The Jeremy Lin-Carmelo Anthony jersey controversy is ridiculously overblown
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JULY 3, 2014 12:55 AM
No doubt by now you’ve heard about the uproar being caused by Jeremy Lin’s
fans on Wednesday after the Rockets, in their pitch to Carmelo Anthony,
displayed artwork at the Toyota Center showing the superstar free agent in a
Houston jersey wearing the number 7.
为了争取甜瓜而在丰田中心背号7号的甜瓜照片，引起最近非常大的争辩。
http://ppt.cc/AiVc
Only one problem — that’s Jeremy Lin’s number, and he’s still with the
Rockets.
唯一问题在于，LIN还在球队耶！
Lin himself turned to Twitter to express that he felt disrespected.
LIN于是在推特殊发了一些感到不被尊重的心情。
Lin’s tweets sparked a controversy when, in reality, this is business as
usual in the NBA. Are the Rockets supposed to not depict a superstar free
agent in the number he wants because their backup point guard currently has
that number? Did the Dallas Mavericks refuse to display Melo in a Mavericks
number 7 jersey because it might hurt Ricky Ledo‘s feelings?
LIN的推特点起了争论之火，尽管球员交易本身是NBA里非常普遍的一件事。
难道火箭队只因为要顾虑一个替补后卫的心情，就不能先给球团非常想要争取的超级球星
他想要的背号吗?
难道小牛队也要顾虑Ricky Ledo的心情就不能先给甜瓜7号吗？
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey spoke very candidly about it on Wednesday.
“It’s always a challenging situation during free agency,” Morey said in an
interview with FOX 26 Sports outside the Toyota Center. “You are always
having to recruit players and there might be current players at current
positions, might be people with the current numbers. It’s unfortunate that it
’s often hard to handle.
“Reality is it’s standard practice. When we went after Chris Bosh a few
years ago, we had him in (Luis) Scola’s number. When we went after Dwight
Howard he had (Pat) Beverley’s number. I get the sensitivity and I hate that
it creates some hurt feelings. I don’t like that, but that’s obviously
Carmelo Anthony’s number, that’s the number he wants. He told us that.”
(以上前几篇就翻译过不再翻了)
Our Rockets forum (and my twitter timeline) filled up, with many of the
Jeremy Lin crazies rallying around images like this one, claiming that the
organization is lying and that the Rockets never used Beverley’s number 12
on Howard artwork.
火箭论坛跟作者的推特马上就被林迷灌爆，因为从以下这张照片来看，大家认为球团根本
在说谎。
http://ppt.cc/OPH5
(Where's Patrick Beverley's number 12 on this? This is not a hate tweet
against PBev or D12.)
Of course, this image was after Dwight signed with the Rockets and his number
was established. There was no pitch at the Toyota Center (it was in Los
Angeles) and Morey is telling the truth. How do I know? Because I saw the
actual pitch that was made to Howard last summer, and it used Beverley’s
number 12.
但是其实莫雷没有说谎，因为去年夏天我就看到提早用了小贝12号背号的魔兽公仔跟照片
http://ppt.cc/J~os
http://ppt.cc/1zLS
You would have to be living under a rock these past few months to not know
that Jeremy Lin is going to be traded. We wrote about it as soon as the
season ended and hammered it home again three weeks ago. The Rockets don’t
have cap room and need to move Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin to create it.
早在球季结束后大家都差不多知道Lin要被交易了，唯有将Asik跟Lin都交易掉火箭才有
足够的薪资空间。
“Bottom line, if Carmelo comes, Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin have to be traded,”
said Morey. “It’s just math. It’s not personal. My job is every day
figure out how to win. Sometimes it creates challenging situations.”
心得：
救援开始出现，
背号是甜瓜要的，替补控卫跟林迷你们大惊小怪什么？以前小贝还不是都吞下去了。