The Jeremy Lin-Carmelo Anthony jersey controversy is ridiculously overblown
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JULY 3, 2014 12:55 AM
No doubt by now you’ve heard about the uproar being caused by Jeremy Lin’s
fans on Wednesday after the Rockets, in their pitch to Carmelo Anthony,
displayed artwork at the Toyota Center showing the superstar free agent in a
Houston jersey wearing the number 7.
為了爭取甜瓜而在豐田中心背號7號的甜瓜照片，引起最近非常大的爭辯。
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Only one problem — that’s Jeremy Lin’s number, and he’s still with the
Rockets.
唯一問題在於，LIN還在球隊耶！
Lin himself turned to Twitter to express that he felt disrespected.
LIN於是在推特殊發了一些感到不被尊重的心情。
Lin’s tweets sparked a controversy when, in reality, this is business as
usual in the NBA. Are the Rockets supposed to not depict a superstar free
agent in the number he wants because their backup point guard currently has
that number? Did the Dallas Mavericks refuse to display Melo in a Mavericks
number 7 jersey because it might hurt Ricky Ledo‘s feelings?
LIN的推特點起了爭論之火，儘管球員交易本身是NBA裡非常普遍的一件事。
難道火箭隊只因為要顧慮一個替補後衛的心情，就不能先給球團非常想要爭取的超級球星
他想要的背號嗎?
難道小牛隊也要顧慮Ricky Ledo的心情就不能先給甜瓜7號嗎？
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey spoke very candidly about it on Wednesday.
“It’s always a challenging situation during free agency,” Morey said in an
interview with FOX 26 Sports outside the Toyota Center. “You are always
having to recruit players and there might be current players at current
positions, might be people with the current numbers. It’s unfortunate that it
’s often hard to handle.
“Reality is it’s standard practice. When we went after Chris Bosh a few
years ago, we had him in (Luis) Scola’s number. When we went after Dwight
Howard he had (Pat) Beverley’s number. I get the sensitivity and I hate that
it creates some hurt feelings. I don’t like that, but that’s obviously
Carmelo Anthony’s number, that’s the number he wants. He told us that.”
(以上前幾篇就翻譯過不再翻了)
Our Rockets forum (and my twitter timeline) filled up, with many of the
Jeremy Lin crazies rallying around images like this one, claiming that the
organization is lying and that the Rockets never used Beverley’s number 12
on Howard artwork.
火箭論壇跟作者的推特馬上就被林迷灌爆，因為從以下這張照片來看，大家認為球團根本
在說謊。
http://ppt.cc/OPH5
(Where's Patrick Beverley's number 12 on this? This is not a hate tweet
against PBev or D12.)
Of course, this image was after Dwight signed with the Rockets and his number
was established. There was no pitch at the Toyota Center (it was in Los
Angeles) and Morey is telling the truth. How do I know? Because I saw the
actual pitch that was made to Howard last summer, and it used Beverley’s
number 12.
但是其實莫雷沒有說謊，因為去年夏天我就看到提早用了小貝12號背號的魔獸公仔跟照片
http://ppt.cc/J~os
http://ppt.cc/1zLS
You would have to be living under a rock these past few months to not know
that Jeremy Lin is going to be traded. We wrote about it as soon as the
season ended and hammered it home again three weeks ago. The Rockets don’t
have cap room and need to move Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin to create it.
早在球季結束後大家都差不多知道Lin要被交易了，唯有將Asik跟Lin都交易掉火箭才有
足夠的薪資空間。
“Bottom line, if Carmelo comes, Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin have to be traded,”
said Morey. “It’s just math. It’s not personal. My job is every day
figure out how to win. Sometimes it creates challenging situations.”
心得：
救援開始出現，
背號是甜瓜要的，替補控衛跟林迷你們大驚小怪甚麼？以前小貝還不是都吞下去了。