ABC林书豪:当所有华人都处在梦与现实之间

导读：也许就在不久之前，不会有多少人关注林书豪这个名字，尽管这个毕业于哈佛大学的美裔华人已经在NBA摸爬滚打了近两个赛季。如今，再度提起林书豪这个名字，不了解NBA的人也在津津乐道于纽约尼克斯队的六连胜和林书豪从板凳球员一跃成为耀眼明星的传奇故事。林书豪让我们看到了什么？

Jeremy Lin had dominated Twitter for several weeks in Febrary， 2012， but the tweets that strike people the most were the ones attempting to put Lin and Yao Ming together. No， Jeremy Lin is not an add―on to Yao Ming’s legacy. No， Linsanity doesn’t render Yao’s time in the league obsolete. No one can repeat what Yao did as an ambassador for the game， nor will anyone be able to duplicate the refined artistry of his post game standing 7'6''. Yao was always a singular case. His effort was China’s effort. For people， that isn’t what Jeremy Lin is about.

林书豪成为了2012年2月几周里Twitter上讨论最多的话题，但最让人惊讶是那些试图将林书豪和姚明联系在一起的评论。不，如果姚明给NBA所留下遗产是一本书，那么林书豪并不只是一页附录。不，疯狂的林现象也并不会让姚明在联盟中的时光被人遗忘。没有人可以替代姚明作为一个大使对这项运动所起到的作用。也没有人可以复制姚明身高7英尺6英寸却还拥有的优美的低位技术。姚明一直只是一个个别现象。他的努力代表着中国的努力。对于人们来说，林书豪所包含的含义不一样。

Jeremy Lin proves there’s another way. Watching Lin knife into the lane and score over soaring giants， it’s impossible to imagine him doing anything else with his life. But it could have been so different. His entire basketball career before that remarkable week has been a cyclical routine of underappreciation and invisibility. He could have left it all. We know about his Harvard degree in economics. But he had the courage and resolve to stick to his dream. And that’s where the purity of his story emerges.

林书豪证明了有另一种方式。看到林书豪切入内线，并在一群跃起的“巨人”的防守下得分时，人们很难想象他还能在人生里做些别的什么。但这个故事也可能变得完全不同：在那关键的一周前，存在在林书豪的整个篮球生涯中的，只有周期性的、如惯例一般的被轻视和被忽略。他完全可以转身离开。我们都知道他获得了哈佛大学经济学学士学位。但他有坚持自己梦想的勇气和决心。而就是从这一点开始，他的故事开始显得那么纯粹。

Jeremy Lin is humble， spiritual， and disciplined. He is also fearless， aggressive， and creative. He’s found his mode of expression and his definition of success. Whether he blossoms into a real NBA star or shatters his glass slipper sitting at the end of the bench is of little importance to us. Beyond the ability to inspire an entire population of Asian― Americans or the ability to spin the narrative of the stereotypical Asian overachiever， what inspires people most is how comfortable he is with his abilities and his place among the best basketball players in the world―how comfortable he is with himself. If Jeremy Lin has proven anything， it’s just how vital being true to oneself is.

林书豪是谦虚的、自律的、有精神力量的。他也是无畏的、进取的、有创造力的。他已经找到了属于自己的表达方式以及对于成功的定义。无论他今后成为一个真正的NBA明星，还是打破了他的水晶鞋、回到替补板凳的末端，对我们来说都不重要。是的，他激励了整个亚裔美国人社群；是的，他改写了美国人对于典型的亚洲拼命三郎的描述；但，林书豪带给人们最大的启发却是，他对于所拥有的能力的接收自如，以及与一群世界顶级篮球运动员一起时对所处位子的自在处理。如果林书豪已经证明了什么，那么一定是“忠于自己”有多么的重要。

What do we see in Jeremy Lin？ Ourselves―and the options in life that we may not have truly believed existed before.

林书豪让我们看到了什么？我们自己，以及生命中那些我们不曾真正相信的可能性。