ESPN/最华美的比赛
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[size=4]我不想撒谎。对于今天的比赛，我得承认有些我是预料到的，但有些我从未想到。
我知道德里克-费舍尔家里出了点事，我知道她女儿病了，我还知道情况很严重。
但我对情况到底有多严重一无所知。我也根本没想到西部半决赛的第二场能成为我多年观看职业体育比赛过程中最伟大的时刻之一。
或者，它已经超越了体育的范畴。
从未见过的悲壮，那舞台上才有的戏剧场面，如此丰富的故事情节。也从未观赏过如此一场伟大到令比分结果看起来不再重要的比赛！
是的，我的目光从未离开过那Sony等离子屏幕。
当德龙-威廉姆斯在比赛开始后的第一分钟内领到第二次犯规时，我知道我芝加哥来的哥们迪-布朗要上场打拼了。我们（包括我妻子，她是伊利诺斯州毕业生），作为2004年四强之一的伊利诺斯州大学队球迷，都知道迪-布朗的能力,也看了他获胜的比赛。他只是需要个机会来展示&证明自己。在德里克-费舍尔没回来之前，我知道这是迪的时间！
随后发生了不幸的事。奥库摔到了他身上，膝盖压弯了布朗的脖子。我在第一时间（还记得我们是芝加哥的吧）想起了同样是芝加哥人的Darryl Stingley（一位在橄榄球赛中受了重伤的球员）,。然后是T.J.Ford. 他们用担架把迪抬了出去。他疼得连嘴都合不上了。德龙的老妈一直在和迪的老妈通电话，以告知她宝贝儿子的情况。两位母亲都吓坏了。事情本不应该这样的。
随之巴伦-戴维斯复活了，并直接变身成了2006年总决赛时的韦德。他独力使那一片浅蓝灰色成了寂静之海，现场是如此的静，连他每次投篮进筐刷网的声音的清晰可闻。
爵士需要有人站出来去防住巴伦，去挽救球队的僵局。于是费舍尔归来了。
三天以来，媒体对费舍尔和他家庭内部事件的报道都极其暧昧，而这位爵士队真正的领袖为什么没参加第一场比赛？ 那他为什么又才来到赛场呢？
在这种情况下，大多媒体会极力帮助公众了解包括道德和伦理方面的任何事情。但因为德里克-费舍尔不是那种惹是生非的球员，而且因为他很尊重他人，也就得到了众人的尊重，媒体便按照爵士副主席Linda Luchetti的要求，前所未有地把小鱼的私事盖了下去。
所以，虽然Dick Stockton和Reggie Miller一直在谈论此事，我还是摸不到一点头绪。
但当他在第三节还剩3分18秒回来时，当米利萨普高兴得乱蹦时，当布泽尔和他击掌时，当那淡蓝灰色的海洋又开始沸腾时。我感到了些不同的东西，一些远比家庭琐事更重要的东西。
然后戴维斯----这只费舍尔立志要解决掉的野猫----走了过来一支胳膊搂住他的腰，另一支抱头，并对他耳语了几句，此时我意识到远比这场比赛的比分更重要的事情发生了。
好吧，欣赏上帝的幽默，或是他敏锐的时间感，都随你。如果你是勇士球迷的话，那这就是幽默。在比赛还剩52。9秒时领先5分，如果没赢得比赛，那你肯定觉得有冥冥天意在捉弄你。如果你是爵士球迷，那这就是时间感：费舍尔在还有27。4秒时迫使BD失误，在加时还剩1分06秒时命中制胜三分，而这是他在本场比赛中的唯一一次投篮。
你我都读过故事书，也看过典型的迪斯尼皆大欢喜的结局。虽然没有那么精彩，但在终场哨响的一刹那，你的心一定还是悬着的。
但之后勇士球员开始针对费舍尔做出回应，一个接一个的。先是J-Richardson ,然后是Stephen Jackson ,之后是Monta Ellis. 而这支一直以来的优异表现都要得益于继承Jackson疯狂打球风格，并有过之而不不及其的球队突然间向大家展示了他们的球员真正本质：[b]他们是一群需要赢得胜利，但更明白费舍尔比他们更加需要这场胜利的赋有同情心的职业球员[/b]。
那么开始吧。这些百万富翁打出了似乎金钱已经不值一文的比赛，也放弃了那令他们功成名就的赛场风格。是的，他们在切身履行着纳什在前些天的采访中说的话：“这只是场篮球比赛而已。” 可以说这是我看NBA比赛20以来最完美的结局之一-----事实上，20年前我根本不会去注意场上场下到底发生了什么事。
在虔诚地把手指向天空后，费舍尔终于坦露了心声。
“我们最近的心绪就像坐过山车一样，而且看起来在余下的几年仍然还会这样，”他对Pam Oliver说道[size=5][b]，“因为，我女儿得的是癌症。。。。。。”[/b]
[/size]费舍尔9个月大的女儿Tatum自从五月初就开始戴着太阳镜来看老爸训练和投篮练习，不幸的是，她在左眼长了一个瘤，一种罕见的眼癌。医生们必须通过手术使肿瘤萎缩，并寄希望可以在不令小Tatum失去一支眼睛的情况下切除它。手术是早晨在纽约进行的。所以当费舍尔表示“我的女儿有生命危险”和“如果继续等下去，我就可能失去宝贝女儿”。。。。。我以为我很了解一切，但我真的不知道这些事，我一点都不清楚。
[b]好吧，至于你们这些讨厌NBA比赛，讨厌NBA球员，讨厌他们的比赛方式，厌恶联盟的形象和球员们的外表，不齿他们的即席作风，觊觎他们的高额收入，憎恨和职业篮球比赛有关的一切的人。请回过头来注视这一刻吧，它会告知你比赛的真正含义。
