The previous article wrote about Brandon Jennings, the rookie and peak player of 2009, and this article talked about the player who pushed Jennings, Curry and Harden to win the best rookie of the 2009 season, and Terrik Evans, who was once the fourth pick of the Kings.
Kings Evans, like Jennings the Bucks, both played their best career stats in their rookie seasons, but the difference is that although the late career statistics of both are declining, Evans is obviously in better shape, Evans has only averaged single-digit points in most of the 16-17 seasons of the NBA due to injury, and Evans has played for the Pacers in the most recent 18-19 seasons from 2021, playing as a substitute in 4 games in the playoffs. He can also average 15 points per game.
Evans had become a household name in the United States before entering the NBA league, averaging 32 points, 8.8 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 4.3 steals in his senior year of high school. By the time he was in college, Evans averaged 17.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, and was named the Most Valuable Player several times for his high school college performances.
Topped the title of America's best high school student, Evans also cashed in on his strength and talent in the first season of the Kings, with a height of 1.98 meters and a weight of more than 100 kg Evans has excellent arm span and lateral speed, good ball possession ability, is a technically comprehensive double guard, such a physical quality in the 1st and 2nd positions to dominate. The rookie season averaged 20+5+5 per game, so evans was once compared with rookie Jordan and James, because of the same strong physical fitness, Evans is also known as "Little James".
Evans won a number of honors in his rookie season, and also won the best rookie of the year, but in the second season, the former Kings core Kevin Martin left the team, perhaps the Kings discovered the potential of Evans's forward, Evans was more arranged in the position of small forwards, although he had the title of "Little James", but the NBA forwards were strong, Evans had physical advantages that no longer existed, and the defensive disadvantages of the position loss, followed by a decline in shooting percentage, Evans' shooting percentage dropped five points in his second season and his points per game dropped to 17.8 points per game.
In the 10-year NBA Draft, the Kings got Cousins with the fifth pick, with two highly talented young players, the Kings wanted to build a two-star combination inside and outside, but the combination of these two players in the game was not ideal, the team is still a bad team, the Kings have won less than 30 games for three consecutive seasons. Due to the vague positioning and injury impact, coupled with Evans's low outside three-point shooting rate, Evans's rookie four seasons in the Kings' rookie data showed a gradual downward trend, on the contrary, the Kings' other rising star Cousins improved significantly, and even at that time some people commented that Cousins would become the league's first center, in such a strong contrast, the Kings traded Evans to the Pelicans in the 13-year offseason, and signed a 5-year, $80 million contract with Cousins in October of the same year.
Evans and the Pelicans' four-year, $43.98 million contract, and in the four seasons he played for the Pelicans, Evans still did not play at the level of his rookie season, and the average number remained around 15+5+5, but the improvement was that Evans' three-point shooting rate has been steadily improving, averaging 38.8% of Evans' three-point shooting on the field in the 15th to 16th seasons, and has hit 5 three-pointers in a single game, just as Evans is recovering, a knee surgery broke the illusion. After the 15-16 season, Evans was reimbursed for the season, and evans has been plagued by a knee injury and has been in a sharp decline, resulting in the Pelicans trading Evans back to the Kings, and the Pelicans are replaced by Cousins, the first center in the league below the neck, after a short stint for the Kings until the end of the season, Evans signed with the Grizzlies for a year of $3.3 million, and after coming to the Grizzlies, Evans's performance also proved that he was worth the money, averaging 15 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game, including 45% shooting. Three-point shooting percentage is 39%.
Evans' efficient performance in the Grizzlies impressed the Pacers' management, Evans played for the Pacers in the 18th to 19th seasons, and signed a one-year contract of $12 million, evans also had a good performance in the Pacers, as to why there is no news of Evans at the end of the season, it is because he was disqualified by the NBA for two years by off-court factors, and Evans, who disappeared in the NBA for two years, can't find any news of his comeback now.
Evans was once evaluated as a talented player who only came out of ten years, and he had high hopes for his first entry into the league, but it is a pity that the talent has fallen today.
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