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LeBron James: The Chosen One
NBA籃球天王：詹姆士大帝
—Mike Corsini
3/1
What’s next for basketball star LeBron James? Sitting at the top of the NBA landscape as the world’s undisputed top player, he has to marvel at the difference a year makes. Last season, he and the Miami Heat won the league title, James’s first. It seems strange to think that to NBA fans, one year earlier he was public enemy number one.
The source of fans’ and media members’ resentment of James was the way he handled his departure from his first NBA team—his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. After his contract with the team expired after the 2009-2010 season, James became one of the most sought-after free agents in league history. He created a TV special to broadcast his decision and uttered that he’d be “taking my talents to South Beach” and signing with Miami. Days later, he spoke confidently of aiming for “not five, not six, not seven” NBA titles with his new team.
Money from the TV special went to charity, a fact largely ignored as criticism piled up. The negativity peaked when James and the Heat reached the 2011 NBA Finals and, to the delight of many basketball fans, fell to the Dallas Mavericks. It’s only now, with the 2012 championship trophy in hand, that James seems to have earned the respect of his critics.

籃球巨星雷霸龍．詹姆士的下一步是什麼？身為傲視美國職業籃壇且是世界公認頂尖籃球員的他，也不得不對一年之中的變化感到驚訝不已。上一季，他和邁阿密熱火隊贏得了NBA總冠軍，那是詹姆士的第一座總冠軍。對那時的NBA球迷來說，一年前的他可是頭號全民公敵，這件事想起來似乎還是有點怪。
球迷和媒體對詹姆士會如此憤慨的原因，在於他離開所效力的第一支NBA球隊，即家鄉的克里夫蘭騎士隊的處理方式。在二○○九到二○一○年的球季結束後，詹姆士和該隊的合約也到期了，他當時是聯盟史上最炙手可熱的自由球員之一。他製作了一個電視特輯來播放他的決定，並揚言他將「帶著我的才華到南灘去」，並與邁阿密熱火隊簽約。數日後，他自信滿滿地表示他的目標是和新球隊拿下「不只五個，不只六個，也不只七個」NBA總冠軍。（編按：South Beach亦被暱稱為SoBe，位在美國佛羅里達州的邁阿密海灘市。）
該電視特輯的收益都捐給了慈善機構，這個事實卻隨著不斷高漲的批評聲浪而被大多數人忽略了。負面評價在詹姆士和熱火隊打進二○一一年的NBA總決賽卻敗給了達拉斯小牛隊時飆到了最高點，而輸掉總冠軍讓許多籃球迷感到大快人心。直到現在拿到了二○一二年的總冠軍獎盃，詹姆士似乎才贏得批評他的人的尊敬。

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