Andre Iguodala’s son nearly cried when he told him he might leave Warriors
小AI的兒子在聽到小AI可能要離開勇士就哭惹
A day after ending his free agency tug-of-war with the Warriors and agreeingto
a three-year, $48 million deal, Andre Iguodala joined NBA TV to discuss
his realistic thoughts about leaving and the factors that led to his decisiont
o return to the defending champs.
在與勇士老闆如拔河角力般的自由球員約的協商，最後簽下3年4800萬鎂的一天後，小AI
上NBA TV談到他對於可能離開以及最後那些因素讓他決定留在衛冕軍的想法。
Among them: Iguodala’s 10-year-old son, who had no interest in leaving allhe
’s come to know in the Bay Area.
其中一個原因: 小AI的10歲大的兒子，完全不想離開灣區。
“The guy sitting across from me, my son, he’s playing Madden,” Iguodala
told NBA TV. “I told him I had some options, other teams I was looking at.Isa
id we might be leaving and he started crying.”
「我兒子那時坐在我對面玩電動遊戲Madden，」小AI跟記者說，「我跟他說我有些選擇，
我也有在看其他隊，我說我們可能會離開勇士，然後呢? 然後他就哭惹。」
In the background of the call, you can then hear Iguodala’s son interruptingh
is father’s call.
“You did. Yes, you did,” Iguodala’s heard talking to his son, before
telling NBA TV: “He said he was close but he wasn’t crying.”
在電話訪談的背景聲音，可以聽到小AI的小孩打斷訪問的聲音。
「你有哭，是的，你有~~~」電話裡小AI跟他的小孩說，「我兒子說他只是快要哭，但是
沒有真的哭出來~~」
Despite his free agency only lasting about 25 hours, the courting of Iguodalah
ad a bit of drama. He took meetings with the Spurs, Kings, Lakers and
Rockets, before cancelling a few more. Many believed the flirting was about
negotiating leverage — scaring the Warriors into upping their offer from twoy
ears and less annual money to three fully guaranteed years and a bit more.
雖然小AI的自由球員身份只維持了25個小時，整個的過程還是很戲劇化。他跟馬刺，國
王，湖人，火箭都面談過，還取消了之後的會。許多人都相信跟這些隊的面談只是談判的
籌碼，讓勇士老闆提高他們的價格，從兩年約，以及少少的年薪，提高到三年約，而且年
薪也提高了。
And if it was, it worked. But Iguodala said the meetings weren’t just a
ploy, there was a realistic chance he was going to leave.
“Sometimes guys get in trouble when you try to use leverage with another
team and they don’t think they’re ever going to go there but they try to
use them as leverage,” Iguodala told NBA TV. “I never take that approach.
Whenever I take a meeting or have another opportunity with another
organization, I take it very seriously.”
即使那些跟其他隊會面只是談判技巧，很明顯的成功了。但是小AI說那些並不是虛晃一招
，他真的想過有可能會離開。
「有些人會因為用跟別隊面談這些招式來讓自己得到些談判籌碼，最後給自己陷入麻
煩。」小AI跟記者說，「我從沒想要用那些招式，我跟每一隊談的時候，都是很認真
的。」
But after a day of drama, Iguodala got a market-appropriate three-year, $48
million offer from the Warriors and accepted it.
“At the end, it came down to (the fact that) we won two championships in
three years, have a special thing rolling,” Iguodala said. “Draymond text
me and said, ‘I don’t care how much you make, just want to keep this thingro
lling.’ We got a great relationship. KD text me as well. I had to find
Steph. He’s out enjoying himself, but he said the same thing.”
但在經過戲劇化的一天後，小AI拿到了一個自由市場上很好的合約，三年4800萬鎂。
「到最後，討論到的就是我們三年贏了兩個冠軍，這個隊有神奇的事情在發生，」小AI說
，「我不在意可以賺多少錢，我想讓這神奇的事情可以持續下去。我們大家的關係很
好，KD也有傳簡訊給我，我等等也要找Curry，雖然現在他在外面爽，但他也是講一樣的
話。」