首先，我想再次祝福大家新年愉快。我希望每个人都能享受到友情、美食和愉快的时光。姚明九年来第一次回到中国去过年。我知道，能够和亲友在一起共度佳节(大快朵颐)，他有多么开心。大家新年快乐！

今天是NBA交易截止日。NBA中大部分交易都会在今天发生。每支球队都有不同的交易需求。一些球队想清理掉一些水平太低的球员或者垃圾合同，这样才可以在自由市场上签下新球员，另一些球队希望能够签下一些能够带来帮助的球员。你可能已经知道，火箭将卡尔-兰德里、乔伊-多西和特雷西-迈克格雷迪送到了萨克拉门托国王，换回了凯文-马丁和还有待确定的其他一些球员。交易永远是有失有得。一方面，我为卡尔和乔伊的离去感到难过，因为他们在更衣室里很活跃，大家相处得非常开心。他们总是带着浑身的热情来到训练馆，这一点非常少有。我相信他们在国王队会干得不错。卡尔是一颗希望之星，我希望也相信他将前程似锦。昨晚下飞机后，我告诉他，希望他继续努力训练，继续坚持用正确的方式打球，永不满足。这是一个多好的孩子啊。

我们用卡尔交易来的家伙是凯文-马丁，他是一个货真价实的优秀进攻球员。他是联盟中最难防守的后卫之一，因为他投篮非常准。如果给他空位出手的机会，他一定能够命中。他的无球跑动也非常棒，他一刻都不停地奔跑。他擅长制造犯规，而且他的罚球命中率高达90％。据和他打过球的人说，这人工作努力，是一个好队友。这点很重要，因为我们队内气氛很好，我们希望保持更衣室的和谐。凯文不会是一个在更衣室制造麻烦的人。他和其他队友能磨合到什么程度，这得上了场才会知道。每个交易发生时，在纸面上看都不错，但时间会告诉你，某项交易是帮助还是伤害了球队。如今火箭队后卫线上可谓人才济济，凯文-马丁、特里弗-阿里扎、蔡斯-巴丁格、阿隆-布鲁克斯、洛瑞和我，看看主教练怎么排兵布阵吧，这应该很有意思。我不知道球队未来的方向，希望这次交易能够让我们进入季后赛，并且等下赛季姚明复出后我们能够冲击总冠军。不要走开。这一定很有意思。

回头再聊朋友们，

肖恩

原文如下—— 

First of all, I want to wish everyone a happy lunar new year again. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves with good friends, good food and good times. Yao was going to back to China for the first time in 9 years to celebrate the New Year. I know how excited he was to go back and spend time with family and friends (and eat a lot of great food). Happy New Year everyone!

Today is the trade deadline. Today is the day when most of the trades in the NBA happen. Every team has a different motivation in trading their players. Some teams want to get rid of bad players and bad contracts so that they can sign players in the free agent market, while others will try to trade for players that will help their teams immediately. You may have already read that the Rockets have traded Carl Landry, Joey Dorsey, and Tracy McGrady to the Sacramento Kings for Kevin Martin and other players to be determined later. Trades are always bittersweet. On one hand, I am sad to see Carl and Joey go away, they were great in the locker room and were always happy and upbeat. They came to the gym with a genuine enthusiasm, which is difficult to find believe it or not. I know they will do well in Sacramento. Carl is a budding star, I hope he has a great career, I know he will. I told him last night as we exited the plane to keep working, keep playing the right way, and to stay hungry. What a good guy.

The guy we traded Carl for, Kevin Martin, is a really, really good offensive player. He is one of the tougher guards in the league to guard because he is a very good shooter. If he has an open shot, he will make it. He also is great moving without the ball, he never stops moving. He creates a lot of fouls and is a 90% free throw shooter. The guys who have played with him say that he is a hard worker and good teammate. That is very important, because we have a good group of guys and the last thing we need is someone to cause trouble in the locker room. Kevin won't be a locker room problem. As far as how he will fit in with the rest of the team on the court remains to be seen. Every trade looks good on paper when they happen, but only time will tell if the trade helped or hurt the teams involved. With a logjam of players on the wing, Kevin Martin, Trevor Ariza, Chase Budinger, Aaron Brooks, Kyle Lowry, and myself, it will be interesting to see how Coach tweaks the lineup. I don't know in what direction our team will go, hopefully this move will propel us into the playoffs and put us in a position to make a run for a championship when Yao returns next season healthy and ready to go. Stay tuned. It should be interesting.

Talk to you soon my friends,

Shane