[外電] Allen hopes to keep lasting bond with C's

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Allen hopes to keep lasting bond with Celtics 

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Dec 10, 11:12 am EST

※ 遲到的一個禮拜前的外電，主要是RAY表達願意留在波士頓！^^
   全文篇幅比較長，部分原文的翻譯如下：


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Ray Allen(notes) is closing in on a milestone of sorts. He’s 14 points shy of
20,000 in a career that is now in its 14th season and features an NBA title,
nine All-Star appearances and, quite possibly, a ticket punched to Springfield.

 ”It’s a big number,” Allen conceded. ”To me, it’s a wondrous
accomplishment. It’s about staying healthy, taking care of my body, being on a
good team. A lot of things. But I’m still working hard every day to get better
and I can’t afford to focus on numbers. The more games I can play, the more
games we can win, that’s where the focus is. On this team, we don’t pay
attention to the individual stuff.”

They do pay attention to the team stuff, though, and the Celtics are 17-4. In
Allen’s three years in Boston, the Celtics have gone 19-2, 19-2 and 17-4 in
the first 21 games of the season.

Allen still is an important piece of the Celtics’ puzzle, even as he struggles
a bit to maintain the scoring he has done over the previous two years. His
production has ”dropped” to 15.5 points per game this season, well below his
career average of 20.9 and also below his averages in his first two seasons in
Boston (17.4 and 18.2.) He has scored 20 or more points in only four of the
Celtics’ 21 games.

But he doesn’t worry about individual numbers, so why should anyone else? Doc
Rivers worries about only one thing regarding his veteran starting guard: how
to keep Allen in Boston beyond this season.

”He is still a terrific player,” Rivers said. ”I think he’ll get better as
the season goes along, as he always does. I really anticipate us finding a way
to keep him. Listen, we do not want to break this up. If we do what we want to
do and win it, we’ll find a way to keep him. I honestly believe that.”

Allen’s contract is up at the end of the season. But you don’t see his name
on many ”must-have” or ”marquee” lists of the 2010 free agent class. He’ll
be 35 in July, so it’s hard to envision a situation where a team with loads of
cap room knocks on his door with duffel bags full of Benjamins at 12:01 a.m.
next July 1.

More likely is a deal along the lines of what Jason Kidd(notes) did in Dallas
(three years, $25 million) or Steve Nash(notes) did in Phoenix (two years, $22
million), which at least captures the timeline, as Allen said he has every
intention of playing two to three more seasons. Looking at him and watching him
play, one can easily see that happening.

The only unknown: Where will that be? Rivers wants him to stick around. Danny
Ainge, who traded for Allen, wants him to stick around. His teammates want him
to stick around. And Allen himself wants to stick around.

Sounds like your proverbial no-brainer.

”It’s a great situation here,” said Allen, who has not missed a game this
season and is second in scoring and minutes, both to Paul Pierce(notes). ”I’m
a loyal individual. I don’t look at it like, ‘what other teams have cap space
and all that.’ My agent will keep me informed as to other potential
situations, I’m sure. But this is what I know. My house is here in Boston. I
want to do everything I can to make sure I stay here and finish my career out.”

There’s also an added incentive for Allen to try and work something out with
the Celtics, beyond the basketball. His son, Walker, was diagnosed with
juvenile diabetes during the 2008 NBA Finals and is treated at a world-class
facility in Boston. Allen knows how critical that is; Walker had to be
hospitalized just before a recent Celtics road trip, resulting in Allen nearly
missing the Nov. 29 game in Miami.

「這裡的一切都很棒！」RAY這麼表示。他今年沒有缺席過任何一場比賽，他的得分和上場
時間在隊上皆僅次於PP而已。

RAY說：「我很忠誠，我沒想過『別的球隊還有薪資空間』這種事情，我很確定我的經紀人
知道我的意思也明白我的處境。我在波士頓有房子，我還有很多事情想要做，
，我想留在這裡並結束我的職業生涯。」

除了籃球的因素之外，RAY也試著和超塞達成某項共識，他的兒子小Walker在2008年季後
賽時被診斷罹患糖尿病，目前正在波士頓的世界頂級醫院接受治療──而RAY很清楚這有
多重要。

超塞最近一次的客場之旅，正值小Walker病發再次就醫之際，RAY差點因此錯過11/29對
邁阿密比賽。

”My family is comfortable here,” Allen said. ”My son with the diabetes, that
’s important. Obviously, I want to be here.”

