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Catching up with Casspi, finally
終於訪問到小卡了
That 10-hour time difference from Sacramento to Tel Aviv complicates matters,
but after days of playing phone tag, I finally heard back from Omri Casspi a
short while ago. The Kings second-year forward is playing for the Israeli
national team in the 2011 European Championship pre-qualifying tournament,
and as of today, helping with final preparations for his brother's (Eitan)
wedding. Jason Thompson and Kings strength/conditioning coach Daniel Shapiro
are among the 600 invited guests for this evening's festivities in Tel Aviv.
According to Casspi, Shapiro, who is also Jewish, had not been to Israel
since he was six months old.
沙加緬度和以色列的特拉維夫有十個小時的時差，連絡卡卡變的很
麻煩，經過我的奪命連環Call後，終於讓我聯絡上卡卡，他目前正
在為以色列國家隊的歐錦賽資格奮戰，今天則空出時間來幫忙哥哥
Eitan的婚禮。小湯和國王的體能教練Daniel Shapiro也在今晚婚宴
的600位佳賓名單中，卡卡說Shapiro也是猶太人，不過他上一次來
以色列是他六個月大的時候。
"It's been pretty incredible," said Casspi. "JT and Daniel were on the same
flight. They arrived just before our (national team) game Tuesday night
against Italy, so they got to see what it was like playing in these
international games. The building (Nokia Arena, home of Maccabi Tel Aviv) was
packed, like it's never been before. It was crazy, wild. JT was a famous
person. Everybody wanted his autograph and photos. But we lost the game, and
I felt terrible afterward. We are deep in the mud now - we have to win next
Monday in Latvia, or we're out of the competition. We lost a couple games we
had no business losing. Now, it's going to be really hard to advance for next
summer."
卡卡：「真的很難以置信，小湯和Daneil坐同一班飛機來，他們星
期二到的時候正好遇上我們和義大利的比賽，所以他們有到現場來
看我們打球，了解一下國際賽是長甚麼樣子，Nokia球場被塞爆了，
從來沒看過這種盛況，小湯超夯的，大家都想跟他要簽名還有合照，
不過那天我們輸了比賽，所以我的心情很糟，我們現在的處境不太
妙，星期一對拉脫維亞的比賽一定要贏，不然我們就會面臨淘汰，
我們輸了幾場不該輸的比賽，我們必須加倍努力來迎接明年夏天。」
Casspi, who leaves Sunday for Latvia, is arranging private tours of Jerusalem
and the Dead Sea for his two Kings companions. "JT is really interested in
the history," he added, speaking in the wee hours, "so that's been great.
Shippy (Shapiro) is working him out today at the (Nokia) arena. He's in great
shape. I'm so happy they're here. I love those guys ...."
卡卡星期天會離開以色列前往拉脫維亞，目前他正和安排兩名國王
隊的成員一起去耶路撒冷和死海遊覽。卡卡：「小湯對歷史的東西
很感興趣，感覺很棒，他今天和Daniel一起在Nokia球場訓練，他的
體態保持的很好，我很高興他們能來這裡，我愛他們。」
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