林書豪破繭而出  
林書豪昨晚接受體育畫報訪問:表示東部晚間11點接到紐約尼克總經理葛倫瓦德Grunwald電話,表示尼克無法留他,祝他順利。他很禮貌地謝謝紐約尼克總經理葛倫瓦德Grunwald,也祝他好運。

林書豪表示,雖然誠實地說,他比較喜歡紐約(可以是指城市),但是他的重心是要打籃球,希望可以到:一個為他量身定制戰術,並且想要他的球隊,所以現在他非常地放心了。

在美國東岸11pm星期二晚上,林書豪在他PA家的電話響起,是從紐約的總經理Glen Grunwald打來的,總共不到30秒的電話,簡單直接“我們想要留你,不過這不成功。和你家人說hello,祝你將來好運就這樣。

在NBA歷史裡,最多人討論和最讓人好奇的決定在半分鐘內結束了。沒有問題,沒有評論,沒有任何有感情的表示。林書豪,有禮貌的告訴Grunwald "我要謝謝你。祝你未來一切順利“

林書豪告訴SI.com,尼克管理層,在這總經理的電話之前,整個月裡只和林或林的代表團隊聯繫過一次,最後決定讓他離開。。。”老實講,"我很喜歡紐約"林說,不過,我在自由市場的主要目的是去找一個對我有計劃和要我的隊伍。我想要開心的打籃球。現在我肯定輕鬆了。 “

這整個過程是從六月底開始, 當伍德森到洛杉磯探訪甜瓜,錢總和菲子時,聯絡上林書豪並安排了一次的見面來討論他的未來。伍德森說他的行程沒有辦法能夠去Palo Alto, 林因此很興奮的飛去洛杉磯。那個晚上在Beverly Hills 的牛排餐廳中, 林被告知”伍德森說 '你將會是我們的首發, 你將會是我們隊伍中很重要的一部分“ 林說” 我以很興奮的心情離開“

不過在下個星期, 7月1號, NBA自由市場的第一天,尼克通知林書豪和他的經紀人
Jim Tanner and Roger Montgomery ,尼克有興趣把林帶回尼克,他們會去尋求另外一個控衛來加入他。提出4個名字, 3個是有經驗的自由球員,全部都36歲以上,納什,基德,和Andre Miller,第四個是肥頓

尼克沒有正式給林提出報價,之後也沒有,最終也沒有,從來都沒有,尼克只是把林推去自由市場,要林去尋求自己的價格。有3支隊伍(尼克之外)認真地開始討論。只有火箭,在7月4號去參訪。
”火箭一直說他們很抱歉他們曾經裁掉林書豪和這是多大的錯“ Tanner說”他們真的說了很多次,他們一直在承認錯誤“

林帶著被火箭的努力和熱情感動的心情離開休士頓。火箭開出了,第一次的報價,4年,第四年隊伍選項, 28M的報價。如新聞所報導,這個報價破裂(林的隊伍說他們在實際簽約前並沒有和尼克進行任何溝通),伍德森公開的表示林"一定"會回來。不過在這不久之後,火箭帶來另外一個報價:3年, 25.1M,第一年5M,第二年5.225M,第三年14.898M。在這個時候,林並不知道尼克會如何。可是他沒有更多的選擇,他只有一份報價表可供考慮。

反正, 林書豪在上星期六在網路上看到肥頓會通過交易回到紐約。這個月較早時, 紐約已經簽了基德, 現在林和其他人一樣看到這報導, ”肥頓的簽約,是我第一次想到“ 哦!哇!我可能不會是尼克人了” 林說,之後他從尼克高層中得到的消息,就是讓他離開。

林最後一次和尼克多蘭講話是在季后賽的第五場比賽前,尼克對邁亞密落後3比1,
林那時因為半月板受傷,沒有打前4場季后賽。當時多蘭因為Baron Davis的受傷而問林他是否可能參加比賽。多蘭並沒有時常和林說話,可是他對我都很好“很興奮的表示支持”我對你的未來有計劃,這是一個長期投資,不要急著回來。
”他說,我的85%,不是說離完全健康的85%,而是離可以開始訓練的最低限度還有15%。他還不能摸到球框,更不能防守。他說,若是可以的話,[我怎會放棄第一次參與季后賽的機會呢?林書豪也提到在季后賽時,他非常想要上場,但是每一位資深的隊友勸說,他不斷地跟他們辯論,但最後聽話不上場。

