今年休赛期，不少人都在谈论科比可能复出一事。早前，奥尼尔在自己的一档播客节目中再次提及此事。奥尼尔表示，如果科比宣布复出，那么外界会为之轰动，科比将会再次成为联盟焦点。

Former teammate Shaquille O'Neal recently chimed in on his show, The Big Podcast with Shaq: "He will never go to the Big 3 before he does the NBA. Everybody knows who Kobe is. You're telling me Kobe can't give somebody a nice 15-20 minutes a game. If you align¹ all the dots and align all the moons and oceans... if he came back at 40 then the announcement would be the biggest sports announcement in history.

科比的昔日队友沙奎尔·奥尼尔近期在他的节目上声称，通过他的博客：“在复出参赛NBA前，科比不会去参加Big3联赛的。人人都知道科比是谁。你是告诉我科比一场比赛中不能打出15-20分钟的好球。如果你梳理清那些点点滴滴……如果他40岁时宣布复出，那将是历史上最大的体育新闻。

But during an appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show," the newly-turned 40-year-old restated he firmly is retired²: "There's about a zero percent chance that I come back and play. ...Nothing. Done. That's it."

但是参加Rich Eisen秀上，即将年满40岁的科比重申他不会复出的：“回到赛场，再披战衣基本再无可能。“不会的。已经结束了。”

Never. Here's the thing, for us athletes, it's really hard to transition from that. I was really personal about it when I wrote "Dear Basketball."

不会的。对运动员而言就是这样,过渡很难。当我写“亲爱的篮球”时，我内心真的是五味杂陈。

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That is the true challenge, of finding what comes next. Finding something you love to do every bit as much as you love your first passion.

去找到接下来会想做的事情，这真是一个很大的挑战。不忘初心，衷于所爱。找到一个如你第一次激情一样的所爱是很难的。

That is a challenge for us. I think unfortunately for us athletes, we've been pigeonholed³ into thinking that we can only be one thing.

对于我们来说这很具挑战性。我认为对运动员很不幸的是外界总把我们想成只能做体育。

So when I retired, everybody said, 'OK, he's too competitive. He's not going to know what to do with himself. He's going to have to come back.' I took that as a personal challenge of them thinking I'm this one-dimensional person. That all I know is how to dribble⁴ a ball, shoot the ball and play basketball and compete at that level. So I took it as a personal challenge.

所以当我退役时，所有人都说：“好吧，他太好强。他将不知所措。他会复出的。”对于那些认为我是一成不变的人，我将此作为个人挑战。他们认为我所知道的就是如何运球，投篮，比赛和在NBA的级别上拼搏。所以我将此作为个人挑战。

I will never come back to the game. Ever. I'm here to show people we can do much more than that. Creating this business, winning an Oscar, winning an Emmy, and an Annie, those are things that are showing athletes that come after, 'No, no. There's more to this thing.' So I would never (return). It's not even a thought."

我将永远不会再复出了。永远不会。我来此向人们表明我能做比篮球更多的事业。创办企业、赢得奥斯卡、赢得艾美奖和安妮奖，这些事情足以向以后退役的运动员表明，“不要担心，还有更多事可以做。”所以我不会（回去），想都不会想。