And it didn't stop there. My competitive natures went right into the pros, I get to the Bulls which I was very proud of. At the time Jerry Reinsdorf didn't own the team. It was another organization. Reinsdorf drafted me. kevin Loughery was my first coach. Kevin used to take practice and put me in starting fvie. You know, he made a competitive thing where the losing team had to run. So now we are almost on the winning team, halfway in the game, halfway in the situation, he switched me to the losing team. So I take that as a competitive thing, but you were trying to test me and by nine times out of ten the second team would come back to win, no matter what he did. So I appreciated Kevin Locke to give me that challenge, providing that type of fire with me and he threw another log on that fire for me.
到这里绝对还没有结束，我的竞争意识与我一同进入了职业篮坛。我成为自己引以为豪的公牛队的一员。那时球队老板还不是杰瑞·劳恩斯多夫，而是另一群管理层。拉夫在选秀时选了我，凯文·拉齐是我的第一任教练。凯文在训练时把我放在先发球员里，他为了让训练更有竞争性，训练赛输掉的一队要跑圈。刚开始我们这队领先，但是半场的时候，凯文把我换到了落后的那一队。我把这个当做激励我的动力，我知道这是为了历练我，而往往10次里面有9次这一队会反败为胜，无论他怎么做都一样。所以我很感谢凯文给我这样的机会。他让我的求胜欲望更加强烈。
Jerry Reinsdorf, I mean what else can I say. The next year when I came back I broke my foot; I was out of 65 games. And when I came back I want to play. The doctor came with his old theory that you can play only seven minutes a game, but I am practicing two hours a day. I am saying, well, I don't agree with that math. And back then, whoever has the worst record gets the most balls in Ping-Pang balls, you know you can decide what pick you can have, but I didn't care aobut that. I just wanted to win. I wanna make to playoffs. I wanna keep the energy going in Chicago. So I had to go into his office and sat down with him and say "Jerry, I feel like I should play more than 14 minutes and practice more than two hours." He said "We have to protect the long-term investment we've invested on you." I said "I really think I should be able to play." He said "Let me ask you this, if you had a headache." At that time, there was ten percent chance that I can reinjure my ankle or my foot. He said "if you had a headache and you got ten tablets, and one of them is coated with poison, would you take it?" I looked at him and said "How bad is that headache. How bad is that headache." Jerry looked at me and said "You are OK, I guess you had a good answer, you can go back to play. You let me allow you to go back and play."
杰瑞·瑞斯卓福——我能说他什么好呢？第二年我打了七场就伤了脚，错过了65场比赛。康复之后我很想打球，但队医坚持他的老一套，头头是道地说我每场只能打七分钟，而我每天都会训练两小时——我可不管这些算术上的问题。当时的选秀规则是战绩最烂的球队得到最好的选秀权，我说：你们想破罐子破摔弄个好签，这我不管，我只是想比赛和赢球，想进入季后赛，使公牛队保持那股干劲，所以我去了他的办公室，对他说：“杰瑞，我可以每天训练两小时，每场打14分钟。”他说：“我们对你是长期投资，在你身上我们倾注了很多心血。”我说：“我真的想参加比赛。”他说：“我跟你讲，假设你头疼，”那时，有10%的可能性我会再次伤到脚踝或脚。他说：“假如你头疼，有10个药片，其中有一个是有毒的，你还会吃药吗？”我看看他，回答说“那得看头疼有多严重。”杰瑞说：“我想你已经给出了明确的答案，好吧，你说服了我，你可以去参加比赛了。”
重点讲解：
1. switch to
转换；改变；转变；
eg. The law would encourage companies to switch from coal to cleaner fuels.
该法律将鼓励企业转而使用比煤更加清洁的能源。
eg. Estonia is switching to a market economy.
爱沙尼亚正在向市场经济转轨。
2. long-term
长期的；长远的；
eg. A new training scheme to help the long-term unemployed is expected...
一项旨在帮助长期失业者的新的培训计划有望出台。
eg. The association believes new technology will provide a long-term solution to credit card fraud.
该协会相信新技术将可长远地解决信用卡诈骗问题。
3. be coated with
给…涂上（或盖上、裹上）；
eg. TV pictures showed a dying bird coated with oil.
电视画面上出现了一只身上沾满油污、奄奄一息的小鸟。
eg. Pills are sometimes coated with sugar.
药丸有时包上一层糖衣。
名人简介：
父亲去世
那年休斯敦火箭队选的状元如大家所料，是休斯敦大学的7尺中锋——大梦哈基姆·奥拉朱旺（Hakeem Olajuwon）。出人意料的，波特兰开拓者选的榜眼是肯塔基的7尺1的中锋Sam Bowie。Bowie在大学时受过几次伤，但是开拓者队还是没有选择乔丹，因为他们前一年得到了另一个令人兴奋的得分后卫——滑翔机克莱德·德雷克斯勒（Clyde Drexler）。最后德雷克斯勒成为了明星而Bowie这个易于受伤的家伙则平庸的度过了自己的生涯。麻烦接踵而至，乔丹因为他的赌博行为受到详细审查；而更严重的是他的父亲被谋杀了。他的父亲是乔丹的精神支柱，是他支持着乔丹一步一步迈向成功的阶梯。1993年7月23日，公牛取得三连冠两个月之后，乔丹的父亲詹姆斯·乔丹（James·Jordan）参加一个朋友的葬礼，回家途中他把车停靠在州际95号路边一个靠近Lumberton,North Carolina的空地上小睡。当地的两个犯人Daniel Green和Larry Matin Demery 杀了他并偷走了乔丹送给他的凌志车；这两个罪犯还用詹姆斯的手机打了几个电话，并被迅速逮捕了。8月3日，James的尸体在一个沼泽被发现，直到5号才正式被确认。因为精神上的巨大打击，同时也为了寻求新的挑战， 就在1993-1994赛季训练营的前一天，乔丹在训练营宣布退役，并在两天后正式发表退役声明；他的23号球衣也随之在公牛队退役。经过长时间的思考，乔丹再次回到聚光灯下时穿的是棒球服：为了完成他父亲的心愿，乔丹进入了棒球大联盟（Major League Baseball），他为芝加哥白袜队www（Chicago White Sox）的次级球队伯明翰男爵队（Birmingham Barons）参加了94赛季的AA级南方联盟（Class AA Southern League）比赛。他能够胜任角色球员的工作，但是进入大联盟的愿望看起来很渺茫。在95赛季临近时，棒球大联盟爆发劳资纠纷，乔丹燃起了回归NBA的火焰。不久，在NBA94-95赛季尚未结束时，乔丹以简单的一句“我回来了（I'm Back）”重新复出。 |