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He was the strongest draft pick in history. With a bench press of 202 kilograms, he forced the Altai beast to confess in one second, crushed the big shark O'Neal with one hand, and was named the best defensive player four times in his career. Only the weak succumb to fate. When a real man enters the Hall of Fame, he never mentions fruit.
In the slums of Alabama, single mothers exhausted all their energy to raise 11 children on their own. Big Ben is the tenth of them. A difficult childhood taught him to live hard.
As a child, he supported his family by cutting his neighbor's hair, so don't question his hairstyle aesthetic ability, because this is the best interpretation of the warrior.
Big Ben has been physically strong since he was a child, which makes many football coaches salivate, but Big Ben's mind has always been attracted to basketball. To Charles Oakley's life mentor.
Oakley is a notorious NBA villain and a former bodyguard for Joe's gang owners. Although he is only 2.03 meters tall, he is like a fish in water when the beast is raging.
With the tenacity to turn a basketball game into a boxing champion at any time, he grabbed 12,205 rebounds in his career.
After graduating from high school, Big Ben received many college offers, but without exception, they all wanted him to join the football team. Although life at home is difficult, Big Ben has not given up his ideals because of reality. Eventually, relying on Oakley's recommendation, he came to Chuyaho Community College and quickly became the star of the team. In his sophomore year, he averaged 24 points, 17 rebounds and 7 blocks per game.
Seeing that the time was right, Oakley took the next step and introduced Daburn to Virginia Union University, giving him the opportunity to compete in the NCAA Division II game. Instead of making it to the NBA, he began to focus on rebounding and blocks and helped the team reach the National Final Four.
Inevitably, the time came in 1996, and when Big Ben watched a group of talented people with unique abilities pose with Stern one after another, he didn't hear his name until the end.
The Celtics originally intended to give him a two-way contract, but when the coach decided to let him play guard, he stubbornly replied: "I want to play point guard!" ”
Big Ben's official height is 2.06 meters, but he is actually only 2.01 meters excluding the explosive head. In an era of four main centers, it is indeed difficult to survive with such a tall interior lineman, but Big Ben suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome, which causes his fingers to lose their sense of the ball, and if he is forced to let him out, it is worse than killing him.
Washington Bullets general manager Wes Unseld saw that the NBA door was about to close, and despite everyone's opposition, he signed Daben. He averaged 13.8 points and 18.2 rebounds that season and won Rookie of the Year and Regular Season MVP. Apart from him, only Chamberlain was able to create this miracle.
In 1978, Washington won the only championship in team history. Unseld was named Finals MVP. On top of that, he is only 2.01 meters tall and does not have typical offensive skills.
Dozens of people strive to be one of the NBA's top 50 superstars.
Big Ben cherished this hard-won opportunity, but at the time the Bullets had Webb, the greatest power forward of all time, and Juwan Howard, the NBA's first billionaire contract recipient. Big Ben averaged just 5.8 minutes per game in his rookie season. When he hit 1.1 points and 1.7 rebounds, he was troubled at the time, and Unseld seriously said to him: "My child, light is not the sun's patent, everyone can get through the hardest days and then become the best version."
”。 From myself! ”
In the '98-99 season, Chris Webb, proud of his talent, was traded to the Kings, where he met offensive guru Adelman. The two collided to the ultimate meaning of Princeton's tactics, and Ben increased his playing time to 26.8 minutes. He underwent carpal tunnel surgery to improve his shooting ability, then shot 57.8 percent from the inside and 35.6 percent from the field.
He averaged 6 points and a team-high 8.3 rebounds at the free throw line.
He was then sent to the Orlando Magic and became the team's starting center. Although Orlando was once known as the cradle of superstars, they are a super low-key team this season. Four of the team's five starters were undrafted, and 11 players were in the league for less than 3 years. By the end of the season, however, they had a 41-41 record.
It wasn't until the final round that the Bucks' Three Musketeers kept them out of the playoffs. Exterior.
Then the management of the Magic went crazy. They dumped Maddie in the offseason, along with the Duncan scandal and the Grant Hill trade billed as a "robbery" of Jordan's successor, but the Pistons only traded Big Ben and Chakey Atkins.
But when the truth came out, it turned out that the Pistons were the robbers and the Magic were the hapless receivers. Hill played with an injury in the 2000 playoffs that worsened his ankle injury.
Over the next four seasons, he made just 47 appearances, and Big Ben progressed to rebounds, blocks and All-Defensive Player to become the starting center for the Eastern Conference All-Star.
2003 was the year Trump said goodbye to basketball and the year of the rise of the 96-round golden generation, with 9 players selected for the All-Star Game at the same time. If you count Ray Allen and Rahi, who were selected in 2002, this year's success rate is simply frightening, but compared to the stronger All-Stars, the Daggers' popular playoffs are the real stage master.
The Pistons are already the league's best defensive team this year. Big Ben averaged 16.3 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game in 17 playoff games. Losing 2 points in 3 games gives Detroit fans back hope in the Finals.
In the 2003 draft, they entered as top picks, and if they could take advantage of them, they might be able to create a whole new dynasty. Perhaps influenced by the enthusiasm for international players at the time, Pistons management decided to bet on Serbian supernova Miličić.
New head coach Larry Brown once advised: "Can we call Anthony or Bosh?
Let them come to the trial together, right? ”
Upon learning the news, Milić's agent refused on the spot. His mystery made Coach Brown suspicious, and all his fears finally came true.
Although Milicic has excellent static talent, he does not have a strong heart. Coupled with the language barrier, he can only rely on dyeing his hair and piercing his ears to relieve loneliness, and eventually becomes a "man's victory cigar".
Every time he played, the Detroit fans always applauded, because it also meant that the game lost its tension.
However, in the first two months of the season, the Pistons had a 16-13 record. Adjusting to Larry Brown's coaching style wasn't easy. The chemistry has formed, and the Pistons have won 13 straight games, tying the all-time record.
The army of bad boys, who ended the era of the magic bird and painted the floor with Chicago eggs, was reborn at this moment.
At the same time, the current league also has a super luxury team composed of O'Neal, Kobe, Malone, Payton, Los Angeles Lakers 4 75 superstars, committed to regaining the championship taken away from them by the Spurs, all experts predict: "No team can win four consecutive Lakers games!" ”
The Pistons, on the other hand, don't have 75 superstars. The cornerstone of the team is the super blue-collar who has never scored more than 10 points in a game in his career.
Sid Wallace, the officially formed "civilian five," warned the coalition, "Detroit doesn't make planes, so this is a no-fly zone!" ”
Rashid's single-play ability makes up for the Pistons' shortcomings, and his defensive contributions make the Pistons' bucket formation even more unbreakable, limiting opponents to 70 consecutive points. Motor City fans have reason to believe: "We were never favourites, but we were favourites!" ”
(To be continued...) ）
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