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Nick Young's life - Swaggy P to 'Uncle P' - has followed an interesting
trajectory
Before a superstar girlfriend made him tabloid royalty and before a video
leak made him a pariah; before one coach sent him to the bench and a new one
rescued him from it; before he was Swaggy P or could even dunk, Nicholas
Young wanted to be in the movies.
在因为明星女友而成为八卦小报的热门焦点之前，在因为影片泄漏而成为团队的放逐之狼
前，在因为被坦克司令下放板凳又被天行者救起之前，在成为Swaggy P甚至不会灌篮之前
，Young最初的愿望是成为电影里的一角。
Specifically, he yearned for a life as a Hollywood stunt man.
而最让他向往的是成为一名好莱乌特技演员
His mother, Mae, took Nick and his brothers to Universal Studios and the
future Lakers guard became enamored with the anonymous role players who ran
through fire and fought with swords and scaled walls without suffering a
scratch.
他的母亲Mae，带着Nick以及其他兄弟们到环球影城。这位未来的湖人后卫就被那些在刀
光剑影中穿梭，即使因此而受伤却毫不在意的小人物们所深深吸引。
At home, Nick jumped off the roof of the garage and the family’s Culver City
apartment. He built ramps in the street to perform bicycle tricks.
“He was a very difficult child,” Mae Young said, “because he was
constantly bruised and cut and scraped up.”
Scared that Nick would eventually do real harm to himself, Mae enrolled him
in gymnastics, where he could hone his stunt skills.
回到家，Nick开始从车库的屋顶上纵身而下，甚至在路上搭建了斜坡开始表演自行车特技。
"他真的很难受控制" Mae这样说，"他总是把自己弄得浑身是伤"
为了避免他真的把自己伤到无法复原，母亲将他送至体育馆，好锻炼他这些特技的技巧。
“He’d come home trying to put on shows,” his older brother, Terrell, said,
“show people what he’d learned. Then the next thing you know the rest of
his friends would try to do it. It would be funny, a bunch of kids trying to
take fake punches and (do) flips.”
"他开始试着表演这些技巧，让大家欣赏他所学到的。接着你就会看到他的朋友们开始群
起模仿，一群小孩子尝试着对打和假摔，这画面真的很有趣！"他的哥哥Terrell这样回忆
著
Stunt men, however, know only how to fall from buildings, not from grace.
然而，特技演员学会了如何从屋顶跃下，却不知如何从人生的难题中脱困。
While Nick practiced the art of resilience, how to pop right up and smile
through pain, his hobby offered no lessons in what to do when a gentle
landing was not guaranteed, nor how to dodge blows he never saw coming.
It did nothing to prepare him for life with the Lakers.
Nick练习著如何带着笑容立刻爬起，从那些痛苦中恢复。但他的这个兴趣并没有教他，当
无法保证平安帅气地落地时，要如何降低伤害；也没有教他那些看不见的谣言向他袭来时
如何躲避。
这些，并没有让他准备好未来在湖人的生活。
SMILING THROUGH MISERY - 笑着走过悲伤
“I became the bad guy over the last two years,” Young said one day in
October after the Lakers wrapped up practice. “That’s something I’ve never
been. I’ve been the good dude.”
"过去的两年间，我成了反派角色。我从来没有体会过这种感觉，一直以来我都是好人阿
！"在十月某次的湖人练习时Young这样说
Right now, all is well in the world of the Lakers starting shooting guard. He
is averaging 14.7 points, knocking down 36.7 percent of his 3-point attempts
and, get this, has frequently been touted by Lakers coach Luke Walton as the
team’s best perimeter defender.
36.7%的三分命中率，场均14.7分，时常被藤总称赞是队上最佳的外围防守者。现在，他
称职地成为了湖人的先发得分后卫。
“This is most definitely a redemption year,” Young said. “That’s why I’
ve been working so hard, I believe in myself, believe that I’ve got talent.
There were just certain situations that made me take steps backwards.”
"这绝对是我最需要救赎的一年！因此我一直努力地训练，相信自己，相信我有这样的天
分！只不过是一些特殊的情况让我倒退了几步而已" Young said.
Where to begin? 但是要如何开始?
After a career year in 2013-14, in which he averaged a career-high 17.9
points per game Young, now 31, signed a four-year, $21 million contract that
promised to keep him in his hometown and with the team he grew up rooting for
through 2018.
在13-14球季打出场均个人生涯新高的17.9分后，Young和湖人签下4Y/21M的合约，照理说
能让他待在家乡为湖人打球直到2018。
If only it was that easy.
但是事情没有这简单...
“It’s my fourth year and I was supposed to be gone a long time ago,” he
said.
He assumed he would be playing overseas by now. All summer, that’s what he
heard. That he would be traded or released and probably end up in China. He
can joke about it now, but over the past two seasons under former Lakers
coach Byron Scott, his productivity and opportunity nosedived.
"这是我的第四年合约，但是我觉得我早在很久之前就该消失在这了" Young said.
Young认为他现在应该在海外打球。这就是他整个夏天听到的。他会被交易或是释出，甚
至流落到CBA。现在Young可以将这些想法当作是个玩笑，但过去两年在坦帅底下打球时，
他所呈现的效率以及打球的机会，都是急遽地降低(，那时这些想法可不是玩笑)。
Despite a glowing spread in Sports Illustrated in January 2015 that dubbed
