[外電] Kings' Martin relishes trip to Indonesia

[eliczone (C'est la vie)]

        http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/2127559.html

For three days during Kevin Martin's visit to Indonesia this week, the Kings
shooting guard kept hearing the same question from that country's media
chronicling the rare visit from an NBA player.
在KM到印尼的三天旅途中，他持續聽到同樣的問題。

"They'd ask what advice I had for the kids, and I always said, 'If you work
hard, you get rewards,' " Martin said. "That's what they need to hear,
because if you see the surroundings there, it's like any other third-world
(country). It's just tough. We just don't know how good we have it."
「他們會問我給這些孩子什麼建議，我總是說"如果你很努力，你會有所收獲"，那是他們
需要聽到的，因為你看看這週遭，就像是其他的第三世界，情況很艱難，我們根本不知道
我們多幸福」

On the final day of Martin's visit, he made sure his advice rang true.

"When I was giving my farewell speech, the kids were there, too, and I said,
I always told you if you work hard, you get rewarded, so the NBA paid me
$15,000 to go over here … and they (the kids) worked harder than me for
those three days so I didn't see how I deserved that. I just wanted to set an
example for them and donated the money back to the DBL."
「當我在臨別演講時，孩子們也在那邊。我說，我總是告訴你如果你很努力，你會有所收
獲，所以NBA付給我1W5來到這裡。而這三天孩子們比我還要努力，所以我不認為我夠格拿
那些錢。我只是想要為他們立個榜樣，將錢捐給DBL」

Martin and his grandmother, Maxine Martin, 75, spent four days spreading
goodwill and winning over their hosts on the trip that concluded Wednesday.
They were treated as celebrities as they toured the local landscape and
brought a basketball presence not typically seen in the hoops-starved country.
KM和他75歲的奶奶，花了四天在散播善意和說服他們的host。他們到當地被視為名人，也
帶來個籃球禮物，這在籃球沙漠很罕見。

While Portland assistant coach Joe Prunty and Los Angeles Clippers assistant
Neal Meyer joined him, Martin was the head coach for the top 48 players in
the DetEksi Basketball League. According to the league's publicist, the DBL
is Indonesia's biggest student basketball competition and is bigger than the
country's professional leagues.
當波特蘭助教和快艇助教加入，KM是DBL最好的48名球員的總教頭。據聯盟的公關表示，
DBL是印尼最大學生籃球組織，比職業聯盟還大(跟HBL和SBL的情況很像)。

The league's director, Azrul Ananda, was thrilled the trip finally
transpired. The 32-year-old Indonesian man and Sacramento State graduate was
supposed to announce July 17 that Martin would shepherd the inaugural
Indonesia Development Camp as part of the NBA Cares program. But the
headlines of that day instead were of disaster, as the Ritz-Carlton and JW
Marriott hotels in Jakarta were hit by suicide bombers who killed nine
people. And while it was more than 400 miles from Martin's scheduled
destination in Surabaya, it was more than enough to threaten the trip.
KM將會讓印尼發展營成為NBA cares的一部分。但那天的頭條是自殺炸彈客，案發地點離
KM的目的地超過400英哩，但已經足以威脅到這趟旅程。

"I said, 'Oh, no, well, maybe it just wasn't meant to be," said Ananda, who
grew up in Indonesia but came to America on scholarship. "Then the NBA
contacted me, and they said that if Kevin's grandma said no (to the trip),
then he would say no."
「我說"不會吧，好吧，也許這不是故意的"，之後NBA當局聯絡我，他們說如果KM的奶奶說
不，那他就會說不」


A perplexed Ananda finally understood the mandate when he was informed Maxine
Martin also was making the trip.
困惑的Ananda最後得知計劃還是成行。

"Usually players bring their buddies, or girlfriends, fiancées, or wives,
but grandma?" Ananda said. "Everybody thought that was cool."
「通常球員們會帶他們的好兄弟，或女朋友、未婚妻、老婆，但奶奶？每個人都認為那很
酷」

Martin said his grandmother also deserved a reward for her hard work, as she
had not traveled overseas and spent much of her later years caring for her
late husband.
KM說他的奶奶也值得一個獎勵，因為她的辛勞，她晚年大部分都在照顧她的先生，已經很
久沒有出國旅行。

"She always gets to read about me and things I do," he said, "but she never
got to experience it firsthand."
「她總是聽到關於我和我所做的事，但她從未直接經歷過」他說。

It was a new experience in almost every way even for Martin. Upon his
arrival, the newspaper in Surabaya splashed a greeting across the top of its
front page showing Martin with his arms spread wide. Upon his departure, the
paper ran a full-page ad from the DBL with pictures of Martin's visit and
messages from dozens of the league's players wishing him well and encouraging
him to become an All-Star for the first time this season.
對KM來說這是個全新的體驗。當他一到達，當地報紙在頭版登出KM張開雙臂的照片。當他
離開時，登出全版KM到訪的照片和球員們對他的祝福和鼓勵，希望他首次成為全明星。

"One time, I felt like (President Barack) Obama – and that's no
exaggeration," Martin said. "There were like a thousand … people with signs
around the basketball court (in the arena during a DetEksi game). It was
crazy.
「有一瞬間，我感覺像歐巴馬，真的不誇張，就像場邊週圍有數千人拿著標語。這太瘋狂
了」KM說

"It's fun to be able to give back to the community and the world in a good
way. It just makes you look at the other side of it, beyond basketball."
「能夠用一個好的方式回饋社會和世界很有趣。讓你看到不同的世界，超脫籃球」

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