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Thank you very much. I'd like to start out by thanking Isaiah for coming up here and present me this evening.
非常感谢大家。首先，我要感谢以赛亚今晚能来这里，并且担任我的引荐人。
Don't know everything about each other, all the time we've had some tough battles,
其实我们都不是那么了解彼此，一直以来我们的对抗都很激烈，
but one thing I know for sure that he showed up many times in my life and made major impact for me,
但有一件事我可以肯定，他在我生命中出现过很多次，对我产生了重大影响，
and a lot of its behind the scenes, and thank you, I appreciate it.
还有很多幕后的故事，谢谢你，我充满感激。
I'd like to congratulate the class of 2009.
我要祝贺2009届的名人堂成员们。
You guys represent the best that sports has to offer, extreme competitiveness, intelligent, very courageous.
你们代表了这项运动的最高水平，拥有极强的好胜心，理解力超强，异常果敢。
You made competing fun and you made sports fun to watch. So, thank you.
你们让比赛变得有趣，也让观看体育比赛变得有趣。所以，谢谢你们。
So what am I doing here?
那我在这里干什么？
I'm a small kid from Spokane, Washington, that was mooching Nilla Wafers from my neighbors that are here today,
我是一个来自华盛顿州斯波坎市的小孩，小时候经常向邻居讨要薄脆饼，他们今天都来了，
waddling around in big shorts, and now I'm being inducted into the Hall of Fame in short shorts.
我还会穿着大短裤大摇大摆地走来走去，现在我正穿着超短裤进入名人堂。
I do know that I played 30 years competitively.
我前前后后共打了三十年的比赛。
Three at St. Aloysius, four at Gonzaga Prep, four at Gonzaga University, and all those years not once, never, was I the best player on my team.
在圣阿罗依斯中学打了三年，在贡萨加预备学校打了四年，在贡萨加大学打了四年，这么些年来，我从来没有一次是我球队中最好的球员。
I had a shot at it one year because two of our best players got hurt, season ending injuries. One of those is here today.
有一年我尝试过，因为我们的两个最好的球员受伤了，是那种赛季报销的伤病。其中一位今天就在这里。
I wasn't even the best player in my own house.
我甚至不是自己家里最好的球员。
My brother Steve boasts a record of about 1000-1 in bloody driveway battles.
我哥哥史蒂夫吹嘘自己在残酷的野球单挑中的战绩是1000胜1负。
Yet out there, there's a large group of people that traveled over 1000 miles, some from Hawaii, some from Alaska, just to support me.
有一大群人，他们跋涉了1000多英里，有的从夏威夷来，有的从阿拉斯加来，只是为了支持我。
You almost start laughing there because I think they actually came to see Michael.
你们可能要笑了，因为我觉得他们是来看乔丹的。
You know he makes one big shot and everyone thinks he's kinda cool, I don't get it.
你们知道，他投入了一个关键球，每个人都觉得他太酷了，可是我不觉得。
Out here in the crowd are lifetime family friends who never missed the call to raise money for trips or for uniforms.
在这里的人群中，有一些是我一辈子的亲朋好友，他们从不错过为旅行或制服筹款的电话。
Then they'd support the family by going down to my dad's tavern, Jack and Dan's, and expertly critiquing our performance game in and game out.
然后他们会去我爸爸的酒馆--杰克和丹的酒馆，熟练地对我们的表演进行点评。
They continued that process for the 19 years watching the Jazz on satellite.
他们通过卫星转播，持续观看了爵士队19年来的比赛。
Some out here are my friends from Salt Lake and the Utah Jazz that adopted me into their family; welcomed my family as it grew and grew and grew.
这里有一些人是我盐湖城和犹他爵士队的朋友们，他们将我融入了他们的大家庭；并且对我逐渐壮大的家庭保持欢迎。
Better not forget before I kind of get interrupted here,
在我被打断之前，我一定不能忘记
not forget to thank the people from the NBA and USA Olympic basketball for providing the place where all my dreams played out. Thank you.
感谢NBA大家庭和美国梦之队的所有人，是他们为我提供了实现梦想的地方。谢谢你们。
