How hard is it to score 20,000 points in a career? A season of 82 games full attendance and average of 20 points per game, but also to play thirteen seasons to ensure that the total number of points more than 20,000, according to NBA statistics, the average career of players can only play 5-6 years can play 13 seasons is already a star or top role player level, but also to maintain high attendance on the basis of the average of 20+ points per game, which is already a Hall of Fame level requirement. As of publication, 48 players had a total of 20,000 points (including Aldridge and Paul, who had just entered the roster this season), and the well-known stars who had reached thirteen seasons outside this list but still had not reached 20,000 points were Stockton (the first person under 20,000 points), Bernard King (the king of New York, the 80s scoring master), Tony Parker, Curry (if he had not played only 5 games in the 1920 season, it would have been 20,000 points, and it would most likely be completed this season), Pippen, DeRozan (the season may be completed in the state), Maddy, etc., no matter how many honorary recognitions they have received, they can only look at the 20,000-point gate and cannot enter. But who is the person at the door of this gate? Antoine Jamison? Such a familiar name, he actually got twenty thousand points? How did he do it?
- Fates intersect
Jamison was born in a black middle-class family, his parents grew up in a sound family, the family fully respected his wishes to let him show his talents in various sports, until middle school Jamison did not decide to choose basketball as his most important profession, he has been taking care of basketball and rugby. Jamison spent his middle school days in Charlotte, where he was a quarterback on the football field and an important member of the varsity team. However, after entering high school, Jamison began to focus on basketball, and in his senior year of high school (1995), he was elected to the McDonald's All-American Team (the talented year Carter, Garnett, Billups, Marbury, Rahim and others were among them).
In the face of the olive branch thrown by many universities, Jamison chose the prestigious north carolina school, and became the twin star of the university of north carolina with Carter, when the core of North Carolina, Starkhouse and Rashid Wallace, participated in the draft together, and Jamison and Carter gradually became the core of the team's internal and external line after entering North Carolina. However, unlike the comparison of fame after entering the NBA, what is more famous in college is jamison. After three years at the University of North Carolina, Jamison averaged 19 points and 9.9 rebounds per game, won both The Naismith and Wood Awards in his junior season, and never dropped out of the top five picks in draft predictions.
In the end, Jamison was selected by the Raptors in the fourth pick, and Jamison, who was preparing to go to the North to play, heard a deal about himself - the Warriors sent Carter with the fifth pick and another first-round signing to the Raptors in exchange for Jamison, and before entering the league, they had to experience the cruelty of the business league, and the two friends and classmates were also connected, so they exchanged each other's draft hats, and it seems that at this moment, the two exchanged their fates.
2. Go low and go high
Jamison in the rookie year was not valued by the Warriors and got the opportunity to focus on cultivation, averaging only 22.5 minutes of playing time per game, although the Warriors at this time have entered a long rebuilding period, but the team's disorderly formation has led to a lack of clear planning, in such a team for Jamison is a disaster, but in the rookie season, Jamison got seven double-doubles ranked 1st, 6.4 rebounds ranked 2nd, shooting percentage of 45.2% ranked 5th, Averaging 9.6 points per game in the 8th place, and finally selected for the rookie lineup second team, and in the first round is the Carter who exchanged the team with himself, the North Flyers sucked countless powder with their own explosive dunks, just when Grant Hill's career bottleneck could not break through the first round of the playoffs, Jordan's successor was naturally sealed by the media to the same Flyer Carter from North Carolina, for a while, the Warriors were sent to the top of the bad trade evaluation list by various media, for Jamison, he urgently needed to justify his name.
In the 99-00 season, the Warriors ushered in a big change of blood in the team, And Jamison was also corrected this season, the playing time soared to 36 minutes, he averaged 19.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, and could get 37 points, 18 rebounds, 33 points and 21 rebounds in a single game, proving to everyone that he was not a parallel cargo, giving him enough opportunities He would not be worse than Carter! However, Carter shocked four people with a slam dunk contest this year, and people will no longer compare Carter with Jamison, because Carter's goal has been asked by the media to be Jordan. Perhaps motivated by Carter's performance, Jamison trained in the summer to make a qualitative leap forward in the following season.
