篮球名人堂乔丹演讲-篮球名人堂 乔丹
1.科比入选名人堂，爱妻瓦妮莎和乔丹携手上台缅怀，你怎么看她的演讲？
2.老师要我们写乔丹的演讲，我还差一部分就是他所取得的成绩。希望你能用英语帮我表述出来，顺便翻译一下。
3.乔丹的五次经典落泪，你知道是哪五次吗？
4.乔丹有什么名言？
5.100分悬赏乔丹今年名人堂颁奖时的英文讲稿!!!!!
科比入选名人堂，爱妻瓦妮莎和乔丹携手上台缅怀，你怎么看她的演讲？
瓦妮莎的演讲为何引起全场的轰动？
科比布莱恩特的离世可能是近几年篮球世界当中最大的新闻了。这对于很多喜欢科比的球迷们来说，一时之间都难以接受，甚至在信息刚刚爆出来的时候，大家都认为是个假新闻。然而当得到警方证实之后，不少的球迷们在家里抱头痛哭，甚至走上街头自发的祭奠科比。
北京时间的17号凌晨，美国举办了2020年的史密斯名人堂仪式。然而在这次的仪式当中，最为大牌的球星和关注的焦点莫过于洛杉矶湖人队的科比布莱恩特的。本来科比布莱恩特应该亲自站在演讲台上。但是因为那次的直升机事故，所以只能由他的妻子瓦妮莎代替。瓦妮莎上台先以科比的口吻和大家开了一个玩笑，调动了现场的气氛。
随后他大肆的赞美了科比。他甚至还表示，如果科比在天堂知道自己接下来这么赞美她的话，那么他一定会双手抱在胸前调侃，这究竟是一个什么样的鬼事情？美国人的幽默真的是被瓦妮莎用的淋漓尽致。瓦妮莎知道科比的离世对于很多的人来说都非常的难以接受。同时他也知道在名人堂的演讲台上就是应该轻松活跃，只不过因为科比大家都开心不起来。
我认为他的演讲非常的不错，大方得体，作为科比的夫人，他很好的将这一次演讲发挥到了极致。同时也带领全世界的球迷们再一次回顾了科比的一生。我们也感受到了瓦妮莎和科比之间深深的爱情，如果说科比的离世给我们带来了巨大的悲痛。那么我相信任何一个人的悲痛都比不过瓦妮莎。我相信所有的人都不知道瓦妮莎那段时间究竟是如何度过的。
而作为科比的引荐人，迈克尔乔丹搀扶着瓦妮莎上台演讲。乔丹一直站在一旁，低头不言语。我相信乔丹的心里面，科比可能从来都没有离开过他。科比和乔丹之间的友谊是非常深厚的，两人因为篮球互相认识。在篮球领域都是非常著名的巨星。如果他们的生命当中少了一个这样的人，我相信一定是非常难以接受的。
即便科比已经走了，但是他的曼巴精神却永远都没有离开。希望世界上所有喜爱科比的人，都可以牢记他的曼巴精神。让他的曼巴精神支撑着我们的生活。
老师要我们写乔丹的演讲，我还差一部分就是他所取得的成绩。希望你能用英语帮我表述出来，顺便翻译一下。
下面这段就是我帮你找的资料（中英翻译）
迈克尔乔丹是一个名人堂的得分后卫在NBA，从1984年到2003年的芝加哥公牛队和华盛顿奇才队。五场常规赛MVP奖项得主,他被认为是有史以来NBA里最好的球员。乔丹带领芝加哥公牛队夺得六届NBA总冠军,并被选为总决赛MVP创纪录的六次。迈克尔·乔丹的得分比NBA里任何球员的比赛的历史多,以每场均30.1的平均数。他职业生涯中赢得了32292分，是NBA历史上排名第三的。
Michael Jordan is a Hall of Fame shooting guard who played in the NBA from 1984 to 2003 for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. Winner of five regular-season MVP awards, he is widely considered the best basketball player ever to play in the NBA. Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles, and was voted the Finals MVP a record six times. Michael Jordan scored more points per game than any player in NBA history, with a 30.1 average, and his 32,292 career points scored rank as the third-most in NBA history.