[/b]或者，看看篮球比赛正向人们传达这什么样的信念。
请揭开表面来看事物的内在。因为，就像他们说过的，危难见真情。
是的，昨晚每个人都在经历着危机关头。勇士能否赢得比赛的危机，迪-布朗（因伤）职业生涯的危机，费舍尔生活中的危机。这些因素都令人难以置信地溶入这惊艳的53分钟内。
这才是国民喜欢看到的比赛。随着如此缤纷多彩的一幕幕上演：从人体生长激素到法规刑罚逐渐退出历史舞台，德克因MVP而饱受争议，Michael Vick, 再到一个NASCAR传奇私自离开了由其父亲建立的车队，Pacman和Imus，到Curt Schiling，到拳王弗洛伊德.梅威瑟尔，直到洋基队的轰然倒下， 体育界需要这样的比赛来去除所有丑恶的现象，并时刻提醒我们作一名体育迷应有的真实感觉。
[b]之前，足球是最令人神往的比赛。恩，但周三晚上---至少在这个晚上----篮球取代了它的位置[/b]。[/size]
原文
I'm not going to lie. I knew but I didn't know.I knew there was a family issue going on with Derek Fisher. I knew his daughter was sick. I knew it was serious.
But I had no idea to what degree and how serious. I had no idea Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals would become one of the greatest moments in my sports viewing life.
If not in sports.
Never seen compassion like that. Never seen drama. Never seen subplots and story lines play out like they did. Never watched a game of that magnitude and cared less about the outcome.
Never took my eyes off the Sony plasma.
When Deron Williams picked up his second foul in the first minute of the game I knew my man Dee Brown from the Chi was going to come in and do his thing. Those of us from Chicago who ride the jocks of the 2005 Final Four Illinois team (my wife being an alumna) know what Dee Brown is capable of doing, know the game he got. All he needed was an opportunity to show and prove. With Derek Fisher not yet at the game, I knew this was going to be Dee's time.
Then it happened. Mehmet Okur falling on top of him, bending Brown's neck over his knees. My first thought (remember we're from Chicago now) was Darryl Stingley, a Chicago native. Then T.J. Ford. They carried him out strapped to a stretcher. His mouth couldn't close. Deron's mother on the phone to Dee's mother, letting her know about her baby's condition. Mothers scared. It wasn't supposed to go like this.
Then Baron Davis came to life. Began doing a second-round impersonation of his first-round impersonation of Dwyane Wade from the 2006 Finals. He began to silence the sea of powder blue, making those 19,911 fans so quiet you could hear the nets pop every time one of his shots went through.
