The recent winning streak has ended. After winning 22 straight games, we lost to Boston and New Orleans. It was an emotionally draining run, the media demands alone made every win more difficult. The Los Angeles Lakers had a 33 game winning streak, but if they had to deal with the media pressure and distraction that we had to, I don't think they would have won that many, haha. We can now get back to the business of improving our team and focus on winning games to get to the playoffs.

 The Western Conference playoffs are extremely close. It really is a race for the ages. Every team is so close, that if you lose 2 or 3 games in a row, you may drop 4 to 5 spots in the playoffs. It is crazy. With Carl Landry returning to our team, it gives us a huge confidence boost and makes our team much better, especially with Yao missing.

 People often ask me what it is like in our locker room. In March, we hold an NCAA college basketball tournament competition. In America, many people try to predict how the college basketball tournament will turn out. It is a great time because every one on the team thinks that they know the most about basketball. Everyone follows the games very closely and there is much debate over who will win and who will lose. Even the guys who didn't go to an American university like Yao and Luis Scola fill out a bracket and enter the competition.

 I am sad to say that one of my picks, my alma mater and beloved Duke Blue Devils, lost today. When I was at Duke, we won the national championship in 2001. It remains the biggest highlight of my basketball career to this day. Whenever Duke loses, especially in the NCAA tournament, I receive a lot of phone calls and text messages because many people are jealous of Duke and want to rub it. I just laugh when this happens though.........and show them my championship ring!!!!!! That usually quiets them.

 Well, I have to go, we play the Phoenix Suns tonight, it is a big game, so I will go and get ready now.

Cheer us on!

 Your friend,

 Shane

译文如下：

最近的连胜已经告一段落了，在经历了22场不败之后我们连续输给了波士顿和新奥尔良。这场长跑很具有戏剧性，媒体的不断加温也让每一场胜利都更加困难。历史上的湖人队曾经拿到过33连胜，但是他们也面对了我们今天面对的媒体压力和其他令人分心的事情，我真想不到他们竟然可以连胜那么多场，哈哈！我们现在可以重新把注意力集中在提高球队整体水平和进入季后赛上面了。

西部联盟争夺季后赛席位的球队都非常接近，现在真是每场必争。每支球队都那么接近，甚至于你输了2、3场球，就要掉到4、5名以后了。这实在是件很疯狂的事情。好在卡尔-兰德里重新归队之后，我们在进攻中又重新找回了自信，尤其是在我们没有姚明的时候。

很多人都想知道这段时间我们在更衣室的时候是什么样子的。事实上，三月正是NCAA大学篮球联赛最火热的时候，美国人都喜欢预测NCAA的比赛结果，因为队里每个人都觉得自己是最了解篮球的人，几乎每个人都会认真跟踪赛程讨论那支球队会赢哪支球队会输。就连像姚明和斯科拉这样么有在美国大学打过篮球的人也会加入我们的讨论。

我很遗憾我的母校、我挚爱的杜克大学今天输掉了比赛。当我在杜克大学的时候我们曾经在2001年赢得了NCAA最终的冠军。这件事到现在依然是我篮球生涯中的至高荣誉。每当杜克在NCAA比赛中输球的时候我都会收到很多电话和短信，因为杜克的名誉实在是太招人嫉妒了。不过我还是会大声笑出来，然后很乐意给别人展示我的NCAA冠军戒指，这一下子就能让他们闭嘴了！

ok，我不得不停笔了，我们接下来面对的对手是太阳，这是一场硬仗，我会好好准备的。

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