What oft-injured Ben Simmons is still hoping to achieve with Nets
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“We have a younger team that I want to help these guys get better. I want to
lead by example. I want to compete,” Simmons told The Post. “Jordi [Fernande
z, coach] is coming in first year. It’s a big year for him. I want to be a le
ader on this team.
西門：我們有一支年輕的團隊，我想幫助這些人變得更好。我想以身作則。我想參加比賽
，Jordi（Fernandez教練）才來第一年。這對他來說是重要的一年，我想成為這個團隊的
領導者。
“So f–k what happens next year, and what contract I get, if I get a contract
. I want to do my job while I’m here and be professional and help these guys
in any way I can. So who knows? I want to play as long as my body will allow m
e. So if it’s one year, five years, six years, I don’t know what it is. But
I just want to keep going until I can’t anymore.”
所以去他媽的明年會發生什麼，如果我得到了一份合約，我會得到什麼合約，我想在這裡
做好我的工作，保持專業，盡我所能幫助這些人。那麼誰知道呢？只要我的身體允許，我
就想打球。所以如果是一年、五年、六年，我不知道會是多久，但我只想繼續打下去，直
到我再也打不了為止。
“To me, being on a social media platform where you’re just taking in what ev
erybody’s saying, I don’t think that’s healthy for anybody to just be readi
ng things about themselves,” Simmons told The Post. “For me, I don’t person
ally go on Twitter or X just because I don’t find any use in it.”
對我來說，在社交媒體平台上，你只是吸收每個人的不同言論，我認為任何人只閱讀有關
自己的事情都是不健康的，我個人不會上Twitter或X，因為我覺得它們沒有任何用處。
“People make comments saying I’m robbing. No. When I got that contract, I wa
s playing at a super high level. Unfortunately, I had injuries,” he said. “B
ut for somebody to say that, it’s disrespectful. [But] people can say what th
ey want to say. They’ve got to live with it. At the end of the day it all cat
ches up with you.”
有球迷說我（拿這份合約）是在搶劫。不，當我拿到那份合約時，我的表現等級超級高。
不幸的是，我受了傷。但有人這麼說，這是不尊重我，球迷們可以說他們想說的話，你必
須接受它，但會對我造成影響。
“A healthy Ben Simmons is a very, very good player — that’s what I focus on
,” Fernandez said. “I don’t have social media. I know that at the end of th
e day, social media brings the worst out of people, because if you want to be
heard you have to say something negative. And always one negative trumps 10 po
sitives. [But] I’m happy with where Ben is, how he’s showing up every day.”
籃網教練Jordi：健康的西門是一名非常非常優秀的球員——這就是我所關注的，我沒有
社群媒體。我知道歸根究底，社群媒體會讓人們表現出最糟糕的一面，因為如果你想讓別
人聽到你的聲音，你就必須說一些負面的話。而且 1 個負面因素總是勝過 10 個正面因
素，但我對西門現在的處境以及他每天的表現感到滿意。
短評或心得：
西門帶隊！