Wen 丨 Hundred Mile Migration
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The story of retiring from retirement because of a heart attack and coming back after recovering is familiar, yes, the world has not only been experienced by Aldridge or O'Neill's eldest son, but also by Cardino Mobley.
When it is time to declare, Mobley is not related to the knight's Mobley.
Born on September 1, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cotino Bryant, Rashid Wallace, Alvin Williams, Jenson Lawson, and Tillon Wicks are all from Philadelphia, but any of them became famous earlier than him, lived a relatively ordinary life in an obscure school in a famous city, but he had extraordinary dreams, playing the NBA!
"Later when I went to Mayne Central, I was so scared. I'm the most overlooked player in Philadelphia, Rashid Wallace, Alvin Williams, Jenson Lawson and Tiron Wicks are all much more famous than I am, all of whom have been to Nike training camps, who have seen a lot of scenes, but I have not been to these events. "Mobley is not frustrated by this, he trains seriously, and in the process of contact with basketball, he has not given up the rugby and boxing he has previously learned, he hopes that these tough physical collisions will make him bold and not afraid of the ups and downs of life!
His character was never typical of black personality, he was sensitive, timid, even a little weak, boxing could not change his character, he was deeply disappointed in this, he was powerless to change anything, sometimes he had to repeatedly repair his heart, to cheer himself up.
He still felt uncomfortable when someone called him "cat", and in the end, after another way, he also convinced himself that it was not a bad thing for him to accept the role of "old cat" and face the fragility of his personality.
After that, he left Mei'en Central University to participate in the league of catholic schools, which was mostly white children, and he seemed to be more outstanding, even if the data was better, but the scouts and other professionals who watched him play still suspected that the child looked a little fragile.
Mobley himself could not help this, and he sensitively remembered the doubts of others - "Everyone said, 'Is he really that good?'" He's just playing with those white kids, that's why he's so outstanding.'" ”
His contemporary Michael Orovo Candi has transferred from Brunel University in the United Kingdom to the University of the Pacific in the United States, conquering the United States with his outstanding body, and his junior stats have risen to 22.2 points, 11.2 rebounds and 2.88 blocks, and all three technical statistics are ranked first in the Great Western Conference!
Mobley is like Cinderella sitting in the corner, no one cares what kind of patch he is wearing with cheap crystal shoes made of patches...
Cinderella always has to come out to meet people, even so, Philadelphia can get such an opportunity for him, Philadelphia is a city of sports, basketball players here are piled up, Mobley can occasionally appear, in the era of self-media development has been very lucky.
At the age of 23, Mobley announced his appearance in the 1998 NBA Draft.
As you painstakingly blaze the trail to Rome, someone was born to sit in Rome's Colosseum and eat spicy.
——Formal training for 3 years, only 6 years of basketball, Michael OlovoKandi, a big man from Olajuwon's hometown of Nigeria, received formal basketball training at the age of 17, and he created a miracle at the 1998 draft!
It was predicted that he would be the next Olajuwon.
Such a person! Such a genius! Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor certainly wouldn't let go, and with a big swing of the pick, he slammed michael Orovo Candy on him.
Cardino Mobley is sitting in the corner fighting tenaciously with his character!
So much so that his mother's words became the most reasonable words to describe him, and still hang on his personal encyclopedia - his mother said: "When Cardino first participated in the draft, he was a little nervous, although he was the Top Ten Atlantic Player of the Year and the Best Defensive Player of the Year, but after all, he did not graduate from a basketball school like Rashid, so everyone was a little suspicious." ”
He waited quietly in the little green room, waiting bitterly, Michael Olovo Candy looked at the camera proudly wearing a blue Clipper hat much smaller than his head, and the look of pride was really envious and jealous, and then the Vancouver Grizzlies selected Mike Bibby with the leaderboard pick; the Denver Nuggets selected Reeve Laffernz with the Probe, the Toronto Raptors selected Antoine Jamison, the Golden State Warriors selected Chinese Carter, and the Dallas Mavericks selected Robert Treller. The Sacramento Kings selectEd White Chocolate Jason Williams, Philadelphia 76ers selected Larry Hughes, Milwaukee Bucks selected Dirk Nowitzki, Boston Celtics selected Paul Pierce, and the Detroit Pistons selected Bonchi Wells!
The more he got to the back, the quieter Mobley became, and he guessed that maybe his NBA career would end in this little green house, which would be a painful experience he would never forget.
...... Someone called his name, and Mobley couldn't believe that the dashed hope had embraced him again! He didn't figure out until someone handed him a red hat, and the Rockets chose him with the twelfth pick of the second round — a lean, defensive point guard!
Cardino Mobley's rookie season had no chance to shine at all, shrinking season, michael Dixon as barkley, Olajuwon, Pippen's edge shooter, Michael Dixon performed better, and Mobley handed over 9.9 points per game, for the team at the time, with other superstars distributing the ball almost all, he appeared on the court as an outside killer, such a performance made Rudy's expectations of him a lot. Rudy TomJanovic gave him a lot of chances in the playoffs, and when he started in less than 24 minutes, he was able to shoot 7 points per game with 57 percent three-point shooting and 90 percent free throw shooting, and a rookie, pulling out the old jazz's mouth to score opportunities — and picking up the remaining ball in the teeth of the superstars to score efficiently, which is quite good.
