In part one of my five-week NBA season preview, I looked at what we can expect from some of the biggest stars in the league for the upcoming NBA season. In part two, I examined some of the players you can expect to see have breakout seasons.
在我的NBA新赛季展望五部曲的第一部分，我预测了新赛季一些大牌明星能给我们带来什么。第二部分则关注了一些可能即将有爆发赛季的球员。
But no NBA preview would be complete without a comprehensive, and sure to be wrong, set of predictions for the postseason awards. As we continue our countdown of the 82 to watch for this NBA season, we take a look at the preseason favorites to win some of the NBA's most prestigious awards.
如果不具备综合性那么任何NBA展望都不算完整而且肯定会错，就像季后各大奖项的预测。我们接着往下数，展望下谁会去赢得NBA那些最高荣誉的奖项。
55. G Kobe Bryant
54. G Chris Paul
53. F LeBron James
52. F Paul Pierce
51. C Dwight Howard
55.后卫 科比
54.后卫 保罗
53.前锋 詹姆斯
52.前锋 皮尔斯
51.中锋 霍华德
First Team All-NBA
NBA年度第一阵容
How important is it to have a First Team All-NBA player on your roster? Over the past 18 seasons, only the Houston Rockets in 1995 won the NBA title without having a First or Second Team All-NBA player on its roster (Hakeem Olajuwon was Third Team All-NBA that season).
你的球队阵容中有一个入选第一阵容的球员是多么重要呀。过去的18个赛季以来，只有95年火箭夺冠时球队里没有任何在第一阵容或第二阵容的球员（那个赛季奥拉朱旺只入选第三阵容）
Often times, you will see a coach without a star player try to sell to the media that "team ball" is the best way to win a championship. To some degree, it is true. After all, not having a star player leaves that team with no choice but to play well as a unit if they want to have any success.
多少次你会看到一个没有明星球员的教练会跟媒体吹说夺冠最好的方法就是打“集体球”。某种程度上，这是对的。毕竟没有明星球员就使得这球队除了团结好去赢得比赛外别无他法。
But while "team ball" is a great concept, history has shown us that it is a lot easier to close out a playoff series when you can ride an All-NBA superstar.
但是“集体球”是个很大的概念，历史经验证明拥有一个全明星超级球员会使得你更容易去锁定季后赛的名额。
Probably not so coincidentally, each of the five teams represented above (Lakers, Hornets, Cavs, Celtics, and Magic) had good success last season. If these five players can play at their highest level again this season, you can expect to see each of their teams competing for an NBA title once again.
也许并不会那么一致，但那上面五个人带领的球队（湖人，黄蜂，骑士，凯尔特人，和魔术）上赛季都取得很好的成绩，如果这5位球员在新赛季又发挥他们最好的水平，那么你会看到他们的球队再一次为了总冠军在厮杀争抢着。
50. G Deron Williams
49. G Dwyane Wade
48. F Kevin Garnett
47. F Tim Duncan
46. C Amare Stoudemire
50.后卫 德隆威廉姆斯
49.后卫 韦德
48.前锋 加内特
47.前锋 邓肯
46.中锋 斯塔德迈尔
Second Team All-NBA
NBA年底第二阵容
While being Second Team All-NBA is nothing to sneeze at, it isn't much of a guarantee that it will help you win the Larry O'Brien trophy, either. While 16 of the past 18 NBA champs have had a First Team All-NBA player on its roster, only six had All-NBA second team players (mainly because their best players were busy occupying spots on first team, but still).
入选第二阵容并不是可以轻视的，这也不能提供问鼎奥布莱恩杯的多大保证。过去18个NBA冠军球队里有16个的球队阵容里有第一阵容的球员，只有6个拥有第二阵容的球员（主要因为他们最好的球员占据了第一队的位置）
Nonetheless, of the 45 players that have been named to the All-NBA second team this decade, only two of them have played for teams that have failed to reach the postseason.
尽管如此，在此10年间入选过NBA年度第二队的45位球员中只有两个球员其效力的球队没能进入季后赛。
"Team ball" takes another blow here as it once again proves that having a superstar makes all the difference in the world when trying to close out big games. Four of the five teams listed here (Jazz, Celtics, Spurs, Suns) have a very good odds of making the playoffs again this season.
