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* 剛看新聞，得知NBA巨星Kobe Bryant 不幸墜機去世的消息。
* 我記得Kobe曾講過這兩段話：
“ I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you “ ( 我沒辦法認同一些懶散的人！我們沒辦法一起說話！ 因為我不了解你，我也懶得了解你！）
“ I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship. “ （我不認為一個教練會成為一個好教練，除非他自己也贏得了冠軍！）
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* 這是我每天的第一餐。
我每天早上都要重覆做像這樣的事！
雖然很簡單，但一定要堅持！不能偷懶或中斷。
（今早照片）
* 剛看新聞，得知NBA巨星Kobe Bryant 不幸墜機去世的消息。
* 我記得Kobe曾講過這兩段話：
“ I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you “ ( 我沒辦法認同一些懶散的人！我們沒辦法一起說話！ 因為我不了解你，我也懶得了解你！）
“ I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship. “ （我不認為一個教練會成為一個好教練，除非他自己也贏得了冠軍！）
.............
* 這是我每天的第一餐。
我每天早上都要重覆做像這樣的事！
雖然很簡單，但一定要堅持！不能偷懶或中斷。
（今早照片）
【時事英文】
在NBA征戰19年的聖安東尼奧馬刺隊當家球星Tim Duncan，在美國時間7月11日宣布退休，結束其輝煌傳奇的職業生涯。TD一直是林立老師景仰的對象之一，因為他低調樸實，卻曖曖內含光，拿過身為職業籃球員最高殿堂的許多獎項，他的退休，讓林立老師覺得好可惜，也很感慨，所以特別放了他的退休公開信，
給各位同學做參考。
Tim Duncan says goodbye to Spurs fans with a short, sweet letter
馬刺不老石佛退休，結束19年職業生涯
When Gregg Popovich met with the media on Tuesday to discuss the retirement of Tim Duncan, his greatest player and the cornerstone on which the San Antonio Spurs’ ascent to the ranks of basketball royalty was built, the legendary coach searched for an explanation for “why I’m standing here and he’s not.” In an appropriate tribute to “The Big Fundamental,” Pop went with the simplest and most effective explanation.
“We all know why,” Popovich said. “It’s not Tim Duncan. We’ve been saying it for 19 years and he really only cared about doing the best job he could basketball-wise and being who he was for his teammates and being somebody who loved his family. That’s really who he is.”
While Duncan didn’t turn up for one last press conference, he did say farewell in his own way on Wednesday, through an open letter to Spurs fans posted on the team’s website:
The letter reads:
If asked to write a script for my career 19 years ago, there is no way I would’ve been able to dream up this journey.
I stand here at the end of this ride and look back in awe of what I’ve experienced.
The wins and losses will be remembered, but what I’ll remember most are the people:
The fans inside the arena and out, the staff and coaches who pushed me and held me together, the teammates (and even opponents) who will be lifelong friends, sharing my ups and downs with family and close friends, and, most importantly, the snapshots of my kids growing up and reveling in watching Dad work. That is what I will cherish the most.
Thank you to the city of San Antonio for the love and support over these years. Thank you to the fans all over the world.
Much Love Always,
Tim
Some highlights from the interview, via Tim Griffin of the San Antonio Express-News:
He said he knew he was approaching retirement late during his last season with the Spurs.
“I started not enjoying myself as much. It wasn’t fun as much,” Duncan said. “When it’s not fun anymore, I’m done.” […]
On where he ranks among the NBA’s greatest players: “I don’t really care about the ranking goes. I’m in the conversation.”
On why he took less money to remain with the Spurs: “The money was never a big deal to me … from year to year I never knew who was making what, and I think that’s the best perspective to have.”
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All the Philadelphia 76ers had to do was win, and
home-court advantage was theirs for at least the first round of the
playoffs.
Instead, the 76ers had one of their worst first quarters of the
season and never quite recovered. Now home-court advantage rides on
the very last game of the season.
"I never thought it would come to the last game to decide our
playoff spot," Allen Iverson said after the 76ers lost to the
Chicago Bulls 115-106 Tuesday night.
The 76ers' third straight loss dropped them into a tie with
Indiana for third place in the Eastern Conference, and it also
clinched the Atlantic Division title for the New Jersey Nets. Both
teams wrap up their regular seasons Wednesday night.
A loss could drop Philadelphia to as low as fifth in the East.
"When you lose a ballgame, especially to a team not going to
the playoffs, and we're trying to get home-court advantage, that
opens the window to say a lot of negative things about your own
team," Iverson said.
Actually, nothing more really needed to be said. The box score
summed it up: The 76ers fell behind 35-18 in the first quarter,
when they shot 24 percent from the floor.
"That's about as bad a first quarter as we played," coach
Larry Brown said. ``We had no energy, and took awful shots."
Though Iverson matched his season high with 42 points,
Philadelphia shot 38 percent. Eric Snow was the only other starter
in double figures, with 17. The final score might have been even
worse if the 76ers hadn't gone 40-of-44 from the line, including
17-of-18 by Iverson.
