節錄一些 On the morning of Jan. 7, Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison invited Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka to the Ascension Coffee in the lobby of the Hotel Crescent Court, just a half-mile from American Airlines Arena, to begin a similarly arduous, delicate trade conversation that would jolt the rest of the NBA. Nearly a month later, the Lakers and Mavericks pulled off perhaps the most shocking trade in NBA history, trading 25-year-old perennial MVP contender, Luka Doncic, for All-NBA big man, Anthony Davis, without so much as a peep leaking out ahead of time. 1月7日早上，達拉斯獨行俠總經理Nico Harrison邀請洛杉磯湖人總經理Rob Pelinka前往 酒店Crescent Court大廳內的 Ascension Coffee，該酒店距離美國航空中心僅半英里， 兩人開始了一場同樣艱難而微妙的交易談判，這場談判最終震撼了整個NBA。 將近一個月後，湖人與獨行俠完成了一筆可能是NBA歷史上最令人震驚的交易——他們在 沒有任何風聲洩露的情況下，將25歲長年競逐MVP的超級球星Luka Doncic交易至湖人，換 來全明星內線Anthony Davis。 Doncic sent a quick group text to his teammates but did not answer or return Harrison's call informing him of the trade. Davis was home in Los Angeles, texting congratulations to his teammates after they'd beaten the New York Knicks on Saturday night. LeBron James was out to dinner in New York when he got a call from Pelinka minutes before ESPN's Shams Charania broke news of the trade. Kyrie Irving learned of the trade on social media while he was undergoing treatment at the Mavericks hotel in Cleveland, where the team was set to play against the Cavaliers on Sunday afternoon. Doncic迅速在球隊群組中發送了一條簡訊給隊友，但並未接聽或回撥給Harrison告知他交 易消息的來電。 AD當時正在洛杉磯家中，週六晚上湖人擊敗尼克隊後，他正在給隊友發送祝賀簡訊。 LBJ當時正在紐約外出用餐，當ESPN記者Shams爆出交易消息的幾分鐘前，他接到了Pelinka 的來電。 Irving則是在獨行俠下榻的飯店接受治療時，通過社交媒體得知了這筆交易，而球隊正準 備於週日下午對陣騎士隊。 Executives from around the league were both furious and jealous that the glitzy, star-driven Lakers had been the only team given an opportunity to bid for Doncic's services. "Unfathomable," one Western Conference executive told ESPN. "I'm stunned," an Eastern Conference executive texted. 整個聯盟的高層們對此既憤怒又嫉妒，因為這支光鮮亮麗、以明星球員為核心的湖人隊， 竟然是唯一獲得機會競標Doncic的球隊。 「難以想像」 一位西區球隊高層告訴ESPN。 「我震驚了」 一位東區球隊高層在簡訊中表示。 Harrison decided early on, team sources said, that the best way to trade a player of Doncic's caliber was to pick the trade that he wanted, rather than open up the process, to avoid Doncic and his agent exerting their own leverage. It would also avoid the crippling fan backlash that might influence the deal. 球隊消息人士透露，Harrison早早便決定，交易像Doncic這種級別的球員，最好的方式就 是直接選擇他想要的交易，而不是公開競標。 這樣可以避免Doncic及其經紀人利用自身影響力施加壓力，同時也能減少可能影響交易的 嚴重球迷反彈。 Even the Utah Jazz, the third team that facilitated the transaction by collecting two second-round picks for absorbing Jalen Hood-Schifino, didn't know Doncic and Davis were a part of the deal until about an hour before it was completed, league sources said. Even Jazz president Danny Ainge, who hails from the Lakers' hated rival, the Boston Celtics, had about only 30 minutes notice, sources said, that Los Angeles was about to acquire Doncic to be the new face of its franchise. But by then it was too late to do much about it. NBA history was about to be altered. 