RAY說：「我的家人在這裡感覺很好！我的兒子有糖尿病，(讓他就醫)對我而言很重要。
很明顯的，我在留在這裡！」


The fact that Allen had three years remaining on his contract when he came to
Boston in June 2007 led many to believe the Celtics had a three-year window to
get it done. They did that in Year One, winning the franchise’s 17th NBA
title. They might have repeated last season had Kevin Garnett(notes) not gone
down for the season with a knee injury. They are right there again this season
with the best record in the East (tied with Orlando) and an NBA-best 9-1 record
on the road. They will be looking for their ninth straight win in Washington on
Thursday night.

Why wouldn’t Allen want to stick around? He’s played in only two other cities
and one of those isn’t even in the NBA anymore. As Rivers noted, ”Ray has
been around too many bad situations to ever want to leave a good situation. He’
s comfortable here. He likes it here. He wants to be here. We got a great group
of guys.”

RAY怎麼可能會不想留下呢？他的生涯只為其他兩座城市打過球，而且其中一個城市
現在甚至已經沒有NBA球隊了。如同河流說的：「RAY經歷過太多的逆境，所以他不會想
離開這裡，更何況他在這裡的感覺很好，他喜歡這裡！他想留在這裡！(所以)我們(才能)
擁有一群好球員！」

That is why Allen said that while he wants to continue playing well beyond this
season, his thought process is focused only on this season.

”We have so much riding on what we’re doing right now,” he said. ”It’s
hard to have one foot in and the other one removed. This team can do something
great this year, so it’s hard to look past that.”

At some point, Ainge and Allen’s agent, the venerable Lon Babby, will get
together and start to crunch some numbers. Eventually, it will get done because
everyone wants it to get done and it’s in Allen’s best interest to get it
done. He doesn’t want to go to a situation where he’s going to be out of
contention by Christmas, even for a few extra dollars. If everyone stays
healthy, the Celtics have a chance to be annual contenders for this and maybe a
couple more years (that’s assuming that Garnett doesn’t break down from sheer
physical exhaustion).

”You have a core,” Rivers said. ”You keep that core as long as you can keep
it.”

You can nitpick the slight scoring decline or the fact that his shooting
percentage from 3-point territory is down. But that core that Rivers talked
about? Ray Allen is at the core of that core.

「你擁有球隊的核心球員。」河流說道：「你當然會竭盡所能的留下這個核心。」

也許你挑剔RAY的得分下降，亦或他三分命中率下降的事實，但是談到球隊的核心──
在河流說來，RAY是核心中的核心。

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THE WAY - Ray Allen

”Obviously, I want to be here.” Ray said.

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推 AngeLucifer :he  deserve it
推 rainingdayz :我也希望你(們)能留在這兒到退休>///<
推 cnckuo      :我看得快掉淚了
推 gaiaesque   :ray在塞爾提特退休吧!!!!!
推 iceman5566  :Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
推 piercepaul  :但是明年要用多少錢簽下Ray的確是一個嚴肅的議題
→ piercepaul  :Ray願意簽下五百萬上下的約嗎？
→ piercepaul  :又或者球團另外約定支付他兒子的醫療費用呢
推 danielprince:雷槍！！！就在這退休吧！！
→ rayensighner:Good!
推 Janius      :跟醫療費用無關,重點應該是頂級醫院.就近照顧吧
→ piercepaul  :越頂級越貴吧
推 fk920       :只為兩座城市打過球 偷挑一下~是只有為其他兩座城市
→ fk920       :Ray希望Ray可以前一個3年30M左右的約~
→ fk920       :我想看big three一起退休啊~
推 ccob        :留下來吧  Mr.Clutch !
→ ccob        :500萬就續簽的話  就真的太美好又太佛心了
推 RayGun34    :今年如果維持17~8分場均  命中率不錯的話
→ RayGun34    :來個3年25M~30M是可以期待的
→ SexyCassell :對吼 其他兩座城市的其他 我忘記了
※ 編輯: SexyCassell     來自: 114.25.208.157       (12/20 00:02)
推 calbert     :Big three + Rasheed一起在celtics退休~
推 gapcel      :1000 +  -20都很合理!0
推 lovefordidi :希望RAY還有他的家庭都能夠非常平安