“集体篮球”在这里又被打击了多一次，证明了为了赢得重要的比赛，有没有超级明星会造成很不同的效果。在这提到的5个球队里有4个（爵士，凯尔特人，马刺，太阳）在新赛季又肯定会再次杀进季后赛。
The fifth team, the Miami Heat, is surrounded by the biggest question mark of any team heading into the regular season. They could just as easily win 25 games as they could 55, but the smart money says that if D-Wade ends up on this list, the total will be much closer to the latter.
而那第5支球队迈阿密热火，被那个所有球队进入新赛季都会遇到的最大问题困扰着。他们能轻易赢下55场但也可能只有25胜。但内行人说如果韦德不出现在这阵容中，他们会更接近赢得55场比赛。
45. G. Derrick Rose
44. G. Russell Westbrook
43. F. Kevin Love
42. F. Michael Beasley
41. C Greg Oden
45.后卫 德里克 罗斯
44.后卫 拉塞尔-威斯布鲁克
43.前锋 凯文 来福
42.前锋 迈克尔 比斯利
41.中锋 格雷格 奥登
All-Rookie Team
年度新秀阵容
While making an All-NBA team all but assures that your team will make the playoffs, being selected to the all-rookie team means almost the opposite. In fact, since 2000, there have been almost as many All-Rookie players to play on last place teams (15) than there have been playoff teams (17).
当入选第一阵容时能保证你的球队进入季后赛，而入选新秀第一队几乎相反。事实上从2000年起，几乎有一样多的新秀第一队的球员分别在排名靠后的球队（15个球员）和进入季后赛的球队（17个球员）效力。
The good news for the Bulls, Thunder, Timberwolves, Heat, and Blazers is that in that same span at least one player from every All-Rookie team has played for a playoff team. If these five players can live up to the expectations, expect one of these teams to jump back into the forefront of their conference playoff race.
对于公牛，森林狼，热火，和开拓者好的消息就是在那种魔咒下至少还是会有一位新秀第一队的球员能杀进季后。如果这些球员能不辜负人们的期望，让我们期待其中的一支队脱颖而出杀进分区的季后赛吧。
40. G. Kobe Bryant
39. G. Chris Paul
38. F. Kevin Garnett
37. F. Tim Duncan
36. C. Dwight Howard
40.后卫 科比
39.后卫 保罗
38.前锋 加内特
37.前锋 邓肯
36.中锋 霍华德
All-Defensive Team
年底防守第一队
There may be a lot of clichés thrown around in sports, but there's one that will never die: defense wins championships.
运动场上有许许多的陈腔滥调，但是有一个永不毁灭的是：防守赢得冠军
You can get tired of hearing it all you want, but the phrase has been uttered as long as people have debated sports, and will continue to be uttered as long as there are sporting contests to debate.
你会听这个听到烦，但是只要有争论性的体育项目这句话就会被提及，而且还会继续出现在竞技体育赛场上。
But there's no debating this: only those same 1995 Rockets have won the NBA title without having a player on the All-Defensive team in the past 18 seasons.
但是无可否认的是：过去18个赛季以来还是只有那支95年的火箭队，没有球员入选防守最佳阵容但却夺得总冠军。
The '95 Rockets were either severely underestimated, lucky as hell, or both, but they prove my point. You'd better have an all-word defender in your lineup if you want to compete for an NBA title.
那95年的火箭队不是严重被低估就是走狗屎运或者两者都有，但他们证明了我的观点。如果你想去竞争总冠军的话，你的阵容里得有个好的防守者。
35. Nate McMillan, Portland Trail Blazers, Coach of the Year
35.内特-麦克米兰 波特兰开拓者 年度最佳教练
There are three factors that Coach of the Year voters seem to favor over anything else when it comes to selecting a winner:
下面有三个因素是年度最佳教练的评委们在选择时会比其他因素更看重的：
1. Coaching a team that wins more games than anyone predicted them to win the preseason.
1.执教的球队战绩比季前别人预测的战绩好
2. Coaching a young team to the playoffs.
2.执教一支年轻的球队并杀进季后赛
3. Coaching a team that drastically increases its win total from the previous season.
3.执教的球队的战绩比起上个赛季有极大地提高
In my opinion, the Blazers seem poised to accomplish all three of those things this season. McMillan has the challenge of successfully inserting a potentially game-changing big man in Greg Oden into the lineup of a team that won 41 games last season. He needs to figure out a way to get this offense flowing, and figure out a way fast. The Blazers first five games are against the Lakers, Spurs, Suns, Jazz, and Rockets.
