When I told my sons that we were staying in T.O., their reaction, man — O.K., I’m going to be honest: My youngest, he’s too young to care. But my oldest … when I saw Karter’s reaction, that’s how I knew for sure this was right. I could tell right away, just from the look on his face. I could tell that if we’d left … for him, it wouldn’t have just been about moving, you know, from any one place to another. It would have been a lot tougher than that. It would have been about truly leaving — leaving his friends, leaving his school, leaving this city that he’s grown attached to. We would have been leaving a place that is really just … you know, it’s part of our family now. We’d have been leaving home.

(And yeah, just so you know, my guy’s second reaction was, “Alright, Dad — now we gotta get a bigger house!” We’ll see about that one.)

当我告诉我的孩子我们将会留在多伦多时，他们的反应是高兴的。我必须老实的说，我的小儿子他因为年纪太小不会在意这些。但是我的大儿子Karter，他的反应让我确信这是一个正确的决定，因为我看到了他脸上的笑容。可以这么说，如果我告诉他我要离开，这不仅仅是搬家，并不是从一个地方到另一个地方。有更困难的事要面对，他要面对的是真正离别——离开他的朋友，学校，这个他成长的城市。我们要离开的是已经成为我们家的一部分的地方，一个我们称它为家的地方。

（对了，插一句，我二儿子的反应是，‘好吧，爸爸。现在我们可得搬到一个大房子啦！’我们拭目以待吧。）

Anyway, that’s really all I wanted to say for right now. I just wanted y’all to be the first ones to hear it, and to hear it directly from me.

无论如何，这就是我现在真正想说的，我只是想第一时间告诉你们，让你们知道。

I’m coming back to Toronto because my heart is telling me that it’s home — and because staying home, for me and my family, feels like the right thing to do. My heart is telling me that this is the best city in the world, with the best basketball fans in the world. It’s telling me that the Raptors can be a championship-level team, sooner than later. And I’ll be honest (and don’t hate) — it’s telling me that I’ve still never had poutine.

我要回到多伦多，因为我内心告诉我这就是家。对于我和我的家庭来说，留在家里，就是正确的做法。我内心告诉自己，这是世界上最好的城市，有最好的球迷，猛龙队早晚是冠军级别的球队。老实说，我还没吃够肉汁乳酪薯条。

But most of all: It’s telling me that, if you’re looking for people to believe in — choose the people who believed in you first.

And if you start something?

Man, you finish it.

但是最重要的是，如果你正在找寻你要相信的人，你一定要选择第一个相信你的人。

如果你想要开始什么事呢？

那就完成它吧。

KYLE LOWRY/ CONTRIBUTOR

素材：purple 翻译：rcino

校对：彬 编辑：ENBA

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