NBA布鲁克林篮网队宣布对欧文进行禁赛

Inside the high-wire decision to suspend Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving

布鲁克林篮网球星凯里·欧文被停赛的决定

For several agonizing days, the pleas had grown into a crescendo for Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai to punish star guard Kyrie Irving. The most important and invested voices in his orbit -- including NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Nets general manager Sean Marks -- had sided with a broad swath of the public in believing that Irving's refusal to condemn the contents of an antisemitic film he shared on his social media had left the Nets no choice but to suspend him, sources told ESPN.

在饱受折磨的几天里，要求布鲁克林篮网队老板蔡崇信惩罚明星后卫凯里-欧文的呼声越来越高。消息人士告诉ESPN，在他的圈子里，最重要和最投入的声音--包括NBA总裁亚当-肖华和篮网队总经理肖恩-马克斯--已经与广大公众站在一起，认为欧文拒绝谴责他在社交媒体上分享的一部反犹太影片的内容，使得篮网队别无选择，只能将他禁赛。

Against the backdrop of calls for swift action, sources said Tsai had resisted and insisted on taking time to educate Irving on the horrors of antisemitism. He'd enlisted the counsel of the Anti-Defamation League, watched the full 3½ hours of the hate-filled movie Irving had shared, "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" -- complete with its Holocaust denialism and quoting of antisemites such as Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford -- and researched the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, whose beliefs Irving frequently references in public settings.

As it turned out, the redemptive arc that Tsai had imagined for his star had devolved into what the owner felt was a repetitive exercise in Irving's betrayal of good faith, sources said. For nearly a week, Tsai kept extending the clock to give Irving a chance to get this right for himself, the franchise and the Jewish community -- and Irving never returned a single of his text messages, sources said. Almost a week later, Irving had shown no inclination to deliver an apology, nor a disassociation of the movie's contents, nor a willingness to answer "No" when asked if he held antisemitic beliefs.

据消息人士透露，事实证明，蔡崇信为自己的明星后卫设想的救赎弧线已经演变成了老板觉得欧文背弃诚信的重复练习。消息人士称，近一周来，蔡一直在延长时间，让欧文有机会为自己、球队和犹太社区做好这件事，而欧文从未回过一条短信。几乎一个星期后，欧文没有表现出道歉的意愿，也没有对电影内容表示不认同，当被问及是否持有反犹太主义信仰时，他也不愿意回答“不”。

The team Thursday leveled a five-game suspension without pay, declaring Irving "currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets."

球队周四对欧文进行了无薪停赛五场的处罚，宣布欧文 "目前不适合与布鲁克林篮网队合作"。

As usual, Irving's future is murky and tied to Kevin Durant's. If Irving's trade value was low this summer, it has cratered now. Even so, the Nets needed a trade partner willing to give Irving a long-term deal to execute a trade over the summer, but that's no longer the case. He's on an expiring contract, which means a team isn't committed financially to him beyond the end of this season.

和往常一样，欧文的未来是暗淡的，与凯文·杜兰特的前途息息相关。如果欧文今年夏天的交易价值很低，那么现在它已经崩盘了。即便如此，篮网队需要一个愿意给欧文一份长期合同的交易伙伴，以便在夏天进行交易，但现在已经不是这样了。他的合同即将到期，这意味着球队在本赛季结束后不会对他做出续约承诺。

Four years ago, Durant and Irving arrived in Brooklyn together. The partnership nearly crumbled over the summer and now teeters again. When talking to reporters Friday morning, Durant was noncommittal on Irving, the organization and the chaos of the entire week. "I feel like it was all unnecessary," he said.

四年前，杜兰特和欧文一起来到布鲁克林。今年夏天，这一合作关系几近破裂，现在又摇摇欲坠。周五上午，在接受记者采访时，杜兰特对欧文、球队和整个星期的混乱情况不置可否。“我觉得这一切都没有必要，”他说。

Once more, there's an unmistakable question looming over the franchise: Who's the last man standing for Kyrie Irving?

再一次，有一个明确无误的问题笼罩在球队中：谁是最后一个支持凯里-欧文的人？