On May 18, Beijing time, NBA trainer Chris Johnson posted a video of his brother smashing the wall and catching a violent dunk, and wrote: "Another good week in the training gym. Totally focused! Ball has been out for two-and-a-half years, and according to previous reports, he decided to exercise his $21.4 million player option for next season. Of course, this is to be expected......
Judging from the bounce and dunk, Brother Qiu is indeed recovering well, but what about other aspects? "I'm about 70 percent back now, I'm able to play, and I can do better," he said on his podcast. I still have a long offseason to recover, so I'm looking forward to the future. ”
In the 2021 offseason, he joined the Bulls for four years and $80 million, with his contract expiring in the summer of 2025 and a $21.4 million player option for the 2024-25 season. After joining the Bulls, he only played 35 games in three seasons, less than Simmons (57). said that Brother Ball is the No. 1 glass man in the NBA, Simmons should not object!
In January 2022, he suffered a minor meniscus tear in his left knee and subsequently underwent knee surgery, which was expected to be out for 6-8 weeks. Unexpectedly, Brother Qiu not only suffered reimbursement for the season, but he also underwent two more knee surgeries in September 2022 and March 2023. Throughout the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, two consecutive seasons were completely reimbursed.
Ball has been in the NBA since 2017 and has missed 56% of the games in his career; Three-ball, who entered the NBA in 2020, has missed 44% of his career games. The ball brother has a total career salary of $115 million, and the three-ball currently has a five-year contract of $260 million. Brother Qiu's contract is coming to an end, and the three-ball contract has just begun.
In the last three seasons, the two brothers have played a total of 168 games (35 games and 133 three-ball games), and Bridges has played 246 regular season games alone. The Bulls' record is also directly related to the absence of the ball brother. DeRozan said: "There's not a day that we don't miss Lonzo Ball and I want to see how we do when he comes back. ”
Many fans like to say: "There must be water in the eyes of the champions." "In fact, the success rate of the list is much lower than that of the champion. Let's take a look at the survival status of the NBA charts from 2010 to 2020:
2010 (Evan Turner), retired; 2011 (Derrick Williams), free agent; 2012 (McGee), retired; 2013 (Oladipo), free agent; 2014 (Jabari Parker), played in Europe; 2015 (Russell), played for the Lakers;
2016 (Ingram), played for the Pelicans; In 2017 (Brother Ball), he played for the Bulls and did not play for two and a half years; 2018 (Bagley), playing for the Wizards; 2019 (Morant), played for the Grizzlies, was banned twice for holding a gun; In 2020 (Wiseman), playing for the Pistons, his rookie contract expired.
Born on October 27, 1997, in the 2021-22 season, he averaged 13 points, 5.4 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game, shooting 42.3%, 42.3% and 75% from three! Do you think Brother Qiu can come back with full blood?