David Stern downplays Lakers' recent struggles
2013年07月20日 洛杉磯每日新聞報 （原文：http://ppt.cc/ykOZ）
Plenty of Laker fans have openly wondered about Stern's intentions toward the
Lakers, what with the nixed Chris Paul deal and the recent labor day that
calls for more revenue sharing and more penalties for high-spending teams.
很多湖人球迷都對聯盟主席 David Stern最近的一些做法感到生氣，
他先是回拒了 Chris Paul的交易案，然後又頒布豪華奢侈稅政策去處罰聯盟裡
花錢大手筆的球隊。
"I expect that the Lakers aren't thinking about the premise of your question,
which implies on that they're not going to do better next year than they did
the last year," Stern said during a meeting with reporters Thursday at the
Wynn hotel in Las Vegas. "I don't want to speculate beyond that, but I can
tell you that's not the basis upon which the Lakers are functioning.
They expect to have a much better year."
「我期待湖人球迷們不要再去假設你們的那些問題了，
這意味著湖人明年做得不會比今年好，」 Stern說道，
「我不想去猜測，但是我可以告訴你們這是基於湖人正常運轉的基礎上的結果，
他們期待著明年比今年要好很多。」
"Amnesty is reflective in the fact that teams are not only eliminating the tax
payment due with particular contracts, but they're also keeping from going
into even a higher bracket by those contracts being in place to get with
other contract that's they might sign," Stern said. "With respect to the L.A.
market, whenever somebody wins, somebody loses. It's a fact here. We've had
the Knicks down for a while, the Bulls down for a while, the Lakers were down
this past year. But that is the beauty of what we do. All of our teams today
are undefeated, and they're all plotting to improve their lot, thinking
they're getting a lot better.
「特赦的運用不僅僅是一支球隊想去減少開支的這個事實的反映，
而且他們通過去免除掉他們不想要的合約，能讓他們去簽下更大的一個合約，」
Stern說道，「我很尊敬洛杉磯的市場，但是有人贏，就會有人輸，
公牛沉寂了一段時間，湖人去年打得也不好，這就是我們（ＮＢＡ）的美麗之處，
我們今天（ＮＢＡ裡）所有的球隊都是不可被擊敗的，
他們都去圖謀證明他們的價值，認為他們變得更好了。」
資料來源：http://voice.hupu.com/nba/1464502.html