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JUL 2 2017

That’s what it comes down to — it’s right there in the title.

所有的一切都归结为——如这个标题所说（家）。

When I had to make my free-agency decision, there was a lot going through my head, a lot of roads my mind was traveling down. Family, first and foremost, and what’s going to make them happy, and give them the best life. Basketball, of course, and where I’d like to play for these next several years. And then there was also the gut-check aspect — just what I was feeling in my heart.

当我不得不做出我作为自由球员的决定时，我思绪万千，摆在我面前的路有很多。首先也是最重要的就是家人，如何做才能给他们带来快乐，能给他们带来最好的生活。当然还有篮球，这个我接下来几年还要继续奋斗的职业。还有一个方面就是自我反省，即我的内心的真实感受。

But for me, at the end of the day, this was an easy decision. And all of those roads … they all led me back to the same place: home.

They all led me back to Toronto.

但是对于我来说，这终究是个简单的决定。这些所有的路都引领我去向同一个地方——家，她们都引导我回到多伦多。

When I got here, five years ago, there was a lot of rebuilding talk. A lot of, Man, this roster, I don’t know … the Raptors gotta blow it up. These experts, I think they wanted us to trade this, waive that, tank this, draft that. That was most of the talk surrounding our franchise. And I was definitely one of the names being included in that talk.

当我五年前来到这里时，这里充斥着重建的流言。很多人议论纷纷，嘿，这个阵容（烂透了），我不知道……猛龙将会一事无成。那些专家，我认为他们想要我们交易谁、裁掉谁、摆烂、选秀，这是球队周围大多数人谈论的话题，而我确定我也是他们口中的一员。

And that was tough because I think a lot of us here — we knew that, with the right level of commitment, this could be a special place. We knew we had some special pieces here, from the top down: From an ownership group that wanted to win … to an emerging young backcourt in myself and DeMar … to some of the best basketball fans in the world, that not a lot of people even knew about.

这很艰难，因为我知道我们其中的很多人都有同样的目标，大家也知道这将会是一个特殊的地方。我们知道这里有很多帮手，从一直想赢球的管理层到不断崛起的年轻后场：我和德罗赞，还有着世界上最好的篮球迷，而这些很多人都没有注意到。

And I just think about that sometimes: How all of those people were telling us to blow this up, all of those years ago — but we stuck together. We took a look around at the group that we had, and we said, you know, as a team, as a franchise, as a city — we can make this into a contender, into a place where hoops really matters, if we just see it through. And that’s when the Raptors decided to believe in me.

And we’ve been seeing it through, and believing in each other, ever since.

我经常会去想，尽管很多年前，很多人说我们很快就会解体，但我们依然团结在一起。看看我们所拥有的团队，我们可以说，作为一个球队，一个管理层，甚至一个城市，我们可以作为一个竞争者，一个重视篮球的城市，这一切都起源于猛龙决定相信我的时候。于是我们一直努力，一直相互信任，从始至终，从未改变。

So I kind of see this summer, then, as … it’s almost like coming full circle. We ended our season this past year with some disappointment. And that’s a couple of years, now, where — as exciting as it’s been around here — I don’t think we’ve reached our true potential. And you’d hear the whispers, you know, those same experts that were telling us to blow this up in 2013, there they are again with that same talk in 2017.

But the difference between then and now, and what I’m thankful for, is that this time the ball was much more in my court. I was a free agent. Which meant that it was up to me to decide whether this thing we have — is it worth sticking around for, and running it back again, and seeing if we can take that next step?

And like I said — to me, that was an easy decision. The answer is yes.

所以当这个夏天来临的时候，就像一个轮回。过去的几个赛季不尽如人意，尽管有时候我们的表现令人兴奋。我觉得大家仍然还有尚未激发的潜能。你可能听到了窃窃私语，就像2013年他们专家所说的一样，2017那些话又传了出来。但是与以往不同的是，也让我心存感激的是，这次主动权在我手里，我是一名自由球员，这意味着我在做决定的时候要考虑的更多，是离开还是留下，我们是否能更进一步。对我而言，这只是一个简单的决定。这个答案是“是的”。