[外電] 誰無過去?

[Yeswitzki (也是位司機)]

原文
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/basketball/mavs/stories/041810dnspomavsbutler.4080529.html

誰無過去?
淚濕雙眼, Butler從囚車後窗望去, 只有母親Mattie絕望的身影
母親驚慌無助地開著快解體的老爺車, 緊跟著關著十四歲兒子的囚車, 直到老爺車拋錨
這畫面一直烙印在Butler心裡, 跟隨著他八個球季  跟隨著他到小牛的第一個季後賽…
許多球迷都知道Butler 少年時在他的家鄉是藥頭   而今 這位三十歲 有錢有成就的球員
大可推拖過去只是年少輕狂而避談往事…
但是Butler從不諱言過往 在他待過的四支球隊  當選過兩次全明星  他依然願意讓人知
道他十五歲以前曾因攜毒及持槍被逮了十五次之多  這份履歷讓他就像名人堂一般地有名
他說”當我回首過去  會發現我的人生很可能浪費掉了  而現在  有人付我數百萬元讓我
做我喜歡的事  這是多麼幸運  所以當我有機會能告訴別人我的故事  而因此成為社區的
棟樑  影響他人時  我都樂於接受”
下面太長  睡覺先  改天再翻 啾咪
<有人要接力嗎?>

When the Mavericks acquired Butler from Washington on Feb. 13, some Dallas
fans probably recalled seeing him on The Oprah Winfrey Show in September
2005, or in Sports Illustrated in February 2007.

When Butler and fellow trade acquisitions Brendan Haywood and DeShawn
Stevenson instantly helped spark a 13-game Dallas winning streak, it wasn't
hard to guess why former Washington coach Eddie Jordan nicknamed Butler "Tuff
Juice."

The 6-foot-7, 228-pound swingman impressed new Mavericks teammates and fans
with his rim-attacking and defensive ruggedness. But while Butler regards the
trade as a career godsend, the timing was difficult personally.
His wife, Andrea, and 6-year-old daughter, Mia, had to remain in Virginia.
Andrea is expecting another girl in June and is getting her second degree, in
social work, at George Mason University.

As Butler hurriedly packed for Dallas on Feb. 13, he and Andrea realized this
would be their first extended time apart since they met 10 years ago as
University of Connecticut students.

"Oh my God, that was a depressing weekend," Andrea Butler says by phone from
Virginia. "I think I cried all of Valentine's Day."
Missing Mia

But when she watches Mavericks games on TV, Andrea is gratified that Butler
"looks so happy. I haven't seen him smile so much in a long time."
She and Mia came to Dallas for Butler's birthday, March 13. They returned two
weeks later for Mia's birthday and house hunting for their planned move this
summer. After this season, Butler has one year left on his current contract.
For now, he's renting former Mavericks coach Don Nelson's apartment at the W
Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences, across the street from American Airlines
Center.

It's convenient, sure, but when he was at Washington, Wizards security would
escort Mia to him while he stretched on the court during pregame warm-ups.
"I miss my pregame hug and kiss," Butler says. "I miss that tremendously."
Skype time

Now, the Butlers mostly stay in touch by phone, or via Skype video.
Sometimes, Andrea places her computer in Mia's room, so Butler can watch Mia
play or sleep.

After attending Dallas' March 10 home game against New Jersey, Mia tried to
wait patiently with Andrea in the Mavericks' family and friends room, between
urgent calls to Butler's cellphone to ask when he was coming out of the
locker room.

Mia was on the phone with Butler's mother, Mattie Claybrook, when her dad
entered the family room. "Bye, Nanna! Got to go!" she hollered, running to
her father.

"When he comes around, she blocks quite a few people out," Andrea laughs.
"Including me."

In Racine, a southeastern Wisconsin city of 80,000 bordering Lake Michigan,
Claybrook and her husband, Melvin, help watch over Butler's two children from
previous relationships.

For Caron Jr.'s 10th birthday a week ago, Butler arranged for his son and
friends to attend the Bucks-Celtics game in Milwaukee. Through Boston guard
Ray Allen, Butler got Caron Jr. into the locker room to meet the Celtics
players.

Daughter Camary, at 15 a standout soccer and basketball player, was born less
than a month into Butler's incarceration. When he was released at age 16, one
of the first things Butler did was establish a relationship with her.
At the time, it seemed doubtful Butler would finish high school, much less
earn a college basketball scholarship and have a lucrative NBA career.
He had no relationship with his biological father, who had left Racine and
joined the Marines around the time Caron was born. Mattie, then 15, lived
with her mother, Margaret Butler, until Caron was 4.

