With the Los Angeles Lakers taking a one-step-forward, two-steps-backward approach to their post-All-Star playoff push following another defeat at the hands of a lesser opponent, LeBron James was asked if the pressure of it all was becoming a distraction to his team.
全明星后，湖人在自己的季后赛之路上刚前进一步，接着又倒回去两步，输给的对手还不算多强。勒布朗·詹姆斯被问到，这一切的压力是否正在成为他的球队分心的因素。
"At this point if you are still allowing distractions to affect how the way you play, then this is the wrong franchise to be a part of and you should just come and be like, 'Listen, I don't think this is for me. I cannot do this,'" James said following a 110-105 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.
“到现在这时候了，要是你还让各种东西干扰到自己的场上表现，那只能说明你不属于这支球队，你就该直接说‘我觉得我不适合这里，我做不到，’”詹姆斯在周一以105比110输给孟菲斯灰熊后说。
And the Lakers' 0-2 road trip quickly erased any momentum they hoped to have generated from their 19-point comeback victory over the Houston Rockets in their first game out of the All-Star break last week.
湖人0-2的客场之旅，很快抹去了他们希望得到的前进势头，原本在19分逆转火箭取胜后，湖人已经看到了些许希望的。
"Like, seriously, if you're distracted by playoff pushes out of all the stuff that's been talked about this year, nah," James said. "Just come and do your job. We do our job at a high level and that's not a distraction. That's what you want. That's what you want every game. You want to feel like you're fighting for something."
詹姆斯说：“说真的，在经历了这赛季种种事件之后，你要是连季后赛的压力都承受不了，那还是算了吧。”“来干好你该干的事，我们想要把所有事情都做好，这不会分散我们的注意力。这就是你想要的。这就是你每场比赛想要的。你想感觉自己在为某件事而奋斗。”
James' career numbers took a leap forward — he became the only player in league history to rank in the top 10 in both career scoring and career assists after passing Andre Miller for No. 10 on the assists list, and his 24 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists moved him past Wilt Chamberlain for No. 5 on the all-time triple-doubles list with 79 — but it came on a night when he shot just 8-for-23 from the floor with five turnovers.
詹姆斯的职业生涯数据有了飞跃——他成为联盟历史上唯一一个在总得分和助攻方面都名列前十的球员。他在助攻榜上超越了安德烈·米勒位列第十，24分、12个篮板和11次助攻的三双，让他的职业生涯总三双数达到79个并超越威尔特·张伯伦，来到历史第五——但在那场比赛中，他只有23投8中，失误5次。

Still, despite playing on a sub-.500 team the latest into a season since his second year in the league back in 2004-05 with the Cleveland Cavaliers, James expressed optimism — a sentiment echoed by most of the Lakers' locker room.
现在，詹姆斯的湖人胜率不足50%，上一次他带队拿到这种低胜率，还要追溯到2004-05赛季的骑士。但他还是表现出了乐观情绪，这一情绪在湖人更衣室的大部分人中得到了回响。
"Just stay positive. That, you know, starts with me," James said. "I just got to stay positive. Keep knocking on the door. And I felt like if we play like we did tonight, then we got to continue that consistent effort, that will get us over the hump as we make this push."
“保持乐观。你知道，那是从我开始的，”詹姆斯说。我只是要保持乐观。继续多多交流，我觉得如果我们今晚打得像今晚一样好，那么我们必须继续不断的努力，这会让我们克服困难。”
Lakers coach Luke Walton lauded his team's "effort and togetherness," and also suggested that the disappointment from the loss was necessary to dwell on between now and their next game on Wednesday hosting those same Pelicans that just beat his team.
湖人教练沃顿称赞他的球队的“努力和团结”，并表示从现在到他们周三的下一场比赛，对于输掉比赛的失望是有必要的，因为他们要打的就是刚刚输给的鹈鹕。
"One game. Feel this pain. Let's not try to run from it," he said. "It should hurt that we lost, that we went 0-2 on this trip. But the only thing that matters is the next game, the chance to redeem ourselves against New Orleans. We don't need to look further than that. That's all that we can control as a group. So that's where we need our mindset to be."
“一场比赛。感觉到这种疼痛。我们不要试图逃避它，”他说。“我们输了就应该感到伤心，应该为0胜2负这样的战绩失望。但唯一重要的是下一场比赛，在新奥尔良的比赛中挽回自己的机会，我们不需要看得更远。这就是我们作为一个集体所能控制的一切，这就是我们需要的心态。”
Or, as Brandon Ingram, who kept up his personal sharp play with a game-high 32 points, put it: "There's a certain fire that comes out when you continue to get what you don't want. I think that's where the hurt comes from, the chance for us to win."
或者，正如保持良好手感砍下32分高分的布兰登·英格拉姆所说：“当你继续得到你不想要的东西时，心中就会燃起怒火。我认为这就是伤痛的来源，也是我们获胜的机会。”

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