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Sprewell, 5 1 year-old, leans on his modified black and red Harley motorcycle. Before dark, he came to the sparkling Milwaukee Lake with pleasant lakes and mountains. The weather here is not as sunny as Los Angeles, nor as cold as Minnesota. He leaned against him in the light breeze and the afterglow of the sunset. At the end of 5 1, he enjoyed the humid wind by the beautiful lake and recalled his own magma.
If a team represents a scene of life, he thinks: Laozi's life is falling apart, but the glory is still there, and those great fragments are enough to piece together a complete dazzling history.
The first scene-the era of TV broadcast, burning youth
Before entering the NBA, he seriously thought: those rubbish reporters and media have no idea how powerful and heartless the real Sprewell is. When Sprewell enters the NBA, he must surprise them.
His body and mind are like hard Harley motorcycles, hard, burning, rampaging, ignoring fear! On the court, he is like a sophisticated machine, a meat grinder without feelings.
Sprewell didn't explode like his language talent in the NBA draft. On the contrary, this is a terrible draft position. 1992, the draft led to his humble origins-the Warriors brought him to the Bay Area with the 24th pick in the first round. Sprewell is full of anger, which is not his choice. His eyes seem vague and disdainful, but his heart is a burning fire, and he vowed to do it.
Is Sprewell lucky, or are the other two stars unlucky-1992-93 season-this is a blank year after the first retirement of the basketball god Michael Jordan. The sports news on TV is boring, and the NBA is like a dead priest-Sprewell looks at this strange basketball league with disdain. In the second half of the season, Chris Mullin and Tim Hardaway were injured and rested, which made the No.24 show play a major role in the first year. Sprewell handed over the data of 15.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists 1.6 steals and was incorporated into the second lineup of the best rookie.
Milwaukee people have never been a moderate group. There are a quarter of black people there. They like Harley, rock, hip hop and Bohemia. The difference is that Sprewell rarely thinks about stepping on the brakes after stepping on the accelerator. This is the key that distinguishes him from other Milwaukee people. The following year, the 24th show was at full steam, playing 82 games with the efficiency of Greek mythical figures, with an average playing time of 43.
During such a long playing time, the No.24 show is like a heavily powered Harley motorcycle, jumping up and down with endless strength, throwing points from the inside out, and putting great enthusiasm on the defensive end to aim at the opponent's arrow. Michael Jordan's momentum of killing opponents at both ends of attack and defense won him applause from the audience and TV cameras-2 steals per game, 1 block, and this is only a defender.
Efforts and talents, as well as efforts and gains, are like mirror images of opposites. The alliance has noticed him. At the same time, during Jordan's two years of playing baseball, the NBA league is eagerly looking for Jordan's successor. Sprewell, still wet behind the ears, is still a pure SG, a molten version of Jordan-he was selected as the first team of the best team and the second team of the best defensive team in the second grade, which is an unprecedented honor. Together with Mulin, Webber and others, he brought the team into the playoffs, and was finally eliminated by another recognized big-ass genius, Buckley, a flexible fat man, with the monster data of 56 points 14 boards in the third key game.
Sprewell smacked his lips in the sunset, and his chapped lips were exposed under his thick and hard beard. His mood is quite ups and downs when he thinks about the years after the Warriors.
The next warrior time, like Mulin's injury, got worse and worse. The mood and temperament of a madman, like the record of a warrior, have been declining and sinking to the bottom.
In the second season, the team was 50 wins and 32 losses, and in the third year, it was 26 wins and 56 losses. The team was rejected in the playoffs. Mullin played only 25 games in the regular season and then stopped eating.
It was not until that happened that the Warriors entered the playoffs. During the Warriors' six years, the playoff giant Sprewell only played the playoffs once. The Warriors didn't realize that they were doing something violent. Sprewell knows that his mood and temper are like a roller coaster diving to the bottom, but he has been enduring it!
The second act-the incident, new york shelter evil people and shelter evil practices.
On the day of the incident, almost all the TV media in the world described it this way: 1997 12 1, and there was a notorious beating in the NBA, and the victim was Carlesimo, the head coach of the Warriors. There was a fierce conflict between Carlesimo and Sprewell. Sprewell strangled him 15 second. If teammates don't stop Sprewell in time, it may lead to serious injury or even death.
The details are as follows: In the training class on 1997 12 1 day, coach Peter J. Carlesimo didn't know what medicine he had taken that day, and kept cursing Sprewell endlessly, which involved remarks that discriminated against blacks. Sprewell, who had shaved his head at that time, took off his forbearance and lost his mind after being furious. He flung the villain to the ground and grabbed his opponent by the neck.
This incident has made both sides go down in history-or be remembered for thousands of years. Sprewell doesn't care anyway. Those praises, ruined bones or explicit compliments, high-sounding atonement and rehabilitation are all nonsense to him.
Although he held a press conference soon, formally made concessions and apologized, he always believed that he had been at the forefront of the struggle against racial discrimination and persisted.
He never considers himself a model student or a moral model. If you offend my team, I will fuck you!
Because of this, the label of thug and madman has become his crown, a meat grinder and madman who can kill the game and kill the opponent's defense. ...
After that incident, he was suspended for 68 games, fined 6.4 million and permanently removed from the Warriors. Later, Sprewell also heard about the high-profile auburn hills Palace incident-Artest was suspended for 73 games, stopped paying all salaries, and lost as much as $4.995 million. He lamented that it is really better from generation to generation.
