Reggie Miller Reveals Why He Didn’t Sign With 2008 Celtics
December 9, 2021 @ 5:50pm
Reggie Miller playing for the Boston Celtics? It almost happened back in
2007, but the Hall of Fame shooting guard couldn’t betray the Indiana Pacers.
你能想像 Reggie Miller 披上绿衫军战袍的样子吗？
这在2007当年几乎可能成真，但最终这位名人堂后卫仍旧没有离开印第安纳溜马。
Miller retired at the age of 39 following the 2004-05 NBA season. At that
point, he had spent all 18 seasons of his career with Indiana.
2004-05，39岁的Miller宣布退役，那时他已经连续效力溜马18个赛季了。
Two years later though, Danny Ainge of the Celtics called Miller with an
offer to join a Boston squad that was loaded after its acquisitions of Kevin
Garnett and Ray Allen. Ultimately, the 42-year-old sharpshooter said no.
2年后，当时Danny Ainge曾试图劝说Miller复出加入阵中有KG、雷枪的赛尔提克，
可最终Miller并没有答应复出。
In an interview with Bob Kravitz of The Athletic which was published today,
Miller provided some insight on his decision.
近日在接受The Athletic的Bob Kravitz采访时，
Miller也提到了他当时为何会做出那种选择。
“Look I knew they were stacked to win a championship, and they did, but it
just wouldn’t have seemed right to be popping champagne in Boston when we
(Indiana) grew up together, we laughed together, we cried so many tears
together because we were so close for so many years,” Miller told Kravitz. “
How could I be sitting and cheering and laughing because I won my
championship and all I ever wanted to do was win in Indiana?”
Miller表示：
“听着，我知道他们那样组队可以夺冠，而他们也确实做到了。
但当你跟着印第安纳这座城市一起成长时，最终在波士顿开香槟庆祝似乎有点不太对。
我们曾经一起同甘共苦、彼此亲近了这么多年，
我怎么能因为夺冠就这样坐在那边欢呼和大笑？难道我就不想在印第安纳赢球吗？”
People don’t understand — and we’ve seen this when LeBron came back to
Cleveland, and now Milwaukee — when small markets win like that, and Indiana
is in that category, it’s like winning three or four, it is. We’re not the
Lakers, Boston, Chicago. When you win in a small market, those fans live and
die with you.
“人们不明白的是，当我们见识到了LeBron回家乡带领骑士夺冠，然后去年公鹿夺冠。
当小城市夺冠的时候，那种喜悦就像一次拿了3或4个总冠军，印第安纳就是属于这
层级。
我们并非湖人、波士顿或者芝加哥，当你在小城市夺冠时，
那些球迷就愿意跟着你出生入死。”
And Indiana is such a basketball state, winning there was all I wanted to do.
I just knew how special it could be, so I could not in good faith put on
another jersey when all my joy and sadness came in one jersey, with one
franchise.
“印第安纳这城市是一座篮球之都，我想做的就是在这里赢球，
我知道那对我来说会有多特别。
所以当我所有的快乐及悲伤都奉献给同一件球衣的时候，
我想我也无法再轻易穿上另一件球衣了。”
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