看到歐拉今天受傷，心裡真的很替他擔心。
我不是一位溜馬球迷，但是歐拉的到來，也可以說是回歸，讓我開始會注意印地安納的種
種，而歐拉勵志的故事，也如同我們人生的縮影一般，起起伏伏。突然墜入谷底，真的令
人感到相當難過。
2013年以榜眼之姿進入奧蘭多魔術，體能勁爆的歐拉雖然有兌現天賦，但始終無法讓魔術
衝擊季後賽。
2016年與當年的新秀薩波Domantas Sabonis 一起被交易去雷霆，背了龜殼一整年，悶的
要死，但轉機就此開始。
在奧克拉荷馬待了一年，歐拉跟薩波同捆包又被打包拿去換保喬。回家，成了歐拉的新旅
程。
就算一直被拿來和保喬比較，但歐拉證明了自己的能力，不但得到了最佳進步獎，還帶著
一群沒有經驗的小老弟們一起跟喇叭詹戰到第七場，今年球季也讓溜馬一直維持在東區前
三，前途光景無量。
但誰都無法預測，傷病襲來，讓歐拉倒下了。
就像是當初他跟薩波講的：
They’ll embrace you like no other.
現在換我們在背後支持他了，希望廣大的版友一起幫歐拉祈禱，希望他趕快好起來！
We’ll embrace you like no other.
他的故事，真的會讓人眼眶濕濕的，加油，歐拉，我會矢志不渝的擁護你！
※ 引述《dermer (der毛)》之銘言：
: 剛剛看到有人已經PO了，但自己花了很久時間翻譯實在是不想這樣浪費。
: 自己是印大畢業的老人，看到這篇文章非常的有感觸，讀著讀著眼眶也有一點紅了。
: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/victor-oladipo-pacers-playo
ff
: 他們會矢志不渝的擁護你 by Victor Oladipo
: They’ll Embrace You Like No Other by Victor Oladipo
: You know something’s when your mom is calling you by your full name.
: 當媽媽叫你全名的時候，你就知道大事不妙了
: “Victor, what is going on?”
: “Victor，到底是怎麼回事？”
: “I don’t know, Ma, I really don’t”
: “媽，我不知道，我是真的不知道”
: It was last June. I had just landed in Baltimore from OKC and my phone went
: crazy when I turned it on. I knew the Pacers trade was real, but seeing it
: everywhere online really made it set in. Even the positive comments were
: getting under my skin. I was sitting there like, do they mean “locker room
: guy” as a compliment?
: 還記得那是六月底，我剛從俄城落地巴爾的摩，手機就一直響個不停。我知道自己被交
易
: 到了遛馬，但直到我開始閱讀網路上的文章，這件事才漸漸有了真實感。就算是那些還
算
: 正面的評論對我來說都份外尖銳….. 說我是“休息室開心果”究竟是褒是貶？
: You know, you always hear the expression about sports being a business. But
it
: ’s also life. I’d been through a trade less than a year before that, from
: Orlando, and so in that moment it was hard not to take it personal — two
: teams for whatever reasons seemed like they’d given up on me. That’ll hurt
: your feelings, doesn’t matter who you are or how much you believe in
: yourself. So when my mom was wondering why teams kept moving me … I didn’t
: really know what to say. I couldn’t just tell her it was a “basketball
: decision.”
: 我相信所有人都聽過那句名言：體育不過是生意場…. 但同時它也是我生活的全部。不
到
: 一年之前我才剛剛被奧蘭多魔術交易，當下我很難冷靜看待再度被交易這件事… 在不
到
: 一年內，兩隻球隊因為不具名的理由放棄了我。無論你對自己是多有信心，任何人在這
種
: 狀況下都會深受打擊。所以當媽媽開始問我為什麼兩隻球隊都不要我了，我啞口無言。
我
: 不知道該說什麼。我不想告訴他這只是另一個“生意場”決定。
: Doma was my next text. Had to be. Doma is Domantas Sabonis. That’s my guy.
: He was really the only person who was going to understand.
: 這之後我簡訊了多瑪，也只能是多瑪。多瑪是我兄弟Domantas Sabonis的小名，我想現
在
: 這個時候只有他能夠真正了解我的感受。
: We’d done this before. Doma was in the trade to the Pacers with me, but we
’
: d also been together since pretty much the moment he got drafted by the Magi
c
: in 2016. We got traded together to OKC. Now to Indy. So I knew Doma wouldn’
t
: want me to sugarcoat anything, but I had to check in with him — let him kno
w
: what I was thinking. I texted him what I knew was true:
: 我們早就一起經歷過風浪。多瑪和我都在這場交易中被送到了遛馬，但自從他於2016年
被
: 魔術選到的那一刻，我們就被綁在一起了。這之後我們一起被從魔術交易到了雷霆，現
在
: 又從雷霆來到遛馬。我知道多瑪不需要我太美化這整件事，但是我必須讓他知道我的想
法
: ，我簡訊他：
: “I promise, if you win here in Indiana, they’ll embrace you like no other.
