There are stories of Portland Lee's boss everywhere, and I am tired of thinking about it, so it is better to tell the story of the second boss.
Is Lillard's best brother CJ McCollum?
Maybe, because you can't think of a name other than CJ.
While saying that CJ is his best brother, Lillard gave his brother a knife in the backhand — his team offered the Blazers to send CJ away and take CJ+4 first-round picks to quote Ben Simmons.
Coincidentally, it was after this rumor was exposed that CJ really felt as if he had been stabbed, and the team announced that his left lung had shrunk and would be suspended indefinitely.
Well, CJ probably wasn't that good with Lillard.
So who else is Lillard's good brother?
Dreaming of Green? Forget it, he was unmoved by Lillard's recruitment.
Tim Fraser? This guy has run out of balls now.
La Marcus Aldridge? In Lillard's 10-year Blazer career, in addition to CJ, we can probably think of Ade.
What kind of player Aldridge is, I think most people will probably describe him as: he is an underrated player, he is low-key and modest, he is gentle like a big boy next door, he must be a good person.
Ard is indeed underrated, he is very low-key, so low-key that many people do not know what kind of person he really is.
Today's Lillard is the person Ade has always wanted to be, he wants to be a city by himself, he wants to be the focus of the spotlight, but Ade has never realized his old dream, he has always been a second, at least in his own opinion.
In 2006, Ade was second in the draft, thinking he would be the son of the chosen man in the eyes of Portland fans, but the reality was harsh. He watched the No. 6 show of the same team, Brandon Roy, become the best rookie, became what people called "the man who changed the Blazers", and Ade, just "Roy's good helper".
Ard didn't like the feeling, he hadn't even spoken much to Roy, and when asked questions about Roy, he answered them in the shortest words. As for why, he explains it this way:
"We're here to play, not to make friends. Roy and I both want to win, we both want to succeed, but we just don't call from the field. ”
The Portland Youth Army was hit by injuries, and Roy ended after a brief hilarity, but even after Roy left, Aldridge was reluctant to talk about the man. When asked by reporters about Roy's knee surgery, Ard replied:
"I don't even know there's anything else, you ask me what my reaction is, I don't respond."
"Did you contact Roy?"
“……”
When Roy falls, is the time for Aldridge coming? Although people began to call Ard the soul of this team, he became the second man again.
"The kid named Lillard, like Roy, is the No. 6 pick, won the best rookie, he's Portland's future!"
The future is Lillard's, the past is Roy's, and now? I'm a good helper for show 6 again?
Ade is still the same, he does not speak to Lillard, and there are more and more rumors about the long-standing contradiction between the two. Lillard found Ade and apologized to him.
"People have a lot of misconceptions about us and they all say Ade doesn't like Lillard. But I've respected you since the day I came to Portland, I haven't competed with you, I'm not jealous of you, I've only had support for you. I wanted to help you out as a point guard, and I didn't see it as I was in control. It's my fault, I'm sorry I didn't communicate with you to make you understand that things aren't the way things are and there's no problem between us. ”
Aldridge then chose to leave.
"I think Lillard was still too young and he was still figuring his way. And it was that kind of effort to get my place, and it would be better if I tried a little harder..."
"Lillard, CJ and I would have been strong if we had been in one team. But now, I'm having a great time in San Antonio. ”
Ader chose the Spurs, which have more mature management, better coaches, and the elderly Duncan, the young Leonard.
Without Lillard, can he become the boss in the competition with Leonard? Maybe he thought: At least I would be described as "Duncan's descendant".
Duncan retired, passed on by Leonard. Aldridge said he was happy, and then he was unhappy again.
The team's façade and offensive core? Shouldn't that be my place?
Finally, Aldridge became the core of the Spurs' offense — in the 2017 Western Conference Finals, Zaza Pachuria used "The Pad" to reimburse Leonard for the season, and Ade had to take over the burden.
His answer as the team's facade was that he averaged 11.3 points per game and shot 38.5 percent from the field, and the Spurs were swept by the Warriors.
While this is excusable, as a leader, you have to take responsibility, don't you?
Popovich called Aldridge to his side directly in the game in which Leonard was injured: "Ade, you coward! Wouldn't it be nice to be tough? ”
Maybe Bobo was just trying to motivate Ade, but he didn't expect that this would make Ard remember that he applied for a trade.
"Wow, you're the first in so many years," Popovich said. "I'd love to send you away, as long as you get me a player like Durant to come over, I'll personally pack your bags and drive you to the airport."
"Don't think about it, LaMarcus, you can't go anywhere, next season, the team's offensive system will change, you are our number one!"
This may be the embodiment of Popovich's ability as a famous coach PUA, this sentence hit the depths of Ade's heart, he not only did not ask the team to trade himself, but even completed an early contract extension with the team.
The theory about "only 0 times and countless times" may be true. After Popovich saw the first one, the second one also came.
Ade had just experienced a core experience, averaging from 17.3 to 23.1 per game, but after the team was swept by gentlemen in the first round of the playoffs, the injured Leonard filed a trade application to get DeRozan back. Spurs are still a double German team, not a team of Ader.
And then the story, that's now.
Ader was always in turmoil, and Lillard had no fear.
The 36-year-old Ard came back from retirement, received the nets' base salary, and there is no longer any big brother story; 31-year-old Lillard is calling the storm in Portland and has even planned to take an annual salary of $55 million by the age of 36.
What is one person, one city? It is Ader's Achilles heel and Lillard's last mask.