根據聯盟消息來源透露，就連促成這筆交易通過吸收JHS而獲得兩個次輪選秀權的猶他爵士 隊，也是在交易完成前大約一小時才知道Luka Doncic和Anthony Davis是交易的一部分。 消息人士稱，就連爵士隊總裁Danny Ainge——這位來自湖人隊宿敵波士頓塞爾提克隊的 前高管——也只在洛杉磯湖人隊即將獲得Doncic並使其成為球隊新門面的消息前大約30分 鐘才得知。 但到那時，一切已為時已晚，NBA的歷史即將被改寫。 PELINKA AND HARRISON'S relationship dates to the summer of 2003, when both were ambitious young executives who had earned the trust of a then-25-year-old Kobe Bryant. Bryant had left his longtime agent Arn Tellem in March 2002 and convinced Pelinka, then a junior executive at Tellem's company SFX, to leave with him. Pelinka和Harrrison的關係可以追溯到2003年夏天，當時兩人都是雄心勃勃的年輕高管， 並贏得了當時25歲的Kobe的信任。 Kobe在2002年3月離開了他長期合作的經紀人Arn Tellem，並說服了當時在泰勒姆公司SFX 擔任初級高管的Pelinka與他一起離開。 Over the next decade Pelinka and Harrison traveled the world together with Bryant on official Nike business and joint family vacations. They were members of Bryant's inner circle, and they leaned on each other when Bryant tragically died in a helicopter crash in 2020. All of which is prologue to why Harrison only felt comfortable discussing the biggest gamble of his professional career with Pelinka. 在接下來的十年裡，Pelinka和Harrison與Kobe一起環遊世界，處理Nike的官方業務並共 同享受家庭假期。 他們是Kobe核心圈子的成員，當Kobe於2020年不幸在事故中去世時，他們互相依靠。 所有這些都是為什麼Harrison只願意與Pelinka討論他職業生涯中最大賭注的前奏。 "I understand the magnitude of it," Harrison said Sunday. "The easiest thing for me to do is nothing, and everyone would praise me for doing nothing. But we really believe in it. Time will tell if I'm right." 「我理解這其中的重要性」Harrison在週日說道。 「對我來說，最簡單的事情就是什麼都不做，而每個人都會因為我什麼都不做而讚揚我。 但我們真的相信這一點，時間會證明我是否正確。」 IN THE NEARLY four years since former Mavericks owner Mark Cuban lured him away from Nike to come run the team, Harrison has studied Doncic closely. While he admired Doncic's talent, spirit and competitiveness, team sources said, Harrison had more doubts about Doncic than others in the organization -- such as Cuban or Nowitzki -- did. 在獨行俠前老闆Mark Cuban將他從Nike挖來管理球隊的近四年時間裡，Harrison一直在密 切研究Doncic。 雖然他欣賞Doncic的天賦、精神和競爭力，但球隊消息人士透露，Harrison對Doncic的疑 慮比團隊中的其他人——如Cuban或Dirk更多。 The Mavericks' frustrations with Doncic's habits on and off the court were well known in league circles. Head coach Jason Kidd frequently expressed concerns publicly and directly with Doncic about his conditioning, weight fluctuations and constant arguing with officials. Doncic had mostly taken the criticism without complaint, but it never resulted in a significant change in his habits. "I mean, who gains weight during the season when you're playing 40 minutes a game?" a team source vented to ESPN last year. 獨行俠對Doncic場內外習慣的不滿在聯盟中廣為人知。 總教練Kidd經常公開並直接向Doncic表達對他體能狀況、體重波動以及與裁判不斷爭執的 擔憂。 Doncic大多毫無怨言地接受了這些批評，但這從未導致他的習慣有顯著改變。 「我的意思是，誰會在賽季期間每場比賽打40分鐘的情況下還增重？」一位球隊消息人士 去年向ESPN說。 If Doncic wasn't going to change his ways, the Mavericks figured they would prod him by making changes around him. In August 2023, the team fired former director of player health and performance Casey Smith, who has since been hired by Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks. After last season, the Mavs fired strength coach Jeremy Holsopple and manual therapist Casey Spangler. All three had been with the team since before Doncic was drafted and had strong relationships with him. "They get rid of everybody I like," Doncic griped in recent months, one source said. 