”
: “我保證，只要你在印第安納贏球，他們會矢志不渝的擁護你”
: I felt a little better right away. I called my mom back and told her
: everything was going to be all right. I really believed it, too. I couldn’t
: have told you exactly how it was gonna work out or how we’d get there, but
I
: knew. I just knew. Because I knew that not every trade is the same, just lik
e
: not every state is the same.
: 送出這封簡訊後，我馬上感覺舒服了一點。我給我媽打了一通電話，告訴她我會好好的
。
: 我是真的這麼認為，我也如此相信著。我不確定接下來事情會如何發展，但我知道，我
就
: 是知道：沒有任何一場交易是相同的，就像沒有一個地方能和印第安納州一樣。
: And I knew this wasn’t just any trade. It was the Pacers. It was Indiana,
: and I knew Indiana.
: 我知道這不只是一場普通的交易。我來到的是遛馬。我來到的是印第安納，我最熟悉的
那
: 個印第安納。
: I wasn’t going to just another team. I was coming home.
: 我不是被交易到了另一隻陌生的球隊，我回家了。
: Jed Jacobsohn/The Players' Tribune
: I got to Bloomington, Indiana in 2010. Coming out of high school in Maryland
,
: I chose Indiana because of the program’s history, but really I had no idea
: how serious people in Indiana took basketball. I think even right now very
: few people outside of Indiana recognize how much basketball means to the
: state. There’s a basketball hoop in every driveway. It’s all Hoosiers and
: Pacers flags. And a big high school game pretty much shuts an entire
: community down.
: 我在2010年來到印州的布魯明頓（印第安納大學的主校區），身為一個馬里蘭出身的高
中
: 生，我因為印大豐富的籃球歷史而選擇了這間學校，但其實我完全不知道印州州民竟然
是
: 如此的看重籃球這件事。就算是現在，很多外州的人也並不了解籃球在印第安納有著多
麼
: 重要的地位。每個家庭的車道幾乎都有籃筐，每個房子上都插著印大山地人（印大籃球
隊
: 隊名）或是遛馬隊的旗幟。一場重要的高中籃球比賽就足以讓整座城市癱瘓。
: And when you’re on the IU team, they know. Like, they really make a point t
o
: get to know you.
: 而當你是印大籃球隊的一員時，你更是轟動全州的風雲人物，人人都會想方設法得認識
你
: 。
: But it was funny, nobody knew how to pronounce my name when I first got to
: Indiana. I remember the first week of classes freshman year, I had to go
: through the same conversation with every teacher.
: 但好笑的是，當我初來乍到印大時，沒人知道我名字的正確發音。我記得我大一第一周
上
: 課時，我必須教我每一堂課的老師如何正確發我名字的音：
: Oh-la-DIppo, Oh-la-DYE-poe, Oh-la-PEE-do. And every variation in between.
: “奧啦睇波”，“歐啦呆波”，“歐啦屁杜”，其他更是不勝枚舉。
: “Ohhh. Oh-la-DEE-poe.”
: “哦哦哦哦，原來是歐拉迪波啊！”
: Other than that, my name didn’t get said very much by anybody freshman year
.
: When I arrived on campus in the summer — they had just opened up Cook Hall
: — I was getting shots up in the gym by myself when this dude on his way out
: stopped to talk to me. Didn’t know who he was. It was late at night so I
: worried I wasn’t supposed to be in there.
: 除此之外，在我大一那年，我的名字並沒有被很多人提起。當我在2010年暑假第一次來
到
: 校區時，Cook hall才剛剛落成（Cook hall是印大籃球隊的訓練基地），我正準備到館
裡
: 做自主投籃訓練。這時一個哥們兒正好從裡面走出來，打量了一下我並開始和我聊天。
我
: 不知道他是誰，我只是有點擔心是不是訓練館要關門了所以有人要趕我走。
: “What are you doing here so late?”
: “你這麼晚來這裡幹嘛啊？”
: “Gotta be in here every night if I want to play in the NBA.”
: “如果想打NBA的話，我必須每晚都這樣訓練”
: That’s what I told him.
: 我這樣告訴他
: “Man,” he shook his head. “NBA? You got a long way to go.” And then he
: kept shaking his head and just walked out!
