In his 20 NBA seasons, Kobe Bryant has faced a number of brilliant players: vets¹ near the end of their careers, such as Karl Malone and John Stockton; fellow stars who entered the league around his time, such as Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett; newer standouts such as Dwyane Wade² and Stephen Curry³.

在科比·布莱恩特的20年NBA职业生涯当中，他面对了许多许多杰出的球员：比如临近退役的卡尔·马龙和约翰·斯托克顿；比如和科比同一个时代进入NBA的蒂姆·邓肯以及凯文·加内特；再比如一些后起之秀，德怀恩·韦德和史蒂芬·库里。

None of those made his top five "toughest players to face" list. As relayed by Baxter Holmes, here it is:

但是，他们这些人都没有入选科比认为“最难对付的对手”的前五名。巴特斯特-霍尔姆斯转述的是以下几位：

Top five players Kobe says he has faced: Olajuwon, MJ, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Clyde Drexler. Adds that it's hard to pick just five.

科比认为最难对付的五大对手：奥拉朱旺、迈克尔·乔丹、凯文·杜兰特、勒布朗·詹姆斯以及克莱德·德雷克斯勒。科比还表示，只选出五个人真的很难。

Michael Jordan? No surprise. LeBron James? Not really either. Kevin Durant? When he's healthy, he's electric. And Hakeem Olajuwon? There's a reason they call him The Dream. The biggest surprise, perhaps, is Clyde Drexler -- but no one is about to claim he wasn't great.

迈克尔·乔丹？这毫无疑问。勒布朗·詹姆斯？也没什么异议。凯文·杜兰特？当他保持健康的时候，确实令人恐怖。哈基姆·奥拉朱旺？他可是被人们叫做“大梦”的人！也许最令人吃惊的就是克莱德·德雷克斯勒的入选。但恐怕也没人会怀疑他的伟大。

The key point is the second thing Bryant told Holmes: It is hard to choose a top five from 1996 to 2015.

最关键的是科比告诉霍尔姆斯的第二件事：从1996年到2015年这20年中，只选出五个人来真的很难很难。