心碎時分

As a witness， i watch my beloved Thunder to lost the deciding game of their Western Conference semifinal series. I don’t know how many seconds left when kevin durant take that shot——zero for all anyone will remember.

作為見證者，我親眼目睹了我所鐘愛的雷霆在西部半決賽中輸掉了決定命運的一場比賽。我不記得杜蘭特出手時比賽還剩多少時間——對所有記住這場比賽的人來說，一切都不重要了。

I don’t know what happened. Tony Allen threw a towel， it was weird， it was horrible. At one point near the end I felt like I was inside a collapsing star and like my eardrums might explode and like （no exaggeration） I was coming down with a profound case of tinnitus. I was there at the Chesapeake Energy Arena① in Oklahoma City as my beloved Thunder lost the deciding game of their Western Conference semifinal series against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night. The Thunder lost the series 4-1 and lost the game by four， 88-84， nearly fighting their way back after spending most of the second half in a doubledigit crater. They lost because my favorite player， Kevin Durant， missed the most Kevin Durant shot in this and all possible worlds， a slightly crooked 16-foot jumper from the left wing， which would have tied the game.

我不知道發生了什么。托尼·阿倫朝場內扔了塊毛巾，這是個奇怪的動作，也是個很糟糕的舉動。最后有那么一瞬間，我覺得自己身處一個正在坍塌的星球上，我的鼓膜都快炸了，我感覺自己要在巨大的耳鳴聲（毫不夸張）中倒下。周三晚，我其實身在俄克拉何馬城的切薩皮克能量球館，目睹了我心愛的雷霆在西部半決賽決定命運的比賽里輸給了孟菲斯灰熊。雷霆以1比4輸掉了系列賽，那場比賽，他們以84比88告負。整個下半場雷霆幾乎都以兩位數的比分落后，但他們幾乎拼了回來，差點就能填上那個坑。雷霆輸球是因為我最喜歡的球員凱文·杜蘭特投丟了一次“最杜蘭特”的投籃，一個在左翼16英尺（4.8米）的跳投，這本是可以扳平比分的投籃。

There’s a good chance this is about to be the worst game recap you’ve ever read. I want to be clear about that up front. I forgot to take any notes， and while I did spend $5 on a commemorative popcorn tub during a TV timeout in the third quarter， I threw it away in a daze as I left the arena. I had tucked all the info sheets that the Thunder’s press office handed out to members of the credentialed media， one of which I was， inside the tub’s commemorative outer ring， so now I have no idea how many shots KD missed （it was a lot） or how many times Zach Randolph did disturbing and unfriendly things to the Thunder defense （more than 9 million） or exactly what shade of disbelieving agony swept over Serge Ibaka’s face when he fouled out late in the fourth quarter （I believe the scorer officially recorded it as \"tribulation mauve\"）.

這也許是你讀過最差勁的比賽回顧。有一點我要提前聲明，我忘記做比賽記錄了，而且在第三節的電視暫停中我還花5美元買了份紀念版的爆米花。當我頭昏腦漲地離開球館時，這東西被我扔進了垃圾箱。我把雷霆公關發給媒體的——我就是其中之一——所有跟比賽有關的信息都塞進了紀念版爆米花的外包裝里，所以我現在也不知道杜蘭特到底投丟了多少球（一定很多），不知道扎克·蘭多夫到底有多少次讓雷霆的防守吃癟（一定比900萬次多），也不知道當賽爾日·伊巴卡在第四節最后被罰下時，他臉上驚訝和憤怒的表情到底到了什么程度（我相信統計員會把那種表情記錄成“痛苦得發紫”）。……