: “兄弟”，他搖了搖頭，“想打NBA? 你的路還遠著呢” 然後他就這樣一邊搖頭一邊走
出
: 了訓練館。
: But for real, I had some confidence issues early on. I remember even months
: after that, when I had been training all summer, on the first day of practic
e
: Verdell Jones came in and tore me apart. He scored on me at will, and I coul
dn
: ’t get anything going on him offensively. I sat down on the bench after
: practice in shock. I had tears in my eyes, literally. I had worked hard all
: offseason, and it looked like it was all for nothing.
: 但說真的，我一開始的確是有一些信心問題。記得在那之後幾個月，我經歷了一整個暑
假
: 的精實訓練後，卻在球隊開訓的第一天被Verdell Jones（印大當時的主力得分後衛，
大
: 學畢業之後沒有進入NBA，現在在日本打球）完完全全的摧毀殆盡。他盡情的在我頭上
得
: 分，而我在進攻上完全嘗不到一點甜頭。訓練結束後我呆坐在板凳上，久久不能自己。
我
: 記得當時我的眼眶裡有淚水打轉…. 整個暑假的辛苦訓練看來是完全白費了。
: Then it happened again the next day. Like an exact repeat of the day before.
: The thought crossed my mind that I was never going to be good enough to play
: college ball. Maybe that would be the last anyone heard of Victor
: Ooh-lay-PEE-do.
: 第二天基本上也是相同的劇情，我記得當時滿腦子想的都是自己應該永遠沒辦法成為一
個
: 夠格的大學籃球運動員。也許再也沒有人會有機會認識“歐啦屁杜”了。
: I got a few starts late my freshman season. By the time sophomore year rolle
d
: around, I was a starter. I wasn’t a national name … but man, they were
: getting to know me in Indiana.
: 我在大一球季臨近結束的時候得到了幾場先發的機會，並且在大二那年成為印大先發五
虎
: 的一員。雖然我當時還未舉國聞名，但至少印第安納州民已經開始認識我了。
: And it wasn’t like they just knew how to pronounce my name. No, they knew m
e
: everywhere in Bloomington. For my 8 a.m. class every morning I’d have to
: wear headphones from the time I went out the door to the time I sat down at
: my desk, just so I wouldn’t be late because of all the people who would com
e
: up and try to talk to me. I wouldn’t even be playing music most of the time
,
: so I could hear people whispering my name.
: 他們並不僅僅是想要知道我名字的正確發音而已，整個布魯明頓都認識我。即使是去上
八
: 點的早課的路上，我都必須全程戴著耳機以防路人把我攔下來聊天，才能避免不遲到。
許
: 多時候我不會放音樂，就只是單純的戴著耳機而已，因為這樣我就能一邊走路一邊聽到
路
: 人交頭接耳說著我的名字。
: I wanted to talk to everybody. I really did. It was a thrill to be known lik
e
: that. Every time somebody said my name or pointed me out, it made me want to
: work that much harder and be that much better the next time I stepped on the
: court.
: 我其實真的很想停下來和所有人聊天，被全世界認識的感覺真是太棒了。每當有人說出
我
: 的名字，或是指向我的時候，這會激勵我更加刻苦訓練，在下一場比賽贏得更好的表現
。
: Those three years in Bloomington were just — they changed me. Yeah, I becam
e
: a better basketball player, but it was also the first time I saw an entire
: community be so passionate about a single thing. About a game we were
: playing. I learned that interacting — even just taking the time to stop and
: talk once in a while with the community — can actually change people’s
: entire outlook on life.
: 在印大的那三年完全改變了我。除了成為了一個更加出色的籃球運動員外，我也第一次
親
: 歷一件事情可以讓整個社區如此激情澎湃：我們的籃球比賽。我意識到自己與他人的互
動
: ，即使只是偶爾駐足閒聊，也能給別人帶來巨大影響。
: I learned that basketball can help you be a part of something bigger than
: yourself.
: 籃球讓我得以超越自我，超越個體。
: I ended leaving for the NBA after my third year at IU but I’d gotten enough
: credits to get my degree a year early. After the commencement ceremony was
: over for our graduating class, that guy from the first day in the gym tapped
: me on the shoulder. He asked if I remembered that night, when I told him I
: was going to make it to the NBA.
: 大三賽季後我決定投入NBA選秀，在此之前我便已經修完足夠學分，並拿到學位證書。
畢
: 業典禮結束後，那位我剛入校時在訓練館遇到的兄弟拍了拍我的肩膀，問我是不是還記
得
: 那天晚上，我告訴他自己將會成為一個NBA球員。
: His name was Dave. Dave had been more right than I knew.
