“读懂中国”主题演讲|马布里：从NBA到CBA，中国文化哲学如何影响了我(5)

为了让你们了解今天的我，必须从我卑微而艰难的童年讲起。我在纽约布鲁克林区康尼岛长大，我童年的生活非常艰难。我们住在瑟夫赛德街，纽约最为贫困最为混乱的地区，所以我当时一心想打进NBA，因为我想让我的家人可以脱离那块充斥着枪支、犯罪和毒品的生活环境。我花了数不清的时间和夜晚，甚至是还在上学的时候，在我们称之为“花园”的球场上磨练控球后卫应有的篮球技能。我们叫那个地方“花园”，是因为我们都想象着自己在世界闻名的麦迪逊广场花园主场为家乡的篮球队纽约尼克斯队效力。
For you to understand who I am today, you must learn about my humble, yet hard beginnings. I grew up on the tough streets of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Life was challenging for my family and me. We lived in the Surfside Gardens housing projects surrounded by some of the worst New York City has to offer. That is why I was determined to make it to the NBA.I wanted to get my family out of the projects where drugs, guns and crime ran rampant.
I spent countless hours and nights even on school days honing my basketball skills as a point guard on the court we called “The Garden." We called it the Garden because we all imagined ourselves playing for our hometown basketball team, the New York Knicks, on their home-court, the world-famous Madison Square Garden.