拓荒者可能讓小李休息一年養傷
Lillard will not travel with the team on its upcoming six-game road trip, and he
is expected to meet with a specialist this week to determine the next steps in
managing the injury. Serious consideration has been given to Lillard taking sign
ificant time off to heal, effectively ending the Blazers' hopes at a playoff run
.
Lillard受到腹部肌腱傷勢困擾，此前已連續缺陣三場。據此前報導，拓荒者主教練Billups
透露Lillard不會隨隊出征六連客，將在本周與專家會面商談治療方案。
"I think that's probably going to be the route that we go if he doesn't get some
kind of relief there," Blazers coach Chauncey Billups said last week when asked
directly about the possibility of shutting Lillard down for an extended period
of time.
上週當記者詢問Billups，Lillard有沒有可能缺陣比較長一段時間時間？Billups：如果他
還不能緩解自己的疼痛問題，我認為球隊可能不得不走上那條路。
It's not only the likely path forward, it's also the logical one for both an ail
ing Lillard and a Blazers team that's looked utterly listless during the first h
alf of a season defined byorganizational turmoil.
這不僅僅是拓荒者可能走上的一條路，考慮到帶傷作戰的Lillard狀態不佳，球隊上下更是
失去了活力，讓Lillard一直休戰下去或許是球隊眼前最務實的一條路。
Call it a gap year for Lillard, call it a one-year mini-rebuild for Blazers inte
rim general manager Joe Cronin. It's what theGolden State Warriorsdid two year
s ago, lettingStephen Currytake some time off after breaking his hand early in
the 2019-20 season, playing for a lottery pick and letting their young players
develop without the pressure of having to win games. The next season, Curry came
back in MVP form, and a year later, Golden State looks like the best team in th
e league again.
對Lillard來說，這一年是養傷休息的一年，也可以視為迷你重建，但無論怎樣，拓荒者讓
人看不到能爭奪冠軍的實力。 就像2019-20賽季的勇士對Curry做的那樣，給他一整個賽季
的時間恢復和儲備能量，同時爭取拿到一個高順位選秀權。 上賽季的Curry一口氣重返MVP
模式，一年後勇士隊又成為了聯盟中最好的球隊之一
Lillard's long-term health is the single most important factor in the Blazers' f
uture plans. He's eligible for a two-year, $107 million extension this summer, a
nd all indications are that he would sign it if Cronin (or whoever is running ba
sketball operations by July) offered it to him. He's said repeatedly since the s
tart of the season that heisn't looking to be traded, and that doesn't appear t
o be a route the team is considering, either. As hard as other front offices and
some media outlets have been working to will him into a trade request, a Lillar
d-Blazers divorce isn't in the cards right now from either side.
Lillard的長期健康或許是拓荒者目前最關鍵的問題，他有權在今夏提前延續一份2年1.07億
的合約，只要管理層把合約擺在檯面上，種種跡像都表明Lillard會在上面簽字。 從本賽季
初開始，Lillard不斷強調自己不想被交易離隊，當然了，管理層怎麼想是另一回事。 儘管
有一些球隊高層和媒體一直想說服他提出交易申請，但Lillard和球隊目前都尚未表示要分
手。
Cronin will have other decisions to make before the Feb. 10 trade deadline, up t
o and including whether to trade Lillard's nine-year backcourt partner, CJ McCol
lum. Starting center Jusuf Nurkic and veteran forward Robert Covington are free
agents at the end of the season, making them prime candidates to be moved in the
next month. Portland owes its 2022 first-round pick toChicagoif it's outside
the lottery; if the decision is made to shut down Lillard, they'll not only keep
that pick, it also will have a chance to be very high. Maybe even high enough t
o draft a new co-star for Lillard.
拓荒者管理層還有不少事項必須解決。 他們到底要不要拆散雙槍送走CJ？ 球隊先發中鋒Nu
rkic和3D鋒線Covington都將在本賽季結束後成為自由球員，他們的交易價值並不低。 如果
拓荒者2022年的首輪籤掉出樂透區，則公牛會得到這個選秀權。 如果拓荒者讓Lillard休戰
接下來的所有比賽，他們不僅大概率能保住這個簽位，還有機會爭取在高順位拿下潛力新人
。
Letting Lillard take time off to get right, trading their other veterans to get
younger, letting Anfernee Simons and Nassir Little develop, losing enough games
to get a high draft pick and coming back in the fall with a clean slate and a he
althy franchise point guard ready to take a serious swing at a late-career run i
s the best outcome for both Lillard and the Blazers.
讓Lillard徹底養好傷，換走一些老將，繼續培養Anfernee Simons和Little，輸掉足夠多的
比賽爭取高順位選秀權，然後在明年東山再起。 這對Lillard和球隊來說都是最好的結果。
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