在我看来，这赛季开拓者会很轻松地完成这三个因素。麦克米兰得成功挑战把一个能够改变比赛胜负的大个子--格雷格 奥登摆进一支上赛季只有41胜的球队阵容里。他需要找到使进攻流畅快速的方法。开拓者前五个对手是湖人，马刺，太阳，爵士和火箭。
If Portland can weather the early scheduling storm and stay confident and healthy, McMillan has the coaching and leadership ability to lead this team to a 50-win season and their first trip to the playoffs since 2003.
如果开拓者能够熬过季初的棘手的赛程并且保持信心和健康的话，麦克米兰有教练和领导的能力去带领这支球队获得50胜和挺进自03年以来的首次季后赛。
34. Bryan Colangelo, Toronto Raptors, Executive of the Year
34.布莱恩-科兰杰罗，多伦多猛龙，年度最佳经理
You know how the Spurs can only win titles in odd numbered years? That's how Bryan Colangelo is with the Executive of the Year award.
你知道为什么马刺只能在奇数年拿到冠军吗？那跟布莱恩-科兰杰罗拿年度教练奖一样的情况。
He won the award in 2005 for his work with the Phoenix Suns, mainly for bringing in Steve Nash, then again in 2007 with the Raptors, his first full season with the team.
他曾在05年主要因为为太阳队引进纳什而获得此奖，之后在07年他在此球队的第一个完整的赛季里再次获奖。
When Colangelo took over half way through the 2005-06 season, he inherited a 27-win team with more holes in its lineup than legit NBA players. About a year and a half later, only two players, Jose Calderon and Chris Bosh, remain from that team.
当科兰杰罗05-06赛季中间接管猛龙时，他接手的是一支只有27胜千疮百孔的猛龙。大概一年半后，只有卡尔德隆和波什还在这支球队里。
With the finalization of the team's overhaul coming this offseason when the Raptors traded for Jermaine O'Neal, Colangelo has now put the Raptors in position to have their first 50-win season in franchise history.
当招来小奥尼尔后，，猛龙在休赛期的梳妆打扮结束，现在科兰杰罗已经把目标定在他们历史首次50胜的赛季了。
33. Lamar Odom, Los Angeles Lakers, Sixth Man of the Year
33.喇嘛 奥多姆，洛杉矶湖人队，年度最佳第六人
No one knows for sure if Uncle Phil is even going to bring Odom off the bench this season, but my guess is that it's not going to take many games before Andrew Bynum forces his way into the starting lineup. Once that happens, the move that makes the most sense for the Lakers would be to start Bynum and Pau Gasol together and bring Lamar Odom off the bench.
没人敢肯定菲尔大叔是否会在新赛季把奥多姆放在板凳上，但我的猜测是在拜纳姆强势回归后将很快回到首发阵容里，而这一旦发生，对湖人最好的方案就是让拜纳姆和加索尔一起首发而让奥多姆替补。
That lineup allows the Lakers to come out and set the tone defensively with Andrew Bynum to start the game and switch to Lamar Odom for some instant offense off the bench.
这样的阵容湖人就能让拜纳姆在防守上主导比赛的节奏而奥多姆替补上场时能维持很好的进攻节奏。
Odom has shown that he doesn't necessarily thrive when he is asked upon to be the number two scoring option, but he certainly has the offensive ability to take over the game for short stretches at a time. If he can carry the scoring load to start the second and fourth quarters while Kobe takes his usual breather, he could help fast-track the Lakers to a lot of victories this year, as well as take home the award for Sixth Man of the Year.
奥多姆已经证明当他被要求打分卫时他也不必大开杀戒，但他肯定有进攻的能力在比赛里掌管比赛，“小”展身手。如果他能在第二节和第四节科比惯常的休息时间里承担得分重任，那么他能帮助湖人加快获得胜利的脚步，当然也能把年度最佳第六人的奖搬回家。
32. Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic, Defensive Player of the Year
32.德怀特 霍华德，奥兰多魔术，年度最佳防守队员
Superman stole the show last year at all-star weekend in New Orleans. If you didn't realize before that weekend how much of a superstar Howard is, you certainly did after. This is the year Howard could take the first step towards carving his name alongside some of the all-time great NBA centers.
超人在新奥尔良的全明星周末抢尽风头。如果你在那之前不知道霍华德是怎样的超级明星，那么在那之后你肯定知道了。这是他能把开始把自己的名字跟历史上伟大的中锋的名字刻在一起的一年。
After a pretty underwhelming (it's a word, I looked it up) Olympic Tournament, where Howard was basically a victim of the trapezoid lane, he now returns to his comfort zone at Amway Arena where he's free to roam the paint and create havoc in the lane for opposing players all season long.