你上面的那段话的意思就是：
He redefined the NBA superstar meaning, he is recognized by the world's best basketball players. he lived not only in the times, the entire NBA Lishishang Jordan the very best. Joining Chicago Bulls, Jordan was 6th im NBA champion, won five most valuable player (MVP ) title
他重新定义了NBA超级球星的定义，他被全球最好的球星认可。他住不仅在次，整个NBA都认可了他是最好的。加入了芝加哥公牛，乔丹是第六个NBA总冠军，赢了5个MVP头衔。
乔丹的五次经典落泪，你知道是哪五次吗？
乔丹的五次经典落泪，你知道是哪五次吗？每一次都堪称时代大事件，最后一次最令人动容，乔丹的五次经典落泪之一发生在一九九一年，乔丹率领的公牛以四比一的总比分击败湖人，夺得生涯首冠后，激动的乔丹抱着总冠军奖杯哭成泪人，在那年的季后赛中，乔丹打破了心魔，因为他终于跨过了活塞和湖人这两座大山，这次哭泣也标志着一个全新时代的开启。
乔丹的五次经典落泪之一发生在一九九六年，同样是夺得总冠军，但是这次总冠军的意义和往常完全不同，在当地的六月十六号，正好是美国的父亲节，所以这次夺冠就是送给去世的父亲最好的礼物，而乔丹的这次哭泣意味着第二个公牛王朝的正式开启，乔丹的五次经典落泪之一发生在二零零三年，在他生涯的最后一场全明星赛上，美国歌坛天后凯丽演唱的一首“英雄”让篮球之神十分动容，场下的他湿润了眼眶，这个时候，篮球之神真正意识到是时候说再见了。
乔丹的五次经典落泪之一发生在二零零九年，在他入选名人堂演讲的时候，无数球迷和记者纷纷自发的为他响起了雷鸣一般的掌声，持续许久，迟迟不肯散去，在演讲中，乔丹多次哽咽，而他哭泣的表情更是被做成表情包后爆火，那时可谓是风靡了整个互联网。
乔丹的最后一次公众落泪，发生在二零二零年，在科比去世后，两万多人齐聚一堂，只为再送科比最后一程，乔丹在送别致辞中哭成泪人，此时的乔丹已经放下了所有顾虑，他不再担心他的哭泣会被制作成表情包，他用他最真实的泪水让我们看到了一个有血有肉的篮球之神。
乔丹有什么名言？
1.Talent wins games,but teamwork wins championships. 天才可以赢得一些比赛，团队合作才能赢得冠军 . 2.I can accept defeat but could not accept to give up . 我可以接受失败，但不能接受放弃.（乔丹座右铭） 3.When I step out on to the basketball court, I consider myself to be the best basketball player I can be. I have total confidence that once I step on the basketball court that I can do all the things that I'm capable of doing. 当我放大步伐走进篮球场的时候，我把自己想象成最优秀的篮球运动员，我有这样的信心：一旦我踏进球场我能把所有我可以做的事情做好。 4."We're entertainers. I don't think my job is more important than all the firemen and policemen's jobs each and every day. There is a place for relaxation, and I think that's where my responsibility lies. Hopefully, I can provide relaxation for some people." 我们球员也是演员，我不认为我每天的工作比消防员或者警察更重要，这球场是让人们来放松的，而我有责任，或者能够做点什么去让大家放松！ 5.I'm not about the money. I don't care if I get paid a dime. I've said that many years. I'm going to play the game of basketball because I love it. 我不关心钱，我不在乎，哪怕我只是得到了很少的钱，我只想说在很长的岁月里，我尽力打了篮球，因为我热爱篮球! 6.“除非我打得极糟，否则他们是不会有这种想法的。不管是去哪里，都会让那里伤心的……这是我从来没想过的问题，我的经纪人也许会这样想的。” 7."I'm not walking into this scenario thinking I'm failing. I'm walking in thinking I'm confident and pretty sure that I can make it work. If I sit here and listened to everyone else tell me that I can't do it, then obviously I wouldn't be here." 我不是带着将失败的情绪走进赛场的。我回来的时候满怀信心，我相信仍然能够有所作为。如果我只是坐在这里听别人告诉我不能复出，那我肯定不会出现在这里。 8."Physically, I know that I'm not 25 years old. I'm not stepping up and saying I will be 25 years old when I step on that court, but I feel like I can play the game of basketball at the highest level, and that's what I aim to do." “从身体上来说，我知道我已经不是25岁的年轻人了。当我走上赛场时，我也不会说我跟25岁时一样强壮，但我相信我可以的最高的水平，这也是我的目标。” 