Immediately after the suspension period, he was sold to the far east coast by the team, which is why he only played 14 games in the 97-98 season. The result of this 14 match is-1 victory 14 loss.
At the age of 28, he made a comeback in new york Knicks, a big apple city full of rivers, a place where gentlemen, robbers, bandits and fans only believe in records and statistics, which is Sprewell's fairytale home.
In the Big Apple City, people noticed Sprewell's quick first step, like a sharp knife to accelerate the transformation to layup ability!
99-00 season, 00-0 1 season and 0 1-02 season became the highlights of his five years in new york.
At any time, he is still the team's most dependent outside defense meat grinder, and every game shoulders the heavy responsibility of blocking all defenders.
Riley once injected iron and blood into the Knicks, and so did JVG. At the end of the century, the Knicks performed their last glory so far under the group dance of Ewing, Madman, CIC Wang and Aunt.
1999 is a miraculous season for the Knicks. First, in the first round of the playoffs, they blacked out the Eastern Conference leader Heat with Houston's winning shot. Houston is one of the league's famous "black eight".
In the semi-final of the Eastern Conference, the fourth eagle in the Eastern Conference was swept without bloodshed. Sprewell scored 365,438+0 points back to back, spreading his reputation as a killer and bloodthirsty in the playoffs all over the world.
In the Eastern Conference finals, Ewing's claim for reimbursement after his second injury seems to be a dead end. Aunt Johnson's magical four points in the sixth game brought the Knicks to the finals again after five years.
However, the fairy tale finally came to an end in the finals. Johnson was overdrawn, injured, Camby's mentality and technology were still immature, and Sprewell's fairy tale town was ravaged by generals and Buddha.
Sprewell changed from a thug and a madman accused by thousands of people to a hero in the Big Apple City. He likes the spotlight and praise in Storybrooke, and he continues his great career. He wants to build a monument here, an indestructible monument of his own.
Ewing was taken away by years, and he entered the twilight of his basketball career. New york adjusted his strategy and took Houston and Sprewell as backcourt double shots. You know, the giant attribute of a madman belongs to the playoffs. He is Michael Jordan of the Big Apple City in the playoffs! Tough, tough and absolute core, he led the team to the Eastern Conference finals with the highest score and fierce defense, and Houston became an absolute supporting role. However, the Indiana Pacers took away the victory in this round of playoffs, and they entered the finals with sweat.
The glory at the end of the 20th century exhausted the luck of new york people, and the Knicks entered the 2 1 century and began to sink in the dark. Sprewell has never led the Knicks to the playoffs since losing to Milwaukee in the first round of 2006 54 38+0.
Sprewell began to insinuate his partner Houston-"We have too many defenders and poor inside strength, and we must improve as soon as possible. At this point, personal feelings must be put aside. If you can't integrate with the team, there is no need to stay here. "
As the head coach of the team, Van Gundy was noncommittal at this time. Obviously, they are a team.
The team is poor and weak, and some voices and bad behaviors come out of Sprewell's backyard. Some women openly clamored for him to admit his illegitimate daughter. Sprewell also publicly accused the team when interviewed by reporters. The Knicks counterattacked and suspended Sprewell 1 game on the grounds that he violated the rest procedure.
New york's farce emerges one after another, completely covering up the game itself.
Sprewell picked up his glass and looked at the huge sun gear that was about to fall. There is a vague feeling in his eyes. New york's reputation is mixed, just like his indescribable mood.
Act III-Triumph Triumph, paying tribute to the final glory.
In 2003, Marbury the lone wolf, one of the representatives of the' 96 Golden Generation, became the new soul of new york. Sprewell went to Minnesota Timberwolves, and Garnett was in charge. Standing at 30, not confused at 40. He was caught in the middle for two years and seemed to know everything. He found what he really needed.
34-year-old alien castle, 33-year-old madman, 27-year-old wolf king Garnett! At that time, the "Big Three" was not popular, and people called it the Three-headed Monster!
Garnett got the support of Sprewell and Castle, and finally ended the painful experience of stopping the first round of the playoffs for seven consecutive years. The Timberwolves even passed the Nuggets and Kings, all the way to the western conference finals.
Three-headed monster VS Lakers F4. After Kassel was injured in the fourth game, Sprewell and Garnett fought side by side and were out after six games.
Sprewell still has explosive firepower while keeping an eye on Kobe Bryant, averaging 19.8 points, 4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, second only to Garnett's 24.3 points 14.6 rebounds and 5. 1 assists.
After the historic 2003-2004 season, Sprewell changed the familiar appearance of postmodern fans-a boy with scattered wealth.
But the hairstyle didn't bring him luck.
-Sprewell is old. When he was ready to sign a pension contract in Minnesota, he was told by the team that he would not be given a contract of 25 million yuan for more than three years. Timberwolves blame each other for renewing their contracts, and their morale is lax. The Timberwolves, who ranked first in the West last season, plummeted and were blocked from the playoffs.
Sprewell ended his career with a famous saying-25 million is not enough to support his family.
..... When the memory was so clear and profound after the fog was erased, Sprewell, the owner of Harley's modified car shop, who is now bankrupt, has been staying in the beautiful Milwaukee Lake for a long time. He gulped down his coke and stood up. In the last touch of golden red glow, he stepped on his Harley motorcycle and melted into the dusk. ...
As a representative of the swingers, a generation of lunatics disappeared like this, as if they had never been here.