【100th in the Top 100】"Rain Man Campo"
Reminisce about the past, cross the waves, sing softly, move in all directions! To this day; I don't see the madness of the year, I don't see the young man of the year!
In the 1989 draft, the Seattle boss tried to exclude the crowd and selected Shaun Kemp, who was bad at the time, with the first round of the No. 17 sign.
Kemp's first season was mediocre, averaging 6.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game and finishing fourth in the Dunk Contest. After the rookie contract, through talent and hard work, Kemp soared to 18.1 points and 10.7 rebounds per game in the 93-94 season, and teamed up with Gary Payton to create the best 63-19 season in supersonic history. However, because they were young and unstable, they fell in front of the Nuggets led by Uncle Mu, which was the first black eight miracle in the history of the league.
Kemp was reluctant and bitter, but in the 94-95 season, he met the Lakers led by Magic and Abdul-Jabbar and was swept away. But his playoff 25+10 stats have made him already famous, and people began to call him "ruler" because of the homophony of "rain man" in English, which is also the origin of the name of the later rain man camp.
In the 95-96 season, which was also Kemp's third consecutive All-Star and All-Star Team, the Supersonics made a comeback, 64-18; eliminated the Kings in the first round and swept the defending champion Rockets in the second round. The West finals played 7 games against Malone Stockton, and finally he took the Supersonics to the O'Brien Cup. But he will face Michael Jordan with 73 wins, this is Jordan's most perfect season, the god of basketball is not willing to make mistakes, 6 games to solve the battle.
Kemp, who has fallen down again, seems to be tired, and after seven consecutive years of rising statistics, Kemp's personal data has not been able to go any further, coupled with the search for high salaries and the deterioration from management. After eating a year of old money, in the 97-98 season, Kemp parted ways with the supersonics and was traded to the Cavaliers, and he finally got his dream seven years and $107 million. But after many desperate efforts and a break with his former owner, he was no longer keen on basketball, and the Cavaliers were taken away by the police for three years to be forcibly detoxified, missing a large number of games, and he began to gradually fall from a top big forward in the league, accompanied by a scandal of 78 illegitimate children, which had been confirmed as 11 in 2003. After that, he went to the Blazers and Magic until he completely faded out of the league a few years later, retired in 2003, and declared bankruptcy in the same year.
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss is also looking at you. It took a boy 7 years to become a man, and it only took a moment to fall into the abyss. The fireworks that bloom in the night sky are so gorgeous, but so short. Camp's sudden loneliness made the league and even the entire sports circle begin to meditate, they began to pay attention to the personal qualities of players, docking players to enter the society to participate in more community activities, docking experienced agents and financial institutions to protect their property, and began to pay pensions after retirement. That's probably the last touch of color that the man left for the league.