9."I come from where you're expected to dominate and you are the target - everybody's shooting at you. Well, here, no one's expecting anything, so I'm kind of coming from the underdog aspect of things, which is kind of different, but yet it's fresh, it's new. We're not expected to win 50 games. From what I hear from most of you guys, we're not expected to win 30 games. And that's a challenge. I'm not coming in with these preconceived ideas that we're going to be 50-32. I'll be totally surprised if we're 50-32, but I think we can be far better than 19-63." 当我退役时，我可以控制赛场，我是每一个人欲打倒而后快的目标，但现在，没人对我有所指望，我是以低调的姿态出现的，这反差太大了，但这也很新鲜。没人指望我们会取得50场胜利，很多人说我们不会取得30场胜利。这是一个挑战……我并不是带着将取得50胜的信心复出的，如果我们50胜32负的话，我会很吃惊的，但我想我们肯定会比19胜63负好. 10."I am going to have to be patient and let things fall into place and not expect myself to come out and score 40 or 50 points the first night. I'm just going to try to work my way back into the intensity of the game." 我将会有足够的耐心，我不敢奢望在第一场比赛就拿下40分或者50分。我将以自己的方式逐渐适应激烈的比赛 . 11."If that was my concern, I wouldn't do this. I'm not afraid to take on a challenge. I'm not afraid to take a step. If I fall, I fall, pick myself up and move on." 如果关心这个，我就不会复出了……我从不害怕挑战……我从不怕走出新的一步，如果我失败了，那我会爬起来重新开始. 12."I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself." 13."Everybody was so negative about what I was trying to do. If I read every newspaper about negative things that I was trying to do, I swear I wouldn't live in America. America's supposed to be the free will to do whatever you choose, do whatever you want to do. That's all I'm doing. I'm not committing a crime here. I'm just trying to play a game of basketball. What if I'm tired of playing YMCAs or the Boys and Girls Clubs? I want to step into the elite competition. If I can do it, great. If I can't, that's great, too. But you can't take my six championships away." 所有人都对我将要做的事情感到沮丧。如果我读了那些反对我复出的报纸，我发誓我肯定不能够在美国生存下去。美国的宗旨是随心所欲地做你想做的事。我现在正是这么做的，我不是在这里犯罪，我只是想打一场真正的篮球比赛。如果我厌倦了与小孩子的比赛，我会参加精英赛的。不论成败与否，都是好事。不管怎么说，你不能将我的六枚总冠军戒指剥夺。” 14."The young dogs are going to chase me around. Well, I'm not going to bark too far away from them, either. I'm not running from nobody. If anything, it'll be a great challenge." 那些年轻的家伙将在场上追得我团团转，我也不会离他们太近的。如果是，那将会是一场很伟大的挑战。 15."I'm not saying that I can take Kobe Bryant, that I can take Tracy McGrady. You guys are the only ones saying that they can take me. All good and fine. I'm pretty sure they're sitting back welcoming the challenge. Guess what - I'm sitting back welcoming the challenge, too." 我不是说我可以打败科比·布莱恩特，可以打败麦克格拉蒂。你们都说他们将取代我，我相信他们一定在迫不及待地想会会我，我也在急着见他们。 16."I'm not walking into the dark. I know what I'm capable of doing. I know what's going to be expected of me. I know everybody's putting my head on the block. Everybody's motivated to come out and play against me. Everybody's motivated to come out and play against me. Well, everybody was motivated to play against me when I left. So things haven't changed."我不是走进黑暗，我知道自己的实力，我知道人们对我的期望，我知道每个人都想将我打败。当我离开时每个人都想与我比赛，现在也没有改变. 17.If i could fly ，i would catch the sky .(Air Jordan. He has given all the audience a flying image.) 