PBS高端访谈:骑士队为克里夫兰城带来52年来的第一冠

 　　And now we some perspective on all of this from Greg Swartz. Greg Swartz writes about the Cleveland Cavaliers for The Bleacher Report.

　　He joins us from Toledo, Ohio. And Kevin Blackistone is a sports writer for The Washington Post.

　　He's also a regular contributor at ESPN and teaches sports journalism¹ at the University of Maryland.

　　Greg, Kevin, thank you both for joining us.

　　Greg, let me start with you with may be a simple question, but how big a deal is this in Cleveland?

　　I think this is a bigger deal than anybody could have imagined.

　　You look at our history as a sports community, everybody knows it's been 52 years, but really, for the Cavaliers, 46 seasons.

　　They have own been to the NBA Finals — this is now the third time, obviously the first time that they have won it.

　　This is a big deal not just for Cleveland, but for Akron, for Northeast Ohio,

　　for all of Ohio just to finally, finally say, hey, we got one, we're champions.

　　It is something that hasn't been done in a very long time, and it's a tremendous feeling right now in Northern Ohio.

　　Kevin, you have been watching sports and writing about sports for a long time.

　　How many droughts are there like this? Compare this to previous droughts? And what droughts are left for big sports cities?

　　Well, obviously, you have the Chicago Cubs². That's probably the longest drought going.

　　The Boston Red Sox got over their drought at the turn of the millennium⁴.

　　Even if you didn't have the entire history of Cleveland,

　　just what LeBron James was able to do transform the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise⁵ into a championship team,

　　what he's done there just in the past two years since arriving is amazing in and of itself.

　　So, this is a huge deal, not just in Cleveland, but nationally. This is an amazing sports story.

　　Greg, Kevin just talked about the LeBron James departure and then the return.

　　Six years ago, he was the most hated man in Cleveland, I would imagine. Can you have imagined back then this happening now?

　　No, no. I will remember that night forever in 2010, when he made his decision.

　　That was — man, that was your girlfriend breaking up with you. That was somebody stealing your dog.

　　That was every, like, bad thing that could happen to you, your heart being ripped out.

　　And at that time, nobody could have thought he was going to come back,

　　just four years later, still in his prime, and really did deliver a championship here in year two.

　　I think it's just phenomenal, because you look at it, his last two years in Cleveland, they won 66 and 60 games.

　　The four years that he was gone, they had the worst record in the entire NBA.

　　And now the two years that he's back, two finals trips, one championship.

　　And you can make the argument he's still arguably playing the best basketball of his career after that finals performance.

　　So you're not only happy about the present, but you look at the next couple of years, and they look pretty good as well.

　　Well, Kevin, let's look at that. Two years since he's back, he takes them to the title. Right.

　　Takes them to the championship series twice, takes them to the title.

　　Where does this put LeBron James now in the game of basketball against Michael Jordan, against all the others?

　　Well, Magic Johnson tweeted out last night that it puts him in the category of the top five players all time in the NBA.

　　And I would say that is absolutely the case.

　　Let's forget about the fact that he led in every category in this finals, points, rebounds⁶, assists, steals, blocked shots, of all the players that were playing.

　　And let's forget that two games he scored 82 points games combined to force this game seven.

　　But let's just look at the fact that he carried a rookie head coach in Tyronn Lue to this championship.

　　A year ago, he took David Blatt, another rookie NBA head coach, to this championship.

　　When he was with Miami, he won championships with Erik Spoelstra as a head coach,

　　who, when he got there, had just been a head coach for a couple of years in this league and was vastly unknown.

　　And when he was originally in Cleveland, most of the time, he was there, he had Mike Brown, who,

　　when Mike Brown arrived there, was a rookie head coach in the NBA.

　　That's just how dynamic it is a talent it is that you have in LeBron James, not only as a player, but also as a leader.

　　And you're talking about someone who has developed these leadership skills despite his upbringing, coming up in a single-parent household,

　　as everyone knows the story, socioeconomic problems, shoving them here and there in Akron where he grew up.

　　And he's such a mature individual, one of the most mature, well-spoken, smartly spoken athletes that we have in pro³ sports today.

　　And, Greg, you say it's not just Cleveland. It's the whole region.

　　Talk about the region's attachment⁷. And his high school games in Akron would be on ESPN.

　　He is fully⁸ immersed in the region. I attended the University of Akron. He was on campus all the time in the summer.

　　I would go to the rec center. He would be working out with his trainer.

　　I would go past the James A. Rhodes Arena⁹, he would be in there playing pickup¹⁰ basketball with Chris Paul.

　　He would be sitting there talking to some of his buddies¹¹. And you just would walk by him on your way to class.

　　He doesn't just talk about Akron and Cleveland and profess¹² his love in words. He's there, he's involved, he's hands-on.

　　He still lives just right outside of Akron. He still loves the community very, very much.

　　Greg Swartz and Kevin Blackistone, thanks for being with us.

　　Thank you, John. Thank you. undefined

1 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

2 cubs   

n.幼小的兽，不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
• Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 pro   

n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者

参考例句：

• The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
• Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？

4 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。

5 franchise   

n.特许，特权，专营权，特许权

参考例句：

• Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
• The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。

6 rebounds   

反弹球( rebound的名词复数 )； 回弹球； 抢断篮板球； 复兴

参考例句：

• V is the velocity after the gas particle rebounds from the wall. V是粒子从壁上弹开后的速度。
• In the former case, the first body rebounds with practically its original velocity. 在前一种情况下，第一个物体实际上以原来的速度弹回。

7 attachment   

n.附属物，附件；依恋；依附

参考例句：

• She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
• She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。

8 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

9 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

10 pickup   

n.拾起，获得

参考例句：

• I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。

11 buddies   

n.密友( buddy的名词复数 )；同伴；弟兄；（用于称呼男子，常带怒气）家伙v.（如密友、战友、伙伴、弟兄般）交往( buddy的第三人称单数 )；做朋友；亲近（…）；伴护艾滋病人

参考例句：

• We became great buddies. 我们成了非常好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
• The two of them have become great buddies. 他们俩成了要好的朋友。 来自辞典例句

12 profess   

v.声称，冒称，以...为业，正式接受入教，表明信仰

参考例句：

• I profess that I was surprised at the news.我承认这消息使我惊讶。
• What religion does he profess?他信仰哪种宗教？