LeBron James sat in a Boys & Girls Club in Connecticut on Thursday night to make an announcement with more at stake than even many NBA playoff games. His final verdict: He will play for the Miami Heat starting next season.
布朗•詹姆斯（LeBron James）周四晚间坐在康涅狄格州男孩女孩酒吧宣布了甚至比许多NBA季后赛意义都要重大的决定。他最终决定：从下个赛季开始将为迈阿密热队（Miami Heat）效力。
Perhaps no contract signing in the history of North American sports has engendered a greater amount of hype. Mr. James's destination has been the subject of ramped-up speculation for two years. At minimum, the 25-year-old's announcement is the first to take place during an hour-long television special devotedsolely to that subject.
北美体育史上可能还没有哪一次签约事件有这次的轰动效应。过去两年中詹姆斯将何去何从一直是人们猜测的中心。这位现年25岁的球员是在一个历时一小时的电视特别节目中做出上述声明的，至少，这在历史上尚属首次。
By choosing the Heat, the elite swingman has opted to leave his home-state Cleveland Cavaliers in favor of a flashier franchise that already has lined up fellow star Chris Bosh to go with its star Dwyane Wade. NBA salary rules would have allowed Mr. James to earn about $30 million more for staying in Cleveland than any other team could have offered him.
选择热队，这位精英摇摆人也就决意离开家乡的克里夫兰骑士队（Cleveland Cavaliers），因为他看好已配备了克里斯•波什（Chris Bosh）及德维恩•韦德（Dwyane Wade）的华丽军团。根据NBA的薪酬制度，詹姆斯如果留在骑士队，他的薪酬将能比其他任何队伍所能提供的都高出3,000万美元左右。
The departure of Mr. James, who hails from nearby Akron, is sure to devastate basketball fans in northeastern Ohio, as well as fans in New York, Chicago and elsewhere who had hoped to lure the six-time All-Star. Potential suitors like the New York Knicks shedded expensive (and often talented) players from their rosters in an effort to make room under the NBA's salary-cap system for Mr. James and accompanying stars.
詹姆斯来自俄亥俄州的阿克伦，他的离去肯定会令俄亥俄州东北部以及纽约、芝加哥和其他一些地方的球迷深受打击，这些地方的球队都曾经希望将曾六次入选全明星阵容的詹姆斯招至麾下。纽约尼克斯队（New York Knicks）等一些想招揽詹姆斯的球队将现有阵容中身价高昂（通常也很有天赋）的一些球员出售，以便在NBA的薪酬封顶制度下留出空间，好引进詹姆斯及其他一些相应的球星。
Mr. James immediately became one of the NBA's most popular players during his 2003-04 rookie year in Cleveland. His career averages of 27.8 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and 1.7 steals are phenomenal by any measure. But Mr. James has also drawn criticism for the Cavaliers' meek second-round exit from the playoffs this past spring, punctuated by a 120-88 Game 5 loss at home to the Boston Celtics.
2003-04年詹姆斯是骑士队的新人，在这期间他很快成为NBA人气最高的球员之一。他的职业生涯场均得分27.8分，七次篮板球、七次助攻和1.7次抢断，以任何标准衡量都是了不起的。但骑士队在今年春季季后赛第二轮表现不佳也令詹姆斯饱受批评，其中最突出的就是第五场比赛骑士队主场对阵波士顿凯尔特人(Boston Celtics)以88-120告负。
The presence of Mr. James, the incumbent Mr. Wade and Mr. Bosh, who has spent his career with the Toronto Raptors, in the same lineup gives Miami as talented a trio as has ever played in the league. However, the Heat have hardly any supporting cast with which to build around the trio aside from young power forward Michael Beasley. Team president Pat Riley pared his roster to the bone to make room for the three U.S. Olympians.
詹姆斯、韦德和波什共同加盟迈阿密热队，令热队拥有了堪称NBA史上最强的三人组。波什曾在多伦多猛龙队(Toronto Raptors)效力。但热队除了年轻的大前锋迈克尔•比斯利（Michael Beasley）以外，没有什么队员能够协同这三人来打配合，热队领队帕特•赖利将尽可能地减少了队员人数，为这三名入选美国国家队征战奥运会的选手留出空间。
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