篮球英文堂 第279期:肖华的糊涂帐

On May 1，Commissioner Adam Silver and the NBA board of governors continued discussions about delaying the start of the 2020-21 season until December, sources told ESPN.

北京时间5月1号，亚当·肖华和NBA董事会继续讨论将2020-21赛季的开始推迟到12月。

A day later, The NBA officially postponed¹ both the draft lottery² and scouting³ combine on Friday, both of which were scheduled to take place this month in Chicago.

一天之后，NBA董事会星期五投票决定推迟原本五月在芝加哥举行的两项活动——选秀顺位抽签和训练营。

It did not delay the draft itself — which is currently scheduled for June 25,

联盟还没有投票决定推迟6月25日的NBA选秀，

however there's an increasing belief that it's just a matter of time before that happens.

但越来越多的人相信这只是时间问题。

The long-have values of the NBA are to support freedom of expression and certainly freedom expression by members of the nba community.

我们NBA的企业文化就是支持言论自由。

In this case, Daryl Morey as the GM of rockets enjoys that right as one of our employees.

而莫雷是我们的员工，自然而然就有言论自由的权利。

I understand there are consquences from his freedom of speech, we will have to live with those consequences.

我也知道他说的话会带来一些后果，但没办法，我们要承担这些后果。

It's my hope that for our chinese fans and our partners in china they will see those remarks in the contexts of now a three-decades if not longer relationship.

NBA和中国粉丝们以及中国合作伙伴们有着长达30年，甚至更长的友谊。

1 postponed   

vt.& vi.延期，缓办，（使）延迟vt.把…放在次要地位；[语]把…放在后面（或句尾）vi.（疟疾等）延缓发作（或复发）

参考例句：

• The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
• The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。

2 lottery   

n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事

参考例句：

• He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
• They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

3 scouting   

守候活动，童子军的活动

参考例句：

• I have people scouting the hills already. 我已经让人搜过那些山了。
• Perhaps also from the Gospel it passed into the tradition of scouting. 也许又从《福音书》传入守望的传统。 来自演讲部分