"交"躁癥候群

Ethan Sherwood Strauss

When I sat down with Kent Bazemore a few days before he signed with the Atlanta Hawks for two years， $4 million， I assumed hed be caught up in the frenzy like so many of us NBA news addicts. I figured Bazemores fingerprints would be callused from keeping up with news on Twitter all week. Hes no LeBron James， but Id seen Bazemore mentioned in so many freeagency rumors that Id just believed his entire existence had been reduced to a swirl of confusing speculation. The rangy， athletic guard probably couldnt get his arms around all the rumors， even with a 6-foot-11 wingspan.

在肯特·貝茲摩爾和老鷹簽下兩年400萬美元新合同之前的幾天，我和他坐在了一起。我以為他會像很多人一樣對新聞上癮，會受到瘋狂交易流言的影響。我以為貝茲摩爾的手指會因為天天刷推特新聞而磨出繭子。他不是勒布朗·詹姆斯，但我在很多自由球員的流言中都看到了他的名字，我覺得他也是這一團迷霧中的一分子。盡管他的臂展長達2.11米，但關于他的所有流言，這個瘦高且運動能力出眾的后衛可能兩只手都“抱不過來”。

Not quite. Bazemore wasnt checking Twitter -- he says he glances at it roughly once a day， usually in the afternoon. “You cant control it，” was his succinct answer for why he doesnt obsess over the transaction game. Also， he has people to do that for him.

但事實情況跟我想的不太一樣。貝茲摩爾沒看推特，他說自己一天大概只會草草瀏覽一次，一般是在下午。“你控制不了。”對于為什么不在意交易流言，他給出了這樣簡潔的回答。當然，有人專門為他做這種事。

"We got a group chat， me and my roommate， my little brother， my agent， financial advisor， two of my other best friends，”Bazemore said. “They just rant on about that stuff all day. I just watch the Tour de France， I play FIFA downstairs. I actually won the Scottish Premier Cup with my team just now right before you got here.”

“我們有個群，里面有我、我的室友、弟弟、經紀人、經濟顧問，以及兩個我的好友。”貝茲摩爾說，“他們天天都在說這事。我就是看環法，在樓下打FIFA。就在你來之前，我剛剛用自己的球隊贏得了蘇超聯賽的冠軍。”

Its easy to forget athletes are more than skill sets on the court. They get approached by fans who know them only from their games. Though a bench player for most of his career， Bazemore gets recognized. Sadly， that recognition doesnt come with praise of his stellar FIFA play， his golf game， or his recent painting of an eye-shaped sun setting itself over an ocean.

我們很容易就忘記了，其實運動員擁有的能力并不只局限在場上。他們接觸到的都是只了解他們比賽的球迷。盡管職業生涯大部分時候只是替補，但貝茲摩爾還是得到了認可。可悲哀的是，這并不包括對他高超FIFA游戲水平、杰出高爾夫水準，以及繪畫天賦的認可。貝茲摩爾最近才完成了一張畫，畫里的海面上有一個眼睛狀的東西。

Paintings aside， Bazemores Bay Area apartment was something more spartan than youd expect from an player， which makes sense when you consider his transient lifestyle. After getting traded to Los Angeles， hed been living out of a hotel near the practice facility. Though he maintains strong ties with the Warriors organization， he wasnt expecting the kind of offer from Golden State that would keep him in this Oakland-area apartment.

拋開繪畫不說，貝茲摩爾位于灣區的公寓也遠比你想象中，球員的家要簡單，如果你想到他不斷變動的生活方式，一切也就可以理解了。……