3． Highlight moments
In the 00-01 season, the Warriors' scoring champion Larry Hughes suffered injuries and missed many games last season, coupled with the limited ability of other players on the team, Jamison became the core offensive point of the team, averaging 41.4 minutes per game in the season, and the average score per game also rose. Jamison continued to set his record for the highest score in a single game until December, when Jamison entered a state of almost no one to stop; on December 4, 2000, Jamison played against the Seattle Supersonics, Jamison once again set a new career-high score, scoring 51 points, if the supersonic speed that has ceased to be beautiful is not enough to prove Jamison's 50+ gold content, he will face the defending champion Lakers and Kobe Bryant and O'Neal, one of the top ten in the league at that time; December 7, 2000, Three days of rest did not cool Jamison's hot feel, he played 53 minutes, 21 of 29 shots, 7 of 8 free throws cut 51 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, neither Holly nor Fox could stop Jamison's offense, a small throw used in a pure fire, whether it was the back or the face frame can throw the ball in, and Bryant also appeared in 51 minutes, 35 shots 18, 13 of 13 shots for 51 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, the data is not lost at all but the efficiency is inferior, In the end, the Warriors won the game 125-122 overtime; this game was enough to enter the history of the NBA, when it was the third time in NBA history that both sides had a high score of 50+ points, the most recent of which was on December 15, 1962, when the Philadelphia Warriors' Wilt Chamberlain scored 63 points and the Lakers' Elgin Baylor scored 50 points; and Jamison also became the successor to Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Rick Barry, and Bernard King After Michael Jordan, the sixth player who can get 50+ in a row (of which Jordan and Baylor Grandpa are three consecutive games, and Zhang Dashuai is a perverted seven consecutive games), after Jamison, there are only Iverson, Kobe Bryant (four consecutive games, remember the news that Kobe bryant played poorly and only scored 43 points), Harden (17-19 two seasons phenomenon-level scoring ability) three people once again, can be with these eight people on the record, Jamison's 00-01 season is a miracle.
However, in the second half of the season, due to the excessive length of playing time, there were obvious physical problems (82 full appearances in the season were 40+, more than many players in a season), and the score and efficiency declined. The all-Star stats of 24.9 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in the final season, how can the team be too weak to qualify for the playoffs, but also let his ability to lead the team be questioned, and the North flyer has opened the first playoff showdown between the four quarterbacks with Iverson in the Eastern Conference semifinals, can Jamison lead the team alone?
4． Displaced
The Warriors' first-round draft in the 01-02 season reinforced Jason Richardson and picked up a humble point guard in the second round to replace the unhealthy Larry Hughes, Hughes's injury and decline in form have had a great impact on the team, but the second-round show that has been sitting on the bench for many games seems to be very hard, and he can become the most reliable and active teammate around Jamison as long as he plays. Oh yes, his name is Gilbert Arenas, and he and Jamison have a lot of stories, but not in the Warriors. Jamison once again became the team's top scorer, but the score declined, averaging 19.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, and the team once again missed the playoffs, and Jamison himself began to doubt whether he could lead the team.
In the 02-03 season, Jamison was fully attendance for the third consecutive year (it is not good to get 20,000 points in poor health), Averaging 22.2 points and 7 rebounds per game, the two second-year students around him are growing rapidly, and they can completely replace Larry Hughes who left, especially the most underrated Arenas can average 18.3 points, 5 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, becoming the fastest improving player, the Warriors also played Jamison to the best game, but unfortunately only 38 wins in the end (only 20 wins in previous seasons), the Warriors, who did not see Jamison's ability to lead the team, decided not to break and trade Jamison out, and the team that desperately needed him was the Mavericks.
Mavericks owner Cuban is a crazy basketball fan, he is willing to spend money for the team, as long as he can see the team progress, he saw the Lakers in the summer to form F4, he is not willing to fall behind, at any cost to form a luxurious lineup of Mavericks, first in exchange for fat head Anthony Walker and the team of Nash Finlino Viski to form a new F4, in order to be better and traded to Jamison to fight against the Lakers. Just blindly building a team hurts the team more, especially Jamison and Walkowski's position conflict and forced to become a substitute, but head coach Nelson Sr. is particularly fond of Jamison's outside style of play, maximizing Jamison's advantages. In the end, Although Jamison's average data slipped to 14.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, he won the sixth man of the year award, but in the playoffs, the Mavericks' deformed lineup fell in front of the Kings' final peak, stopping the first round also made Cuban begin to reflect, and finally Jamison was traded out of the team, he went to the Wizards, this is his third team in two years, but in Washington he will not be alone, there are two of his old friends waiting for him.
5. Glory of the capital
Gilbert Arenas, Larry Hughes, Jamison, looking at the Wizards' 04-05 team roster, thought they had copied the 0102 Warriors roster, and they met again, only this time their status changed. Arenas, who was sitting at the end of the bench, has gradually become a league superstar, and the prestige of Agent 0 has begun to reverberate over Washington. Averaging 25.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.7 steals per game, Larry Hughes also returned to his peak of 22 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.7 assists per game and became the league steal king with 2.9 steals, Jamison averaged 19.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, but among the weak frontcourt players in the East, such data is enough to make him an All-Star for the first time after leaving the brutal West. He and Arenas are the wizards' first two-time All-Star selections in 18 years, and the trio combined to create the Wizards' best record in 26 years to reach the playoffs and make it all the way to the Eastern Conference semifinals.
