These should be the little Peyton stories you want to know

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Today the Warriors officially announced that the results of the MRI confirmed that Payton II suffered a fracture of his left elbow, along with both ligament and muscle damage, and will be reviewed in two weeks.

Compared with the official announcement, this picture may be more touching.

Peyton Jr., who could not participate in the training due to injury, watched the training of the whole team behind the door and hid his injured left elbow behind the door.

"He has a huge brace on his arm, he's going to be out for a long time, he's frustrated, he's worked hard in the league for six years, he's playing a big role in the team now, he's playing well, it's all taken away and we all feel sorry for Gary. Today, Cole said this about Peyton Jr.

Meanwhile, the NBA officially announced that Dillon Brooks had an unnecessary and excessive contact with Payton Jr. during the game and was therefore banned for one game.

Instead of arguing about Dillon's ban, look at The Little Payton story. After all, Warriors fans can pull out a lot of Dillon's black history, and Grizzlies fans can also say, "Dream chasing is not banned because Clark is better at landing than Payton." ”

From the Bucks to the Lakers, from the Wizards to the Raptors, to the NBA Development League, in the past 6 years, Peyton Jr.'s basketball story is basically composed of keywords such as "signing", "ten-day short contract", and "being cut".

It wasn't until the Warriors gave him a short ten-day contract he was all too familiar with last season that his fortunes finally changed.

Seven months ago in preseason training camp and preseason, when the Warriors hadn't confirmed the final 15-man roster for the season. Peyton Jr., who is fighting with Bradley for the team's "15th man" position, is actually ready for "two hands".

He approached the Warriors' assistant coach, Jama Mahralera, to apply for the only vacant position in the team's video analytics division.

"I'm very serious." Payton Jr. told ESPN that his idea was to stay in the NBA and continue to help the team in his own way. In his opinion, "being laid off" is something that is very likely to happen to him, after all, in the past 6 years, he has been cut by the team 4 times.

If I off, I just want to stay the other way around. I can still be on the pitch, I can still help and I can serve the team on the go. ”

But Payton Jr. got the answer: "Even if you fully meet the criteria of a video analyst, we won't let you get this position." Because you're a warrior now, and you're going to play for the Warriors. ”

It's hard for you to imagine how much Peton, as a star second generation + rich second generation, loves basketball and is so humble.

In the end, the Warriors cut both Payton Jr. and Bradley Jr., and then the Lakers quickly picked up Bradley, and during the three-day clarification period, no team claimed Payton Jr. until the Warriors issued a veteran base salary.

Speaking about that time, Cole said: "(During the clarification period) I was just praying that in this alliance you never know what's going to happen. ”

The implication is that the Warriors bet that no one in the league would claim Peyton Jr. at the time. But this is also the case, although Payton Jr. is only the son of the famous Gary Payton, his career is very bumpy, most of the time in the various teams to play the role of firefighter, temporary worker.

But if Payton hadn't played these highlights, the story would never have been known, and there wouldn't have been those moving moments of turning over and counterattacking.

The reason why Payton Jr. hopes to become a video analyst may be hiding a "dark encounter" for more than 20 years.

Little Peyton, a second-grader, was diagnosed with "dyslexia," or dyslexia, during a school examination.

This is a reading and spelling disorder caused by the brain's comprehensive processing of visual and auditory information incompatibility, and its main performance characteristics are reflected in literacy and reading.

According to the Statistics of the American Medical Institute, 10%-15% of the population in the United States has this learning disability that is mild or severe.

Compared to his two siblings, Little Payton was always unable to complete a 30-minute reading, and he always muttered to himself as he read, unable to understand the text very well.

Two years after his diagnosis, when "Glove" Payton moved from Seattle to Los Angeles with his family, on that plane, Little Payton cried. He kept saying to his mother, "I don't want to be a fool."

"After I was diagnosed, I was even more embarrassed to ask questions and talk in class because I didn't want my classmates to know, much less to treat me like a disabled person." Looking back on that time now, Little Payton is quite emotional, "I don't want others to think that I am an outlier." ”

Perhaps it was the experience that there was more humility in Payton's character.

In January, Peyton Jr. showed up at the hospital to celebrate the birthday of a fan he never knew. It was a little fan named Noah, a 10-year-old leukemia patient and a huge fan of Little Payton.

