The day before yesterday, Dirk Nowitzki's jersey was retired in Dallas, and his legend came to an end. Looking back at his career: 21 years in the NBA, he averaged 20.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.8 blocks per game, shooting 47.1% from the field, 38% from three-point range, and 31,553 career points, the only international player with a total score of more than 30,000 points.
His honors include: 4 Best Team First Team, 5 Best Team Second Team, 3 Best Team Three Teams, 1 Regular Season MVP, 1 Championship, 1 FMVP, 1 NBA Sports News Most Valuable Player of the Year, 1 Best Teammate Award, 14 All-Star Selections, an All-Star Shooting Star Championship, and an All-Star Three-Point Contest Champion.
Nowitzki's 21-year NBA career has been with the same team, being named to the Best Team many times, being selected as an All-Star many times, winning the regular season MVP, winning a championship, winning a Finals MVP, and being inducted into the Hall of Fame is only a matter of time, such a great player was originally abandoned by the Bucks.
In the 1998 draft, Nowitzki was selected by the Bucks with the ninth pick in the first round, but the Bucks felt that the big forward who played outside had little potential and decided to trade upwards, and later they selected Pat Garretti with the 19th pick in the first round, and packaged Nowitzki and Garretti to the Lone Rangers in exchange for the same year's No. 6 pick Robert Treller.
Treller is a big forward like Nowitzki, he is only 2 meters 03 tall, but he weighs 129 kilograms, moves slowly and has no shooting ability, the Bucks in order to get him to trade Nowitzki, may not think Treller is good, just not optimistic about Nowitzki.
Affected by weight, Treller's playing time is not much, no season in his career has averaged more than 18 minutes per game, and most of the time is a substitute, in his rookie season, the Bucks have wanted to train him well, let him start 43 times, but found that he is too slow, the huge weight affects his speed and physical strength, resulting in him often physical weakness, the coach had to reduce his playing time.
He averaged 16 minutes per game in his first season, averaging just 5.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per game, while Nowitzki, though averaging only 8.2 points and 3.4 rebounds per game, was still better than Treller. In the second season, Nowitzki has averaged 17.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, and has secured the starting position, but Treller can only contribute 3.6 points and 2.6 rebounds, averaging only 10.2 minutes per game, gradually marginalized by the team.
After their gap widened, Nowitzki began a journey of 20+ per game in the season, and then was selected to the All-Star and All-Team, and the scenery was unlimited, but Treller became the homeless man of the NBA, averaging 5.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.
Overweight not only affects his playing status, but also affects his physical health. During his time in the NBA, he always had heart problems, after his rookie contract, the Nets invited him to audition, if he did well, signed him, but Treller could not even pass the physical examination, he was found to have a dilated heart artery, and the Nets did not dare to sign him.
In 2005, Treller left the NBA due to overweight and heart problems, after which he went to Puerto Rico to play for a living, during which he underwent heart surgery, recovered and continued to play on the court, he risked his life to play to make a living, just to make a better life for his family, but bad luck came.
Trelle played in Puerto Rico for a living in 2011, when he was recuperating from an injury in his apartment, and on May 12, he had a phone call with his wife in Chicago, but the phone was abruptly interrupted halfway through. Trelle's wife then told the team by phone, and the team eventually discovered a regrettable scene in Trelle's home— Treller had died of a heart attack.
During his time with the Hornets, Treller injured Maddy, maddie was unconscious for a while, and later carried on a stretcher, he caused permanent damage to Maddy, who already had a congenital spinal disease, causing Maddy's state to be worse than a year, maddy fans once hated Treller.
Judging from the performance of the NBA, Treller is a failure, but also because of hurting Maddy is hated by some fans, the Bucks gave up Nowitzki for him that year is a huge loss of trade, Treller is not better than Nowitzki in any way, but he is a responsible husband and father, is a fighter, in order to support his family, he still chooses to play basketball in the case of heart disease, in order to support his family to go to Italy to play, if it is not because of the weather reasons the plane can not take off, he will also appear on the CBA field, Later, he went to Puerto Rico to play, and eventually died in a foreign country, which was heartbreaking.