: 他的名字叫大衛，當時的他的確說對了，加入NBA是一條漫長的路。
: Today Dave works at CAA, and he’s one of my best friends. Dave was never th
e
: kind of guy to blow smoke. He said it’d be a long road, but he also didn’t
: say it was impossible.
: 今天的大衛在CAA工作，同時他也是我最好的朋友之一。大衛從來不講虛話，他說過NBA
會
: 是一條漫長的路，但他從沒說那是一條不可能的路。
: I see you, Dave.
: 我終於明白了，大衛
: Jed Jacobsohn/The Players' Tribune
: Guess where my first away game was my rookie year? Indiana. When I was
: introduced, I got a standing ovation.
: 時間快轉到我NBA新人賽季的第一個客場比賽，猜猜在哪裡？沒錯，就在印第安納。當
球
: 場DJ介紹我出場的時候，我得到了全場起立鼓掌的待遇。
: That’s love. I felt at home.
: 這就是愛，我感覺自己回到家了。
: I can’t tell you how special it feels when you think about how in only a fe
w
: years, you can go from nobody knowing how to pronounce your name, to 20,000
: people chanting it in unison. And I was on the opposing team.
: 我無法告訴你在短短幾年內，從沒人知道你名字的正確發音，到全場兩萬人整齊劃一的
起
: 立高喊你的名字，而你竟是客隊球員，是一種多麼美妙的感覺。
: It was like that every time I came back. If I was playing for Orlando,
: Oklahoma City, it didn’t matter. If I ever went out in Indiana I was
: embraced by the people. Everyone remembered the years I played in college an
d
: talked about them like I was still on the team. Even when I was away, I was
: tied to Indiana.
: 我每次來到這個球場都會獲得如此待遇，無論我是代表魔術還是雷霆。無論我走到哪裡
，
: 印第安納人都無比的擁護我。所有人都記得我為印大拼戰的那些年，並且把我當成他們
永
: 遠的一份子。就算我不在印州了，我也還是印州人。
: And now here we are.
: 而現在，我回來了。
: Maybe you’ve never been to Indiana. Or maybe you’ve just visited once or
: twice. Never even really thought about it. It’s a flyover state, right? One
: that’s easy to glance over on a map.
: 你可能永遠沒有來過印第安納，又或許你曾經路過這裡一兩次，也從來沒把這個“中轉
州
: ”放在心上，畢竟它是一個如此容易在地圖上被忽略的存在。
: And I bet that when you heard about the Thunder-Pacers trade, you were
: thinking about Paul George. Doma and I — we were a package deal, traded for
: the second time in a year, going to a non-contender in a flyover state.
: 所以我打賭，當你聽到雷霆與遛馬交易的時候，你可能只會想到Paul George。我和多
瑪
: 不過是添頭，是交易案的部分籌碼而已。我們在一年內第二次被交易，而且還是被交易
到
: 一個沒有爭冠實力的“中轉州”球隊。
: We know what it feels like to be overlooked.
: 我們早就習慣被忽視的感覺。
: And so do a lot of guys on our team. And a lot of people in our arena. We
: know what it feels like when somebody gives up on you.
: 許多在我們隊上的人，以及更多在球場替我們吶喊的印州球迷也是如此。我們比誰都更
知
: 道那種被忽視看輕，以及被別人放棄的感覺。
: Ron Hoskins/NBAE/Getty Images
: That’s all over now. Nobody’s giving up on anybody this year.
: 這一切都要結束了，今年，沒有人需要放棄任何人。
: It goes back to what I texted Doma the day we both got traded. I knew Indian
a
: would embrace him — embrace all of us — in the way only this state can.
: 回到我在被交易當天告訴多瑪的那句話：我知道印第安納會矢志不渝的擁護他，也擁護
我
: 們所有人，只有這個州才會如此。
: And we’re gonna need you right now, Indiana. The rest of the league might
: have forgotten about us, but you haven’t. Forget what the standings say.
: Forget the MVP race. Enough with all of that. We know who we’re playing for
.
: You know what this team’s about. We’re ready to make a run in these
: playoffs. Right now.
: 我們現在比任何時候都需要你們，印第安納。整個聯盟似乎已經忘了我們，但只有你們
沒
: 有。忘記聯賽排名吧，忘記那些關於MVP鹿死誰手的話題吧，我們已經聽夠了。我們知
道
: 自己是為了誰在奮鬥，你知道這支球隊是為何而戰。我們已經準備好面對季後賽了…..
: 就是現在。
: To everybody else, yeah, maybe we’ve got a lot to prove.
: 對其他人來說，或許我們還有很多需要證明的。
: But that’s never stopped me before.
: 但我從來沒有因為這些停下自己的腳步。