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Today, no, the post should be yesterday, the former star of the Trail Blazers, Brandon Roy, appeared in the Rose Garden, the home stadium of the Trail Blazers, Roy's appearance, quickly detonated the entire arena, the fans stood up and applauded Roy, the Trail Blazers official also presented Roy with a tribute video, and then the current Trail Blazers players hugged Roy one by one to salute, this kind of posture has only appeared in Kobe Bryant before.
Roy's career lasted only six years, five years to be exact, and he played only five games in his final year due to injury, averaging 22.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game, and only three All-Star All-Star awards, two All-Star teams (one for two and one for three), and one rookie of the year.
Whether it is statistics or honors, Roy is far from Kobe, and even many Trail Blazers legend stars are inferior, so why is Roy, whose career is like a shooting star, so highly regarded by Trail Blazers fans and officials? Is it just because Roy's peak is just embedded in our youth? Is it just because I miss my youth?
No, if you read this article, you will understand that Brandon Roy is very significant to the history of the Trail Blazers, and it is not limited to the five-year career that was like a meteor but a brilliant flower.
As we all know, Roy was the No. 6 rookie in the first round in 2006, so let's stretch the timeline and see what kind of team the Trail Blazers selected Roy were at that time.
Before Roy, the boss of the Trail Blazers was Rasheed Wallace, who led the Trail Blazers to the Western Conference finals in the 1999-2000 season, and lost seven games against the pinnacle "OK".
In 2001, 76ers legend Morris Cheeks became the head coach of the 76ers, but he and the team's "flying squirrel" Damon Stoudemire's relationship was not good, the two were at odds for a while, and they got into a big fight in the locker room, in fact, this situation is more common in NBA teams, usually one of the two choices, and one of them was traded, but general manager Bob Whithit did not do this, Morris continued to coach the Trail Blazers for four years, only two of which reached the playoffs, and the record was not ideal, and the flying squirrel also played for three years with the Trail Blazers.
It's not that Whithitt doesn't want to care, but his energy is limited, at this time he is not only the general manager of the Trail Blazers, but also the general manager of the Seattle Seahawks, a football team under the name of owner Paul Allen, and most of his energy is in the latter.
For example, Ruben Patterson, who was signed in 2001, is strong, full of tendons, and full of gangsterism, the kind that plays gangsters without makeup, Patterson on the court is a defensive gate + mid-range little prince, with good efficiency, but this person is born from the heart, and his temper stinks, and in his rookie season, the Lakers beat Kobe Bryant many times, and the locker room was disturbed, and he was swept away after only 24 games, and after coming to the Trail Blazers, he is still in trouble.
Counting the ridiculous things Patterson did with the Trail Blazers, he couldn't count them on two hands, arguing with teammate Gwent Woods in practice, which escalated into a physical altercation, and scuffling with Zach Randolph who came to persuade him, yelling at Mike Milan, the head coach behind Cheeks, drinking too much in a nightclub to pick quarrels and provoking trouble, drunk driving was arrested, and charged with smoking***,** Nanny, abused his wife, ran to the police station twice in three days, and spent half a month in prison, and received two years of psychological counseling after coming out, until 2023, he was also exposed to defrauding NBA pensions with 17 other former NBA players.
Kobe Bryant with Ruben Patterson
Gwent Woods and Zach Randolph mentioned above are not good stubble, Gentry Woods was the No. 21 rookie in the first round in 2002, he fought Patterson in his first year as a rookie, and then he was prosecuted for dog abuse, because he failed a urine test, and was suspected of smoking ** and was hidden by the team.
Zach Randolph was the No. 19 rookie in the first round in 2001, and Randolph's reputation in the Trail Blazers was not as optimistic as the Grizzlies, and the rookie fought with Patterson the following year, and was fined $100,000 for breaking Patterson's left eye socket with a punch, and then he didn't want to play, falsely claiming that his aunt died, was photographed going to a nightclub for recreation, and had physical altercations with many players on the court.
Zach Randolph
In addition to these three, there are Bunch Wells, who was arrested by the police on charges of attempted **, and he also publicly abused fans on social media after he was released from prison, Eric Barkley, who was arrested for drinking too much and the police at a bar, Flying Squirrel who was arrested for 4 days in prison for refusing to cooperate with police enforcement after being found in his car and refusing to cooperate with police enforcement, Damon Studmeyer, and Sean Kemp, who was drunk and dreamed of death.
On top of that, the team's boss, Rasheed Wallace, is not a good guy either, he often yells at fans and referees, and technical fouls are commonplace, and to this day, Wallace's 41 technical fouls in a single season are still the NBA's record, an average of one in two games, and I'm afraid no one can surpass it in the future.
Obviously, the Trail Blazers did not establish a good image in Portland, or even the NBA, no matter where the Trail Blazers played, the attendance rate must be the lowest in the league, not only that, but even the local Trail Blazers fans did not want to see the Trail Blazers, and even put up a sign at the Rose Garden ticket office, "We need a team that can beat the Lakers, not a team that plays women and lawsuits", and they nicknamed the Trail Blazers - "Portland Prison Team".
It's such a team, how well the ball is played, not to mention, the Trail Blazers have attracted the disgust of the whole league, league president David Stern has always attached importance to the image of the NBA, he secretly met with the Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen, saying that the Trail Blazers have seriously affected the image of the NBA, and if it does not improve, the Trail Blazers will be considered to be expelled from the league.
