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Gilbert Arenas’s 5 NBA Free Agency Truths

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Gilbert Arenas前幾天受訪分享一些故事和他的觀點與想法，以下節錄幾個部分


1.Players can be loyal to a fault.
To their detriment, Arenas believes NBA stars have been brainwashed — he blam
es fans and the media — to think that chasing a title via free agency is a ho
llow pursuit. Can you blame them? LeBron and KD still get grief from Twitter t
rolls and talking heads for winning in Miami and Golden State.
1.球員們被過於要求忠誠


“For us to be great, we have to win a championship where we were drafted or i
t doesn’t count,” says Arenas. “You automatically make us loyal by that not
ion so that’s why players will sit in cities while their careers are dying.”


According to Agent Zero, guys generally come to the realization that loyalty i
n the NBA is a bunch of BS after a decade in the league. By that point, they k
now it’s really a business. But today’s best example of what Arenas is talki
ng about is Damian Lillard.


2.Personal slights push stars away.
The NBA is pet-ty. Take away a man’s cookies and you just might take away you
r chances of re-signing him.
2.因為個人的疏忽而讓球星離開。
有些球員很計較些小事，一個男人你不給他吃餅乾，你可能就失去和他續約的機會了。

Without divulging the player’s name, Arenas relates an anecdote about how one
 team’s sudden decision to replace sugary snacks with healthier options doome
d their chances of retaining the services of the living legend.
在沒有透露球員姓名的情況下，Arenas分享了一個軼事，一支球隊突然決定用更健康的選
擇代替含糖零食，因為這樣導致這位傳奇球星的離隊。

The way Arenas tells it, an executive for one of the NBA’s major market teams
 told flight attendants to replace the junk food on the plane with more wholes
ome options. The change happened abruptly in the middle of the superstar’s wa
lk year while he and his squad had one of the best records in the league. When
 the player found out he could no longer chow down on his favorite chocolate c
hip cookies 35,000 feet in the air, he was pissed. A few months later, the sup
erstar took his talents elsewhere.


“He left because of fucking cookies,” says Arenas.
Arenas：他媽的因為餅乾就離開了。


3.Players are always recruiting each other.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the recruitment of free agents — at l
east amongst the players — isn’t exclusive to the offseason. Nor is it restr
icted to DMs, text messages or FaceTime. Arenas says it happens “every damn g
ame.” Players can’t stop themselves from pitching each other championship dr
eams and planting a seed about what it would be like to team up together in a
different city.
3.球員們總是彼此互相招募


“You gotta remember, players play with each other during the summer,” he say
s. “They study each other. So players know who they will play well with. If y
ou ask Damian Lillard how many players came up to him and said, ‘Oh, you want
 to come to us? We can make a trade for you.’ All the time.”


And when it comes to constructing a trade to acquire a star, Arenas believes t
he players, not general managers, should be the ones to make moves. Salary cap
 ramifications and restrictions be damned.
當談到如何透過交易來獲取球星時，Arenas認為應該由球員而不是總經理來採取行動，因
為該死薪資空間的種種限制。

“Players’ trades are way better than general managers' trades,” says Arenas
. “Players pick the right pieces. We can see it because we watch how people p
lay. The general managers look at paper.”
Arenas：球員間談交易比總經理間談交易要好得多，球員們能選擇了更好的"拼圖"，因為
我們是看人們如何打球，總經理看的是數據。


短評或心得：

誰沒巧克力餅乾吃就轉隊？


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