For a 35-year-old center who has won a championship, a big motivation to continue to play in the league is because of love.
Unfortunately, an accident in a shower is likely to end his NBA career!
He is Aaron Baines, who won the championship with the San Antonio Spurs as early as the 13-14 season. Now, several media outlets have reported that Baynes is likely to miss the entire 21-22 season.
Baines was injured after slipping in the bathroom, and at first, it was thought that Baynes' injury was not serious. However, the examination report was released, because this fall caused Baynes's neck nerves to be seriously damaged, and the injury was much more serious than expected.
The latest news shows that in the days after the injury, Baynes was always in the hospital for treatment.
Baynes' experience is reminiscent of John Wall of the Houston Rockets. While playing for the Washington Wizards, Wall was injured again while recuperating from an injury. Like Baynes, Wall fell in the bathroom shower, except that Baynes was injured in the neck, wall directly Achilles tendon fracture, the season reimbursement.
Unlike Wall, Baynes is 35 years old, can't play a season, and when he comes back at 36, it's really hard to find another job in the NBA.
Baines began his career in the Europa League. In 2009, Baynes went into the NBA draft and went unnoticed, and in 2013, Popovich took a fancy to the big man from Australia.
Baynes signed a three-year base salary contract with the Spurs, and he followed the Spurs to a championship. With a stable performance, after leaving the Spurs, Baynes signed a 3-year, 20-million contract with the Pistons (the last year jumped out of the contract), signed a contract with the Boston Celtics for a total of 3 years and 15 million, and signed a 2-year, 14.3 million contract with the Raptors.
At the beginning of last season, Nas promoted Baynes to the starting center position, perhaps because of the "water and soil", Baynes and raptors played out of tune. Moving into the second half, Baynes had been deprecated. Baynes made 53 appearances for the Raptors last season, averaging 6.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game.
After this bath slip and serious damage to the nerves in the neck, can we still see Baynes again in the NBA?