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Throughout the design process, Williamson and the teams at Jordan and VIZ
(the company behind Naruto) drew not from the show’s more obvious
iconography but rather elements of the story that have resonated with him
over the years. (The Sage of the Six Paths colorway, which references the
mythic founder of the ninjutsu arts, is a particularly deep pull compared to
what we tend to get in collaborations like these.)
球鞋制作团队并没有从故事中更鲜明的形象去撷取灵感，
而是采用 Zion 长年以来和自己深有共鸣的故事情节中来取材。
参考了神话中的忍术创始人，六道仙人的球鞋配色。
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His All-NBA starting five of Naruto characters, in case you’re wondering,
would be Naruto, Itachi, Jiraiya, Minaro, and the First Hokage (the character
he thinks most resembles Michael Jordan). He drops full, multi-line, verbatim
quotes from the show, never paraphrasing. When asked to come up with a trivia
question for the fans, his question is such a deep pull that several
attendees have to sheepishly pass. (Later, backstage, he’ll express pride in
having stumped a room full of die-hards.)
他的火影忍者最佳五人是：鸣人（七代目）/鼬/自来也/波风（四代目）/柱间（初代目）
同时他认为初代目火影是最像 Michael Jordan 的一个角色。
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As he’s so often done during difficult times, Williamson turned to his
favorite show for guidance. I ask if there’s a point in Naruto’s story that
he feels is synonymous with where he is right now. His answer is immediate. “
It’s when Sasuke was going rogue,” he says, referring to Naruto’s close
friend and rival. “All of Naruto’s friends and teammates came to him like,
‘Dude, you’re gonna have to make tough decisions if you really want to be
Hokage.’”
当他身处于生涯中的困难时期，Williamson 向自己最爱的作品寻求指引。
记者问如果以火影忍者的故事来打比方，他现在处于哪一段的故事当中。
Zion 即答：
“就像处于佐助离开木叶忍者村的那段时期。”
“鸣人的所有伙伴和队友都来告诉他，
兄弟，如果你真的想要当火影，你必须做出艰难的抉择。”
There’s a slight pause. “And Naruto, he started hyperventilating because
that’s a lot of pressure. He’s just a kid, and that’s his friend, you
know? He really cared for him. And all anyone was telling him was that he
needed to handle it, to take him down. Nobody ever asked him how he felt...”
He answers my next question before I can ask it. “It’s been a lot. I can
sit here and explain it, but nobody will really be able to feel it the way I
did. My foot was broken and I couldn’t magically heal it. It hurt, because I
love the game of basketball. But because of it I was experiencing hate and
pain from people I don’t know every day, and it started to wear on me.”
“而鸣人，他开始感到喘不过气。因为压力实在太大了，
他那时只是个孩子，而村子的仇敌是他的至交，你能理解吗？他真的很在乎佐助。”
“每个人都告诉他，他必须把佐助处理掉，把佐助打倒，却从来没有人问过他的感受。”
Zion 将之比喻成自己骨折同时受到抨击的低潮时期。
One person who doesn’t seem concerned about any of that is Williamson.
Basketball is what he loves. And he never feels pressure when it comes to
doing what he loves. Whatever weight his shoulders bore over the last year
seems to have lifted. “I had to come to a realization,” he explains. “No
matter what the world is saying, I have to remember that I am who I am and
stay true to that. That’s what Naruto did, and that’s what I’m going to do.
”
“我必须理解，无论这个世界在旁边说什么，
我都必须牢记我自己是谁，并且忠于自我。”
“因为这就是鸣人的忍道，也是我的作法。”
原来这就是 Zion 的忍道