如果Doncic不願意改變自己的方式，獨行俠決定通過改變他周圍的環境來刺激他。 2023年8月，球隊解僱了前球員健康與表現主管Casey Smith，後者隨後被Brunson的紐約 尼克隊聘用。上賽季結束後，獨行俠解僱了力量教練Jeremy Holsopple和手法治療師 Casey Spangler。 這三人自Doncic被選中之前就一直在球隊工作，並與他建立了深厚的關係。 「他們把我喜歡的人都趕走了」一位消息人士透露，Doncic在最近幾個月抱怨道。 The plan backfired. Before last season, Doncic hired a full-time "body team" -- Slovenian national team strength coach Anze Macek, as well as physiotherapist Javier Barrio Calvo and nutritionist Lucia Almendros from Real Madrid -- that he paid for out of his own pocket. The changes didn't result in a healthier or more available Doncic, and the internal frustration only increased as team sources complained about poor communication between Doncic's team and the Mavs' staff this season. 但這個計劃適得其反。 在上賽季開始前，Doncic自掏腰包聘請了一個全職的「身體團隊」——包括斯洛維尼亞國 家隊的力量教練Anze Macek、皇家馬德里的物理治療師Javier Calvo以及營養師Lucia Almendros。 這些改變並未讓Doncic變得更健康或更常上場，而內部的挫敗感只增不減，因為球隊消息 人士抱怨本賽季Doncic的團隊與獨行俠的工作人員之間溝通不良。 But Cuban, though still a near-nightly presence at Mavericks games, is out of the franchise's decision-making tree now, and Dumont does not have the same relationship with Doncic or the inclination to assert himself in basketball decisions as Cuban. Dumont saw it as a business decision that would preserve the Mavericks' financial flexibility for the long term, team sources said, and he trusted Harrison's vision of how Davis would be a culture-setter and give the team a new defense-minded identity. 儘管Cuban仍然幾乎每晚都出現在獨行俠的比賽中，但他已經不再參與球隊的決策層，而 Dumont與Doncic的關係並不像Cuban那樣密切，也沒有在籃球決策中展現出同樣的主導意 願。 球隊消息人士透露，Dumont將這視為一項商業決策，旨在長期保持獨行俠的財務靈活性， 並且他相信Harrison的願景，認為AD能夠成為球隊文化的塑造者，並為球隊帶來一種新的 防守型身份。 Cuban declined to comment when reached by ESPN, saying it wasn't his team anymore. Others within the organization and those close to it weren't so reticent to give an opinion. "No way Mark would ever trade Luka," a team source said. "It wouldn't even be a conversation." 當ESPN聯繫Cuban時，他拒絕發表評論，表示這已經不是他的球隊了。 然而，球隊內部及與球隊關係密切的人士並不那麼沉默。 「Cuban絕不會交易Luka」一位球隊消息人士表示，「這甚至不會成為一個談話。」 "I'm sorry [fans] are frustrated, but it's something that we believe in as an organization," Harrison said. "It's going to make us better. We believe that it sets us up to win, not only now, but also in the future. And when we win, I believe the frustration will go away. "The future to me is three, four years from now. The future 10 years from now, I don't know. They'll probably bury me and [Kidd] by then. Or we'll bury ourselves." 「我很抱歉球迷們感到沮喪，但這是我們作為一個組織所相信的事情」Harrison說道。 「這將使我們變得更好。我們相信這不僅能讓我們現在贏球，也能為未來奠定基礎。而當 我們贏球時，我相信這些沮喪情緒將會消失。」 「對我來說，未來是三、四年後的事情。至於十年後的未來，我不知道。 到那時，他們可能會埋葬我和Kidd，或者我們會自己埋葬自己。」 來源:https://reurl.cc/1XWvaY -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 36.231.70.166 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://webptt.cc/bbs/NBA/M.1738620605.A.4EE.html ※ 編輯: kakala99 (36.231.70.166 臺灣), 02/04/2025 06:55:05