The Jazz needed someone to stop him, stop what he was doing to their future. In came Fish.
For three days the media had played coy on what was really going on with Fisher and his family, and why the true leader of this Jazz team wasn't at Game 1, and why he had just gotten to this game.
Most of the time in situations like this the media's belligerence about the public's right to know takes precedence over everything moral and ethical. But because of the type of person Derek Fisher is -- not that type of player -- and because he commands respect by giving all others respect first, the media stood by Jazz vice president Linda Luchetti's request that Derek's privacy at this time be taken into consideration.
So as Dick Stockton and Reggie Miller talked, I still had no idea of what was really going on.
But when he hit the floor, with 3:18 left in the third, when Millsap dapped him and Boozer hugged him, when that sea of powder blue rose up and cheered, I felt something different. Deeper than an ordinary family absence.
Then when Davis -- the cat he was coming in the game to stop -- came over and wrapped one arm around his waist and the other around his head and began to whisper in his ear, that's when I knew something more significant than the score in the game was at stake.
Now, it's either God's sense of humor or His sense of timing you have to appreciate. If you are a Warriors fan, it's the humor. Up by five with 52.9 seconds left in the game, you have to think that someone is playing with you if you don't win. If you are a Jazz fan, it's the timing: the timing of Fisher making BD turn the ball over with 27.4 seconds left, the 3-pointer he hit with 1:06 left in overtime that sealed the victory, the only shot he took in the game.
You, me, we'd seen storybook, Disney-like endings like this before. Rarely with that much emotion and internal drama, but still, as the buzzer sounded, your heart didn't drop.
But then the Warriors players began to come over to D-Fish, one by one. Jason Richardson, then Stephen Jackson, then Monta Ellis. A team that due, for the most part, to Jackson's past and sometimes present demeanor has inherited a perception of being an extension of him, suddenly showed who its players really were: Compassionate ballplayers who needed to win a basketball game but understood that Fisher needed this one more than they did.
The tug began. Million-dollar cats playing the game as if money didn't mean a thing, then dismissing every stereotype that has lumped them all in the same sample pool. They were acting out the words Steve Nash used the other day in an interview: "It's just basketball." It was easily one of, if not the, best endings to an NBA game I'd seen in 20 years -- and 20 years ago I wouldn't have paid attention to what was really going on.
Then, after pointing to the sky, D-Fish opened up. Explained everything that was going on.
"We have been on an emotional roller coaster, and we will probably be on it for years to come," he said to Pam Oliver, "because it is a cancer ..."
His baby girl Tatum, all of 9 months old, who had been coming to Jazz practices and shootarounds in sunglasses since the beginning of May, had a tumor in her left eye, a rare disease called retinoblastoma. They had to have surgery to try to shrink the tumor, in hopes it shrinks enough to eventually remove it without losing the eye. The surgery was in New York. It happened that morning. So when he said "my daughter's life was in danger" and "we could have lost my little girl had we waited any longer" ... I thought I knew. I knew nothing. I had no idea.
So for those of you who hate the game of basketball at the NBA level, hate the players who play the game, hate the way they play, hate the image and images, hate what it has become, hate the money being made, hate everything about the game at the professional level, those of you who hate the player and the game, please look back at this moment and see what the game is really all about.
Or can be.
Look past the surface. Because, as they say, truth comes through in crisis.
Last night there was a crisis. A crisis in that the Warriors needed to win this game, a crisis in Dee Brown's career, a crisis in Derek Fisher's life. They all came together in an unbelievably stunning 53 minutes.
This was a game the country needed. With all of the drama going on in our lives, everything from HGH and Bonds to meltdowns and Dirk to dog fights and Michael Vick to a NASCAR legend leaving the racing team founded by his father to Pacman and Imus and Curt Schilling and Floyd Mayweather and the fall of the Yankees, sports needed this game to cleanse the ugliness out of our systems and remind us of how it's really supposed to feel to be a sports fan.
And soccer is supposed to be the beautiful game. Well, Wednesday night -- at least for one night -- basketball replaced it. 小鱼要是不上，给JAZZ造成的伤害可不小啊 这也是一组精彩的对决
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毕竟是奇兵啊 眼癌第一次听说 爵士队~
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