In the summer of 2005, the Cavaliers signed Larry Hughes with a high salary to assist James, and the Wizards were not willing to be damaged in strength, sending the parallel goods of the market to the Lakers in exchange for Caron Butler, who had an unsuccessful contract extension, and signed a long contract with him in the middle of the season, thus achieving the famous Wizards "BIG3" combination. Butler, who averaged 17.6 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in the 05-06 season, filled the gap left by Larry Hughes, while Arenas went one step further, averaging a career-high 29.3 points per game (unfortunately, he met scoring master Singy Kobe Iverson James averaging 30+), Jamison averaged 20.5 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and the Wizards trio formed the strongest scoring trio in the league, leading the Wizards to the playoffs for the second consecutive year, encountering nemesis for the next three years - the Cavaliers and James, The Wizards lost after six games, leaving the classic shot of James whispering next to Arenas, and Arenas conceding a free throw that eventually led to the game losing.
06-07 season Wizards trio power further, once became the first in the East, unfortunately the tide of injuries came to the door, Arenas Butler has been injured and eventually missed the playoffs, the Wizards finally only ranked seventh in the East and met the Cavaliers again, the three cores of only their own only one Jamison in the playoffs, averaging 32 points and 9.8 rebounds per game compared to the regular season 19.8 + 8 data luxury is much more luxurious, unfortunately only that, the Wizards were eventually swept out by the Cavaliers, Jamison wasn't the one who led the team after all.
In the 0708 season, Arenas suffered a major injury, and the score dropped to less than 20 points in only 13 appearances in the season, but the Wizards still maintained their record under the leadership of Butler and Jamison, and Jamison also won the first and only time in his career 20+ 10, averaging 21.4 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, the second and last time to be selected as an All-Star, Butler was also selected with him, Arenas felt that he was gradually ignored, so the playoffs rushed back, but the state was strangely poor, averaging only 10.2 points per game also disrupted the team's chemistry, and finally lost to the Cavaliers again under the premise of having an advantage on the books.
The 0809 season wizards fell into ruin, Arenas was eager to re-prove himself to make the team's offensive chaos a mess, the team also lost the enthusiasm for defense and offense, and finally failed to enter the playoffs, the 09-10 season wizards broke out to shock the league's "gun goal", Arenas and Critanton's contradictions eventually led to the Wizards' determination to rebuild, except for the bad Arenas almost all changed out, "BIG3" disintegrated, Butler went to the Mavericks, Jamison, on the other hand, went to assist his old rival James. Jamison is regarded as the most critical puzzle for James to achieve hegemony, he made the Cavaliers lineup extremely luxurious, the Cavaliers even did not hesitate to sell the veteran Z to facilitate the deal (after being bought out and re-signed back), although the regular season can also contribute good data, but in the playoffs to meet the Celtics, Jamison faced Garnett almost locked, not as good as the elderly O'Neal on the court, and finally the Cavaliers fell short, but also indirectly led to James's departure, Jamison missed the best time to win the championship.
6. Dream of Los Angeles
After Jamison in the Cavaliers in the case of the rot of two years, although the age is old, but still can contribute more than 17+ data, the role of the offensive end is still obvious, so after the expiration of the big contract, the Lakers signed a contract with him, hoping that he can accompany the former 50+ opponent Kobe Bryant to win another championship, unfortunately rebuilding F4 Los Angeles ushered in endless injuries, only Kobe Bryant, who is healthier than Jamison, but also suffered a career-destroying injury in the final stage. In the end, Kobi bo had the lakers' opportunity to enter the playoffs but could only watch the Lakers being swept out, and Jamison's data fell back to a career low this year, averaging only 9.4 points per game.
The rebuilding Lakers didn't leave Jamison, he went to the Clippers in the same city, Paul and Griffin's combination made him want to hit another championship, and he was able to hit a three-pointer with 9:18 left in the second quarter on December 12, 2013, away to the Celtics, bringing his career total to 20,000 points. Jamison became the 20th player in NBA history to have at least 20,000 points, 8,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists. However, the Clippers eventually chose to abandon the veteran, and on February 20, 2014, Antoine Jamison was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, where he was cut by the Hawks the next day. In October of the same year, he officially announced his retirement, and after retiring, he joined Time Warner Sports as a commentator.
16 seasons of career, 1083 games in total scores of 20042 points, is the 20th player in NBA history to get at least 20,000 points, 8,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists data, twice selected all-Star has also won the best sixth man, he should not be so ignored, he was also regarded as the future star player of the league, but he only has the strength to do a team auxiliary can not lead the team independently, he is a good teammate with a good personality and easy to communicate with but not a good leader. The big forward whose style was too outside was not valued in that era, but what if he was born ten years later? Maybe his 20,000 points will be more eye-catching.