After the Celtics defeated the Raptors, the well-dressed Irving revealed to reporters in the players' tunnel that after the Celtics lost to the Magic, he dialed James's phone, apologized to the old Cavaliers' big brother for "that young self", and asked how to communicate with the young players and lead them to victory. This matter may be the biggest news in the NBA today, after all, when Owen chose to leave the Cavaliers, anti-Zhan people did not fight him less. To this day, many fans still blame James.
In fact, there is nothing to say about this matter. I can only say that Irving matured, he began to learn how to become a team leader, which is good. But I thought of something else and wanted to share it with the big guys.
Thomas Robinson with his sister Gera
The CBA North Control team has signed a new foreign player named Thomas Robinson, and the veteran Rockets team may have some impression of this person. In the 2012–2013 season, he briefly played for the Rockets.
Born in the black quarter of Washington, Thomas Robinson lost his father at an early age, and like most black children, he depended on his mother. When he was 12 years old, his mother took him to remarry and gave birth to Gera, his half-sister. It wasn't long before his half-father was imprisoned for drug trafficking, so the two of them depended on each other and became three people dependent on each other.
Thomas has shown a good basketball talent since he was a child. This allowed him to study at Brewster Middle School, not far from Washington, on a scholarship, and although Brewster was not a high school basketball school, at least it didn't cost money, didn't it? In his junior year of high school, Thomas averaged 16 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks per game. While participating in the McDonald's Invitational, he was spotted by the head coach of the University of Kansas and invited to study at the University of Kansas.
So Thomas came to the University of Kansas, 1700 kilometers from Washington. In his first year at Kansas, Thomas's performance was simply terrible, averaging only 2.5 points and 2.7 rebounds per game. The following year, he averaged just 7.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. If you continue to play like this, there is definitely no hope of entering the NBA, and even whether you can eat basketball is a problem.
One day in December 2010, he received a call from his mother and his maternal grandmother had died. Three weeks after returning to Kansas after attending the funeral, he received another call from his mother that his maternal grandfather had died. This time, his mother did not let him come back for the funeral, firstly so as not to affect his game, and second, his mother wanted to hide something from him.
In fact, ever since Thomas went to college, his mother's health had been bad. The huge psychological impact of losing her parents further worsened her condition.
On January 21, 2011, at 11:00 a.m., Thomas's phone rang. It was from home, and Thomas hesitated, not daring to press the answer button, for he had heard too much bad news from the phone in the past period of time.
"Can I pretend I didn't hear the bell?" He asked his roommate, Markiff Morris.
"Pick it up," Markiff said.
Thomas let the call go into voicemail, where he heard his sister Gera crying and shouting for him to hurry up.
Yes, his mother had died, and he had only one relative left in the world, his half-sister, Gera.
After playing in the first game of his mother's funeral, Thomas scored 17 points. While all the spectators on the pitch were touched by his strength, he had walked out of the stadium firmly, saying: "Since that day, my purpose of playing has been different. I don't care how many points I cut, I don't want to be a hero, I just want to make a path for the future. ”
He wants custody of Gera. And the only way he gets custody is to be able to get into the NBA through the draft.
Brothers and sisters at the funeral
In his junior year, he averaged 17.7 points and 11.9 rebounds per game.
That same year, he entered the NBA draft and entered the NBA with the 5th overall pick.
During his several years in the NBA, he played for 6 teams and was called a parallelist by fans. In 2016, because he and Yi Jianlian competed for the last place in the Lakers, they were attacked by various inexplicable attacks.
Thomas planted a small sapling next to the University of Kansas training gym, and because he didn't have the money to buy a plane ticket, his mother never came to Kansas to watch him play.
It is said that on the day the sapling was planted, he burned a letter written to him by his mother under the tree.
At the end of the letter reads:
"Everything is fine, no distractions"
Family portrait for a family of three
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There's not just one way to vent, and sometimes we can be ignorant of the truth of things.