People often say that competitive sports are about strength and talent, in the field of basketball, the so-called strength generally refers to solid skills, accurate shooting, and talent is their own physical conditions.
In general, both are indispensable.
However, Jordan Jr. can be said to be an exception.
He is not good at shooting, and he has no talent in the field of low-post offense, but he wins in physical advantage, high hand, and amazing bounce.
Jordan Jr. in his heyday also became the rebounding king for two consecutive years, achieving his career counterattack of opening low and high.
However, as he grew older, his condition inevitably continued to decline.
However, his life is still very complete, marrying a beautiful supermodel and having a cute child.
"Joe Shou Cheng" violated the verbal agreement
Little Jordan is 2.11 meters tall and has an astonishing 2.2 meters in arm span, relying on his innate advantages in size and his own efforts, and was once rated as one of the top centers in the NBA at his peak.
Despite his double aura, even though he has obvious deficiencies in shooting percentage, his bright statistics in defense still attract the attention of many people.
Among them is Mark Cuban.
Ignoring everyone's doubts about Jordan Jr., the "super center", he threw an olive branch to him, hoping that he could join the Mavericks in the new season.
At this time, it was the offseason of 2015, and Jordan Jr.'s contract with his old club Clippers was about to expire, and Jordan Jr. hesitated for a while in the face of the other party's 4-year 80 million conditions.
The Clippers were Jordan Jr.'s old club when he entered the NBA Draft in 2008 and accompanied him along the way, and despite his tepid season after entering the league, the Clippers did not choose to give up on the youngster.
Later, Chris Carman, the main member of the team and the starting center, could not continue to play due to injury, and the team rushed to use Jordan Jr. to make up for it.
Jordan Jr. also did not live up to the expectations of his teammates, and with the tacit cooperation between him and Blake Griffin, he became a new hope for the team, and he became famous in the game, from a mediocre rookie to a new star in the NBA.
With the demonstration of Jordan Jr.'s ability, he also completely got rid of the team's cold bench situation, and had the opportunity to play as a starting lineup, and his value was also rising.
Jordan Jr. continues to refresh his career with the Clippers, and during this time, Jordan Jr. and the team have created one achievement after another, and Jordan Jr. has always been grateful to his old club Clippers.
It can be said that without the olive branch cast by Mark Cuban, Jordan Jr. and his old club to renew his contract is almost a sure thing.
However, in the face of the various conditions prescribed by Mark Cuban, Jordan Jr. still hesitated.
After all, in 2015, 80 million is not a small number.
With his old club along the way, and a more attractive salary package on the other, Jordan Jr. was in a dilemma for a while, and finally reached a verbal agreement with the Mavericks, and did not sign a formal agreement at the same time.
The day the Mavericks reached an agreement happened to be Friday, but the following Monday, Jordan Jr. told Parshua, the leader of the Mavericks' recruitment team, that he still wanted to have a meeting with the Clippers.
It was this meeting that made Little Jordan become the "Qiao Shouxun" in the mouths of Chinese fans.
On July 9, Jordan Jr. officially decided to renew his contract with his old club Clippers.
Of course, his old club also offered him a maximum salary contract of 87.6 million, and also added that Jordan Jr. will have a player option in the final year of his contract.
At this point, many of the efforts the Mavericks put into signing Jordan Jr. have all gone down the drain.
A legendary veteran who has never lost his job in 15 years
Since joining the Los Angeles Clippers in 2008, Jordan Jr., like many other players in the NBA, has changed camps many times, which is not a strange thing among NBA players.
Even if Jordan Jr. did not hesitate to ride his integrity and destroy the Clippers, he eventually parted ways after 10 years, after which Jordan Jr. has joined the Lone Ranger, Knicks, Nets and other teams, and in the current 2022-2023 season, Jordan Jr. officially signed with the Denver Nuggets, an NBA veteran who will continue to play for the Nuggets.
In fact, when the Nuggets decided to introduce Jordan Jr., the outside world was very skeptical, and Jordan Jr.'s own disadvantages were very obvious, and as he grew older, the innate advantage in his body was no longer obvious.
Compared to signing Jordan Jr., it was widely believed that retaining backup center Cousins, who performed well last season, was the best strategy, but in the end, the Nuggets chose Jordan Jr.
Jordan Jr. has never been unemployed in 15 years since entering the NBA, whether in his prime or after the Nets showed a downward trend in form, whenever his contract is about to expire, he can renew to the next contract.
Compared to many NBA players, it is also legendary to have never lost a job in a 15-year career.
For example, now in the CBA Liaoning team, foreign aid Eric Moreland, before joining the Liaoning team, whether in the NBA or other CBA teams, he faced the dilemma of being laid off.
And Jordan Jr. can have a "stable job" in these fifteen years regardless of his state, in addition to his own value as a player, and his character is also inseparable.
Once Adu and Irving even though they cut their salaries and wanted to enter the Nets with Jordan Jr., they are friends, teammates, but also colleagues, if not Jordan Jr.'s personality and ability are enough to be appreciated, who would be willing to seek a chance for others in a way that harms their own interests?
As a 2.11-meter-tall black basketball player, Jordan Jr. is a tall black basketball player, whether it is a charge on the court or the first impression off the court, it is difficult to get along with.
However, in private, little Jordan is actually very easy-going, taking the uproar of the contract breaking incident that year, although Pa Shuai, who was angry, said that he was very angry, he and little Jordan are still friends.
Even if that happened, Parshio only expressed his shock and puzzlement, putting it all down to Jordan Jr.'s reluctance to be in the comfort zone of the Clippers and not ready to be a privileged athlete.
It's a pity in and out of the words, it's all hatred that iron can't make steel.