林書豪在復原期間,每晚睡覺都得開著冰鎮機,然後早上醒來再續開機器。人們以為我坐在旁邊看著我們輸球是一件簡單的事,好像我這一季沒有付出“林說”我真的很想比賽(想比賽到要死),過去7年我從沒有因為受傷而錯過任何一場比賽,直到上個賽季,而人們表現到好像我不想要參加季后賽?在NBA ?我人生的第一個賽季? “ 

他很喜歡他的新隊伍,可是不是大家所誤解的那樣,以為林是注重錢多於一切,這些傳聞吞噬了林書豪,林還睡在他小時候的家。”如果我真的要(錢),我可以有3位數(上百個)的代言-林指出,不過他沒有。其實,林最想要專注於籃球,他拒絕套現Linsanity帶來的錢潮,像山一樣多的在亞洲的商業機會,而只選了volvo, Steiner sports和Nike。

一年前,"我只想要在NBA裡每天努力的生存,要成為其中的隊員"。林說:"現在我擁有的比我曾經夢想的還要多,也比我需要的還要多" 他所沒有的,他深深懷念的是那神奇的兩個月,那時他在運動界裡的頂端,是錢不能買到的,也很可能不能在其他地方複製了。“我真的很愛紐約的粉絲”林書豪說"這是我想要回到紐約的主要的原因。他們如此的支持我,他們上賽季如此的熱愛我,這是我從來沒有看過或經歷過的。到死為止我都會這樣說。紐約帶給我的是不可置信的。我很想要一直在這些粉絲前比賽。“

翻譯:sisleyT 

Lin opens up about leaving Knicks: 'Honestly, I preferred New York'

Posted: Wednesday July 18, 2012 12:26PM ; Updated: Wednesday July 18, 2012 2:31PM

At 11 p.m. EST on Tuesday night, one hour before the New York Knicks needed to decide whether to match the Houston Rockets' three-year, $25.1 million contract offer to keep Jeremy Lin, the point guard's cellphone rang at his parents' home in Palo Alto, Calif. The call was from New York general manager Glen Grunwald and the conversation lasted no more than 30 seconds. Grunwald's message, Lin told SI.com, was simple and direct: "We wanted to keep you, but it couldn't work out. Tell your family I say hello, and good luck the rest of the way."

That was it. One of the more intriguing and publicly debated personnel decisions in NBA history ended in half a minute. No questions were asked, no pointed comments were uttered and no animated feelings were expressed. Lin, the undrafted 23 year old who rose to global stardom in his first 25 starts after being cut twice, politely told Grunwald, "I just want to thank you. Best of luck in the future."

Late Tuesday night, in his inaugural hour as a Rocket, Lin opened up to SI.com about how the most popular basketball player in New York City ended up in Houston, where he'll have his official team physical on Wednesday. He spoke about how Knicks management -- which had spoken to him and his representatives only once this month before that call from Grunwald -- finally let him go.

"Honestly, I preferred New York," Lin said. "But my main goal in free agency was to go to a team that had plans for me and wanted me. I wanted to have fun playing basketball. ... Now I'm definitely relieved."

The process began in late June, when Knicks coach Mike Woodson, who was in Los Angeles visiting Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and Landry Fields, contacted Lin to arrange a meeting to discuss his future. When Woodson said that his schedule prevented him from coming to Palo Alto, Lin -- who has been living with his parents this summer -- wound up flying to L.A. That night, over dinner at Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills, the guard was sold. "Woodson was saying, 'You're going to be a starter, you're going to be a big part of the team,'" Lin said. "I came away really excited."

ROSENBERG: Did the Knicks let Lin go for wrong reasons?

But the next week, on July 1, the first day of the NBA's free agency period, the Knicks informed Lin and his agents, Jim Tanner and Roger Montgomery, that while the team had interest in bringing Lin back, they were also going to court other point guards to join him. The names of four candidates were provided. Three of them were veteran free agents, all age 36 or older: Steve Nash, Jason Kidd and Andre Miller. The fourth was former Knick Raymond Felton, 28, who played for the Trail Blazers last season.

