Lakers’ Dwight Howard admits he and JaVale McGee talked about fighting
Shaquille O’Neal
by Ashish Mathur, November 12, 2019
Los Angeles Lakers legend Shaquille O’Neal has picked on Dwight Howard and
JaVale McGee a lot, so much so that Howard and McGee talked about fighting
The Diesel.
本賽季湖人陣中的兩位球員：Dwight Howard & JaVale McGee，
都曾經跟湖人傳奇球星Shaquille O'Neal有過過節。
Before he joined the Warriors back in 2016, McGee had this reputation of
being a goofy player on the court who really didn’t know how to play
basketball. As a result, McGee was the star of O’Neal’s show “Shaqtin’ A
Fool.”
在2016加入勇士前，McGee當時以場上常出現一些愚蠢行為而著名，
他當時不太知道如何在場上打球。
結果成為了Shaq烏龍球的上榜明星常客。
Every week, O’Neal made fun of McGee when he would do something mindless and
funny on the floor. It took a toll on McGee and his love for the game was
clearly affected.
每個禮拜，Shaq都會用McGee在球場上的行為來嘲諷他作為取樂之用。
McGee為此而對比賽的熱情受到了影響。
Meanwhile, O’Neal has been ripping Howard for years. Shaq, who won three
titles with the Lakers, was never a fan of Howard using his “Superman”
nickname. O’Neal once said Howard wasn’t a dominant big man and was only a
good pick-and-roll player.
同時，Shaq多年來一直不喜歡Howard，
在湖人拿過三次冠軍的Shaq拒絕將"超人"的封號讓給Howard。
Shaq曾說過：「Howard並不是個有統治力的大個子，只是個好的擋拆球員。」
On Lakers guard Danny Green’s podcast, Howard opened up about how he and
McGee briefly talked about fighting Shaq before coming to their senses, via
Anthony Irwin of Silverscreenandroll.com:
近日，在上隊友Danny Green的播客節目時，
Howard透露了他之前跟McGee私下談論如何找Shaq打架的事。
“We did. I asked him. I was like, ‘Hey, did you want to fight Shaq?’ He
was like, ‘Man I did, man!’ I was like, ‘Man I did too,’ but I was like,
‘There’s two things we’ve got to worry about. He’s a cop, so if we hurt
him we’re going to jail. And two, if Shaq gets a hold of us, it’s over
with. You’ve got to hit him and move, because if not? If Shaq gets you? It’
s over with.’
Howard表示：
「我們確實有談到，我當時問McGee說：『嘿，你是不是想打Shaq？』
結果他說：『兄弟，我真的想揍他』
我說：『兄弟，我也一樣』
可我說『有兩件事要擔心，第一他是警察，如果我們真的揍他可能會去坐牢。
第二如果被他逮到了我們就玩完了。
所以必須揍完他就趕緊開溜，不然一旦被抓住就GG了。」
“We talked about that. We laughed about a good 30 minutes, just talking
about Shaq and all the things he said about us. But you know what it kind of
did? It kind of kept us grounded, but it also made us realize, all right —
every night we step in the gym, on the court, whatever we’re doing, let’s
go 110 percent because we don’t want somebody like this, or anybody ever
questioning who we are as basketball players and men.”
「我當時真的跟McGee討論過，兩人笑了整整30多分鐘，
談論著Shaq他所說關於我們兩個的一切。
這代表什麼你知道嗎？
這讓我們明確意識到一件事，每晚我們走進健身房、踏上了球場，
無論做什麼，我們都要付出110%的努力，因為我們不想要變成他們口中的那種人，
或讓任何人質疑我們作為籃球員的努力。」
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