him “the man behind the swag,” Young became the goofy face of the Lakers’
downward spiral. In each of his first three seasons, the Lakers set a new
franchise record for losses.
“They was just putting everything on me,” Young said. “That’s why this
was the big summer for me. I heard the worst.”
在湖人的前三季，湖人每年都打出破队史纪录的败场数。尽管SI在2015年1月将Young誉为
"the man behind the swag"，Young却成为失速湖人的小丑代表。
"他们将这一切都怪罪于我！所以这个暑假对我来说太重要了"
His engagement to Australian hip hop star Iggy Azalea was called off in the
summer, three months after a leaked video, recorded by teammate D’Angelo
Russell, caught Young discussing intimate relationships with women other than
Azalea.
One of the NBA’s most ebullient personalities had been muted. He felt that he
’d become a whipping boy for Scott. His influence on young players such as
Russell and Jordan Clarkson was questioned. On the court, he took a backseat
to Lou Williams, a 2015 free agent arrival whose game mirrored Young’s. He
became acquainted with the bench, which Young says was the greatest indignity
of them all.
和Iggy的订婚，在Dlo流出影片后的三个月告吹。
曾经是NBA中数一数二令人沸腾的个人特质从此消失。他觉得他就像是犯了错而被BS鞭打
的小男孩一样。他对年轻球员如Dlo及JC的影响受人质疑，新签来的鲁长老打得就像加强
版的复制Young一样，BS也因此将Young冰至了板凳的末段，这是让Young感到最受侮辱的
。
“When you see Nick smiling all the time, you think that’s a smile of joy,”
Young’s father, Charles, said. “He ain’t happy all the time he’s
smiling. It’s what’s behind the smile.”
It was, in fact, a miserable year for Swaggy P.
“You can’t get no lower than that except death,” Terrell Young said.
"你看到Young无时无刻都挂著笑容，但他不是都是开心的。那些笑容的背后，是深深地隐
藏" Young的父亲 Charlie说道。
这对Swaggy P来说真的是悲惨无比的一年。
"除了死亡，应该没有比这更低落的时刻了" 哥哥Terrell说道。
ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS - 专心致志
When Luke Walton arrived as Scott’s successor in the summer, he didn’t know
what to expect from Young. Walton knew about the Russell video, and the
divide it created in the Lakers locker room. He also had seen Young play over
the previous decade, and believed he would be an ideal fit for his up-tempo
offense.
当藤总在这个夏天取代了坦帅，藤总并不知道该对Young有怎么样的期待。藤总知道影片
事件在湖人的休息室画下了一道伤口，但他也看到了Young在过去十年间比赛的内容，并
相信Young会相当适合他将要带来的快节奏进攻。
But where was he? While other players were practicing daily at the Lakers
facility, Young rarely came in.
“I didn’t know if he was training or if he was just in the ‘I’m not going
to be there anyway’ type of mode,” Walton said.
但是Young人勒?当其他球员都已经在湖人场馆进行每日训练，Young却不见踪影。
"我不清楚他是在进行训练或是他已经进入放弃模式了" 藤总表示
Young was training, actually. Two weeks after the conclusion of a 17-win
Lakers season, Young returned to the gym with Terrell, a former center at
Biola University. They worked out as often as three times a day, either at a
sports complex in Calabasas or the nearby Shepherd of the Hills Church.
事实上，Young是努力在训练著。湖人悲惨的17胜球季结束后的两周，Young就和哥哥
Terrell(也是前Biola大学中锋)，回到了体育馆进行训练。他们常在附近的体育馆中一天
练习三餐。
“It has always upset me that people have a misperception of Nick,” said
Mark Bartelstein, Young’s longtime agent. “He is actually an unbelievably
hard worker who takes tremendous pride in his game.”
"人们对于Young的错误印象是很令人沮丧的。他总是带着对于下场比赛的骄傲，令人难以
相信地刻苦训练著。"Young一直以来的经纪人Mark说道
Walton and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak stayed in contact with
Bartelstein and their message was clear: Young needed to eliminate the
distractions if he wanted to remain a Laker.
藤总和米奇和Mark保持着联系，并透露出明确的讯息─若Young还想留在湖人，他必须要
消除一切外在对他的影响。
“We made a decision this summer ... let’s not give anybody something to
talk about other than his game because that’s what has always been most
important to him,” Bartelstein said.
经纪人Mark 表示 "我们在这个暑假做了这样的决定，不让外界任何人有机会再去对Young
除了比赛以外的事情加以评论"
The organization faced an Aug. 31 deadline to cut its losses, waive Young and
pay out the $11.1 million remaining on his contract evenly over five seasons.
Young sweated that deadline until it passed.
在8/31前，湖人可以选择将Young裁掉，并将剩余的11.1M平均分配到接下来的五年支付。
Young焦虑的等待那个日期过去
“Of course it humbled me,” he said. “I told myself I’m just going to go
out there and play my heart out this year. I don’t want to hear all the
rumors. Just go out there and dive on floors, and just be Dennis Rodman if I
had to this year.”
"这件事让我懂得该更加谦虚。我告诉我自己，我该做的就是下场尽我的全力去打完接下
