"When no one believes you, you doubt yourself, you question what else you can do.
Later I learned that all I could do was keep believing in myself and keep working hard" — DeMarcus Cousins.
The other day, Cousins had just celebrated his 31st birthday, and he hadn't even received a trial call when he was at his peak and getting his salary.
Some netizens pulled out the 2015, the US media had predicted the star ranking five years later, the top three were: Davis, Wiggins, Cousins.
And now, Davis has won the championship, Wiggins has won a big contract, and Cousins has a bunch of injuries.
At one point, The Skill King once thought that only when God sincerely wanted to be an athlete would he be seriously injured beyond repair.
And Cousins? God him once, twice, three times, from the rupture of the Achilles tendon to the tearing of the quadriceps muscle to the tearing of the cruciate ligament, the injury covered his entire leg from bottom to top, and people can't help but ask, when did God and him have such a big vendetta?
Seriously, Cousins's career is best described in two words: bad luck and sadness.
When he first entered the league, he was selected by the Kings of Saramanto, and someone told him that the team had been rotten for a long time, and some people said that this was the hell of basketball.
He waved his hand: Hell is hell, it can always be transformed into heaven.
At that time, Cousins must not have imagined that he had never entered the playoffs once in his life as the boss leader.
The team has never been able to find a suitable deputy for him, and in those years, Salamento's best players were Coach Long and Guy.
Unfortunately, the injuries of Rondo and Guy, coupled with the weakness of the role players, have always left the team's record in the awkward position of ninth to twelfth in the West.
You can't get into the playoffs, and you can't get a high pick, which is the situation of the Kings in those years.
His technology is becoming more and more delicate, and the perfect combination of body and technology makes him a "god of examination",
Some fans even called him the "first center", the craziest year, he once cut 20 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in two consecutive games, the only one in history.
Remember that year, O'Neill once spoke out, hoping that Cousins, Embiid, Towns, Jokic and others could restore the glory of the center.
Good fellow, the other three were indeed glorious, and Cousins, who was most favored by O'Neill, fell.
Later, Cousins went to the Pelicans.
The process is quite comedic, Kao Shen went to New Orleans to play all-star, before leaving, the boss proudly told him: "You are my baby, my non-sale, I will not sell you." ”
Cousins went to New Orleans to play the All-Star Game, the man had just gotten off the plane, the game had not yet started, the news came from the media, the King traded him to the Pelicans.
Interesting, right? The news of being traded, the media knew better than he himself.
He looked extremely embarrassed in front of the camera, and he asked the agent, where should we go now? The agent shook his head: "I don't know. ”
At the Pelicans, he and Davis formed the league's first twin towers, but an injury made the pair of "inside king bombs" a bubble.
Only a few remember that before Cousins was injured, the Pelicans' record of just finishing grinding was a staggering 7-1 record.
According to normal development, he could have received the top salary that year, and even hit a higher honor, blamed the damn injury.
You may not believe it when you say it, this man who once worked as the first center has never had a maximum annual salary of more than 20 million.
He joined the Warriors with a basic salary, wanting to retaliate against society, who expected the defending champion Warriors to suffer a major injury and break the Finals.
He joined the Lakers with a basic salary and wanted to rub a championship with a good brother,
He did win the championship, but he was out of the team roster in the middle of the season because of injuries, in other words, the championship had nothing to do with him.
He joined the Clippers with a basic salary, thinking that this time it is always right, right?
Who expected that Xiao Ka was injured again, and the Clippers fell in the Western Final.
Funny plot, helpless life. He took the word bad luck to the extreme, but he could not see the most beautiful rainbow after the storm.
It is said that the core of comedy is tragedy, and it is difficult for us to judge what kind of soft heart is in a big man with a steel and iron bone like Cousins.
The giant beast that once went up to the moon for nine days is now looking up at the stars with his feet on the ground,
I just hope he stays away from injury from now on, even if he can only play ten minutes per game.
Some people, some games, watch one less game,
Some people, some games, maybe missed, are forever.