You can't imagine such a man standing quietly and peacefully on the NBA court that advocates iron blood and muscle.
In other words, he is not "standing", but soaring high in the sky, crossing the most luxurious and glamorous international metropolis, hovering in the town with the ink and fragrance of the book, patrolling the gouache rouge thick makeup smoke and rain stage, leaving an exclamation inside and outside the NBA arena.
He was born on June 22, 1962 in New Orleans, where jazzy sexiness was rife, and although his subsequent years of growth were reserved for the space city of Houston, it seems that at the moment of his birth, God attached the melodious soothing of jazz to his marrow.
As a young man, he showed some talent, but more had nothing to do with basketball, and he liked chic and humble things like books, such as music.
It wasn't until he advanced to high school that his love of basketball came to life. After entering the university, these gods' cares were fully released without any scruples.
During those green years, he also met the closest friend of his life on the basketball court, a Hakim Olajuwon. They fought together on the NCAA arena, and both of them were the most low-key bronze vessels, but when they joined forces, they could hit the fierce iron goo sound of Wu Yue's struggle for supremacy and the sun shining on Chibi.
Throughout his college career, he played as a striker, and the forward line, made up of him, Hakeem Olajuwon and Larry McOs, was unstoppable, helping the team kill the NCAA's final four for two consecutive years.
In 1983, he officially announced his landing in the NBA, and the Portlanders took him off the fourteenth pick with the fourteenth pick due to the deranged choice of the first thirteen general managers.
At this point, the eagle officially spread its wings in the sky of the NBA! In his first season, as a rookie, he did not gain the trust of the team, and the fourteenth pick also limited his development, and some teams will take the lead in working on lottery players and season signings - John Parkerson and Kevin Tether, an experienced forward-guard swingman, is obviously the Portlander's magic weapon to maintain the record.
Drexler's entry into the box was a given, and the 17 minutes of playing time were enough to make Wilt Chamberlain frown. He delivered dismal answers to low scoring per game and then sweated in the training room during the offseason, waiting for a turnaround next season.
Fortunately, Portland's coaching team saw his ability and talent, and in the following season, he was entrusted with a surge in playing time, bringing a surge in scoring numbers - averaging 17.2 points per game, not only that, he was able to deliver 6 rebounds and 5.5 assists and 2.21 steals per game.
Portlanders mao sai suddenly opened, the former jade has bloomed. In the future, it will surely become Portland's premier leading big brother.
In the following season, his average score per game rose again, assists and steals were even more brilliant, averaging 8 assists per game, making the juniors who are now point guards have to retreat, and 26 steals have made the men who call themselves the defensive elite ashamed.
What is even more breathtaking is his calm as a virgin, moving like a rabbit ball. For most of the game, you can't seem to see his presence on the pitch.
Of Portland's starting five Tigers, he's the least favored one, and when you completely ignore his presence, he can play amazing performances or glide violently.
Snap the ball into the basket or pass by you like an elegant gentleman and steal the ball from your hand.
At critical moments, he will also be obligated to stand up. For example, in the Finals against the Orlando Magic that year, after Anderson missed four free throws like the curse of the end of the world, it was his two skywalk-like layups that pulled Houston back from the brink of defeat.
And before that, he had "secretly" picked up nearly 20 points, which was his style, unobtrusive, overly low-key, and playing at the same time with high hits was unusually reasonable.
This is also his inadequacy, and he does not seem to be a true leader all his life. But this does not stop the world from judging him "great." Three years from 1986 to 1989.
It was his most brilliant three years at the Trail Blazers. In those three years, he averaged 21.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 2.4 steals. 27 points, 6.6 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 2.51 steals and 27.2 points, 7.9 assists. But at the same time, the Blazers struggled in the playoffs, falling to the first round of the playoffs for three consecutive years.
Because the team faltered in the playoffs, he was quiet by nature, and the fans gradually forgot about him, and his technical data did not win him the praise he deserved.
But when the Portland Trail Blazers gradually became a strong contender for the NBA championship, he regained the attention of the media. Under his leadership, the explosive Trail Blazers made the NBA Finals twice in 1900 and the 1992 NBA Finals, and in 1991 to the Western Conference Finals.
Losing in the first round of the playoffs for three years allowed him to quickly grow into a very leader-like player. In 21 playoff games that year, he averaged 21.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, and in the second game of the Pistons Finals, he scored 33 points alone, including the key free throws at the end of overtime, which determined the outcome of the game.
However, it was the only victory the Blazers had in the Finals, and the Detroit Pistons successfully defended the title under the leadership of "Smiling Assassin" Isaiah Thomas, but he averaged 26.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per game in the Finals, shooting 54.3% from the field, making him a true mainstay of Portland.
In the 1991/1992 season, he again led the team to the Finals, and that time encountered the biggest enemy of his life, Michael Jordan.
Unfortunately, Jordan was really explosive in the first game, and in the first half alone, he scored 35 points with a series of jump shots and long-range three-pointers, and finally the Bulls also defeated the Blazers 122-89.
The Blazers then made a comeback and looked like they were about to drag the Finals into game seven, but the Blazers lost game six with a 79-64 lead into the fourth quarter, missing out on the championship.
The duel between the two in that year's Finals became a topic of frequent talk among fans for many years, and he became the strongest player to unify the east and west of the league with Jordan in the scoring guard position.
In the next two years, Drexler suffered an injury attack, which had a great impact on his competitive state and was no longer brave.
In 1995, he felt that his time in the NBA was limited, so he asked the team to trade him to his hometown team, the Houston Rockets. Drexler and (college alumnus) Olajuwon are two brothers, and their profits are broken, and they successfully won the NBA championship in the season when the helper is not there.
In 1997, plagued by an injury, he announced his retirement at the end of the season. The media reported the news quietly, and he was very happy.
He was a lifelong safe man who didn't like hustle and bustle. However, when he appeared on the field at the end of that season, the crazy fans finally failed to fulfill his wish, and the shouts of the mountain and the tsunami broke through the clouds! People will always remember - "Glider" Clyde Drexler!