Yes, you heard it right, the Thunder's star, Alexander, cut his head during the college team, and since then he has opened up the second vein of Ren Dou, who plays basketball.
Fast forward to December 2017, in a game in the NCAA, his team the University of Kentucky lost to UCLA by 8 points, and after the game, Alexander cut his hair in frustration.
Alexander seemed to have changed as a person after the haircut, and in the next game, he suddenly exploded and scored a career-high 24 points, and you have to know that he averaged only a pitiful 4.8 points per game. Alexander quipped in an interview after the game: "As for why I played so well, I think it was because I cut my hair, so I opened the second vein of Ren Dou. ”
Fortunately, this is not a flash in the pan, in the later games, Alexander scored, assisted, steals and other data quickly climbed, from a mediocre substitute defender to the team's starting lineup, but also knocked on the door of the NBA draft. In 2018, Alexander was drafted by the Hornets in the 11th place in the first round and was subsequently traded to the Clippers, starting his NBA career.
Alexander, who came to the Clippers, did not get much playing time, and the Clippers were bent on bringing in big stars in order to quickly become a championship team in a short period of time. In 2019, Alexander was packaged to the Thunder as one of the trading chips, and the Clippers won the league's top forward at the time, Paul George.
From the seductive metropolis to the relatively "secluded" Russian village, it was not a bad thing for the young Alexander.
At the Thunder, he's far more valued than the Clippers, and Alexander has more playing time and opportunities to train himself. Not only that, the arrival of veteran Paul has made this young man learn a lot of valuable experience, and his basketball skills have steadily improved. Last season, Alexander averaged 23.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game, becoming the new boss of the Thunder after Westbrook left, and renewed a maximum salary contract with the Thunder this summer.
At the beginning of this year's new season, in the few games that the Thunder just ended, Alexander's performance was remarkable, especially in the two games against the Lakers, in the case of the team's opening big score behind, calmly led the team to chase points, and finally successfully staged a headwind reversal! It was jokingly called Alexander's daily life "eating and sleeping to beat the Lakers".
Along the way, Alexander was able to gain a foothold in the NBA arena, in addition to the "starting from scratch" in college, more of his dedication to basketball efforts and the spirit of not accepting defeat. With his physical strengths and the ability to read the game to think about scoring, this 23-year-old child is far from reaching the limit, and there is a higher sky waiting for him to soar, and the future can be expected!