3 countries, 30 cities, 150 teammates.
In the past two years, Mark mckron, the “Dream Catcher”, has been rushing around and living in no place, just to realize his dream based on NBA. Macron didn’t know where his next stop would be. He only knew the direction of “forward.
On February 19, Beijing time, Macron finally played a brilliant role in the mainstream stage. He won the Slam Dunk competition with a rolling performance in the Salt Lake City All-Star game. If before mcgonn was only called “underground Internet celebrity”, after winning the NBA dunk contest, mcgonn finally came to the ground and entered the mainstream stage.
Can this Slam Dunk Championship trophy stand on the NBA? The hope is still slim. After all, not long ago, mcgonn just hastily signed a two-way contract with 76 people. But at least, mcgonn is a little closer to achieving his goal of “getting rid of the Internet celebrity label and becoming a real NBA player.
Mcgonn is only 1.88 meters tall, but he inherits the excellent genes of the family and has the talent of abnormal Sports. He can finish dunking in grade 9. Mcgonn’s father played rugby in Virginia Polytechnic University. His uncle used to be a pitcher in the major league of baseball. His two aunts played hockey, and one of them also entered the Canadian national team.
With the skin color and height of mckron, he won’t make a first impression of “this guy is very strong”, but as mckron’s high school coach Scott Vermilion said, once the competition starts, your eyes cannot be left from macquon. Depending on the abnormal sports talent and difficult dunking, mcgonn attracted attention in social media. His social media account attracted hundreds of thousands of fans early, and the number of hits in his actual dunk collection could easily break hundreds of thousands or even millions.
Even so, there are still a lot of doubts around mcgonn. He is more regarded as a Internet celebrity player, and industry insiders think he can’t play high-end games. When mckron appeared, there were “overrated” and “selfish” curses floating on the stands. Many of these curses came from the ball dad mom who was uncomfortable with his children being detained by mckron. Mcgonn didn’t care: “You have to learn to ignore. I like people saying that I can’t. I will regard those comments as motivation while ignoring them.”
McPherson broke the Virginia one-season total score record maintained by Iverson in the senior Four Season of Mencheng High School. In that year, Iverson scored 948 points in 25 games and McPherson broke the record in only 20 games. In the state final, mcgonn cut 47 points and led the team to win the first state championship in young pioneer team history.
Mcgonn’s conquest of Virginia was not simply based on sports talent. He developed the projection ability early, which was the way to survive the small-sized defender. ESPN commented on mcgonn: “His athletic ability and Dunk made us notice him, but his excellent projection ability is the key to make him base on the college basketball in the future.”
Macron went to Georgetown University for two seasons and transferred to Texas Tech University from 2020 to 21. He scored 14.7 points in all three seasons, only to see that the score was not bad. However, McLaren’s proud projection ability was not outstanding in NCAA, with a three-point hit rate of only 31.3%, and an average assist of only 2.2 times as a control field. A player who is not tall enough to play the point guard is considered short and has no excellent organizational ability. It is natural that he failed to participate in the 2021 Draft.
The resume after mckron is the standard NBA marginal person level:
After losing the election, he played 7 summer league matches on behalf of the Lakers, participated in training camp and 3 preseason matches, and then was dismissed. Go to the South Bay Lakers, a subordinate team of the Lakers G League, and play 41 games together. The average score in G League matches is 20 +, but it seldom gets attention.
He signed two short contracts with bull for ten days and scored 2 points in one game (that ordinary dry shooting shot exceeded 900000 clicks on foreign video websites), then he went to the wind City Bulls, a subordinate team of the bull G League. At the end of the season, he played a regular season on behalf of the Lakers and scored 6 points.
Represented the United States in 2 World Cup qualifiers men’s basketball miscellaneous troops.
He represented the Lakers in seven summer league matches, then went to the Warriors, participated in the training camp, played one preseason match, and then was laid off.
Mcgonn admitted that “sometimes he was really depressed” because he thought he could help those teams that laid him off, but no team was willing to give him a formal contract.
“I believe he is a qualified NBA player.” Warrior coach Steve Cole said, but how many guest elements there are can be seen by people with clear eyes. The reality is that the Warriors chose the latter between Macron and Jerome, on the grounds that Jerome is a point guard who puts passing in the first place and is more suitable for the Warrior system.
After being laid off by warriors, mcgonn signed a non-guaranteed contract with 76 people, but was soon dismissed. Mcranby knew the difficulty of marginal people, but he always kept a slim hope.
All roads lead to Rome. NBA is not the only way to choose professional basketball. According to The Athletic report, mckron once offered contracts with a salary of more than $1 million for Turkish giants Fenerbahce and CBA teams in Shanghai men’s basketball.
It was pure chicken soup literature that Macron was not moved by the fat appointment in order to dream. He himself admitted: “When you have a million dollar contract in front of you, you will think, this can change the life of myself and my family forever, so I have seriously considered accepting it.” But in the end, Macron was persuaded by his friend’s sentence “You must put all your eggs in one basket” and gave up the idea of going to overseas league matches.
“If you can only enter NBA through G League, then come on, I will go this way.”
This season, mckron played for Delaware blue clothing in the G League. He wanted to ensure that he could appear at any time when he got the call of the NBA team. Mcgonn played an average contribution of 19.1 points and 4.7 assists. Due to the team’s pursuit of multiple ball holding points and equal opportunities, mcgonn’s scores and assists declined, but correspondingly, mcgonn’s mistakes decreased, the hit rates of field goal percentage and three points soared, among which the hit rate of three points was as high as 50%, and the average hit rate of the field reached 2.2.
Macron didn’t think playing G League was his life. He always believed that the chance to change his fate always existed. For Macron, constantly improving the projection and control technology is the key to open the NBA door. Therefore, in the two seasons of the G League, mckron has been consciously improving the guard technology and polishing the no-ball attack at the same time.
“I know that if I complete the right tactics, I will be rewarded.” Mcgonn said.
On February 15, 2023, the “reward” finally arrived, and Macron signed a two-way contract with 76 people. No one knows whether 76 people signed mcgonn is optimistic about his potential, or whether there is another picture, such as the impact of his Internet celebrity effect and the arrival of the hot dunk contest. There may be commercial factors in it, but Macron is more willing to believe that it is his growth and his willingness to pay everything for the team that touched 76 people.
Maybe many people will look forward to a better future after seeing the wonderful performance of the mcgonn dunk contest and knowing his background story, but a champion trophy of the dunk contest, maybe it can’t make the future road of Macron smoother.
Even as for mcgonlong, like former Lakers shooter Matt Ryan, he once caused a sensation in the whole league, but eventually he could not escape the fate of being cut again, this cruelty is what all marginal players have to face. After all, George Niang, who signed a two-way contract as a marginal person, finally turned positive and successfully established himself in the NBA strong team, is a minority, and the final fate of most marginal people is to be cut off and disappear.
Mckron was prepared for the worst result, but even if this day really came, mckron did not lack the courage to start all over again.
“It doesn’t matter whether you encounter fairness or unfairness. What you have to do is to keep working hard until you get a reward.” Mcgonn said.