18."Obviously, when I left the game, I left something on the floor. You guys may not be able to understand that. After we won the last title, I didn't sit down, ready to quit the game. I didn't want to go through the whole rebuilding process at that time. If Phil (Jackson) had stayed there and the team had stayed intact, I would have still been playing." 很显然，在我离开比赛时，我在赛场上留下了一些东西。你们也许不会懂，当我们取得最后一个总冠军时，我并没有打算退役，我并没有打算在当时推翻建立起来的基业。如果菲尔（杰克逊）呆在公牛队的话，我现在还会在比赛。” 19."There's an itch that still needs to be scratched here, and I want to make sure the scratch doesn't bother me for the rest of my life." 如果自己被当作某场比赛的最佳球员，我就得向人们展示自己有那种水平，是因为我比别 人更努力、付出更多。我的成功并非来自安逸享受。（这句的原文不太一致） 20."I didn't realize the scratch was still there until I got close to the game, became involved in the responsibility, got close to the players. I understood that the competition created an itch. What I'm trying to do now is get that last scratch in - so that when I walk away I don't have to worry about that itch." 在我接近比赛之前，参加了比赛接近运动员之前，我没有意识到这痒。我现在要做的就是挠最后一痒，当我再次离开时我就不会有所遗憾了. 21."A lot of people were very nervous about me stopping the growth of the NBA because of my participation. I'm here to aid, to help, and at the same time, get that itch scratched. I'm not asking for the league to market me in any way. I'm not asking them to put me on television. I just want to play the game of basketball." 许多人都担心我的复出会让NBA的成长停止。我就是出来帮助（NBA成长）的。我没有让他们在商场挂我的Logo，我也没有叫他们用电视转播我的比赛，我打篮球只是出于对这项运动的热爱。 22.“没有斯科特，我成不了最伟大的球员，是他将我推向这个位置。”在皮蓬的球衣退役仪式上，乔丹如此感言。 24.我聆听着人们对我的称赞，我享受着成功带来的喜悦，我知道自己所追求的是什么，但是 ，我从来没有停止过向更高境界迈进的脚步。 25.I love this game! 我热爱这样的比赛！ 26.step by step，I can not see any other way of accomplishing anything. 一步一步地走，这是唯一的成功之路。 27.I am back! （乔丹最经典名言） 28.我永远热爱篮球这项运动，即使将来我老了，不能再打篮球了，但是我对篮球的爱依然是执迷不悔的！ 29.在我的一生中，我失败了一次又一次，一次又一次，这就是我成功的原因。 30.一名伟大的球星最突出的能力就是让周围的队友变得更好。
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100分悬赏乔丹今年名人堂颁奖时的英文讲稿!!!!!
Thank you! Thank you!
I told my friends I would come here to say “thank you” then walked off. I can’t, it’s no way. I get so many people I can thank. In all the videos, you never just saw me, also Scottie Pippen and the championship we won. I’ve got a lot of questions over the last four weeks. Anybody says “well, why do you pick David Thompson?” I know why, David knows why and maybe you guys don’t know. But as I grow up in North Carolina, I was eleven years old, 1974, I think, when David won the championship. I hated North Carolina, but I ended up in North Carolina. But I was in love with David Thompson, not just for the game basketball, but in terms of what he represented. You know, we all, as David says or said we go through trails and tribulations. And he did, and I was inspired by him. And when I called him and asked him to stand up for me, I know I shocked a shoot out of him. I know I did. But he is very kind to say, ”Yeath, I’ll do it.” That is not disrespect to the North Carolina guy; we all know I am true blue North Carolina guy to the heart. Coach Smith, Larry Brown, Sam Perkins, James Worthy, you know all of those guys.