"The reason I think my relationship with my children is so good is I think
about everything I didn't have with my father," Butler says. "I imagine being
at the park and having my father rebound for me. Or throwing a football to
me. Or telling me not to cross the street. And about girls.

"Any manly thing, I had to learn from my mother and grandmother. It's true
that a woman can raise a man."

Dealing drugs at age 11

But while raising Caron and his younger half-brother, Melvin III, Mattie
often had to work two jobs. She says Caron made good grades, raked leaves and
shoveled snow without prompting and got a newspaper route at age 11.
That also was the year he made his first drug deal. Butler says two of his
uncles were dealers.

"Once my mom went to work or sleep, I would hit the streets and start
hustling," he says. "I was turned on by the material stuff. The gold chains.
The fancy cars. Seeing garbage bags of money. It was mesmerizing."
Jameel Ghuari has been the executive director of Racine's George Bray
Neighborhood Center since 1993. He met Caron after giving a "Say No to Drugs"
speech at his junior high.

Ghuari started an inner-city basketball league and formed a youth travel
team. He was aware that Butler had talent, but the next thing Ghuari heard,
he was in the Racine Correctional Institution.

Butler, then a freshman at Racine Case High, says he gave his locker
combination to a friend. That day, police found drugs and an unloaded pistol
in the locker.

Butler says that to protect his friend, he told police that the drugs and
pistol were his. Butler, who received an 18-month sentence, still won't
divulge the friend's name.

After two months at the adult correctional facility, Butler was transferred
to the Ethan Allen School for Boys, where for more than a year he lived with
murderers, burglars and fellow drug dealers.

On the day of his transfer, he watched his mother follow the van until her
station wagon overheated. He watched her pull over, lift the hood and
gradually shrink to a speck on the horizon.

Each week, she made the hourlong drive to Ethan Allen, her hair thinning and
body temperature out of whack from the stress.

"It's the worst feeling in the world, having your child taken out of your
home," Mattie says. "It's like my head was spinning every day, until Caron
came home."

The Bray Center's Ghuari talked Butler into joining his travel team, for
which he eventually starred in national tournaments.

"At first, he was still fighting, having a foot in both worlds, associating
with some of the people that got him into trouble in the first place," Ghuari
says.

As Butler blossomed into one of the country's top talents, Ghuari realized
the player had to get out of Racine. Ghuari got him into Maine Central
Institute, a college preparatory school in Pittsfield, Maine.

'So much wisdom'

The school gave Butler a partial scholarship. But Butler says that to cover
the rest of his tuition, he got nearly $5,000 from a Racine drug dealer.
Ghuari says the Bray Center pitched in $2,000. The latter contribution led
the NCAA to briefly suspend Butler while he was at the University of
Connecticut, but Ghuari says the drug dealer's portion couldn't be traced.

Butler met 4-foot-11 Andrea during freshman orientation at Connecticut.
Initially, they were just friends; it took him more than a semester to
persuade her to date him.

Over pizza at Uno's in Storrs, Conn., he spilled forth his life story,
sparing no details.

"I honestly felt on that day that I'd found my soul mate," Butler says.
"I always say Caron has an old soul," Andrea says. "He has so much wisdom in
him. I'm still shocked to hear him give speeches. People stereotype athletes.
I do it and I'm married to one. But he amazes me."

Over time, the Mavericks and their fans will get to know Tuff Juice's
non-basketball side, the Butler who has conducted free youth clinics and
bicycle, coat and school supply drives in Racine, as well as at each stop of
his NBA career.

He cried on Oprah. He wept upon signing a five-year, $50 million contract on
Halloween 2005, the anniversary of his drug and weapon sentencing.

He shed more tears during both of his proclaimed "Caron Butler Days" – in
Connecticut last July and in Racine in 2007. During a parade that weekend in
Racine, someone whispered to Butler that his biological father was there and
wanted to speak to him.

"Too late," Butler says, recalling the moment.

"I think the best for Caron Butler, basketball-wise and as a human being, is
yet to come," Ghuari says. "I've watched him come from nothing, a guy with a
dope-dealer mentality, to a family man who is conscious of his community –
 and is still growing spiritually.
"When you've got all the money you can imagine, drive a Bentley and live in a
mansion, it's hard to look at the world in a balanced way. But he does."


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