http://hoopshype.com/storyline/whatever-happened-to-darko-milicic/
Darko Milicic: “It’s just simple, my career was how it was and I don’t
miss that. I went to the NBA as a kid, barely 18, didn’t have the attitude I
should have had.”
很單純，我的職業生涯就那樣，我也不懷念，我進NBA的時候只是個18歲小孩，我沒有
應該有的態度。
Darko Milicic: “I thought as a kid that talent was God-given, but it’s not.
God gives you talent and you should use that talent with the real meaning of
that word. I was stubborn. Maybe being young had something to do with it.
There was option then of going to the NBA or staying in Serbia because
Hemofarm knew that if I went to NBA they would get more money than they would
get if I went to some European club. Here you had poverty and money was there.
”
我當時的想法認為天賦是上帝給予的，但並非如此。上帝給你天賦，而你應該好好照
這個字的真義使用它。我當時是固執的，也許是因為年紀輕的緣故。當時我能選擇要
去NBA或是留在塞爾維亞，因為Hemofarm(Darko在塞爾維亞的母隊)知道我去NBA會比我去
歐洲俱樂部他們會拿到更多錢。我們這裡很窮，而錢就擺在那。
Darko Milicic: “Their system is cruel and I don’t like it. If a young
player doesn’t succeed, they don’t look after him. That sucks. You have
players who are first or second in the draft that get a chance to play. I
didnt get the chance. LBJ is a killer now, but he did get a chance in his
first year, he could shoot from the stands if he wanted. I barely got the
chance. I had that situation in Orlando where if I shoot from perimeter, my
coach Hill would yell, “Pass to Howard.” In Detroit nothing went right.
Larry Brown always told me to go near the basket. They offered me a $40
million, four-year contract in Orlando, and then their manager blows it off,
out of nowehere. My manager told me he would deal with it. I said OK, but
just not Memphis. Anywhere but there. And, of course, I went to Memphis. Then
I got injured, didn’t play much.
他們(NBA)的系統很殘酷，我並不喜歡。如果一個年輕球員沒有成功，他們也不會照顧
他，這爛透了。LBJ現在是一個殺手，但他第一年就得到機會，他想要的話可以從觀眾席
投籃。我根本沒有什麼機會。我在魔術隊時，如果我從三分線投籃，我的教練就會大吼
"把球傳給Howard!" 在活塞更是什麼都不對，Larry Brown總是要我去接近籃框。
他們本來在奧蘭多要提供我四年四千萬的合約，然後他們的經理取消了，我的經理跟我
說他會處理。我說好，只要不要是曼菲斯就好，去哪裡都可以。想當然爾，我後來就去
了曼菲斯，然後我受傷了，沒打到什麼球。
Darko Milicic: “I wanted to go back to Europe but then the Minnesota offer
came. I tried to talk them out of of signing me, I said I won’t practice, I
will make trouble in the locker room but they were persistent. They told me
give it two weeks, if it doesn’t work you can go. I accepted, it was nice
and I played but we didn’t win. Rambis was fired and after Adelman came I
realized it’s not gonna work. Pekovic started playing well, and I thought, “
Never mind, I’ll come off the bench.” But it just didn’t work. And then I
just quit.
我想要回到歐洲，但後來灰狼來找我，我試圖叫他不要簽我，我說我不會練習，
我會造成休息室裡的問題，但他們很堅持。他們說試試看兩個禮拜，如果不行我可以離開
我答應了，那還不錯，我打了比賽但是我們沒有獲勝，Rambis就被開除，Adelman接任，
我就了解到這行不通。Pekovic開始打得很好，然後我想，沒關係，我可以打板凳，
但是那也沒成功，所以我就走了。
Darko Milicic: “They offered me contract in Boston. I didn’t want to go
there and not play. They said they would play me.”
後來塞爾蒂克來找我，我不想去那邊但是打不到球，他們說會讓我上場。
Darko Milicic: “I can’t play with American players. They only talked about
who dunked on whom, who crossed over whom. I was weird to them because I didn
’t think that way.”
我沒辦法和美國球員打球，他們成天只說誰在誰頭上灌籃，誰cross over誰。我不這麼想
所以他們覺得我怪怪的。
Darko Milicic: “It’s all funny to me. I finally get a chance to play and
(Mutombo) starts taunting me and daring me to fight. Why would I need that? I
didn’t understand half of what he said. I mean, he’s been there 20 years
and still doesn’t know the language well enough. Nobody in particular
annoyed me, but Kobe Bryant is the dirtiest player with the things he does on
the court… But without a doubt he is a beast. He was amazing.”
對我來說很好笑，我有次終於和Mutombo對上，他開始對我嘲諷，要和我打架，我為什麼
要那樣做? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_tw4t2CMc)
我根本聽不懂一半他說的話，我的意思是，他都打了20年了英文還說不好。
沒有誰特別惹惱我，除了Kobe，他真的是最骯髒的球員，因為他在場上做的那些事。
但毫無疑問的他是頭野獸，他很棒。
“I don’t miss basketball. I live very well, thank God. I have my interests,
interests in agriculture,” says Darko Milicic in an exclusive interview for
Blic.
我並不懷念籃球，我過得很好，感謝上帝，我有我的興趣，對農業的興趣。
以上來自Darko Milicic 在Blic的訪談。