到这里绝对还没有结束，我的竞争意识与我一同进入了职业篮坛。我成为自己引以为豪的公牛队的一员。那时球队老板还不是杰瑞·劳恩斯多夫，而是另一群管理层。拉夫在选秀时选了我，凯文·拉齐是我的第一任教练。凯文在训练时把我放在先发球员里，他为了让训练更有竞争性，训练赛输掉的一队要跑圈。刚开始我们这队领先，但是半场的时候，凯文把我换到了落后的那一队。我把这个当做激励我的动力，我知道这是为了历练我，而往往10次里面有9次这一队会反败为胜，无论他怎么做都一样。所以我很感谢凯文给我这样的机会。他让我的求胜欲望更加强烈。
Jerry Reinsdorf, I mean what else can I say. The next year when I came back I broke my foot; Iwas out of 65 games. And when I came back I want to play. The doctor came with his oldtheory that you can play only seven minutes a game, but I am practicing two hours a day. I amsaying, well, I don't agree with that math. And back then, whoever has the worst record getsthe most balls in Ping-Pang balls, you know you can decide what pick you can have, but I didn'tcare aobut that. I just wanted to win. I wanna make to playoffs. I wanna keep the energy goingin Chicago. So I had to go into his office and sat down with him and say "Jerry, I feel like Ishould play more than 14 minutes and practice more than two hours." He said "We have toprotect the long-term investment we've invested on you." I said "I really think I should be ableto play." He said "Let me ask you this, if you had a headache." At that time, there was tenpercent chance that I can reinjure my ankle or my foot. He said "if you had a headache and yougot ten tablets, and one of them is coated with poison, would you take it?" I looked at himand said "How bad is that headache. How bad is that headache." Jerry looked at me and said"You are OK, I guess you had a good answer, you can go back to play. You let me allow you togo back and play."
杰瑞·瑞斯卓福——我能说他什么好呢?第二年我打了七场就伤了脚，错过了65场比赛。康复之后我很想打球，但队医坚持他的老一套，头头是道地说我每场只能打七分钟，而我每天都会训练两小时——我可不管这些算术上的问题。当时的选秀规则是战绩最烂的球队得到最好的选秀权，我说：你们想破罐子破摔弄个好签，这我不管，我只是想比赛和赢球，想进入季后赛，使公牛队保持那股干劲，所以我去了他的办公室，对他说：“杰瑞，我可以每天训练两小时，每场打14分钟。”他说：“我们对你是长期投资，在你身上我们倾注了很多心血。”我说：“我真的想参加比赛。”他说：“我跟你讲，假设你头疼，”那时，有10%的可能性我会再次伤到脚踝或脚。他说：“假如你头疼，有10个药片，其中有一个是有毒的，你还会吃药吗?”我看看他，回答说“那得看头疼有多严重。”杰瑞说：“我想你已经给出了明确的答案，好吧，你说服了我，你可以去参加比赛了。”
