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Kobe Bryant Reportedly Told Russell Westbrook He Should Be Winning Scoring
Titles Over Kevin Durant
據報導Kobe Bryant曾告訴Russell Westbrook 他應該拿下得分王 不是Kevin Durant
We all know about Kobe Bryant's fierce competitive spirit, which was on full
display when he reportedly tried sow dissent among the Oklahoma City
Thunders' young core during the 2012 Olympics.
大家都知道Kobe的競爭意識有多強，而從他在2012年奧運時，據報導他曾試著在雷霆這支
年輕隊伍放入一些不合因素可見一般。
First, some backstory. The Thunder had established themselves as the NBA's
team of the future heading into the 2012 Olympics. Kevin Durant had just won
the scoring title while Russell Westbrook and James Harden helped lead the
team to the NBA Finals, where they lost to LeBron James and the Miami Heat.
Although it was clear that Harden, Westbrook, and Durant were a powerful
trio, Bryant and his Lakers—who had recently added Dwight Howard and Steve
Nash—had title aspirations as well. To help this mission, Bean started did
his best to disrupt the Thunder's core in the hopes of straining the
relationship between Westbrook and Durant.
先解釋一下前因。雷霆那時候把他們球隊打造成聯盟的未來，準備去打2012奧運。KD那時
剛拿下得分王，而在Russell Westbrook跟James Harden的幫助下率領雷霆打進總冠，最後
輸給了LBJ率領的熱火。雖然Harden-Westbrook-Durant三人組是很強，當時Kobe的湖人也
剛得到了Dwight Howard跟Steve Nash，也是對拿下冠軍有所期待。為了達到這個目的，
Kobe使盡全力想要打破雷霆核心，希望可以離間Westbrook跟KD的關係。
"In 2012, what I remember with Kobe was he spent a lot of the – or he spent
some of that – Olympics with Russell Westbrook telling Russ, 'You know, you
should be winning scoring titles. I don’t know why you’re letting Kevin win
scoring titles. You should be the one winning them,'" ESPN's Adrian
Wojnarowski recalled during a recent episode of his podcast. "Anything he
could do to plant a little seed of dissent with two teammates, it was pretty
funny."
「在2012年時，我記得Kobe花了很多時間，或者說至少一部份時間，在奧運期間跟龜龜
說，『你知道嗎？你才應該拿得分王的，我不知道你為甚麼要讓KD拿得分王，你才應該是
拿得分王的那個人啊，』」ESPN的Wojnarowski最近在他的Podcast節目上說到。「Kobe在
這兩個人之間就是種下了導致他們不合的種子，那真的很有趣。」
And maybe it worked. KD left the Thunder in 2016 to join the Warriors where
ball-sharing and spacing were an emphasis, and the Thunder never won that
title they once seemed destined for.
結果效果極佳。KD在2016年離開了雷霆加入勇士，那時說是因為球權跟空間的關係，而雷
霆從此之後再也沒拿下本來似乎是屬於他們的冠軍。