“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(10)

She said, “Stephon, China is far but God is everywhere and, whatever you think is best for your life I"m gonna support you. You only get one life and I just want you to be happy." That"s what my mom said. I was not happy then playing in the NBA, so I left, I boarded an international flight for a more than 7,000-mile journey to go to a place that I knew...
我对中国仅有的一些了解是，它离美国很远，我听说过长城，我还知道姚明，因为他获得了休斯顿火箭队2002赛季选拔的头筹。我只知道这些。我在纽约市长大，那里的唐人街有很多中国人，尽管如此我对中国人以及他们的哲学和文化还是知之甚少，这让我想知道，当我到了中国，中国人会怎么对待我。因为我从纽约飞到中国需要13个多小时，我有充足的时间思考这个问题。
I knew nothing about or no one except for a small group of people who worked to get me to come to the People"s Republic of China. The few things I knew about China was it was far from the US, I had heard about the Great Wall and I knew about Yao Ming because the Houston Rockets had drafted him number one in the 2002 NBA Draft. That was it. I grew up in New York City where there is a large Chinese population in Chinatown.
Still, I knew very little about the Chinese people, their philosophy and culture. That got me to wondering “How would the people in China treat me once I got there?” I had a lot of time to think about that answer since my flight from New York to China was more than 13 hours.