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Throughout the design process, Williamson and the teams at Jordan and VIZ
(the company behind Naruto) drew not from the show’s more obvious
iconography but rather elements of the story that have resonated with him
over the years. (The Sage of the Six Paths colorway, which references the
mythic founder of the ninjutsu arts, is a particularly deep pull compared to
what we tend to get in collaborations like these.)
球鞋製作團隊並沒有從故事中更鮮明的形象去擷取靈感，
而是採用 Zion 長年以來和自己深有共鳴的故事情節中來取材。
參考了神話中的忍術創始人，六道仙人的球鞋配色。
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His All-NBA starting five of Naruto characters, in case you’re wondering,
would be Naruto, Itachi, Jiraiya, Minaro, and the First Hokage (the character
he thinks most resembles Michael Jordan). He drops full, multi-line, verbatim
quotes from the show, never paraphrasing. When asked to come up with a trivia
question for the fans, his question is such a deep pull that several
attendees have to sheepishly pass. (Later, backstage, he’ll express pride in
having stumped a room full of die-hards.)
他的火影忍者最佳五人是：鳴人（七代目）/鼬/自來也/波風（四代目）/柱間（初代目）
同時他認為初代目火影是最像 Michael Jordan 的一個角色。
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As he’s so often done during difficult times, Williamson turned to his
favorite show for guidance. I ask if there’s a point in Naruto’s story that
he feels is synonymous with where he is right now. His answer is immediate. “
It’s when Sasuke was going rogue,” he says, referring to Naruto’s close
friend and rival. “All of Naruto’s friends and teammates came to him like,
‘Dude, you’re gonna have to make tough decisions if you really want to be
Hokage.’”
當他身處於生涯中的困難時期，Williamson 向自己最愛的作品尋求指引。
記者問如果以火影忍者的故事來打比方，他現在處於哪一段的故事當中。
Zion 即答：
「就像處於佐助離開木葉忍者村的那段時期。」
「鳴人的所有夥伴和隊友都來告訴他，
兄弟，如果你真的想要當火影，你必須做出艱難的抉擇。」
There’s a slight pause. “And Naruto, he started hyperventilating because
that’s a lot of pressure. He’s just a kid, and that’s his friend, you
know? He really cared for him. And all anyone was telling him was that he
needed to handle it, to take him down. Nobody ever asked him how he felt...”
He answers my next question before I can ask it. “It’s been a lot. I can
sit here and explain it, but nobody will really be able to feel it the way I
did. My foot was broken and I couldn’t magically heal it. It hurt, because I
love the game of basketball. But because of it I was experiencing hate and
pain from people I don’t know every day, and it started to wear on me.”
「而鳴人，他開始感到喘不過氣。因為壓力實在太大了，
他那時只是個孩子，而村子的仇敵是他的至交，你能理解嗎？他真的很在乎佐助。」
「每個人都告訴他，他必須把佐助處理掉，把佐助打倒，卻從來沒有人問過他的感受。」
Zion 將之比喻成自己骨折同時受到抨擊的低潮時期。
One person who doesn’t seem concerned about any of that is Williamson.
Basketball is what he loves. And he never feels pressure when it comes to
doing what he loves. Whatever weight his shoulders bore over the last year
seems to have lifted. “I had to come to a realization,” he explains. “No
matter what the world is saying, I have to remember that I am who I am and
stay true to that. That’s what Naruto did, and that’s what I’m going to do.
”
「我必須理解，無論這個世界在旁邊說什麼，
我都必須牢記我自己是誰，並且忠於自我。」
「因為這就是鳴人的忍道，也是我的作法。」
原來這就是 Zion 的忍道