I’d like to start to my parents. You guys see all the I-likes. What is about me that you guys don’t know? As I set up here and watch all the other guys give their history. So many things I didn’t know about Jerry Sloan. And we lived on the phone, but I didn’t know he was in a small class from the first grade to the eighth grade. Even David Robinson, I have known David for some time. You know, but I found some things, good things or bad things about him that I didn’t know. And Chipson, I’ve known Chipson for years. My father and my mother spent a lot time with Mike and found out good things about her, but what about me that you guys don’t know?
I got two brothers, James and Larry, five four and five five in height. They give me all I could ever ask for. As brothers, in terms of competition. My brother Larry is an ideal situation with small things coming with small packages. This do fall me every single day. To the extend that my mother used to come out and make us come in because we were fighting way too much. My older brother was always gone. He is served in the army for 31 years. And the competition didn’t stop there. My sister who is one year younger than me, never want to be alone by herself. She took classes, extra classes, graduated from high school with me, to go to university North Carolina with me, and to graduate fairer than me. And you guys wanna know where my competition nature comes from, it came from them, it came from my older sister and she is not here today. My father who is not here today, obviously he is with us, all of us. My competitive nature has gone a long way from the first time I picked up any sports, baseball, football, run-track, basketball, anything in this class I played.
They started to fire me; you know that fire started from my parents. As I moved on my career, people add wood to that fire. Coach Smith, what can I say about him? He is a legendary coach. Lerold Smith, now you guys think that’s a mistake. Lerold Smith was the guy when I got kicks he got picked in the team. He is here tonight. He is still the same six seven guy. He is not even bigger. His level is even about the same. But he started the whole process for me, because when he made the team and I didn’t, I wanted to prove, not just to Lerold Smith, not just to myself, but to the coach who actually picked Lerold over me. I want to make sure he understood you made a mistake, dude.
Buss Peterson, My roommate. When I first met Buss, all I heard about was that this kid from Ashville North Carolina was clearly unplayed against but he has never played against me then, so how do you come to be the player of the year? Is that some type of media, exposure, you know I came from Wilmington, you know, where two channel, channel ABC and channel NBC that I never saw NBA at all when I grow up. They didn’t have CBS receiver in North Carolina or Wilmington also. Buss Peterson became a dead on my board. When I get a chance to meet Peterson on the basketball court. But he is a great person. It isn’t the fault of his. It was just my competitive natures. I didn’t think he can beat me or is better than me as a basketball player. And he became my roommate. From that point on, he became my focal point not knowingly. He didn’t know it, but he did. And Coach Smith, the day when he was on the Sports Illustrated, he named four starters and he didn’t name me. That burned me up, because I got to be on that Sports Illustrate. He had his own vision about giving a freshman that exposure, I totally understand that but from a basketball sense I deserve to be on that Sports Illustrated, and he understands that.
