[外電] Christmas: 'This is my dream'

看板Celtics作者piercepaul (Be a Green Forever&ever)時間11年前 (2012/09/18 02:17)推噓15(15推 0噓 8→)

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新聞出處(必填): http://ppt.cc/XFqg Dionte Christmas still faces an uphill battle -- or at least a dogfight -- to secure one of the Celtics' final roster spots for the upcoming 2012-13 season. During last week's Celtics community event in Dorchester, he stressed again why he made the decision to ink a partially guaranteed deal to stick around in Boston. X'mas還在為了C's 15人名單中最後一個位置努力，在上個星期的社區活動中，他說了為什麼願意跟C's簽下部分保障約。 "Basically, this is my dream," said an emotional Christmas. "I played overseas for the last three years and this was actually like my money year overseas. I played real well over there last year and this is the year I would go back over there and make a lot of money. But this opportunity came and God blessed me with this opportunity with the Celtics. "這是我的夢想"，X'mas感性的說。"過去三年我在海外球隊效力，而今年可說是我在海外的合約年。過去三年我打得很好，如果我回去，可以領到比較多薪水。但機會就這麼降臨，感謝上帝保佑我得到C's給的機會。" "I played very well in Orlando [summer league], very well in Vegas, and when [Celtics president of basketball operations] Danny Ainge and [director of player personnel] Austin [Ainge] came with the proposal to my agent, it was my dream, and I couldn't turn it down. I had a long talk with my dad, and he basically was just saying, 'It's not all about the money. It's about chasing your dream.' He still wakes up with regrets, because my dad was an athlete, and he [had to] forego his dreams to do certain things, but he still wakes up with regrets. He was like, 'You don't want to do that, wake up with regrets, saying you could have, but you didn't.' "我在夏季聯盟打得不錯，然後當吉哥跟他兒子帶著提議來找我的經紀人，這是我的夢，我根本無法拒絕(吉哥:我會給他一個他無法拒絕的條件) 。我跟我爸談了很久，基本上他只有說'這與錢無關。是有關追尋你的夢。'(靠這句好催淚)我爸到現在還是會帶著後悔醒來，他曾經是位運動員，但他放棄了夢想，當個平凡人，但他依舊會帶著後悔醒來...。他的意思像'你不想這樣的，帶著後悔醒來，說你原本做得到，但你卻沒有。' "So that right there just stuck with me the whole night and the next day it was like a no-brainer. I just told [the Celtics] I was on board. I called the overseas teams and told them what I was doing and now I'm here today." "所以我陷入在這些話裡一整晚，然後隔天卻想都不用想。我跟C's說我已經在飛機上。我打給了海外球隊，告訴他們我將做什麼，所以現在我在這裡。' As we noted this summer, it appears that Christmas and Jamar Smith inked similar league-minimum deals, where only a small portion ($25,000 for Smith) is guaranteed. If Christmas doesn't make the Celtics' 15-man roster out of camp, he might have sacrificed money overseas given the fact that those teams have likely signed other players. X'mas跟Jamar Smith都簽了聯盟小約，只有一小部分是有保證的。如果 X'mas最終無法成為15人名單的一員，他等於犧牲了海外球隊開給他的薪水，而他們很可能已經跟其他球員簽約了。 Christmas, who has spent the past three seasons in Greece and the Czech Republic, admitted there's benefits to staying stateside. "It's great, man," he said. "[In July I was getting ready to go] overseas, packing up, 10 months, not seeing my family. Now I get to go home [to the Philadelphia area on] certain days, see my family, I can fly people in, and it's just a lot better feeling, a lot better setting. So it's definitely a blessing. It truly is a blessing, and I just can't thank the Celtics enough for giving me this opportunity." X'mas過去三年曾在希臘跟捷克打球，他承認能待在美國很爽。 "這很棒man"他說，"七月的時候我原本已經準備要去海外，收好行囊，待10個月，沒辦法見到我的家人。而現在我有空就可以回家，看看家人，這感覺好多惹。所以我絕對是被祝福的。真的是被祝福的，我真的不知道要怎麼感謝C's給予我這個機會。" And how has his focus changed since summer league? "A lot different. It's a lot more focus," said Christmas. "I was definitely focused in summer league, but now, I've got to pay attention to every detail, getting up early, working out, getting a good lift in. I'm just trying to eat right and rest well, because we're going hard. Once we get into the gym at 9:30, 10 in the morning, we go hard for about four or five hours, and so I have to be mentally tough and just be prepared to go in. Those long lifts -- I'm not used to lifting -- and then doing the training that I'm doing now, as opposed to overseas, is a lot different. Just mentally and physically, it's a different mindset." 而自從夏季聯盟後他改變了那些重點呢? "有很多不同。有更多事要著重。"X'mas如是說。"我原本把焦點完全放在夏季聯盟，但現在我得著重更多細節，早點起床啦，訓練啦。我試著吃對的東西跟休息的有品質些，因為我們將變硬(?!)。一但我們9點半~10點進入體育館後，將會辛苦的訓練4到5個小時，所以我的心理必須更強韌些並將自己準備好。舉那些我不常舉的，做些我正在進行的訓練，相較於在海外時有很大的不同。心理跟生理上，心態上是完全不同的。" If it leads to an NBA job out of camp, all that work -- this summer and for the past three years overseas -- will be well worth the grind. 如果他在訓練營結束後得到份NBA的工作，這些訓練，這個夏天，以及在異鄉的那三年，都將是值得的。 --- 翻得不好請見諒又是一個追夢少年~ 吉哥河流~就讓他進入15人名單吧~~~不用再簽其他2.3號球員了而且Jet也會一直盯著他~XD -- It start with 6,then 17 ,then 33 ,then 34 ,then 9. It's all about Pride and Responsibility. And the Cigar. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 111.255.205.35

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