来一年的比赛。我不愿再去听那些谣言，单纯的下场奔跑。如果有需要，要我在今年变身
为Dennis Rodman也可以" Young said.
NEW BEGINNING - 崭新开始
Charles Young spoke loudly to combat the crowd that filled his living room to
watch Young start against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night. Charles
blames Scott for the sharp negative turn in his son’s career.
Young先发出战国王的那晚，Charles大声地和客厅里的人们对话。他谴责BS如何荼毒他儿
子的篮球生涯以及带来的明显负面影响。
With a new coach on board, he recognized the opportunity before his son, but
knew it was tenuous.
当新教头来到，他知道他儿子的机会来了，虽然那仅仅是非常微薄的机会。
“They already don’t want you there,” he said he told Nick, “so don’t
give them no other reason to not want you there.”
"他们已经不想要你了，所以不要再给他们其他理由讨厌你" 他这样对Young说
Before training camp, the video with Russell lingered. Even though Young and
Russell said they could coexist, many had their doubts. Charles Young cries
hypocrisy on that subject.
“Donald Trump (said) the same thing Nick did and he became President of the
United States,” he said. “Nick told his boy something in confidence and
they wanted to trade him. Everybody said he shouldn’t even be in the league.
”
训练营开始之前，影片事件的影响仍在媒体间流窜。即使Young和Dlo都表示他们能共事，
人们却对这抱持着怀疑。Charles认为这根本就是一个虚假的议题。
"川普说过和Young类似的话都当了美国总统，但人们却因为Young和兄弟间的闲聊而要交
易他，甚至认为他根本不应该出现在NBA联盟中" Charles said
Walton intentionally did not make a big deal about Russell and Young
coexisting in the locker room, but said “we were going to keep an eye on it.
”
Today, they comprise the Lakers starting backcourt.
藤总对于Dlo及Young未来如何相处这件事情上，故意地降低人们的注意，仅表示"他之后
会花点心思注意"
如今，他们成为了湖人的先发后场
After the first day of training camp, Walton thought Young seemed somewhat
distant, so he pulled him aside. He told him, “We don’t have judgments on
anyone here. So if you come in and you work and you buy into what we’re
doing, you can earn playing time on this team.”
训练营的第一天结束后，藤总发现了Young似乎和队上有点疏远，所以将他拉到旁边并说
道，"我们对于这里的所有人都没有成见。所以如果你努力训练，持续地相信你所做的努
力，那么你就可以得到该有的上场时间"
For the first time in years, Young felt empowered.
It was a reversal from the feelings that tugged at him all summer.
这段话，让Young在过去的这一年间，第一次感到充满了能量
这段话和整个夏天他所受到的压力形成了强力的对比
“I felt like it was over here for sure,” he said. “Felt like it was over
here and I was going to get bought out and have to prove myself all over
again. But I am still proving myself and I still got a ways to go.”
"我感到之前的事件结束了，彻底结束了。我再来只要持续地相信自己，并再次证明我的
能力。但我仍在证明自己地过程而已，我要努力的地方还很多" Young表示
Said Charles Young: “All Nick needed was a chance; a coach to believe in him.
”
Charles: "Nick所需要的就只是个机会，一个教练相信他的机会"
Young continues to live in the Tarzana home he once shared with Azalea and
works to grow his own clothing label: “Most Hated Player.” He has
semi-seriously retired the moniker Swaggy P and now jokes that the young
Lakers should call him “Uncle P.”
Young持续地住在曾经和Iggy同住的家中，并发展他的衣服品牌"Most Hated Player"。
他表示他已经从Swaggy P半退休了，并说现在的年轻湖人球员们，应该要叫他Uncle P。
In a recent home game against Dallas, Young scored the Lakers’ first 13
points. Two nights later, in a dizzying fourth-quarter sequence against the
Kings, he grabbed a rebound and went coast-to-coast for a layup, then, back
on defense, poked the ball loose from All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins and
sprinted back in time to swish a 3-pointer.
在前一场主场面对小牛时，Young攻下了湖人的前13分。两个晚上之后，在面对国王的关
键第四节，他抓下篮板快速推进上篮得手，然后回防。再从表弟手中将球偷走，回头飙进
了三分球。
The Kings called timeout and Young did not run to the bench. He skipped.
国王叫了暂停，但Young却没有(被换下)回到板凳。
“There were some real low points,” Bartelstein said. “That’s why I get so
much joy out of seeing him so happy now. It’s real. He’s not just putting
on the smile. He’s having the time of his life.”
经纪人Mark说 "他曾经经历过严重的人生低潮，所以当我现在看到他能这么开心，我也很
欣慰。他现在是真的很开心，不是只是挂著笑容，而是发自内心的。"
Nick Young has fallen. He knows where the bottom is because it nearly broke
him.
Young曾经跌倒，他知道人生的深渊是什么样子，因为那差点就摧毁了他。
“I don’t want to end my career the way it almost ended,” he said, “being
forced out of the league. I want to go out when I can’t move my legs no more.
”
"我不想要我的球员生涯就这样结束，被联盟赶出去。我要在场上奔跑，直到我的双脚都
无法移动那刻，我才愿意停止"
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终于翻完了....好累
早上看完这篇彻底地感受到Young从谷底爬出的艰辛，想说来翻给版众们分享
谁知道居然这么看一篇10分钟的文，打字翻译要快三个小时这么久....
感谢各位耐心看完，哪里有翻错的再麻烦指出来让我修改