And it didn’t stop there. My competitive natures went right into the pros, I get to the bulls which I am very proud. At the time Jerry Reinsdorf didn’t own the team. It was another organization Reinsdorf drafted me. Kevin Loughery was my first coach. Kevin used to take practice and put me in starting five. You know, he made a competitive thing where the losing team had to run. So now we are almost on the winning team, halfway on the game, halfway on the situation, he switched me to the losing team. So I took that as a competitive thing, but you were trying to test me and by nine times out of ten the second team would come back to win no matter what he did. So I appreciated Kevin to give me that challenge, providing that type of fire with me and he threw another log on that fire for me. Jerry Reinsdorf, I mean what else can I say. The next year when I came back I broke my foot; I was out of 65 games. And when I came back I wanna play. The doctor came with his old theory that you can play only seven minutes a game, but I am practicing two hours a day. I am saying, well, I don’t agree with that math. And back then, whoever has the worst record gets the most balls in Ping-Pang balls, you know you can decide what pick you can have, but I don’t care about that. I just wanted to win. I wanna made to playoffs. I wanna keep that energy going in Chicago. So I had to go into his office and sat down with him and say “Jerry, I actually think I should play more than 14 minutes and practice more than two hours. He said “We have to protect the long-term investment we’ve invested on you. I said “I really think I should be able to play.” He said “Let me ask you this, if you had a headache.” At that time, there was ten percent that I can hurt my ankle or my foot. He said “You had a headache and you got ten capsules, and one of them is coated with poison, would you take it?” I looked him and say “It depends on how bad is that headache. How bad is that headache” .Jerry looked me and say “You are OK, I guess you had a good answer, you can go back to play. You let me allow you to go back and play.” You know, Jerry provided a lot of difficult obstacles for me but at the same time the guy gave me a opportunity to perform at the highest level in terms of basketball. The bulls, the whole bulls organization, you know, they did great adjustments for me and all my teammates. Believe me I had a lot of teammates in all the 14 years I played for the bulls. I respect each one of them. I just want them to win. No matter how you looked at it. Doug Collins came the same time when I was trying to play at the summer time. He said “well, you are part of the organization and the organization said you can’t play at the summer time. I said “you read the things in my contract; in my contract I have the ‘love the game’ clause. That means I can play anytime I want, any place I want And Doug looked at me and said “you are right, you are right.” And that’s how we became a little closer. Jerry Krause is right there and Jerry is not here. Obviously I don’t know who’d invite him, I didn’t. But, I hope he understands it goes a long way. He is a very competitive person. I was a very competitive person. He said organizations win championships. I said “I didn’t see organizations playing with the flu in Utah. I didn’t see it playing with a bad ankle.” Granted, granted, I think organizations put together teams, but at the end of the day, team’s got to go out and play. I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don’t get me wrong. But don’t try to put the organization above players. Because player still got to go out of there and perform. You guys got to pay us, but I am still to out to play.
Obviously you’ve seen my kids Marcus and Jeffery. I love you guys. I think you guys represent a lot of me and a lot of different person as your mum, you represent them as well. You know, I think you guys have a heavy burden. I wouldn’t want to be you guys if I had to. You know, because all the expectations you have to deal with. I mean, look around you, they charge a thousand dollars ticket for this thing, for this holy event. It used to be 200 dollars, but I paid it. You know, I have no choice. I have a lot of families and a lot of friend I have to bring in. So thank all of you to raising ticket price. I love you guys, you guys have a host of people supporting you, family, friends, people that you don’t know, relatives coming our of the woodworks. You know, no matter how you look at it, but I think we taught you right. Your mum and I, hopefully you can make the right decisions when the time comes. My mum, what can I say about my mum, my mum never stays still. You think I am busy. She is always on the go. Without her, she is rough, she is unbelievable. Even right now, she takes over two jobs. She is unbelievable woman. As I experienced the failure each everyday, it is her. She classically keeps me focus on the good things about life. You know, how people perceive you, how you respect them, you know, what’s good for the kids, what’s good for you, you know, how you perceive public, take a second thoughts and pause to think about things you should do. These all came from my parents, you know, came from my mum. She is still like this these days, I am 46 years old, she is still parenting me today. That’s a good thing. I’ll love her to death. I’ll love her to death.
And I will thank a couple of people that you guys probably wouldn’t even think I will thank. Isaiah Thomas, Magic Johnson and George Gervin. They are the so-called freezing-out in my rookie season. I wouldn’t remember you guys gave me the motivation to say, you know what? Evidently I haven’t proved enough to these guys. I’ve got to prove these guys that I deserve what I got at this level. No matter what people have said, if it is rumor, I never took it is truth. But you guys never froze me up, because I was yet happy to be there no matter how you look at it. From that point forward, I wanted to prove to you, Magic, Larry, Gorge and everybody that I deserve to be on this level as much as anyone else. And hopefully over the whole period of career I have done that, without a doubt. Even in the Detroit, we’ve done that.
