Everyone knows that Aaron Iverson's childhood was not good, and the answer is that one of the most terrible things he experienced in childhood was that his family's house was built directly above the sewer, and every time the water pipe broke, the floor of the house would be covered with sewage. On the night of February 14, 1994, Iverson, who was not yet 19 years old, was accused of assaulting a white woman, although Iverson was not present in the video, and Iverson was sentenced to five years in prison, and finally parole was released from prison after only four months in prison after amnesty from Virginia's first black governor, White.
Big bird Larry Bird has always thought that the reason why he can become a generation of basketball passing, the main reason is to try to get rid of poverty, born in an agricultural town in West Indiana, his father although a construction worker, but in a long-term unemployed state, and his mother worked in a restaurant, the family's life is simply not enough, due to special economic difficulties, Bird was even sent to his grandmother's house, when Bird went to high school, his father could not even afford to pay child support, In order to get an insurance premium for his wife and children, Bird's father resolutely shot himself in the head and died on the spot.
Before Butler entered the NBA draft in 2011, an NBA manager said: "It is almost impossible for his life to counterattack, but every time Butler can overcome great difficulties." When Jimmy Butler was a baby, his dad left the family, and when he was 13, he was kicked out of the house by his own mother, who finally said to him, "I don't like your looks, you go!" After wandering alone for some time, Jimmy Butler moved into the home of his high school classmate Leslie Jordan, living with his parents as 5 siblings.
Byron Davis grew up in South Central Los Angeles, his parents had to be raised by his own grandparents due to long-term drug use, his grandfather built the first basket in his life, his childhood had serious health problems, even difficult to walk, Byron Davis said in a slam dunk interview: "This is my real childhood life, if it were not for my grandparents, I would not have appeared in the NBA!" ”
Caron Butler helped the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA Finals in the 2010-11 season, and also won the first championship ring of his career, but his childhood encountered many misfortunes, when he was only 11 years old, he had become a drug dealer, and was arrested 15 times before his 15th birthday.
For today's young American basketball players, this situation is even more difficult to imagine, there are many places in the world ravaged by war, the situation is even worse, Rohr Deng was born in southern Jiangsu, and because Sudan's second civil war became a refugee, moved to Egypt, where he met the former NBA player Manute bol who led him on the road to basketball.
Born in Brazzaville, Congo, Africa, Sergi Ibaka had a family of 18 children, and when he was only 7 years old, a civil war broke out on June 5 of that year, almost completely destroying his hometown, and when he was 9 years old, the second civil war broke out again, and his family had to move to the northern town of Ouesso, where his family lived for nearly three years, struggling to get water and electricity for a long time.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, Samuel Dellampot was born as poor as a barefoot walk, his grandmother begged his homeless friends to give him some leftovers to fill his hunger, and it is hard to imagine that one day the country could come out of a millionaire who played in the NBA because they were still battling hunger and disease.
D.J. Mbenga helped Kobe Bryant and the Lakers win 2 championship trophies in 2009 and 2010, most fans and friends do not know that he was born in Congo, is a member of the Belgium national men's basketball team, and has played for the NBA Mavericks, Warriors, Lakers, Hornets four teams. He grew up in Zaire, now called Congo, and his father was a government clerk, so when the new regime was banned, their family was imprisoned, and his father could not save himself, but managed to help d.j. Mbenga and his mother escape to Belgium, where they followed the legendary Belgian basketball superstar Willy Stev
I was only 7 years old when the war started, first you started without food, then there were grenades thrown down everywhere, the whole city was shaking, you could hear almost everyone crying, every day your parents said to you: "Our neighbors are dead, our relatives are gone." "In short, so-and-so died, and the deepest memory it left me is that all my friends, including me, played basketball together, but when we heard the siren and the grenade explosion, we ran into the house to find a place to hide, and I thought that for the sake of basketball, even if I died, I would do anything."