在一个相当普通的奥运之旅后，他在内线的表现饱受批评，现在他回到舒适的状况了，因为又可以整赛季在魔术的主场里篮下漫游，任意肆虐防守队员了。
There seems to be no ceiling for Howard, who has upped his scoring and rebounding numbers from one year to the next in each of his four NBA seasons. I fully expect Howard to continue his progression defensively as well and improve on his already impressive two blocks per game from a year ago, all while continuing to be one of the league's top defensive rebounders.
看起来他的状态是没有极限的，出道四个赛季以来每年的得分和篮板都在一年一年提高。我真的希望他能继续他的进步，并且提高他的一年前已经很令人印象深刻的场均2个盖帽，还要继续成为联盟顶尖的防守篮板手之一。
Though Kevin Garnett was a worthy recipient of the award a season ago, the novelty of the Celtics turnaround has worn off and they are now expected to be great. If Garnett's numbers slip even slightly, the voters will likely look elsewhere to crown someone the title of best defensive player of the year.
虽然上个赛季加内特名正言顺拿到此奖，但是凯尔特人崛起的新鲜感已经逝去，他们正在被已经认为是强大的。如果加内特的数据稍有下滑，那么评委们就可能会转移视线寻找这年度最佳防守队员皇冠的适合人选。
Superman is ready to hold that title.
超人已经准备伸手出去拿那奖了。
31. LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, MVP
31.詹姆斯，克利夫兰骑士队，最有价值球员
It's LeBron's time.
轮到詹姆斯了。
Though the voting may have been close last season, Kobe Bryant spent most of the year as the frontrunner for league MVP. Despite great seasons by both Chris Paul and LeBron James, neither could wrestle the award away from Bryant.
虽然上赛季的投票结果很接近，但是科比大部分时间里在排名中都领跑着，尽管詹姆斯和保罗都打出了很棒的赛季，但是两个都没法跟科比斗。
It was like the voters had decided early on that Kobe deserved to be a league MVP, and Bryant reaffirmed their beliefs with a tremendous season.
这有点像评委们早早地就决定把MVP颁给科比，科比只是用一个惊人的赛季表现再肯定了他们的信任而已。
LeBron now finds himself in a similar situation. The public has been waiting patiently, quietly hoping that LeBron can do something special. Can he average a triple-double? Can he match Michael Jordan's 36-8-8 season?
詹姆斯现在也处在相同的情形了。大家都在耐心地等着，默默希望詹姆斯能创造出特别的东西来，他能场均三双吗？他能追上乔丹曾经的36-8-8赛季吗？
Since he played his first game back in 2003, everyone has been wondering how good LeBron James will end up being. Now at 23 (he'll turn 24 in December), with five seasons under his belt, a trip to the NBA Finals, and Olympic gold already to his credit, LeBron may finally be entering his prime.
自从他03年的第一场比赛开始，所有人就想知道最终他能取得多好的成就？现在他23岁了（12月就满24岁），已经征战5个赛季了，杀进过一次总决赛，一块已经入账的奥运金牌，或许他正在进入全盛时期。
Think about that for a second. This is a player who has gotten 27-7-7 over his career and he may not have had his best season yet. For those of us who thought that when LeBron entered the league he was going to be a once in a lifetime player (I say "us" because I know I'm not the only one), it may finally be time to answer our question: how good can LeBron be?
想一下，这是个目前职业生涯拿到27-7-7的球员，可能这还不是他最好的赛季。对于我们之中那些认为当詹姆斯进入NBA就将成为史上仅有的球员（我说“我们”是因为我知道我不是唯一一个这样认为的），这也许是时候回答我们的疑问“詹姆斯能好到怎样？”
If he can his game to , a big but not unreasonable "if," the league and its MVP voters will be happy to present King James his first MVP trophy. It's only a matter of time before LeBron plays a season that will be remembered as one of the all-time greats, and I say there's no time like the present.
如果他能打出历史级别的水平，一个大的但不是不合理的“假设”--联盟和MVP评委们会很高兴地把MVP大奖给詹姆斯。这只是时间问题，只要他打出一个会被世人记住载入史册的赛季，而我说现在就是这个时候了。
It's LeBron's time.
轮到詹姆斯了。
原文来自：http://www.sports-central.org/sports/2008/10/13/82_things_to_watch_for_this_nba_season_pt_3.php
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