Gilbert Arenas’s 5 NBA Free Agency Truths
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Gilbert Arenas前几天受访分享一些故事和他的观点与想法，以下节录几个部分
1.Players can be loyal to a fault.
To their detriment, Arenas believes NBA stars have been brainwashed — he blam
es fans and the media — to think that chasing a title via free agency is a ho
llow pursuit. Can you blame them? LeBron and KD still get grief from Twitter t
rolls and talking heads for winning in Miami and Golden State.
1.球员们被过于要求忠诚
Arenas认为球员们已经被媒体和球迷们洗脑，而觉得以自由球员的方式追逐冠军是一种空
洞的需求。你能责怪他们吗？ LBJ和KD仍然因为在热火和勇士夺冠而受到推特酸民和话语
领袖们的批评。
“For us to be great, we have to win a championship where we were drafted or i
t doesn’t count,” says Arenas. “You automatically make us loyal by that not
ion so that’s why players will sit in cities while their careers are dying.”
Arenas：为了让我们变得伟大，必须为选中自己的球队赢得总冠军，否则就不算数，这让
我们自然而然地想到了忠诚这个概念。这就是为什么球员们会在选中他的城市里待着虚耗
自己的生涯。
According to Agent Zero, guys generally come to the realization that loyalty i
n the NBA is a bunch of BS after a decade in the league. By that point, they k
now it’s really a business. But today’s best example of what Arenas is talki
ng about is Damian Lillard.
Arenas认为人们通常会在联盟中打上十年之后才能意识到，在NBA里所谓的忠诚就是一堆
狗屎。那时他们才会明白这都是生意。根据Arenas所说的状况，最好的例子就是小李。
2.Personal slights push stars away.
The NBA is pet-ty. Take away a man’s cookies and you just might take away you
r chances of re-signing him.
2.因为个人的疏忽而让球星离开。
有些球员很计较些小事，一个男人你不给他吃饼干，你可能就失去和他续约的机会了。
Without divulging the player’s name, Arenas relates an anecdote about how one
team’s sudden decision to replace sugary snacks with healthier options doome
d their chances of retaining the services of the living legend.
在没有透露球员姓名的情况下，Arenas分享了一个轶事，一支球队突然决定用更健康的选
择代替含糖零食，因为这样导致这位传奇球星的离队。
The way Arenas tells it, an executive for one of the NBA’s major market teams
told flight attendants to replace the junk food on the plane with more wholes
ome options. The change happened abruptly in the middle of the superstar’s wa
lk year while he and his squad had one of the best records in the league. When
the player found out he could no longer chow down on his favorite chocolate c
hip cookies 35,000 feet in the air, he was pissed. A few months later, the sup
erstar took his talents elsewhere.
NBA一支主要市场球队的制服组告诉空服人员用更健康的选择来代替飞机上的垃圾食品，
这种变化突然发生在这位超级巨星的合约年，而当年他和他的球队拥有联盟中最好的战绩
之一，当这位球员发现他再也无法在高空中吃到他最喜欢的巧克力饼干时，他很生气，几
个月后，这位超级巨星将他的才华带到了别的球队。
“He left because of fucking cookies,” says Arenas.
Arenas：他妈的因为饼干就离开了。
3.Players are always recruiting each other.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the recruitment of free agents — at l
east amongst the players — isn’t exclusive to the offseason. Nor is it restr
icted to DMs, text messages or FaceTime. Arenas says it happens “every damn g
ame.” Players can’t stop themselves from pitching each other championship dr
eams and planting a seed about what it would be like to team up together in a
different city.
3.球员们总是彼此互相招募
这并不足为奇，但自由球员的招募——至少在球员中——并不是休赛季才有的。它也不限
于DM、传讯或FaceTime。Arenas说每一场比赛都会发生这种情况，球员们无法阻止自己互
相推销冠军梦想，并为在不同城市组队的想法播下种子。
“You gotta remember, players play with each other during the summer,” he say
s. “They study each other. So players know who they will play well with. If y
ou ask Damian Lillard how many players came up to him and said, ‘Oh, you want
to come to us? We can make a trade for you.’ All the time.”
Arenas：必须记住，球员们在夏天休赛季一起打比赛，他们互相学习，所以球员们知道他
们会和谁一起打得很好。如果你问小李有多少球员对他说："你想加入我们吗？我们可以
为你做交易。"这一直都在发生。
And when it comes to constructing a trade to acquire a star, Arenas believes t
he players, not general managers, should be the ones to make moves. Salary cap
ramifications and restrictions be damned.
当谈到如何透过交易来获取球星时，Arenas认为应该由球员而不是总经理来采取行动，因
为该死薪资空间的种种限制。
“Players’ trades are way better than general managers' trades,” says Arenas
. “Players pick the right pieces. We can see it because we watch how people p
lay. The general managers look at paper.”
Arenas：球员间谈交易比总经理间谈交易要好得多，球员们能选择了更好的"拼图"，因为
我们是看人们如何打球，总经理看的是数据。
短评或心得：
谁没巧克力饼干吃就转队？