emens, Mr. Fields's agent. "The bottom line was these
teams simply made a huge mistake. Landry played forward in college, and the
experts had trouble envisioning him as a guard. And he was at Stanford for
four years, and there's an enormous bias these days against seniors. So
that's why he lasted so long."




What most franchises didn't know—couldn't know—was that Landry Fields was,
in a literal sense, made to play basketball. Though he might lack the sinewy
brilliance of Washington's John Wall or the all-around physicality of the
Nets' Derrick Favors, Mr. Fields, a 6-foot-7, 210-pounder, boasts an
uncommonly deep and detailed hoops pedigree.




His father, Steve Fields, was a 6-foot-6 guard at Miami of Ohio who was
selected by Portland in the seventh round of the 1975 NBA Draft (he never
made an NBA roster). His mother, Janice Fields, was a 6-foot forward at
Highland Community College in Highland, Wash. Janice's two sisters, Sue and
Trish, both played basketball at the University of Puget Sound, and Steve's
uncle, Davis Barker, was a guard on Ohio State's 1960 NCAA championship team.
Randy Ayers, the former Philadelphia 76ers coach, is married to one of
Landry's cousins, and another cousin, Northern Arizona senior guard Cameron
Jones, is a three-time all-Big Sky Conference selection who is projected to
be picked in the 2011 NBA Draft.

他的父親，Steve Fields，六呎六，大學籃球員，在1975年的時候曾在第七輪選進
拓荒者隊，但從未真的上場。母親Janice Fields，六呎，在大學球隊裡打前鋒，兩位



"The game runs deep in our family," said Steve Fields. "We never, ever
pressured Landry to play, but he gravitated to basketball very naturally. You
can definitely say it's in his blood."

「籃球的確是在我們家頗有淵源。」LF父親表示，「但我們從來沒有逼他打球，但
他很自然就被籃球吸引了，若說家學淵源，那的確是家學淵源。」


Raised in the small Orange County city of Los Alamitos, Calif., Mr. Fields
spent much of his boyhood either studying or shooting hoops. He was a quiet
kid, and though his long, skinny arms and Big Bird-like legs made him a gawky
sight to behold, Janice recalls a boy with, in her words, "a very old soul."




"Landry's always been a thinker, an observer," she said. "He was a very late
talker—a little older than 2 when he finally said something. I had been
waiting for a word or two, and one day he just looks at me and says, 'Mom,
will you please get me some milk out of the refrigerator?' It's as if he had
the words, but he wanted to wait for the right moment to spring them on me."

「LF是個思考家也是個觀察家。」她說，「他很晚才開口說話，至少等到他過了兩歲以

想要等到最合適的時候才向我開口。」（我沒養過小孩，但這聽起來正常嗎??好長的句

子@_@）


Like many of his ilk, Mr. Fields took the relatively conventional
AAU-and-high school-varsity route to college. Yet having grown up with
sayings like IF YOU'RE GONNA TAKE SOMETHING—TAKE RESPONSIBILITY and LEARN TO
GIVE—IT MAKES TAKING EASIER taped to his father's refrigerator (Steve and
Janice divorced when Landry was 12, though they live mere blocks apart and
maintain a friendly relationship), he wasn't merely aiming for the first
college basketball scholarship

和其他打球的人一樣，LF進入大學的方式也是循著在比賽中取得好成績換取大學入學資
格的路線，不一樣的是，他的父親貼在自家冰箱上教育孩子的警語：無論你做什麼，就要
像什麼；學會給予，才有可能獲得（我大概翻了意思，沒有照字面翻），（中間有段補
述他的雙親在他12歲的時候離婚了，但離婚以後還是住得很近，並且保持良好的友誼）
這些警語影響他並不僅是鎖定申請第一流籃球大學的獎學金而已。


A B+ and A student at Los Alamitos High, Landry dreamed of attending
Stanford, and even took the SATs four times in order to earn the necessary
score. "Landry could have gone to Arizona, he could have gone to Gonzaga,"
said Janice. "But we instilled a value of education in him. He wanted
Stanford for basketball, but mainly for the pedigree. The decision was based
on getting a great education and a diploma." Hence, on draft night Mr. Fields
knew he wouldn't be selected near Mr. Wall, the consensus No. 1 pick. So he
sat in his bedroom in his father's apartment and waited. And waited. And
waited.




"It was all a mystery to me," he said. "I knew I wouldn't go very high, but
I'd worked out for a lot of teams and heard good things. I was hopeful."

「等待的過程我很困惑。」LF說，「我知道我不可能很快被挑中，但我也聽到很多
隊伍對我都讚譽有加，因此我還是抱持著希望。」


Though they lacked a first-round pick, the Knicks possessed back-to-back
selections in the second round. They used No. 37 on Mr. Rautins, the Syrcause
guard who has become Mr. Fields's closest friend on the team (and near-daily
Xbox rival in FIFA Soccer 11).




When Mr. Fields heard his name called next, he jumped off his bed and began
screaming. He ran into his father's room, then into the room of his
16-year-old sister, Celena.

接著LF聽見了他的名字，他從床上跳了起來然後放聲大叫（這讓我想到Novak說的話XDD
Screaming like girls），他跑進他爸的房間，然後他妹的房間。


"People have asked me if I was disappointed going low," he said. "No way. I
just wanted to be picked and have the chance to prove myself."

「有人問過我這麼晚才被選中會不會很失望。」LF說，「怎麼可能，我只希望有被
選上和有機會打球來證明自己。」


If Mr. Fields's roll continues and, as team president Donnie Walsh said, "he
keeps picking things up at an incredibly quick pace," the familiar narrative
of the out-of-nowhere rookie making good can turn significantly more
interesting.

如果LF持續表現得好，就像當時球隊總管Donnie Walsh所說的：「LF學習的速度驚人
地快。」那這個本來名不見經傳的菜鳥崛起故事就會更加有意義和有趣。


Though the Clippers' Blake Griffin (who missed all of last season with a knee
injury) looks to be the sure-shot Rookie of the Year, Mr. Fields seems
destined to become the first second-round pick to make the league's
All-Rookie team since Golden State's Marc Jackson a decade ago. He has
contributed hope and stability to a franchise long lacking in both.

儘管快艇的葛里芬穩定會拿下今年的年度新人，LF看起來很有可能會是十年內唯一一個
進入新人第一隊的第二輪順位，前一位是金州的Marc Jackson，LF帶給尼克的希望和
穩定正是尼克長久以來所需的。


"When you're drafting late, you can't expect a kid like Landry Fields falls
your way," said Mr. Walsh. "And when he does, you thank your stars. You thank
your lucky stars."

尼克球隊總管說：「並不是每次選秀的後面順位都有機會選中像LF這樣的球員，但當你
選中了，你會感謝上天，感謝祂庇佑你。」


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翻了兩天，這文章真長。



不可否認的是，他不和JLin做那個書呆子打氣法我也不會認識他，但認識他以後，
覺得他是個很不錯的球員，雖然現在有點低潮，但希望他能在季後賽帶給尼克一些好的
表現!!!

如果有翻錯的地方，還請各位不吝指教。

感謝收看。

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※ 編輯: kc1208          來自: 114.24.74.7          (04/27 13:36)
是啊而且冰箱那個字不會也太長嗎...
※ 編輯: kc1208          來自: 114.24.74.7          (04/27 17:16)
我也不知道怎麼講，氣質問題？有的時候沒有什麼殺氣XDD
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