Noah's aunt, with the mentality of giving it a try, tweeted privately to Peyton Jr., asking him to celebrate the birthday of her 10-year-old nephew. So, Little Payton appeared as promised.

There are many similar stories: Against the Timberwolves on March 2, Payton Jr. stepped on an audience member's AJ outside the court, and he subconsciously looked down and wiped the audience's sneakers.

Last December, Peyton Jr. accidentally spilled the beer of the sideline fans, said three words of apology, let the staff take a new cup, and handed him his towel.

Against the Spurs, he broke Murray but injured his own tibia because he didn't want to hit the female fans in the first row, "because then she would have a lot of pain." ”

In January, Peyton Jr. received the NBA Caring Community Assistance Award for his support of youth with learning disabilities.

Of course, the warmth of Payton Jr. off the court is based on everyone's performance on the NBA court. When he first entered the NBA, Peyton Jr.'s life has been wandering.

From the Bucks to the Lakers, from the Wizards to the Raptors, before the Warriors gave a ten-day short contract, Payton played 29 games in the most of the first five seasons, but experienced four cuts.

"People told me they loved me and they needed me, but the next day they cut me off." Little Payton admits that the feeling is very poor.

In his five years in the NBA, he played 6 teams and averaged 8 minutes per game. This coincides with the five years that the Splash Brothers wrote history, and the little defenders did not project and were not organized, so why stay on the field? So Little Payton worked hard to make up for his shortcomings.

Just as the last ten-day contract expired, Payton Jr. earnestly asked Warriors general manager Miles, "Can I still come to the stadium tomorrow?" ”

In the end, Payton Jr. relied on defense to establish a foothold in the Warriors. In the NBA's official high-level statistics, there is a data about "reducing the opponent's two-point shooting rate on the defensive end", and The proportion of Peyton Jr. reducing the opponent's two-point shooting rate when defending has reached 28.1%, far exceeding other teammates.

The shooting percentage of the players against Peyton Jr. this season has dropped from 45.9% to 43.6%, and in the playoffs, the opponent's shooting rate has dropped from 46.0% to 40.9%.

That's why after Dillon was banned, Cole would say, "I don't care about this, Peyton Jr. won't be able to play for the next few weeks, that's what matters to us." ”

For the Warriors, the lack of a player who can defend multiple positions and has great tactical value may not be a reason to lose, but it is definitely a huge loss.

"Video of the game is not a lie." Just after the Warriors eliminated the Nuggets, Payton Jr. revealed in an interview, "He and the Warriors' coaching staff analyzed Jokic's game video hundreds of times, and then Payton Jr. learned about Jokic's way of playing in observation and found ways to make Jokic play less comfortable." ”

The fighting on the defensive end may have continued since he was a child. 16 years ago, the Miami Heat won the championship that year, Gary Payton Sr. was the team's backup point guard, after the championship parade, Wade invited the team's second generation of balls to interact, on the street court 1vs1 single head-to-head.

The other children were all cowering, but the 13-year-old Peyton jr. was stunned in front of Wade, not flinching, "I was very small, but I did prevent Wade from a goal, everyone was surprised, but I felt unusual." 」 ”

Perhaps from that moment, the seeds of Peyton Jr.'s basketball were buried in the bottom of his heart. From a topsy-turvy to a defensive tip, Peyton Jr. could have laid flat on his own, but he rejected all the stagnant ideas.

Cole had this to say: "His career path and his basketball journey are full of twists and turns and adversity. He's been cut so many times, but he's still ready to take his next chance every time. ”

In Payton Jr.'s view, it was the Warriors' kindness that allowed him to re-tell his inspirational story on the court, "They (the Warriors) made me me." ”

Curry's response was: "He's been trying to find a home, and now he's found it, and this is his home." ”

Unfortunately, this injury broke the flower that was fortunate to bloom at the age of 29.

After being diagnosed with an elbow fracture, Little Payton left a simple sentence, "Thank you all for your love, I'm fine, I'll be back." ”

According to reports, Peyton Jr. will be suspended for at least three weeks, hoping that after three weeks, he will hear the good news of Peyton Jr. and hope that he will return healthily as soon as possible.

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