Pat Riley, you and I go way back. I still remember in Pat Riley, in Pat Riley. I was coming in there, got leaving; you decided to stay a couple of days. You were coming into my suite and told me to get out of my suite. You slid a note on the leak of my door, although you had to move, you didn’t move. You slid the note, saying” I enjoyed the competition, congratulation, but we will meet again. And I take the heart in that, because I think in all I can see you are competitive and even from a coach standing point. You challenge me every time I play the Nicks, the Heats, I don’t think you are with the Lakers, but every time I play against you, you have “Jordan Stoppers” on your team, you have John Starks who I love. You even had my friend Oakley says “We can’t go to the lunch, we can’t go to the dinner together, because this guy hit me harder than anybody else in the league. He was my best friend. Patrick Erving and I are the same age. We came up at the same time. But we can’t go to the lunch together. Why is this an issue? You think I play against Patrick any different than I play anybody else? No, no. They had your learned guy became the Nicks, coach after you, Jeff van gundy. He said I can’t be player fairly and I may dead on the basketball court. Where is it come from? I just happen to be a friendly guy. I get along with everybody, but at the same time when the light comes on, I am more competitive than anybody. So you guys, I must say thank you for giving me the motivation that I desperately needed.
Phil Jackson is, to me, is a professional Dean Smith. He challenged me mentally, not just physically. You know, he understood the game, along with Tex Wenter. They taught me a lot about the basketball game. Tex being the specialist, I can never please Tex. And I love Tex. Tex is not here. And I know he is here in spirit. I can remember a game coming after the basketball court; we were down five to ten points. And I go off about 25 points, we came back to win the game. As we walked out the floor and Tex looked me and said “you know, there is ‘I’ in ‘team’.” I said “there is not ‘I’ in ‘team’, but there is ‘I’ in ‘win’.” I think he got my message. I will do anything to win. You know, that means we play team format to win. That means I will do what I have to do. No matter how you look at it. Then you had all your media message “Scoring champion can’t win a NBA title”. You are not good as Magic Johnson, you are not good as Larry Bird. You are good, but you are not good as those guys. I have to listen to all this. And that put so much wood on that fire. It kept me each everyday trying to get better as a basketball player. I am not saying they were wrong. I may look at them from a different perspective. But at the same time as a basketball player, I am trying to become the best I can. You know, for someone like me who achieve a lot in this kind of career, you look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to get you motivated to play the game basketball to the highest level. Because that’s what I feel when I assail at my best.
And my last example and the last you guys probably have seen. I hate to do it to them. He is such a nice guy. When I first met Bryon Russell, John and Karl, I was in Chicago in 1994. I was working out for baseball and they all came down for workout and shooting around. I came over and say “Hello”, and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball. Bryon Russell came over to me and said “why did you quit? why did you quit? You know I could guard you, if I ever see you in a pair of shorts”. Do you remember? John. When I did decide to come back in 1995 and we played Utah in 96, I’m at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said “You remember the conversation you made in 1994 about ‘I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?’ Well, you are about to get your chance, and believe me ever since that day he got his chance, I don’t know how succeed he was. I think he got his chance. From this day forward, if he ever say me in shorts, I would come at him.
I know you guys got to go. I know I’ve been up here a lot longer than I told my friends I was gonna up here, I cried, I was supposed to get up , said “Thank you” and walked off and I am not able to do that. So I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. As I close, the game basketball has been everything to me, my refuge, a place I am always gone when I need to find comfort and peace. It’s been a source of intense pain and a source of most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. The one that no one of you can imagine. It’s been a relationship of number of intersection. It gave me the great expects and love for the game. It provided me with a platform and shared my passions with millions in the way I neither expected nor could imagine in my career. I hope it’s given millions of people touch and optimism to achieve their goals through hard work, perspiration and positive attitude. Although I am recognized with this honor of being in the Hall of Fame, I don’t look this moment as final relationship between me and the basketball. It simply a continuation of something I started a long time ago. One day, you may look up a senior player at a game of 50.Oh, no. Don’t laugh. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fear, are often just an illusion.
Thank you very much!
乔丹在掌声中走下,仿佛他再次赢得了一个总冠军~~~