推 老尖好文! 衣服品牌那里Most多打了个a

看完都快哭了.....= =

老尖!

推，看了都快哭了Q.Q，来~3Y/30M给你，签吧!

推～

不推不行～

真心希望老尖能留下来打到退休啊,现在要找像他那么适合湖人STYLE的球员也不容易了XD

热心翻译推

推， 有洋葱

老尖本季减少很多单打 多了很多C&S 效率超高阿

young 6呎7打SG很有优势

认真觉得这已经不是教练，是贵人了...

Push

除了Luke识人，Young一直很努力的投入练习也才有大复活

推 换完教练感觉一切都雨过天晴了

眼泪有点不争气了

小黑也是 他跟Luke说给我一个公平竞争的机会不是无脑乱冰BS会这么惹人厌真的是自找的 不要怪每个人都狂婊

感谢翻译 这篇太有泪水了 老尖QAQ

推

去年被冰就是输七六人后放砲得罪了BS

湖人需要Young这种高颜值，有实力又能抗压的球员！

先推再看了,感谢！

看完好感动! Luke真的太棒了

推翻译 老尖浴火重生~

真的很感人呀！

结论：Luke>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BS

Young是兄弟Farmar的小老弟啊,Luke一定要照顾到的

真的蛮感动的 Walton救了一个球员

推。Young也不young了希望好表现能签个好约BS没走可能真的cba了

BS就是烂啦，我看对岸虎扑还有说BS老湖人好话就恶心

感谢翻译

干，好感人

可能救的是一只球队XD

帮QQ 我本来还以为他留不了了

眼睛流汗了... 看完还是不忘一句话:BS你他X的废X连带心都不会 就只会动不动公开批评自己的球员 说他们怎样懒散 要不然就说牠们不像男人 谁会服气啊?

这篇超赞~~

其实walton根本是救了整个球队 如果老尖走人 我相信就算LUKE再强 也没办法带出像现在这么有向心力的湖人

推Young，这季复活真的太替他高兴了

感谢翻译！希望Young能永远待在我湖！

好感人 差点被bs害惨的人

Young能跟Dlo相安无事一起打球 这气度真的不是盖的

羊这种正面能量放在休息室的影响力远比他薪水超值很多阿

推推~~老尖加油!!!