They couldn't find an answer for Eddy Curry, either. Curry made
his first eight shots on his way to a career-high 31 points. He
might have scored 40 if he hadn't been in foul trouble.
The Bulls finished the season 30-52; Curry ended up shooting
.580 from the field, the highest percentage for the Bulls since
1982-83, when Orlando Woolridge put up the same figure.
Jamal Crawford matched his career best with 33, and the Bulls
shot 63 percent, including 10-of-15 from 3-point range. The team's
30 victories are nine more than last season, and just six fewer
than it managed in the two previous seasons combined.
"As a team, we just wanted to end on a good note and get our
goal of 30 wins," said Crawford, who also had eight assists.
"It's exciting for us."
The Bulls have Curry and Crawford to thank for this one. The two
opened the game with their own 13-4 run, and the 76ers were
overwhelmed. Curry had a monster first quarter, going 8-for-8 and
matching the entire Philadelphia squad with 18 points. He didn't
miss a shot until there was 6:30 left in the first half, and he
finished the half with 24 points on 11-of-12 shooting.
"When you are out of the playoffs, it is easy to come in and
not give your best effort," Bulls coach Bill Cartwright said. "I
thought our guys have been terrific and showed a lot of character.
They showed great spirit."
Philadelphia trailed by as much as 17 early in the third, but
Iverson scored six straight points to pull them to 94-90 with 7:24
left in the game.
Allen Iverson would almost always rather drive to the basket than settle for a jumper.
Seattle's porous defense gave him ample opportunity to dart down the lane for all the easy baskets he wanted.
Iverson scored 41 points, John Salmons had 18 and Kyle Korver 17 to lead the Philadelphia 76ers over the SuperSonics 107-98 on Monday night.
Although Iverson said he's still slightly bothered by his right ankle, which he sprained Dec. 27 at Denver, it hardly showed as he had one of his top shooting nights of the season.
"It's getting a lot better with treatment and everything, and I'm able to push off it like I want to," Iverson said. "Once it gets loose, I'm able to move around like I want to. I try to get to the basket."
Certainly returning home provided an immediate fix for the slumping Sixers. When they left for a 15-day, seven-game trip, they were in first place in the Atlantic Division; they returned four games back in the division race after a 2-5 mark.
"If we closed games out better, we'd have a lot more wins," Iverson said. "I honesty feel like we gave away eight games this season, games we should have won."
The Sonics have been just as bad, finishing 1-4 on a trip that saw them fire Bob Weiss and replace the coach with Bob Hill.
Hill promised a quicker pace and improvement on defense as ways to turn around Seattle's disappointing season.
Seattle's league-worst defense still needs work.
Iverson scored 40-plus points for the eighth time this season as he chases Kobe Bryant for the league scoring title. Iverson wasn't the only one getting open looks -- the Sixers shot 53 percent from the field, seven points higher than their average.
Chris Webber sat out with a lower back strain and was listed as day-to-day. Coach Maurice Cheeks was hopeful that rest would allow Webber to return for Wednesday's game against Utah.
Salmons started in Webber's place and hardly missed a beat on 7-for-9 shooting. Andre Iguodala had 16 points and Samuel Dalembert 11 to put all five starters in double digits.
"That's how you should play," Iverson said. "When you do share the ball, nine times out of 10, more positive results come of it."
Ray Allen led the Sonics with 27 points and Vladimir Radmanovic had 15 points and 12 rebounds.
The Sonics rallied from a 19-point deficit to pull within six late in the fourth quarter -- hardly surprising since only Seattle allows more points than the Sixers -- after 3-pointers by Allen and a couple of free throws from Rashard Lewis.
Korver, though, sank his fifth 3-pointer and Salmons added a 3 to get the lead back to nine. Stuck on 39 points for a while, Iverson sank two free throws to push him over 40 and give the Sixers a 106-95 lead.
"We took control of the game and shut them down," Dalembert said. "We controlled the tempo of the game and didn't really let them get back in."
Iverson scored nine points during a 19-5 run in the third quarter that gave the Sixers a 79-60 lead. Iverson usually drove through a lane that offered little resistance and little reason for the All-Star to resort to his usual banging and crashing all over the court.
Iverson went 6-for-8 in third for 18 points and the Sixers shot 68 percent in the quarter. Hill blamed fatigue from a long road trip for the Sonics going flat in the third.
"We played pretty well in the first half, then I'm sure our legs got tired," Hill said. "We wouldn't move and we weren't guarding. Away games are tough, but they have to find a way to fight fatigue. That was a winnable game."
With the easy looks, and a mid-range jumper that was on target, Iverson finished 15-for-25 from the floor and made 11 of 13 free throws.
Game notes
Korver hit a 3-pointer for the 26th straight game, the longest streak in the league. ... Sonics F Danny Fortson sat out with a sore left knee and C Vitaly Potapenko sat out with a lower back strain. ... Iverson was briefly shaken up when he was smacked in the face by Luke Ridnour while they went after a loose ball in the third quarter. ... Iverson has 67 career games with more than 40 points. ... The Sixers are 8-0 at home against the Western Conference.
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