And I will thank a couple of people that you guys probably wouldn't even think I will thank. Isaiah Thomas, Magic Johnson and George Gervin. They are the so-called freezing-out in my rookie season. I would never guess, but you guys gave me the motivation, say, you know what? Evidently I've got to prove to these guys. I've got to prove to them that I deserve what I've got on this level. No matter what people may have said, if it is rumor, I never took it as truth. But you guys never froze me up, because I was just happy to be there no matter how you look at it. From that point forward, I wanted to prove to you, Magic, Larry, Gorge, everybody that I deserve to be on this level as much as anybody else. And hopefully over the whole period of my career I have done that, without a doubt. Even in the Detroit, we've done that.
我還要感謝一些人，這些人或許你們都沒想到。伊塞亞·托馬斯，魔術師約翰遜，喬治·格溫。在我的新秀賽季，我被你們完全凍結。是你們給了我前進的動力。每天我都需要向你們證明我所得到的一切成就都問心無愧。無論人們是如何評論的，我從來不把謠言當做真相。你們從來沒有把我嚇怕，因為，我只是喜歡打球而已，不管你們如何看待。以此為出發點，我就是要向你們證明我有資格在這個場上打球，就跟你們一樣。我想，在我整個職業生涯中我已經證明了這一切，毫無疑問。即使是在底特律，我們也做到了。
Pat Riley, I mean, you and I go way back. I still remember in Hawaii, remember in Hawaii where you and I, I was coming in. You were, I guess, leaving: you decided to stay a couple of days. You were coming into my suite and came, and I told you: "Get out of my suite." You slid a note on the leak of my door, although you had to move, you didn't move. You slid the note, saying "I enjoyed the competition, congratulations, but we will meet again. " And I take the heart in that, because I think in all I see you are just as competitive as I am and even from a coach standing point.
帕托·萊利，還記得我們間的恩怨嗎。我記得在夏威夷，我剛到，而你可能正準備離開。后來你決定多待幾天。你跑到我的房間，要進來，我就喊：“出去?！北M管你要走，但你卻沒有。你給我的門上留了一張紙條：我很享受與你的比賽，恭喜你，但是我們還會再見的。我打心底里感激。我想你就和我一樣，享受競爭的過程，即便你是從一個教練的角度。
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