然后除了BS应该翻成屎脸蟾蜍之外其他都翻得不错XD

而Dlo像在打道歉篮球 一看到Young有空档 球一定传过去

幸好BS走了，我也很爱老尖，MDA那时刚来打的不差其实

今年太多重要关键时刻 Dlo根本眼中只有Young 只找他

你说之前关键往外分那球？Walton 有说那是她暂停画的。

感谢他的坚韧,让我知道落井下石及轻易结果论的可怕做人当学Swaggy p

今年的正面能量好强

有空档传球很正常吧...0.0..

推一个

已哭～

没人觉得Dlo很刻意传给Young 那么 应该是我错觉吧

我真的很喜欢老尖 看到他这样富活真的无比开心

证明自己

我不是白痴 有空档就传很正常我也知道 不必刻意酸吧

(〒▽〒)b

能获得救赎机会也确实把握住 恭喜Young 继续加油吧!

To:Kreen 我说的不是暂停后的传球 很多外传是进行中的

推 超洋葱

哭了 Young加油！

感动 老尖加油~

赛后Dlo在访谈中也有谈到紧要关头 为什么会传给Young

Young受惠于目前的体系。

看到young想成为特技演员那段本来觉得没什么，到最后想想会觉得和他现在展现出的个人特质很像，爱秀但若要成为nobody也行。翻译的时候细看文章时，真的会为了他坚韧的反弹，感动到眼眶湿润

推推

@alanlakers 我以为你是提新闻报导那次。

我有alan大的感觉

DLO有补偿心态也正常,不过我宁愿觉得射手能识真射手啦

希望老尖能拿到最佳进步奖！！！

应该是说有2个以上空档，DLO会传给羊

以先发来说…我也会找杨

推 很正面的一篇文章 ~

好文大推~

道歉篮球蛮有梗的ＸＤ（没在酸

今天是阿平生日耶

推~~~~~~

"the man behind the swag 怎么翻比较好？

BS毁人不倦

卤蛋被放三分 上一个被这样对待的湖人球员就是阿泰

“那个有魅力的男人”XD

我也觉得克林大很有魅力，误～

告白了耶~

kbgarnett你这样怎么对的起might大~

谢谢，我有女朋友了，支持你跟 mightsnsd 在一起吧。XD

老尖比Farmar老两岁吧 怎么会是他小老弟Dlo就是学习在场上当Walton 谁空档就传谁 老尖射程很长

必须跟痒道歉，去年真的觉得你不行了，感谢你用力打我脸

空档好球带也比较宽 倒是Walton有设定射手们不要迟疑 能站稳看到篮框出手的机会就扔吧 这季Randle推进我们砍进early 3的次数满多的

应该说在湖人年资young是晚辈

kbgarnett x mightsnsd 不可拆不可逆

Farmar跟Young是学生时期就很好了 我以前有翻过

我知道他俩很好啊 加州同乡又打球的一定U16以前就认识了

Uncle P今年拿个最佳进步奖吧!! 不死鸟的复活!

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young加油我湖现在最喜欢的球员

好文感谢翻译！！

感动

呜呜 好文推个 怎么有洋葱啦

感人!!!很开心杨复活了!!!

经过前两季的摧残 大家都以为他不行了 那时候会想看他被交易走 其实也希望他重新出发 毕竟他来湖人一开始打很好又有戏 让我很欣赏 希望他能离开之后复活看他现在能在Walton手下打这么好 为他感到非常高兴~

http://i.imgur.com/PYS7mGL.jpg谢谢你 满血回来了

walton 真的不错 带球队用心

without a scratch 毫发无伤，gymnastics 体操

推好文

推!老尖加油!

感谢翻译

励志

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泪推老尖，去你妈的败总

Walton圣光术!

BS吃屎！！ 老尖好棒啊QQQ

克林没事不要乱凑对~我可是会爬文的...(揍)

XDDD

大推老杨，续签吧!!!

我爱老尖

Farmar是以前教Young念书,帮助他顺利升学

太感动，羊真的复活成功

老尖又帅又强 我永远支持你

好文推

Farmar帮Young准备SAT https://youtu.be/fqRCHmYF9hI

大推

是Farmar太强还是老尖课业真的太差XD

林在湖人时也有人说bs很好

推 感人QQ 看到Young现在这样真好~

可能犹太父母对小孩课业盯得比较紧吧我猜

热血好文! 感谢翻译!

大推～不过有一句翻照三餐练习好像好点？哈哈