Joan Kim Noah, the No. 9 picked by the Bulls in the NBA in 2007, finally finished his NBA debut yesterday as a Bulls player.
As a first-team player and two-time All-Star in the NBA in the '13-14 season, Noah's retirement can't help but evoke memories of the players I once liked.
On October 30, 2013, "Answer" Iverson finally made the decision that broke the hearts of fans, announcing his retirement to end his 17-year career.
The little player, who has been on the NBA's giant field since 1996, used his butterfly-like superiority to make baskets and influenced an entire generation of young people with his uninhibited personality.
Remember facing Michael Jordan in his rookie season, Iverson's innate superstar qualities made him a basketball god who did not have a pestle at all, and he swung past Jordan with his skillful dribble and steadily threw the ball in his hand into the basket.
In the 2001 NBA Finals, although Iverson did not lead the 76ers to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers led by the "OK Combination", he gave everything to give the Lakers the only loss in the playoffs that year. And the scene where he crossed the "Lu Direction" after scoring a goal became an eternal famous scene on the finals stage.
The history of the 76ers has had many great basketball superstars, "Basketball Emperor" Chamberlain, "Dr. J" Owen, "Big Mouth" Buckley.
But when people ask about you, when they ask about which great basketball superstar my team has had, at least in the hearts of our post-80s and post-90s Chinese fans, there is only one answer in their hearts, and that is Aaron Iverson.
Although Answer's career wasn't so complete, he was abandoned by the 76ers at the peak of his career and forced to leave Denver.
Although he exhausted his entire youth and did not exchange a championship ring for himself, no one will deny his greatness, as one of the leaders of the NBA's 96 golden generation, as the NBA's 75 superstars, Iverson's legend will always accompany the basketball game among fans.
In 1997, an elongated high school student was selected by the Toronto Raptors of the Northlands.
From the bench to the role players, in step by step to become the main force, Maddy in the Raptors' three years step by step, solid precipitation of themselves and polishing skills.
Three years later, in the offseason, he joined the Orlando Magic on a seven-year, $93 million contract. Although as a lot of Chinese fans like me, he really liked and recognized him during the Rockets period, there is no denying that maddy spent the best and longest peak of his career at the Magic.
He won the scoring championship twice with the Magic and forced the pistons into a 3-1 nosed situation, but Maddy's entire career in the playoffs was full of the embarrassment of being reversed.
The Magic's 3-1 lead over the Pistons and the Rockets' 2-0 lead over the Mavericks, the Jazz were reversed, and even at the end of his career he witnessed Ray Allen's stunning three-pointer on the Spurs bench.
Spurs' fifth championship is a year late, and Maddy's championship missed a lifetime.
But as Chinese fans, you will never forget the "Yao Mai" combination of the rockets.
The reason why Maddy is loved and remembered by so many Chinese fans is not only because he stands next to Yao Ming, his flowing dry jumper has fascinated a lot of basketball fans, and on the night of December 9, 2004, he completely conquered the fans, conquered the opponents, and touched God!
At 35.13 seconds, what only God can do, really happened to Maddy and became an eternal classic in the NBA.
However, god gave Maddy endless basketball talent, but also pressed his body with a bomb that will always detonate.
Maddy suffered from congenital curvature of the spine, and while he was still a student, doctors thought he was not suitable for intense sports, and in his second season with the Raptors, he was already plagued by a back injury, but he was still young at that time.
After the magic, Maddy also suffered from a back injury, but he still overcame it and showed his high-level competitive status.
After arriving at the Rockets, Maddy only maintained the peak of one or two seasons, just because of a serious back injury, and then stopped, although there was a highlight moment after leading the Rockets to 22 consecutive wins.
But at that time, all fans knew that the combination of Maddy and Yao Ming was already difficult to bring back the championship for the Rockets, and Yao Ming had also been affected by injuries large and small since 2007.
Finally, in early 2010, Maddy was traded to the Knicks, and then joined the Pistons, Eagles, and Spurs on a basic salary as a veteran until he left the NBA for the CBA game across the ocean.
On August 26, 2013, the basketball superstar who accompanied a generation of Rockets fans and was most closely intertwined with Yao Ming's peak period chose to retire.
"UFO" Vince Carter, who played in the NBA for 22 seasons from 1998 to 2020, finally officially ended his legendary career on June 25, 2020.
Stephen Curry, who was still under his father's knee, had already become a thirty-year-old man when he retired from the army of "Uncle Carter".
Perhaps even Carter himself never imagined that his career would be so long, so long that he and the Curry father and son had intersected on the field.
When did you really get to know Carter? And where did he come from the nicknames "UFO" and "demigod"?
These are all derived from the 2000 All-Star Dunk Contest.
That year's dunk contest allowed us Chinese fans to truly appreciate the charm of dunks.
And it was Vince Carter who gave the dunk a skill unparalleled attention.
Maybe Carter's dunk isn't the most difficult in NBA history, but he must be the best dunk player combining domineering and aesthetics.
How many people have become fans because of his dunks.
Carter's long career has gone through all phases from the main players to the All-Star starters, from the team's starting point to the role players.
But Carter only fights because he loves basketball, and although he is also eager for a championship, he never sacrifices the opportunity to play for the championship.
He would rather go to a team with an average record, just to get a little more playing time, rather than go to the strong team to be a water dispenser manager.
In such a state of mind, Carter, like Iverson and Maddy, did not wear a championship ring in the end, such a regret may accompany them for the rest of their lives, but then why bother, this will not affect their greatness!
When Carter, who had white hair, chose to retire in 2020, the four major quarterbacks of the league also completely came to an end.
Bryant Bryant, 1978-2020, announced the end of his career on April 14, 2016 after completing the last game of his career against the Jazz for a 60-point performance.
And he's the greatest basketball player in los Angeles Lakers history!
It is the eternal "black mamba" in the eyes of fans, the eternal "Peter Pan", and the eternal "boss".
July 30, 2011 Yao Ming announces his retirement
November 23, 2013 "Great General" Arenas announces his retirement
July 11, 2016 Duncan announces his retirement
You still remember which players took their retirement with your youth, welcome to leave a comment in the comments section below.