2德怀特-霍华德——休斯敦火箭队

2012-13数据：17.1分，12.4个篮板，2.4次封盖
2012-13球队状况：常规赛45胜37负，一轮游（湖人队）
2012-13 Stats: 17.1 PPG, 12.4 RPG, 2.4 BPG
2012-13 Team Outcome: 45-37 Regular Season, First-round exit (L.A. Lakers)

       分享一个人生经验，有些时候，理由会成为借口。在霍华德即将到来的第10个NBA赛季，人生不会再给他创造那么多“重启”的机会了。作为全联盟最具身体统治力的球员，健康的霍华德再没别的借口，他必须“承认”他终于在火箭队找到了最合适的队友并且拿出成绩。当他从可以改变职业生涯的背部手术恢复，并进入他的第二个完整赛季时，霍华德期望可以重新做回那个人们印象中的联盟前三的球员，那个在2009年作为球队核心征战总决赛的“超人”。

      那时的霍华德，就对手的防守而言是极具杀伤性的摧毁力量，他能扭断对手的挡拆配合并迅速回防，保护篮圈。当他进入联盟时，霍华德就展示了他不仅是是球场上统治级别的球员，还是魔术当时年轻新生代更衣室的领导者。尽管由于调整时期，迅速冲进决赛让人觉得有些不切实际，可不管那些对他已无期待的人们在批评什么，霍华德还是这个联盟最有统治力的大个子，无论公平与否，现在就是他的时代了。

Paraphrasing a life’s lesson once bestowed upon me, at a certain point, excuses become just that: an excuse. As Howard enters what will be his 10th NBA season, life won’t afford him very many (if any) ‘reset‘ buttons from this point on. As one of the league’s most physically dominating forces, when healthy, Howard has to hope he’s finally found the proper mix of players to run the court with in Houston. As he heads into his second full season following career-altering back surgery, Howard is looking to rekindle the type of play that had most people placing him in the discussion for the league’s top-three players following his 2009 Finals run as the leader of the Orlando Magic.

At that point, Howard was such a destructive force to all aspects of the opposing team’s offense in how was able to disrupt the pick-and-roll and recover in time to protect the rim. As he enters what should be his prime years in the league, the time has come for Howard to show that he is not only still a dominating presence on the court, but the leader his young locker room is certain to need. Even though an immediate run to the Finals may be unrealistic due to a natural adjustment period, Howard also has a new wave of improving big men to contend with in the near future. Regardless of what those whom are understandably disenchanted with him have to criticize, Howard is still the league’s most physically dominant big man. His time, fair or not, is now.

☆☆☆☆☆五星级词汇
☆BPG (Bloacks per game) 场均盖帽。
☆pick and roll 挡切战术。 
☆adjustment period 调整期间。单词adjustment n. 调整，调节；调节器,例句With the real estate industry gradually enters into the adjustment period, the competition is increasingly fierce.而随着地产行业逐渐的进入调整时期，其竞争也越来越激烈。
☆contend with 处理；应付。例句：I have enough to contend with; don't bother me with your problems.我的事都应付不过来了，别再拿你的事麻烦我了。
☆fair or not 不管公平与否,表示一种对客观事实不得不承认的立场。例如，In China, during the transition period, personal income distribution is generally the basis and criterion for people to evaluate whether a society is fair or not. 在社会转型时期的中国，收入分配状况通常是人们评价社会是否公平的依据和标准。