NBA: David Stern's National Basketball Entertainment Empire (Part One Of Four)
大卫-斯特恩的国家篮球娱乐帝国（第一部分）
（第一部分）
"Damn those Detroit Pistons!" the evil tyrant David Stern thought to himself. "They are making my superstars look human! This could cost us millions!"
“可恶的底特律活塞队！”这个邪恶的暴君—大卫斯特恩自言自语道，“他们使我的超级巨星看起来更像个普通人！这将要废掉我好几百万！”
Just then, NBA official Tim Donaghy walked into his office, as he was still in the good graces of the NBA elite at the time. Stern looked at Donaghy with fury in his eyes.
刚才，NBA的官员Tim Donaghy走进他的办公室，这时候他仍然十分看好他们的精英。大卫斯特恩眼睛里带着愤怒的看着Donaghy。
Donaghy knew not to take Stern’s glare personally; after all, Stern always knew he was the one official he could always trust to “properly” officiate a playoff game.
Donaghy知道不能因为斯特恩愤怒的目光而感到不快，尽管斯特恩总是知道他是一个官员，他总是可以信任所谓“严格的”裁判去主持一场季后赛的比赛。
It was only two seasons prior that Donaghy helped see to it that the Los Angeles Lakers staved off elimination against the less marketable Chris Webber and the Sacramento Kings in Game Six of the conference finals.
这只是两个赛季之前，Donaghy帮助保证湖人在西部决赛第六场淘汰市场次一点的克里斯-韦伯和国王。
The Lakers were given 18 more free throws than the Kings in the fourth quarter. This allowed the Lakers to proceed to win the NBA title that year.
在第四节湖人比国王多了18次罚球。这帮助湖人能够继续赢得那年的总冠军。
Just two years later, things had gone grossly wrong. After the Detroit Pistons had used smothering defense to upset the highly favored Los Angeles Lakers, David Stern nearly went into shock. Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal were supposed to be unstoppable. This was all wrong! This was not in the script!
仅仅是两年后，事情已经朝着严重错误的方向发展。当底特律活塞队用防守将不可一世的洛杉矶湖人队拉下了马，大卫-斯特恩几乎进入了休克状态。科比和沙克-奥尼尔曾被认为是不可阻挡的。（活塞夺冠）这是错误的，这不是剧本所写的内容。
Kobe and Shaq were suppose to be the new ratings swoon, the one’s to restore the NBA to the glory it had once enjoyed with it’s ultimate marketing tool Michael Jordan.
科比和奥尼尔曾被认为是收视率的保证，一个NBA荣誉的恢复者，它曾一度是市场营销工具迈克尔-乔丹所享有的。
The NBA frowned greatly upon then Pistons coach Larry Brown's idea of "playing the right way." To play the right way meant to play perfectly executed defense that could stop or slow down even the NBA’s most elite players.
对于活塞的主教练拉里-布朗的说法“用正确的方式打球”NBA高层曾极大的不悦，用正确的方式的打球就意味着极好地用防守阻止或者减缓哪怕是NBA最优秀球员的进攻。
Playing the right way was the wrong way to David Stern and his league of billionaire owners. Even Stern’s corrupt referees could do nothing to stop all the trapping ball hawking and physical play from dethroning the team of the “New Jordan” and Shaq.
用正确的方式打球对于大卫-斯特恩和联盟的其他亿万富翁来说就是错误的方式。甚至大卫-斯特恩收买了那些裁判但对于那些强硬的防守以及充满身体对抗的打球方式，以至于拥有“新乔丹”和沙克的王朝球队的崩塌却无能为力。
It reminded David Stern too much of the way the Bad Boys use to hold back his marketing darling, Michael Jordan, years ago. Mr. Stern needed a solution, and Donaghy had a suggestion.
这提醒了大卫-斯特恩，坏孩子军团使用了很多方式去阻止他的市场幸运儿的归来，迈克尔-乔丹，那已经好几年前了。斯特恩先生需要一个解决方法，而Donaghy已经给了他建议。
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本帖最后由 love8and24 于 2008-7-28 16:19 编辑 ]
