In the NBA league, most players have a unique skill, either breaking sharp, or three-point accuracy, or rebounding idiots, or hot pot masters... but I am afraid that Anderson Vallejo is the only one who can make a name for himself in the NBA by falling with a fake hand. Of course, in addition to the fake fall, Vallejo's "bubble noodle head" is also quite impressive to the fans.
Anderson Vallejo is a Brazilian basketball player who plays as a center/big forward. Because Vallejo has played for the Cavaliers and Warriors, he is still quite popular among Chinese fans. Moreover, Vallejo and James have a very strong relationship, and the only game in James' career that did not start was to support Vallejo, who was caught up in the trade scandal, and came off the bench with Vallejo (07/08 season).
Vallejo was selected by the Magic with the 1st pick in the second round in 2004 and was subsequently traded to the Cavaliers, where he began his NBA career. Vallejo played in the NBA for 13 seasons, averaging 7.3 points and 7.2 boards per game in his career, not a star, and even the main force of the team for most of his career, but Vallejo always performed on the court, dared to fight, and was also very "dare to fall", is a very good team puzzle player, but also a type of player that the coach likes very much.
Vallejo has spent most of his career in the Cavaliers, whether as the team's main center or as a substitute for the team, Vallejo is a hard worker, grabbing the board, card slots, blocking, scoring under the basket, wherever he is needed, he will appear wherever he is, definitely a competent blue-collar player. At its peak, he averaged a double-double of 14.1 points and 14.4 boards per game, but Vallejo, who was getting better that season, only played 25 games before the season was reimbursed.
Vallejo is most well known to fans is his nickname of "Brazilian Film Emperor", as an inside player, Vallejo's physical fitness and confrontation ability are not top-notch, but this does not affect Vallejo's work on the inside line, because he has a famous stunt "eighteen falls", who touches it, whenever the opposing player breaks through to the inside line, Vallejo can always appear in the appropriate position, fall in response, with the referee's whistle and the helpless expression of the opposing player, Vallejo has completed a good play of "making offensive fouls". Relying on this unique skill, Vallejo is like a fish in the inside, and the opposing players burst in to look at Vallejo and hide, not afraid of him blocking, mainly afraid of him falling.
In fact, Vallejo's defense is still quite good, the defensive sense of compensation is very strong, excellent rebounding awareness and cunning on-court observation, and Vallejo was selected to the second team of the season's best defensive team in the 09/10 season.
Vallejo's biggest shortcoming of his career is that he has more injuries, and he has never played fully in his entire career, playing more than 70 games in only three seasons of his career. This is very different from the "Iron Man defender" Andre Miller introduced in the previous issue. The 12/13 season was the peak of Vallejo's career, but Vallejo, who averaged two double-doubles in 25 games, suffered an injury season reimbursement. This was followed by a serious injury to a ruptured Achilles tendon, and for several seasons, the appearance rate was less than 50%.
Constant serious injuries coupled with age, the Cavaliers, who are in dire need of inside strength, chose to trade Vallejo, and in the 15/16 season, Vallejo, who played for the Cavaliers for 12 years, was traded by the Cavaliers to the Blazers, and was cut off after the Blazers did not play.
Vallejo then signed a base salary contract with the defending champion Warriors. From eastern champions favourites to Western champions favourites, Vallejo is the only one.
In the 2016 Finals, the riding battle was staged again, and Vallejo, who played for the Warriors, met with his old club, the Cavaliers. Although the Cavaliers eventually fell behind 1-3, the Jedi flipped to win the Finals. The Warriors won the championship when they were with the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers won the championship when they were on the Warriors, and Vallejo was also quite depressed.
At that time, although Vallejo was traded, the Cavaliers were ready to award the veteran championship ring, but Vallejo refused the Cavaliers' kindness to award him the ring. In the 2016/17 season, Vallejo was cut by the Warriors after playing 14 games, and then did not appear in the NBA. But that season, the Warriors gave Vallejo a championship ring after beating the Cavaliers to win the championship, but Vallejo again rejected the Warriors' kindness. Vallejo became the first player in NBA history to refuse a championship ring twice, and maybe he loves the Cavaliers too much.
In 2018, Vallejo returned to his hometown of Brazil and joined his hometown team Flamengoda. In the 20/21 season, Vallejo was close to returning to the NBA, and the old club Cavaliers twice signed him to a short ten-day contract, but Vallejo did not get the opportunity to appear.
Finally, talking about the translated name of Vallejo, the editor read a translation of the name of the editor a few days ago just mentioned Vallejo, according to the local context and pronunciation in Brazil, the translation name of "Varejao" should be "Varejao". (Remember that in the early days, Yang 5 also called him "Valerjean", and finally somehow called him "Vallejo" with the current)