In this issue, we tell a very inspirational story: James Harden, a player, has a lot of people like him, and many people hate him, hate his playing style, hate his sluggishness at key moments, but there are many people who like his humor, like his scoring ability, no matter what, we can't deny that this MVP + triple scorer + 6 times a line James Harden is a superstar in the basketball hall.
James Harden, like many NBA fame stars, had a very bad childhood, his mother even almost miscarried when she was pregnant with him, and Harden, who grew up with a lot of weight and severe asthma, no one would think that he would be a sports star in the future, and his father's two prison sentences made the family who originally lived in the slums worse, which also made Harden's relationship with his father strange, and Harden grew up in such an environment more mature than his peers.
When he was a child, Harden's family lived in the famous slums of Los Angeles, Harden's mother was most worried about Harden going astray since childhood, she witnessed too many young people here losing their freedom and even their lives because of taking crooked roads, according to Harden's mother, what he was most afraid of hearing at home every day was the sound of police cars, because she was afraid of the police coming to his house, because it meant that bad things happened, fortunately, the precocious Harden has always made his mother very relieved, Harden has rarely been with the bad children in the slums since childhood. His daily routine is to go to school and play basketball, and Harden, who grew up frail and sick, had no friends, and basketball was his only playmate.
When Harden was 12 years old, Harden wrote a message to his mother, which she has been preserving to this day, and James Harden wrote in the message: "Can you wake me up at seven o'clock in the morning and leave me some pocket money?" P.S save this note and I'll be a star. —James Harden. And this message is like James Harden's life motto, and she works hard for it.
Harden's mother, who works multiple jobs, still earns little, giving Harden $2 a day, sometimes $3, which Harden uses to buy milk to supplement his fitness, and saves some to buy a new pair of sneakers.
In 2003, Harden entered The Arizia Middle School in Southern California, and the school's basketball coach Pella took a fancy to the then-tall 1.85m, and Pella said in an interview: "Honestly, I would never think this kid would become an NBA superstar, but he really worked hard, and the degree of effort he made you look at, "When he first came to school, he would only shoot from mid to long range, he was not tall, he didn't have a good bounce, he couldn't even dunk, even because of asthma. He had to stop and rest every moment of training. ”
Then Harden began his headwind growth, the height gradually increased, his offensive ability gradually improved, the team also needed him to take on more tasks, Harden also took on the task arranged by fate, in 2006 he as the absolute main force, led the varsity team to the California championship, in 2007 he and his teammates successfully defended the title. In the same year, Harden was named to the All-American High School All-Star Team.
In Harden's high school life, his coach Pella is the guiding light in his life, he knows how easy it is for a child living in the slums to learn bad, so in order not to let those bad children get close to Harden, he sends Harden home like a father every day, the relationship between the master and apprentice is not only the relationship between the player and the coach, Harden is close to the senior year of high school, many NCAA schools stand outside the door of Harden's house waiting to visit him, hoping that the high school all-star can enter the school, but Harden rejects all these famous schools. The reason is Pella, Who decided to join the University of Arizona to coach, and it is clear that Harden cares about his relationship with Pera.
At the 2007 High School All-Star Game, all of Harden's star players of the same class went to prestigious schools, Aldridge went to the University of Kansas, and Singer went to Duke. These are traditional schools, and the University of Arizona, which Harden chose to join, has only played 3 NCAA Championships in total, and they have not won a (Pacific 10) championship in 30 years.
Harden was confronted with everyone's questions, and he simply replied, "I'm going to break out of my own way and make my school appear on the national basketball map." Harden quickly became the team's number one star in the voice of doubt, he played very team, he would pay attention to the position of his teammates, he could pass out beautiful goals, he could also shoot goals when he was needed again, after the 2008 season, Harden landed on the cover of the Sports Illustrated NCAA new season preview, and the next year Harden could average 20.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 5.6 assists per game, and the shooting rate reached a staggering 50%, after 1995 only 5 college players can have this all-round data, Harden also won the Pacific 10 Player of the Year. In the summer of 2009, Harden decided to end his college career early and enter the NBA.
Harden's NBA career began with the Thunder, a team full of talent, and the team with Wisbrook and Durant, they thought the main lineup was enough, so they persuaded Harden to play the sixth man to lead the second team, the always easy-going Harden also agreed, and then the three brothers started their story... To be continued.