一起見證與成長 威粉修煉手冊

It's been a long time since anyone's feelings about Russell Westbrook topped out at "mild interest" — it would be like feeling mild interest toward an avalanche. But this is someone at TD Garden in 2010, watching a confounding new talent and wondering where he might take him. Surely someplace fun and in no way dangerous to one's reason itself!!

很長一段時間以來，任何人對拉塞爾威斯布魯克的感受都達到了“溫和的興趣”——這就像是對雪崩的感受一樣。但這是2010年在TD花園的一個人，他看到一個令人困惑的新天才，想知道他會把他帶到哪裏去。肯定有一些地方很有趣，並且對一個人的本身而言沒有任何危險!!

Almost everyone thought that Westbrook, Durant, and James Harden will form an unbreakable core that will dominate the NBA for a decade or more, but still there were very little chance to see what could possibly stop them.

幾乎每個人都認爲威少、杜蘭特和哈登將會形成一個不可動搖的核心，統治NBA10年甚至更長時間，但是仍然幾乎沒有機會看到什麼可能阻止他們。

Maybe he was ... too good? Anyway it started to seem like he was taking shots that should have gone to Durant, and he missed a lot of them, and even though he'd make up for it by, say, shouldering his way through three defenders and drilling a seemingly suicidal jumper with three hands in his face and 16 seconds left on the shot clock, it was concerning.

也許他…太好了嗎?不管怎麼說，看起來他投了很多原本應該給杜蘭特投的球，而且他投丟了很多球，儘管他可以彌補，比如，在距離一個回合結束還有16秒的時候，他用肩膀頂着三名防守隊員，在三雙手頂着他的臉的情況下，完成了一個看似自殺式的跳投。這很令人擔憂。

In national discourse of Russ, a thread of mistrust began to uncurl, like poison in a water glass. Sportswriters in Oklahoma started writing columns telling him to tuck in his Engineered Garments interview cuirass and buy some lenses for the librarian glasses.

在對Russ的全國性討論中，不信任的氣息開始瀰漫，就像水杯裏的毒藥。俄城體育記者開始寫專欄吐槽威少採訪時的奇裝異服和佩戴的像圖書館老奶奶那樣的眼鏡。（諷刺的意思）

Then Durant left for Golden State. Westbrook re-signed, and at that moment, everything changed, at least for Thunder fans. OKC fans had spent the better part of a decade worshipping KD and not fully trusting Russ, only to realize they'd gotten it exactly backward.

然後杜蘭特去了金州勇士隊。威少重新簽約，在那一刻，至少對雷霆的球迷來說，一切都變了。雷霆隊的球迷們花了近十年的時間來崇拜KD，而不是完全信任Russ，結果卻發現他們已經完全落後了。

After losing Harden in 2012 and then Durant in 2016, Thunder fans were starting to worry that the early success of the franchise was a mirage. Add to that the general feeling in Oklahoma that the state always gets overlooked, and you can see how Westbrook's decision to stick with the Thunder resonated not just athletically but culturally. To put it simply: He made Oklahoma feel like it mattered.

繼2012年失去哈登和2016年失去杜蘭特之後，雷霆球迷開始擔心球隊早期的成功只是海市蜃樓。再加上俄克拉荷馬州的普遍感覺，這個州總是被忽視，你可以看到威斯布魯克堅持留在雷霆隊的決定在體育和文化上都產生了共鳴。簡而言之:他讓俄克拉何馬州覺得自己很重要。

The MVP season was, in many respects, the pivotal moment of modern Westbrook fandom. Westbrook was playing unforgettable basketball, and it was clear that OKC was never going to make a deep playoff run with him using the ball like that. The result was an apotheosis of pessimistic euphoria like nothing people ever seen in sports.

在很多方面，威少的MVP賽季都是其現代球迷圈的關鍵時刻。威斯布魯克打了令人難忘的籃球比賽，但很明顯，由於威少的打法，雷霆隊永遠也不會在季後賽更進一步。結果是一種悲觀的欣快感的神化，就像人們在體育運動中從未見過的那樣。

It was euphoric because we were thrilled to see what Westbrook could do now that he was fully unleashed. It was pessimistic because we knew deep down that it was a sports version of the Charge of the Light Brigade. It was dramatic and frustrating and silly and extreme, like everything involving Westbrook.

這是令人興奮的，因爲我們很高興看到威斯布魯克在完全放開的情況下到底可以做什麼。這是悲觀的，因爲我們內心深處知道，這是一個體育版的輕騎兵衝鋒隊。這是戲劇性的、令人沮喪的、愚蠢的、極端的，就像所有涉及威斯布魯克的事情一樣。

In a way it ran counter to the whole purpose of basketball, if the purpose is to win championships, but what image would you rather remember, Westbrook fighting the ocean single-handedly or Harden technically not traveling on yet another stepback 3?

在某種程度上，這與籃球的整體目標背道而馳，如果目標是贏得總冠軍，但你更願意記住的是威少單打獨攬，還是哈登沒有走步的後撤步三分球技術?

There are undoubtedly more contradictions to come, but at this point, it feels as though every previous layer of Westbrook fandom is operating simultaneously. The wild heat of the MVP season has cooled off a bit — his scoring is down 10 points per game, which clearly represents a concession to basketball sanity — and even though Paul George is very, very good, I think most Thunder fans have come to terms with the fact the team as presently constructed will never be a serious contender.

毫無疑問，還會有更多的矛盾出現，但在這一點上，感覺好像威斯布魯克球迷的每一層都在同時運作。MVP賽季的狂熱已經冷卻了一些——他每場得分下降了10分，這顯然是對籃球一種理智的讓步——儘管保羅·喬治非常非常優秀，我認爲大多數雷霆球迷已經接受了這樣一個事實，即雷霆目前的陣容永遠不會是一支強有力的競爭者。

And Russ still means the world to Oklahoma. Rooting for Russ means rooting for someone who will do more than you thought was possible but will ultimately let you down; who will transcend basketball as we know it yet shoot 63 percent from the foul line and finish with the fifth seed in the West; who will brick an endless series of pull-up jumpers and then do something face-melting when the game is on the line, or when it isn't on the line, or when no one is paying attention at all.

對俄克拉何馬州來說，Russ仍然意味着整個世界。支持Russ意味着支持一個人，他會做比你想象中更多的事情，但最終會讓你失望;誰將超越我們所知的籃球，但仍有63%的罰球線出手，並以西部第五的成績結束比賽;誰會在比賽進行到關鍵時刻，或者根本沒有人注意到的情況下，連續不斷地幹拔跳起，然後做一些讓人顏面盡失的事情呢？

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