Rick Brunson is a lonely NBA player who joined the NBA in 1997 and has played for the Blazers, Knicks, Celtics, Bulls, Raptors, Clippers, Rockets and Supersonics in his career, he is a tramp in the NBA, playing only 337 games in his nine-year NBA career, averaging 13.4 minutes per game, averaging 3.2 points, 1.3 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 0.6 steals and 0.1 blocks, shooting only 37.8% from the field.
Most fans simply don't know that such a player exists in the NBA, and a few fans know him only because he was a teammate with Yao Ming — Rick Brunson joined the Rockets in 2005-2006, and that season he played 23 games, averaged 9.3 minutes per game, averaged 1.9 points, 0.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.3 steals, and shot only 34.8 percent from the field, before being traded to the Supersonics for poor performance.
After leaving the Supersonics, Brunson was without the ball for a while, and then signed with the 76ers, only to be cut without playing a single game. As he walked out of the general manager's office with a dignified face, his son tried to comfort him to keep trying, but he was discouraged and decided to leave the NBA and put all his hopes on his son.
Since then, Rick Brunson has systematically trained his son every day, vowing to develop him into a great NBA player. In order to make his son's left and right hands balanced, he will tie up one of his son's hands and use the other hand to dribble and lay, and then train the other hand in the same way after a period of time, when the son feels bitter and tired, he will also use the radical method to motivate his son, he will often shout at his son "You don't want to be an NBA player at all, you don't deserve it at all."
Sometimes his wife thinks he is too strict, but he says that as long as his son can pass his level, he will have a smooth road in the future. Under his rigorous training, his son's skills improved rapidly, and he quickly stood out, playing well in high school and college, and almost winning every award he could win in college — the USBWA Oscar Robertson Award, the Associated Press College Player of the Year, the John Woodden Award, the NABC Player of the Year, the Bob Cousy Award, and the Sports News Player of the Year.
However, it is a bit of a pity that due to the relatively short height of his wife, the height of his son was finally fixed at 1 meter 85, which failed to surpass the height of Rick Brunson (1 meter 93), the small ball era needed a lot of defense changes, and the shorter player draft market was not good. In 2017, his son was selected by the Mavericks with the 33rd overall pick to officially become an NBA player, and his son is named Jaylen Brunson.
If you're not a Lone Ranger fan, you probably don't know the player, but now it's time to get to know him. Brunson is 1.85 meters tall, weighs 86 kilograms, although he is not tall, he is a small steel cannon, he is very strong, excellent athleticism, his father's strict training makes him superb, breakthrough, long-range shooting are excellent, he is a combination of field commander, competitiveness and jump shooting ability.
In his rookie season, Brunson averaged little playing time per game, but averaged 9.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, shooting 46.7 percent from the field and 34.8 percent from three-point range. In the following seasons, he has been improving, playing more and more time, averaging more and more points per game, shooting high and three-point shooting, scoring very efficiently, and is the most stable firepower point for the Lone Ranger bench.
In the regular season this season, Brunson has become the team's starter, averaging 31.9 minutes per game, averaging 16.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game, shooting 50.2% from the field, shooting 37.3% from three-point range, for a player who is 1.85 meters tall, shooting more than 50%, which requires more exquisite basketball skills to have such an efficient performance, the sweat he paid offstage is unimaginable to ordinary people, and his father's strict training has achieved remarkable results.
Doncic was injured in the final game of the regular season, and Brunson became the main scorer for the Lone Ranger, averaging 32.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal per game so far in the playoffs, shooting 49% from the field and 53.8% from three-point range. He scored 41 points in the last game to help the Lone Ranger rewrite the total score to 1-1, and he became a lifesaver for the Lone Ranger, buying more time for Doncic's comeback.
In stark contrast to Brunson's outstanding performances is his salary, this season is the last year of his rookie contract, the annual salary is only $1.8 million, or a partial guarantee contract, his contract was only transferred to full guarantee contract on June 30 last year, he is one of the league's low-paid and high-energy representative players, and it is believed that he will get a big contract at the end of this season.
Rick Brunson's NBA career is bleak, but in his own way to cultivate such a good NBA player as Jaylen Brunson, as a father, seeing his son play such a performance, he is happier than he is, he failed to give his son an aura, but cultivated his son's ability to create an aura, let him shine on his own, he is a great father.