Imagine if Jordan Jr. was just a capable athlete and broke his contract without faith, could he have done the same?
Jordan Jr.'s personality and emotional intelligence allow him to never form a grudge whether he enters that team or leaves that team.
Even after entering the Nuggets, he played very little time, could only cheer for his teammates on the bench most of the time, and was nicknamed "cheerleader" without complaint.
Lao Ji is determined to be thousands of miles
Now, the 30-year-old veteran Jordan Jr. plays for the Denver Nuggets for the 2022-2023 season, and the media is predicting whether Jordan Jr. can wear a championship ring before his old teammates Griffin and Paul.
The Nuggets currently have no shortage of younger players than Jordan Jr., and center Jokic has grown very fast this season and has visibly become stronger, which is also inseparable from the help of veterans such as Jordan Jr.
It can also be seen from some videos of Jordan Jr. accompanying Jokic to fight against training that as an old-timer's love for newcomers, some people even say that the Nuggets signed veteran Jordan Jr. to let him take Jokic.
Whatever the reason, the Nuggets ultimately decided to sign Jordan Jr., and there's no denying that as a veteran, his on-court experience and ability are obvious to all.
Even if the physical advantages are becoming less and less obvious, and the amazing bouncing power is no longer what it used to be, there is still much to learn for many young juniors.
As the so-called old horse knows the way, the old horse may not be as energetic as the young ponies in the battlefield, but with the experience of the old horse, you can take a lot less detours.
Playing is a profession and an ideal, and perhaps as many fans say, if it weren't for love, not for championships, Jordan Jr. might have retired long ago.
Once the best center of the year, now the "best water cooler administrator" who is ridiculed, and traditional centers like him have been gradually eliminated by the league, but he is still holding on.
In recent years, he has changed teams frequently, just for his basketball career dream, only for the championship he dreamed of.
This season may be the last game of the veteran's career, even if he doesn't have many opportunities to play as Jokic's backup, even if he is ridiculed by fans as the only flaw in the Nuggets, he will stick with it until the end.
On May 23, in the game between the Nuggets and the Lakers, the Nuggets successfully defeated the Lakers 113-111 and won a ticket to the Finals with a big score of 4-0.
This is the first time in the long 15-year career of Jordan Jr. that DeAndre Jordan has reached the Finals, and it is also the closest he has come to a championship.
In the cloud-filled Western Division, although the Nuggets themselves are already relatively good, everything is possible until the results of the game are revealed, and no one knows whether Jordan Jr.'s dream can be realized.
As a center, Jordan Jr. may not be the best, he has obvious disadvantages, the "empty city" that once made a name in the history of the Clippers no longer exists, and the physical advantage has gradually disappeared.
However, as a professional basketball player who loves basketball, as long as he has not retired, he must stick to the post he loves, fight until the last moment, and know who the deer will die.
Fall in love with meditation and be the best you can be
Jordan Jr. is a center who is good at blocking, and off the court he is an ordinary person who lives a happy life.
In 2016, little Jordan's wife Amber gave birth to the crystallization of their love, and the child was very cute and inherited all the advantages of the mother.
Although the outside world often ridicules little Jordan with the fair-skinned child and mother, it still does not affect the relationship between the two.
Some of the ridicule of outsiders is malicious, essentially hoping that the parties will cause unhappiness after hearing these remarks, so as to bring more jokes to bored people.
Of course, there are also some that are just jokes between friends, whether they are jokes or bad words, I believe that little Jordan himself will be able to tell better than us bystanders.
Little Jordan's wife Amber used to be a supermodel, beautiful and hot, and the two entered the palace of marriage hand in hand after many years of love, and the foundation of their relationship can be seen.
Little Jordan has always been pampered to his beloved wife, he is a rough man on the court, but in life, he is a gentle husband and loving father.
Now, the two of them have been walking hand in hand for many years, and the appearance of happiness is on each other's faces, and they don't need words to fight back against the doubts and rumors of the outside world.
Although the current Jordan is not too far away from retirement, I believe that even if they leave the basketball career they love, they will live happily.
Not long ago, in an exclusive interview with reporter Spears, Jordan Jr. mentioned that he visited many temples during the Chinese competition and has since fallen in love with meditation.
In interviews, he commented on his youth as "always questioning a lot of things," and now he hopes he can calm down and find the calmest state of mind possible.
It is not difficult to see from the words of Jordan Jr. that compared with the courage and dare to fight hard for young people, he now pursues inner peace, although he still has an obsession with championships, but he will treat the world as usual as possible.
Jordan Jr. says he is now a Buddhist believer and meditates every day to keep himself in top shape.
In fact, such a state is precisely the best for Jordan Jr.
Today, he has more and more limited space to play on the field, and if he cares too much or has a fluctuating mentality, it will be even more detrimental to his career.
As a veteran, he should also have a calm and responsibility that belongs to a veteran, whether it is a starter or a substitute, since he is on the field, he must do what he should do.
Racing is like this, life is like it, career may be getting closer and closer, but the good life may just be beginning.
Whether it is competitive sports or other professions, there is no way to avoid the alternation of the old and the new, and the peak of professional athletes may only be a few years, fleeting.
But, as a competitive sports athlete, Jordan Jr. has done everything he can and should do.
Many fans may see that he has not improved since joining the league, and he has never been able to do a low-post offense, but he also has his own defensive offensive, and his blocks are also feared by opponents.
Now that he has passed his age, his decline in form is inevitable, he can accept his transformation from starter to substitute, accept the end of his will eventually be replaced by a newcomer, and fans can also try to accept it.
Everyone has their own life, whether on the field or in life, it is enough to be the best within the ability.