The Knicks would not make a formal offer to Lin -- not then, or, ultimately, ever -- instead opting to steer him toward the open market so he could assess his own price. Serious conversations with three teams other than the Knicks began. Only Houston, which had already cut the Harvard economics major last December, warranted a visit, on July 4. "The Rockets kept saying how sorry they were that that they'd cut him, and how much of a mistake it was," Tanner said. "They almost said it too many times. They kept acknowledging it."

Lin left Houston impressed by the effort and the enthusiasm. A backloaded first offer, as widely reported, came to him at four years -- with the fourth as a team option -- and $28.8 million. As news of the offer broke (and Lin's camp says they did not communicate anything to the Knicks before an offer sheet was actually

signed), Woodson publicly declared that Lin would "absolutely" be back. But not long after that, the Rockets came back with a revised offer: three years for $25.1 million, with the money rising from $5 million in the first season, to $5.225 million in the second, to $14.898 million in the third. (The relatively low values of the first two annual salaries are as mandated by the Collective Bargaining Agreement's "Gilbert Arenas" provision.)

By this point, Lin had no real idea what the Knicks would do. But there also wasn't much choice: He had all of one offer sheet in front of him to consider.

AMICK: Rockets get Lin after surreal back-and-forth

While surfing the Internet last Sunday, Lin read that Felton was reportedly en route to the Knicks from Portland via a sign-and-trade. Earlier this month, New York had already signed Kidd; now, Lin saw the writing on the wall, along with everybody else. "Felton's signing was the first time when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I might not be a Knick,'" Lin said.

The next time he heard from an executive in the organization, it was to tell him the Knicks were letting him go.

*****

The last time Lin talked to Knicks owner James Dolan was right before Game 5 of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, when New York was down, 3-1, to eventual NBA champion Miami. Lin, who had suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee, had been ruled out for the remainder of the regular season and had already missed the first four games of this playoff series. Now Dolan, with point guard Baron Davis also injured, wondered about Lin's availability. But the matter had already been settled. "Every single vet on our team that has been in the league longer than five years pulled me aside and told me that I shouldn't play," Lin said. "And I had arguments with them about why I should."

Dolan -- who didn't talk to Lin often but had generally been "really nice to me" -- wound up expressing support. "I have plans for you in the future," Lin recalled the owner saying. "This is a long-term investment. Don't rush back."

LOWE: A defensible decision, but Knicks will miss Lin

At the time, Lin says, he had been sleeping with an ice machine on every night and waking up early to restart it. He couldn't even touch the rim, much less defend. But the morning of Game 5, when asked about his status, he had publicly diagnosed himself at "85 percent" -- a comment he says has since been misunderstood. Lin was not 85 percent healthy, he says, but rather 15 percent away from the absolute minimum threshold to play. "People think it was easy for me to sit there and watch us lose, like I had nothing to do with the season," Lin said. "I was dying to play. I didn't miss a game due to injury in seven years until this past season, and people are acting like I wouldn't want to play in the playoffs? Of the NBA? In my first season?"

He is happy with his new employer, but less so about the misconceptions that others may now harbor. The notion that Lin has always cared about money above all else, in particular, eats away at him, especially as he sleeps in his childhood home.

"If I really wanted to, I could have triple-digit endorsements," Lin pointed out, but he does not. Instead, and in large part because Lin wanted to concentrate on basketball, he declined to cash in on the Linsanity gold-rush -- namely, the mountain of business opportunities in Asia -- and picked only three companies: Volvo, Steiner Sports and Nike.

"A year ago, I was just trying to stay alive and fight day by day, just to be on a roster," said Lin, who famously slept on couches upon his arrival in New York. "What I have now is way more than I ever would have dreamed of, and way more than I need."

What he doesn't have, though -- and what he deeply misses about those magical two months, back when he was atop the sports world -- is something that can't be bought, and likely can't be replicated elsewhere, again.

"I love the New York fans to death," Lin said. "That's the biggest reason why I wanted to return to New York. The way they embraced me, the way they supported us this past season, was better than anything I've ever seen or experienced. I'll go to my grave saying that. What New York did for me was unbelievable. I wanted to play in front of those fans for the rest of my career."

文章來源:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/basketball/nba/07/18/jeremy-lin-exclusive/index.html 

 

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