https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/donovan-mitchell-trade-would-take-knicks-dealing-rj-barrett/
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RJ Barrett a necessary sacrifice if Knicks want Donovan Mitchell
By Mike Vaccaro
若尼克想交易来米丘，RJB是必要的筹码
The draft picks are the easy part, let’s be honest.
They are attractive to look at, for sure. Leon Rose has collected them merrily, guarded them meticulously, and jealously. There are 11 first-rounders stowed away carefully under the glass in the Knicks’ warehouse, like a prized collection of stamps, coins or baseball cards.
选秀签好谈
LR像集邮一般的呵护他们，并有多达11只可动用首轮
Rose was not willing to part with a plethora of them a few weeks ago when the Spurs were shopping Dejounte Murray, and so Murray wound up with the Hawks. Murray is an excellent player. He and Jalen Brunson would’ve made a dynamic pairing in the backcourt at the Garden.
But he isn’t Donovan Mitchell.
几周前，当马刺愿意交易DjM,LR不愿意跟选秀权说再见，所以他最终去了老鹰。Murray是一位特别的球员，他跟Brunson的暴力后场可以活跃在花园球场上
但他不是Donovan Mitchell
And according to The Athletic, Mitchell is once again in play. According to the report, Mitchell — three-time All-Star, Westchester County native, owner of a 23.9 career points-per-game average — is being dangled by the Jazz. And the Knicks are thought to be at the front of the line, trying to swing a deal.
根据The Athletic报导，这位生涯场均23.9分的三届全明星被摆上交易台。而尼克被认为领跑其余球队，并积极的促成交易。
The Knicks have all those draft picks, and this is precisely why they have assembled them. They are assets, and if you are willing to part with enough of them they can make a deal more attractive. But the Jazz are a smart operation. It will take more than draft picks — even if the Knicks are willing to part with four or five of them, which is what it took Minnesota to pry Rudy Gobert away from Utah.
The Jazz are going to want players.
尼克有交易米丘的资产- 选秀签，而这正是尼克收集他们的原因。但即使尼克愿意同灰狼带走狗贝一般放弃4-5个选秀，爵士还会要求更多（潜力）球员
The Jazz are going to want, almost certainly, RJ Barrett (and, if I were a betting man, one of either Immanuel Quickley, Quentin Grimes or Obi Toppin).
几乎可以肯定，RJB必须放进包裹（若我喜欢放手一博，则会从Quixkley,Grimes与Toppin中带走一个）
And this is where things get hard.
This is where if you are Leon Rose you have to ask yourself a cold-blooded question: which version of my roster drags the Knicks closer to where they need to be? Barrett would be a tough sacrifice. Knicks fans have watched him grow up over three years. He is still only 22. His work ethic and capacity for improvement are matters of public record. And he is probably the most popular player on the team right now.
He could be a perennial All-Star.
这就是困难的地方，LR需要冷血的自问，自己想要哪种版本的队伍。
球迷见证了他3年的成长，Barrett有天赋有能力，而且他才22岁。他是队上最有人气的球员。
他可能成为All Star的常客
But Mitchell — himself only 25 years old and locked up contractually for four more years — is a perennial All-Star. He has had winning in his blood forever, first at Louisville, lately with the Jazz. As tempting as a Brunson/Murray backcourt was to ponder, a Brunson/Mitchell partnership could truly project to being a cornerstone of an eventual contender.
但米丘 - 绑了4年约，25岁已经是全明星的常客。而他与JB的后场也确实可以成为追逐冠军的基石
Me? When the choice is young with accomplishment versus younger with upside, I will take the former every time. And I absolutely love watching Barrett play, have loved watching him blossom at the Garden before our eyes.
Is it a massive haul? It is.
至于我，年轻+实绩与年轻+天花板中的选择，我总会选择前者。
我喜欢RJB在我们的主场时，在我眼前得分成长
这是一个巨大的抉择吗？是的
米丘可以让尼克总在东区前4吗？ 不一定
But the Knicks are in danger right now of being in an even more difficult predicament than they were before Rose arrived, when they were simply an annual piece of the NBA’s dregs. At least when you’re awful every year there’s the lottery — even if, in the Knicks’ case, that’s proven to be a fool’s-gold quest the last 37 years.
Where they are now? Stuck in the never-never land of mediocrity, of 35 to 45 wins every year — too good to have legit lottery odds, too bad to be reckoned with as credible contenders — is a hamster wheel of oblivion, a treadmill to nowhere.
尼克面临比LR来之前更艰难的选择，因为尼克那时候就是联盟的渣渣 ，至少当你烂透了的时候会有乐透选秀。而在尼克37年的历史来看，每次（在交易）都是一种经典的傻瓜交易
每年35-45胜，让尼克有如卡在仓鼠轮，不是一个可靠的竞争者，也得不到乐透为球队注入新生命。
At some point, you have to go for the carrot.
Is Mitchell that carrot? What he is, more likely, is the kind of piece that makes the Knicks a more attractive option than they’ve been in 25 years for future free agents with wanderlust in their hearts. And again, the question is this: what version of the Knicks’ roster makes that more plausible, with Barrett or with Mitchell?
It says here Mitchell. The cost will be steep, and losing a player like Barrett will sting, and for those for whom first-round picks are more valuable than platinum there will be some wrung hands. But Knicks fans are immune to the pain by now; all they crave is a cure. Mitchell would be a pricey cure. But he makes them better. And that’s supposed to still matter.
有些时候，你总是要做出决定
米丘是那个决定吗？他会让尼克成为25年来最好的样子吗？再问你自己一次，米丘或是Barrett 你想要哪个核心的球队。
虽然失去Barrett让人痛苦，选秀签没有不见，只是变成你喜欢的样子。尼克可望被治愈，而米丘就是那个昂贵的治疗方案，他让我们更好，这仍是最重要的。