For the next two seasons, Michael Dixon was used as one of the chips because of Francis's reluctance to play for the Grizzlies, and the Rockets got Francis! In the case of most of the team's championship-winning main players at that time, Mobley, who had been suppressed in the previous shots and playing time, ushered in a big explosion, in the 1999-00 season, averaging 15.8 per game doubled from the rookie season, he only started 8 games, 73 off the bench, he was the leading scorer of all the sixth man, which is a wonderful signal, from the entire career resume, his score has never dropped to single digits!
But the best sixth man of the 99-00 season did not have his share! He was in second place!
Once again, he passed by the stage where the world was focused, he was not a winner, not a lotto, and now he even lost the trophy of the best sixth man!
The team lost 34-48 and the record was too bad.
The future is doomed to be bumpy, and he and Francis will eventually have to carry through these difficult years together.
For them, they have the same height and weight, similar techniques and playing styles, and on the court they join forces against people who want to throw wild on top of the Rockets.
His two-season backcourt combination with Francis really upset most teams at the time.
Mobley averaged 19.5 points, 2.6 assists and 5 rebounds per game in the 2000-01 season and began to make a name for himself in the league, and the combination with Francis was full of firepower! In the 2001-02 season, both of them scored more than 20 points, and in the 15 games before the All-Star Game, Mobley averaged 25 points per game, including 45% and 41% shooting from the field and 41% from three-point range, respectively, and both were nominated for All-Star benches at the same time. But, once again, he didn't get to the very middle of the spotlight stage, he didn't make it to the All-Star, and maybe it was a miss he regretted for the rest of his life!
However, he participated in the 2002 dunk contest with Francis, and in the dunk contest, he played for Francis and entertained the public. Unfortunately, the pair averaged 40 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists per game, and if the data didn't bring victory, the data would become less important. But that special season was memorable for Mobley for a lifetime.
In 2002, Yao Ming was elected as a champion.
The brightest light belongs to this "Great Wall of China", Mobley and Francis are looking at it, but they don't care about this, they know that this tall boy is their little brother, and outsiders can't just bully!
Mobley likes to say, "Why waste my talent?" Why? ”
Questions from the soul themselves cannot give answers.
Jim Jackson often quipped to Mobley: "Hey, Cotino, 'Cats always love cameras.'" I also like the camera because sooner or later it's going to have to shoot at me non-stop. ”
The future is unpredictable!
In the 2004-05 season, the two and Francis were swept out by the Rockets, and the Rockets had to combine "Yao Mai", so they became victims. Jim Jackson was traded to the Hornets, but he was extremely bloody! Refusing to report to the league's worst team, the Hornets were banned indefinitely and eventually dumped into the Phoenix Suns, while Mobley thought he would be thrown to the Kings by magic management when He continued to enjoy his friendship with Francis in Orlando, where there was no shortage of shooters, and in terms of outcome, this was the second time he had been traded by the team in half a year.
As you know, the Kings don't need this cross-step shooter, or breaker! He averaged 17.8 points and 3.4 assists per game for the Kings! At the same time, the transfer of the Kings will be a watershed, 17.8 points became his highest average of points per game since the middle of his career, and since then it has begun to decline year by year.
After a six-month stay with the Kings, he joined the Clippers at the end of the season, and he was over thirty years old.
A year later, as Cory Margeti grew and Rose matured, the Clippers' scoring guard position was more competitive, as a thirty-one-year-old veteran, Mobley, out of the overall interests of the team, in order to avoid infighting between teammates because of the competition for the starting position, he took the initiative to apply to head coach Mike Dunlliway to be the team's backup point guard in the new season, giving up the opportunity to start to his teammates.
He is still a rough man on the outside and sensitive on the inside, is he a tiger sniffing roses?
No, he was a man with roses in his heart sniffing roses.
Manager Dun levy said: "As head coach I appreciate Grand Duke Cotino's selfless move, he has set an example for his teammates, but I am not sure which player will play the starting attacking defender in the new season, I will make a decision after careful consideration. ”
On November 21, 2008, the Knicks made a deal with the Clippers, sending Randolph and Collins in exchange for Mobley and Thomas. During the transfer process, Mobley underwent a series of medical examinations, that is, during this routine physical examination, Mobley was found to have some heart problems, and then the team contacted multiple experts for multiple tests - and finally diagnosed as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which was enough to kill people, and Reggie Lewis and Hank Gaisers lost their lives because of this heart disease.
In December 2008, Mobley, plagued by heart problems, finally made up his mind: He would end his NBA career.
"This kind of chronic disease has accompanied him throughout his career, and it is also like this now, which is really bad. Now, he doesn't look that good. I know very well that retirement is very difficult, he loves basketball, he loves to play basketball, but it's time to make a decision. Francis is very sorry, but he respects his friend's decision, life is bigger than basketball!
Mobley's NBA career ended at the age of 33, 11 years are fleeting, he let go of his reluctance and regrets, focus on recovery, we know that he will not leave basketball - BIG3 is waiting for his old tree to blossom...