[外絮] AGG 談及導致突然退役的「最可怕的夜晚」

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作者：Liz Roscher

原文＋翻譯：

It was a stunner when 35-year-old LaMarcus Aldridge announced his retirement
in April after a 15-year career. He'd been playing great basketball and was
part of a Brooklyn Nets team that was destined to make waves in the playoffs.

當 35 嵗的 LaMarcus Aldridge (下稱 AGG) 在四月宣佈退役並結束十五年的職業生涯時，令許多球迷感到驚訝。從他過去出色的表現可見，假如他如今還在籃網隊中，他應該會在季後賽中為隊伍掀起波瀾。

With all that in his favor, it wasn't a decision he reached lightly. Aldridgeplayed his entire career with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a heart
condition that can cause a rapid or irregular heartbeat. He'd had it under
control for years, but as he told The Athletic's Shams Charania in his first
post-retirement interview, one tough game followed by a very scary night
changed his entire perspective on continuing to play.

在一切對他有利的情況下，要作出退役的決定實在不易。AGG 在整個職業生涯中，一直都跟沃夫巴金森懷特症候群（WPW ，一個會導致心跳加速或不規律化的心臟疾病）相伴。過去數年，他努力控制下來了，但在他退役後首次接受《The Athletic》記者 Shams Cha-rania 的訪問中表示，緊接一場艱苦比賽的一個可怕的夜晚導致他對是否要繼續其職業生涯的看法有所改觀。

'Scariest night ever'
「最可怕的夜晚」

Aldridge had only been with the Nets a few weeks when he had a heart
incident. He had signed with them on March 28 after reaching a buyout
agreement with the San Antonio Spurs, where he'd played since 2015. He'd playjust five games for the Nets, and the game on April 10, which would end up
being his last NBA game, is when he experienced an irregular heartbeat he
just couldn't shake.

在有心臟問題的情況下，AGG 僅僅在籃網隊待了數個星期。他於03月28日在跟馬刺隊達成買斷協議後，轉會到籃網隊。他只為籃網隊打了五場比賽，最後一場落在04月10日，那時出現了他無法擺脫的心律不齊現象。

"I had irregular rhythm the whole game, and I hadn’t experienced that
before," Aldridge told Charania. "Normally when I get on the court, my case
study is that I would go into regular rhythm as I got my heart rate up. It
had never been out of rhythm in a game and then it was out of rhythm for the
Lakers game and I was just off and couldn’t get no energy. I just couldn’t
get myself going. I couldn’t figure out what was going on."

「在整場比賽中，我一直感到前所未有的心律不齊現象。來到場上時，從個案研究來看， 一般上當心律上升時，就會來到正常的頻率。在比賽期間，這頻率從未下降過，但在對 湖人隊的比賽中，就突然『脫節』了，我突然感到四肢乏力，無法自主行動。我根本不 知道到底發生了什麼事。」

Aldridge told Charania that normally, when his heart rate goes up, his
heartbeat returns to normal. So he tried multiple things to get excited and
hyped up about the game, including repeatedly crashing shoulder-to-shoulder
with assistant coach Ime Udoka. Nothing worked, and when he got back to his
hotel room, his heart rate didn't improve.

AGG 向 Charania 表示，當他的心率正常上升時，心跳就會回歸正常。因此他嘗試讓自己對比賽感到興奮，例如跟助理教練Ime Udoka 肩並肩對撞。結果沒用，且當他回到旅館客房時，他的心律沒有獲得改善。

"It was still off after the game, but at like two, three in the morning, it
got really, really crazy. My heart was beating really crazy, and that’s when
it got really bad for me. From two to five in the morning, I was just trying
to evoke some breathing and then around 5:30 or so, I texted the team doctor
and I went to the hospital. It was probably the scariest night ever."

「賽後還是沒什麼感覺，但來到凌晨兩點、三點時，就變得越來越瘋狂了。我的心跳跳得 非常異常，使得我感覺情況糟糕。從凌晨兩點到五點，我嘗試深呼吸，到了約 05:30， 我決定發訊息給隊醫，然後前往醫院。這大概是最可怕的夜晚。」

His heart had started to return to normal by the time he got to the hospital,but the experience had changed the way he felt about continuing to play. He
decided that the risks were too great.