David Stern
In 2003, when Whithitt officially stepped down and went full-time to play football, Paul Allen hired former Rockets general manager Stephen Patterson out of the mountains, determined to change the current situation and get the Trail Blazers back on track, and Patterson issued a "25 guarantee" within the team All players were required to comply and sign off, but the players remained stubborn, and over the next two seasons, the aforementioned names such as Ruben Patterson, Gentry Woods, Eric Barkley, Bunch Wells, Stoudemire, and team boss Rashid Wallace were all traded, and only Zach Randolph was retained because he was young, developed beyond expectations, and was a man with his tail between his legs.
In the three years of cleaning up these old thorns, the team urgently needs to establish a new core, in the 2004 draft, they selected the potential of the small guard Sabastian Telfil, the Trail Blazers thought they could rely on Telfil to survive this difficult period, who knew that sent away the big thorn, and came a small thorn, Telfil is Marbury's cousin, whether it is the style of play or personality, with a strong street Xi, came to the NBA to make money and quickly floated, drunk driving, illegal gun ownership, illegal possession of contraband, driving without a license, all kinds of off-court troubles, remember the above said that 17 people cheated the NBA pensionAmong them was him, Telfil spent only two years with the Trail Blazers before being purged from the team on the eve of draft night in 2006.
Telfil
In 2005, the Trail Blazers got the No. 6 pick in the first round, and this year's draft was not very strong, but it was not weak, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Danny Granger, Andrew Bynum, Raymond Felton, David Lee, Monta Alice were all from this year, and the Trail Blazers held the No. 6 pick, in order to avoid a lesson such as "Telfair", the Trail Blazers selected Martell Webster after blocking a number of "potential thorny" rookies.
Webster is honest, but he doesn't play very well, he averaged 6.6 points per game in his rookie season, and was sent to the NBDL in January 2006 for training, and Webster also became the rookie with the highest ranking among the players who were sent down at that time.
Webster
So, the time came to the night of the 2006 draft, and you could feel that the Trail Blazers desperately needed a core of good character and ability to save the Trail Blazers' broken record and foul reputation.
Brandon Roy, at that time, was like the goddess of luck favored the Portlanders, and gave the golden Roy to the Trail Blazers, not so much that LeBron James was the chosen son of the Clevelanders, but that Brandon Roy was the destiny of the Portlanders.
Roy suffered from a rare dyslexia in high school, and his Xi was terrible, but after Roy's unremitting efforts, he was finally admitted to the University of Washington after four exams, and he studied in college for four years, received a good education, treated people sincerely, had a gentle personality, and never had any bad rumors before the draft, and most importantly, Roy not only had excellent football skills and was selected as the best player in the top ten leagues in the Pacific, but also had a very similar personality to Kobe, and in the field of basketball, he had a competitive heart that others could not match.
Of course, who joined the team at the same time as Roy, there is also LaMarcus Aldridge, the star of the same year, although Ade's ranking is higher than Roy's, but Ade is introverted and not good at talking, and the leadership of the team is deservedly carried by Roy.
The subsequent story is familiar to everyone, Roy won the best rookie in his rookie season, and then averaged 20+5+5 per game for two consecutive years, was selected as an All-Star, the best team, and brought the team into the playoffs in the third year, playing the Rockets in the first round, Roy averaged 26.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, and almost pulled the Rockets off the horse.
Some fans have questioned it again, Roy's average points per game was only in his early 20s at his peak, how can he be called Kobe's heir? This title is not my title, this is recognized by fans back then, in a sense, Roy is very similar to Butler, you know that he is strong, but you just don't know where he is strong, or that he is a little better than Butler, everyone knows that Butler is not good at long-range shooting, but Brandon Roy, whether it is from offense to defense, from breakthrough to outside shooting, he has almost no shortcomings- Except for that damn knee.
Portlanders' respect for Roy, in addition to Roy's personality, character and performance on the court, there is also the purest dedication to competitive sports, 2009-2010 regular season in the back end, Roy torn the meniscus in his right knee, the official comeback time is the season reimbursement, this year, the Trail Blazers reached the playoffs, the first round against the Suns, the first three games against the Trail Blazers 1: 2 behind, except for the first game of the Trail Blazers relied on the old guard Andre Miller to desperately score 31 points to keep a victory, only 5 points to win the Suns, the next two games lost by 29 points, one lost 19 points, it is obvious that the Trail Blazers without Roy are not the opponent of the Suns at all, and another loss basically declares the end of the Trail Blazers' journey this season.
No one knows how Roy dragged a bad injured leg to play, and no one knew how much pain his knee had to endure every time he broke through and every time he shot.
Roy's appearance completely disrupted the deployment of the Suns, the ball was very difficult, the score was staggered, in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers only led by three points, Roy stole Nash's pass, and then ran all the way, hitting three points, and the difference widened to a game-high 6 points!
Although the Trail Blazers did not defeat the Suns in this series, Roy's fearlessness was respected by the entire Suns team, and they hugged Roy one by one after the game!
In the first round of the 2011 playoffs, the Trail Blazers played the Mavericks, and this season's Roy only played 47 games because of injuries, averaging a career-low 12 points per game.
In the first round of the playoffs, the Trail Blazers played the Mavericks, and it was exactly the same situation as the previous two years, the first three games of the Trail Blazers fell behind 1:2, and in the crucial fourth game, Roy was like a god, scoring 18 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter, and in the last 39 seconds of the game, he hit the key ball and killed the game!
If you look at it from God's perspective now, this ball may be the return of Roy's career, all his love for basketball, for the city of Portland, for the team, and for his knees, all focused on the first round of the 2011 Western Conference playoffs, the Trail Blazers vs. Mavericks Game 4 in the fourth quarter of the game.
Such Roy, such a gentle Roy, such a fighter who fights against fate, is it worthy of the respect of the Portland fans?
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