http://hoopshype.com/storyline/whatever-happened-to-darko-milicic/
Darko Milicic: “It’s just simple, my career was how it was and I don’t
miss that. I went to the NBA as a kid, barely 18, didn’t have the attitude I
should have had.”
很单纯，我的职业生涯就那样，我也不怀念，我进NBA的时候只是个18岁小孩，我没有
应该有的态度。
Darko Milicic: “I thought as a kid that talent was God-given, but it’s not.
God gives you talent and you should use that talent with the real meaning of
that word. I was stubborn. Maybe being young had something to do with it.
There was option then of going to the NBA or staying in Serbia because
Hemofarm knew that if I went to NBA they would get more money than they would
get if I went to some European club. Here you had poverty and money was there.
”
我当时的想法认为天赋是上帝给予的，但并非如此。上帝给你天赋，而你应该好好照
这个字的真义使用它。我当时是固执的，也许是因为年纪轻的缘故。当时我能选择要
去NBA或是留在塞尔维亚，因为Hemofarm(Darko在塞尔维亚的母队)知道我去NBA会比我去
欧洲俱乐部他们会拿到更多钱。我们这里很穷，而钱就摆在那。
Darko Milicic: “Their system is cruel and I don’t like it. If a young
player doesn’t succeed, they don’t look after him. That sucks. You have
players who are first or second in the draft that get a chance to play. I
didnt get the chance. LBJ is a killer now, but he did get a chance in his
first year, he could shoot from the stands if he wanted. I barely got the
chance. I had that situation in Orlando where if I shoot from perimeter, my
coach Hill would yell, “Pass to Howard.” In Detroit nothing went right.
Larry Brown always told me to go near the basket. They offered me a $40
million, four-year contract in Orlando, and then their manager blows it off,
out of nowehere. My manager told me he would deal with it. I said OK, but
just not Memphis. Anywhere but there. And, of course, I went to Memphis. Then
I got injured, didn’t play much.
他们(NBA)的系统很残酷，我并不喜欢。如果一个年轻球员没有成功，他们也不会照顾
他，这烂透了。LBJ现在是一个杀手，但他第一年就得到机会，他想要的话可以从观众席
投篮。我根本没有什么机会。我在魔术队时，如果我从三分线投篮，我的教练就会大吼
"把球传给Howard!" 在活塞更是什么都不对，Larry Brown总是要我去接近篮框。
他们本来在奥兰多要提供我四年四千万的合约，然后他们的经理取消了，我的经理跟我
说他会处理。我说好，只要不要是曼菲斯就好，去哪里都可以。想当然尔，我后来就去
了曼菲斯，然后我受伤了，没打到什么球。
Darko Milicic: “I wanted to go back to Europe but then the Minnesota offer
came. I tried to talk them out of of signing me, I said I won’t practice, I
will make trouble in the locker room but they were persistent. They told me
give it two weeks, if it doesn’t work you can go. I accepted, it was nice
and I played but we didn’t win. Rambis was fired and after Adelman came I
realized it’s not gonna work. Pekovic started playing well, and I thought, “
Never mind, I’ll come off the bench.” But it just didn’t work. And then I
just quit.
我想要回到欧洲，但后来灰狼来找我，我试图叫他不要签我，我说我不会练习，
我会造成休息室里的问题，但他们很坚持。他们说试试看两个礼拜，如果不行我可以离开
我答应了，那还不错，我打了比赛但是我们没有获胜，Rambis就被开除，Adelman接任，
我就了解到这行不通。Pekovic开始打得很好，然后我想，没关系，我可以打板凳，
但是那也没成功，所以我就走了。
Darko Milicic: “They offered me contract in Boston. I didn’t want to go
there and not play. They said they would play me.”
后来塞尔蒂克来找我，我不想去那边但是打不到球，他们说会让我上场。
Darko Milicic: “I can’t play with American players. They only talked about
who dunked on whom, who crossed over whom. I was weird to them because I didn
’t think that way.”
我没办法和美国球员打球，他们成天只说谁在谁头上灌篮，谁cross over谁。我不这么想
所以他们觉得我怪怪的。
Darko Milicic: “It’s all funny to me. I finally get a chance to play and
(Mutombo) starts taunting me and daring me to fight. Why would I need that? I
didn’t understand half of what he said. I mean, he’s been there 20 years
and still doesn’t know the language well enough. Nobody in particular
annoyed me, but Kobe Bryant is the dirtiest player with the things he does on
the court… But without a doubt he is a beast. He was amazing.”
对我来说很好笑，我有次终于和Mutombo对上，他开始对我嘲讽，要和我打架，我为什么
要那样做? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_tw4t2CMc)
我根本听不懂一半他说的话，我的意思是，他都打了20年了英文还说不好。
没有谁特别惹恼我，除了Kobe，他真的是最肮脏的球员，因为他在场上做的那些事。
但毫无疑问的他是头野兽，他很棒。
“I don’t miss basketball. I live very well, thank God. I have my interests,
interests in agriculture,” says Darko Milicic in an exclusive interview for
Blic.
我并不怀念篮球，我过得很好，感谢上帝，我有我的兴趣，对农业的兴趣。
以上来自Darko Milicic 在Blic的访谈。