當他到了醫院的那一刻，心跳已經恢復正常，但這段經歷導致他對於是否繼續上場打球的看法改觀。他認定，假如繼續下去，風險會過大。

"I can be in rhythm one second and out of rhythm the next second. No one can
pinpoint when it can happen. It’s very unpredictable, and I didn’t want to
keep playing and feeling the way I felt that night anymore and risk … no one
knows for 100 percent if you can have something bad happen. My first time in
2006, I blacked out on the bench. That’s when we first found out that I had
this condition. So what if I’m on the court and a big guy is coming down the
lane, my heart is beating funny, and then I black out? He runs into me, and Ican hurt my head on the floor. I can be paralyzed. What if I’m going for a
dunk and I black out? There’s so many things that can happen in a bad way."

「我可能上一秒還在節奏中，但到了下一秒就失去節奏。沒人可以準確預估何時會發生。 這是非常不可測的，因此我不想繼續上場比賽、不讓自己繼續有那晚的噩夢、不想冒著 風險……沒人能百分百知道你會否遭遇噩兆。2006年，我第一次在板凳上暈倒，也是第
一次發現有這種情況的時候。所以，如果那時我在場上，一位球員衝著我而來，心跳也 跳得非常奇怪，接著暈倒的話，該怎麼辦呢？他衝向我，我的頭可能會直接跌在地上並 受傷。我可能會因此而癱瘓。如果我正準備灌籃時就暈倒，該怎麼辦呢？有很多不好的 事，隨時會發生。」

Dealing with his new reality
面對新的現實

Aldridge made the decision to retire in the span of a few days, but dealing
with the aftermath of that decision has been hard. He told Charania that he'sstruggling to figure out who he is now that he's no longer an NBA player.

在短短數天內，AGG 決定退役，不過要解決該結果所產生的後遺症，實在很麻煩。在訪問中，AGG 表示正努力分辨清楚他如今不再是球員時的身份。

“I’ve been depressed, and I’m trying to figure out how to navigate through
not competing on the floor, learning not to be depressed,” Aldridge told The
Athletic. “I still love basketball. I still feel like I have a lot to give.
But even now, I’m still trying to find myself. When you go from doing
something you love for so long and you lose it overnight, it’s a shock. Even
though I knew it was the right decision, those next couple days there was a
lot of back and forth with my family, my agent, with the Nets, and they
definitely supported me either way."

「我仍然喜歡打球，我覺得自己還可以打很長時間。即便是到了現在，我還在努力尋找自 己，當你一夜之間放棄了你喜歡了這麼久的事情時，這對我真的是一種打擊。儘管我知 道退役是一個正確的決定，但在接下來的幾天裡，我還是和我的家人、經紀人和籃網聊 了很多。他們很坦率，他們說無論我最終選擇哪種方式，他們都支持我：『這取決於你 ，我們會聽你的』。我覺得他們真的很棒，我沒有感受到任何復出的壓力，也完全不需 要根據這個賽季來做決定。他們完全理解我在經歷什麼，也支持我做的一切。」

What made everything more difficult was how at home he felt on the Nets.
Aldridge said that he embraced the team and they embraced him right back,
giving him the "cohesiveness that I had wanted for a while in a group." Not
being on the team and having to watch them in the playoffs has been the
hardest part of retirement for Aldridge.

讓一切變得更加困難的是，他在籃網隊中有一種賓至如歸的感覺。AGG 說，他跟球隊相互擁護，給了他「在一個團隊中想要的凝聚力」。對於他而言，只能在場邊觀看季後賽是他退役後最艱難的部分。

"That was the hardest part. Being in a position to get to the Finals and havean opportunity to be on that stage and be a part of history and make my mark.I had never been to the Finals. I’ve been to the West Conference finals, but
not the actual NBA Finals. So it was a chance for me to make that next step,
a chance for me to add to my legacy and see what it feels like. I’ve always
prided myself on embracing moments and trying to grow and learn from every
moment. I wanted to get there and see what it’s like, help those guys win
and be a part of the journey. And then if we got there, hopefully we would goback two or three more times. So that was definitely the hardest part for me."

「有機會進入總冠軍賽，有機會登上那個舞台，成為歷史的一部分，留下我的印記，這是 最艱難的部分。我從來未曾進過總冠軍賽。我曾參加過西部決賽，但沒有參加過真正的 NBA 總冠軍賽。因此，這是我邁出下一步的機會，是我為自己的遺產添磚加瓦的機會， 看看那是什麼感覺。我一直為自己擁抱時刻，並試圖從每一個時刻成長和學習而自豪。 我想去那裡看看是什麼樣子的，幫助那些人贏得比賽，成為旅程的一部分。然後如果我 們到了那裡，希望我們能上兩、三次。所以對我來說，這絕對是最艱難的部分。」

短評：

這沮喪的感覺，似乎難以言語吧……

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