The night before the start of the 2015-16 season, 31-year-old Lebang was interviewed and said that he liked to listen to if I ever fall in love when taking a bath. This is a song released by R & B/soul band Shai in 1992, which has rushed to No. 2 of the top Billboard singles list.
Obviously, Lebang is not the only one who likes this song. In 1998, a man named warn Alexander in Ontario, Canada named his son after the band, it is a wonderful and lucky thing to be able to name your child with the things you like. Beauty refers to music and children. Two kinds of unbearable love in your life are intertwined, fortunately, after all, there are some bands such as second-hand roses that are really hard to name.
24 years later, the Lakers imagined that they could get the child.
That happened before the start of this season. The Lakers’ management round table held JS points to imagine that there should be no power in a bright future. How to trade is a big deal. Such a team, a hopeless bad team is needed, there is enough space. As long as the picks are selected, they are willing to hand over the young people in the team and eat the 40 million contracts of the last year.
As you can see, Thunder seems to be the best choice, which meets all the conditions and even has the best sense of drama. It is a kind of light joy and sadness of tired birds returning to their nests. They don’t need to pay too much price, just hand over the child named Shai-Xie Yi-giljess-Alexander.
The only problem: after half of the season, the Lakers themselves are the worse team. Thunder is now ranked 10th in the West and has entered the play-off circle, which is only one game away from the playoff circle.
The average game data of Alexander that the Lakers want now is 30.7 points 4.9 rebounds 5.5 assists 1.7 steals 1.1 cap, the average game scores League fifth, the average game steals league sixth, the efficiency value League sixth, fashion League No. 1-The top ranking comes from basketball data website BBR, and the last data comes from men’s fashion magazine GQ, who named Alexander the winner of 2022 league’s most stylish award.
The identity of Alexander fashionista has been confirmed since he entered the league at the age of 19 in 2018. On the night of the talent show, Adam Xiao Hua read Alexander’s name on the 11th of the first round. A thin Canadian child and an olive brocade suit entered the live broadcast. People saw this olive-colored suit full of floral patterns, which felt like the most popular suit from cotton quilt cover in China in the 1990 s.
Fashion may be like this, a cycle. Alexander, the King of the down vest in the player channel, never concealed his master’s commitment: “Iverson is independent, challenging the boundaries and the dress order. He will always be the most beautiful boy in the crowd.”
So when Converse invited him to speak, he still played fashion cards and went abroad with Alexander to promote videos, all of which were young people such as extreme athletes, street graffiti artists and hardcore punk musicians, although Alexander also holds a basketball, what is more striking is that he wears a suit naked and looks cool with a shiny chain of Daikin. Therefore, it is not very strange that such Alexander went to Paris, the fashion capital, to attend the Fashion Week show or become the image representative of LV × NBA.
But Alexander’s performance on the court was not so fashionable.
What is the fashion on the basketball court? Of course, it is to attack the basket and throw three points, while Alexander is best at breakthrough and CIC. He is the player with the most 2-point goals in the season, and so far he has one more than drozan, and then he is also the player with the most 2-point non-assists, and the non-assists in the basket are second only to Dong Qiqi; since the league broke through statistics in 2013, Alexander has made 24 breakthroughs this season and ranked second. Alexander, who ranked first in the 2020-21 season, has made 25.2 breakthroughs, the third place was Alexander, who averaged 23.9 games last season.
Durant once said that the championship or MVP were not the legacy he would leave to the league, shouting young players aside and telling them how to play, then they show the things you taught on the court, which is called Heritage. According to this inference, if Paul retired now, his legacy in the league is Alexander. After a season with Paul, Alexander is now the player with the least three points in the top ten scores of the league, the expanded range was in the hands of scoring more than 25 points, and his three-point shot was the third from the bottom, only more than drozan and yokeki.
The opponent knew how strong Alexander was. Sabre said Alexander’s rhythm was very strange and difficult to defend against. Dong cheqi said Alexander had a unique rhythm and was very good at making fouls and playing ball happily. Durant said Alexander’s action was like a sharp veteran, full of confidence, knowing that your style of play will work, “mentality and skills are hard to prevent.”
Of course, Thunder has only won 46 games in the past two years. Many people can neither spell the name of their master nor the name of their manager, the most impressive thing about this team so far may be that the second-grade player giddy’s big wave and the man under the big wave all think he deserves a handsome face. But you may really need to know about Alexander. This is not because every young man who can score 30 + points is worth a look, but the alliance is always in iteration, knowing the starting point of a young man may be more conducive to the future saying “I have known it for a long time”.
Now someone starts to say that. Doug Rivers’s hindsight: “I was on the Clippers, and Alexander was still a rookie. When we decided to send him away in the pickled peppers transaction, I was not so sure-of course, the transaction itself was still very good…… I just can’t help thinking that this child will be very special in the future.”
Don’t learn river documents when you are a human being. If you can’t pull your face to admit that your eyes are not so long-term, you can also choose to keep silent. Why should you put money on your face. Alexander himself had some ideas about the deal. Beverly revealed that Alexander once said after the deal, “they could have owned me and pickled peppers at the same time.”
Now Alexander should no longer think about these past events. After all, Yogueta really stayed on the Clippers. Most of this season, he should still be on the court alone, because it is difficult for the Clippers to make up “same, time, the four words” Yes, yes.
What Alexander wants to do now is similar to that of many 24-year-old young leaders. He said that it makes sense to sign a 5-year-old appointment with the team, “I believe in the future of the team. I believe we won’t lose too long.” Alexander said that the things that General Manager Sam Presti promised to him were gradually becoming a reality, so he refused to say anything. We can only guess about the current situation of thunder. More than half of the season, they have already won 21 games, with a winning rate of nearly 50%, while the ranking Chet they selected last summer is still sitting on the bench.
Once upon a time, there were still many teams who slept in the same bed and dreamed the same dream with the Lakers. The Raptors in their hometown thought they were their hometown. Green Kai thought that if they didn’t trade Owen in those days, alexander will be selected in August 2018. Sun thinks he has a mentor Paul and a pile of trading chips. Knicks thinks he is a Knicks…… The Jazz deal that Michelle was only served for 5 years even touched their heartstrings. If all-star defender Michelle can trade, why can’t Alexander? At that time, Thunder and jazz had no different reconstruction ideas.
However, there are still some differences. This difference lies in the fact that the people who hold the same large selection rights are different. In terms of talent picks, if Presti is James, Ange can only be a fan at most.
Lillard looked at Alexander’s performance and had some feelings and worries. Instead of worrying about Alexander’s match, he gave Alexander some advice from his own point of view: “You will never know what the other team will do to you, especially after you get hurt. No one can know. What I want to tell him is that those who shout “let him go” all day are not good people. If things don’t work after your transfer, those people will not be responsible for you–“
“– Don’t always think the grass on the other side will be greener.”
He was worried too much. I understand that Lillard did not tell Alexander this passage. He was just trying to convince himself in his heart. I noticed that Lillard had been doing this for many years, he would say so whenever he had the chance. What he said is very reasonable, but there is really no need to publicize these principles everywhere. Some people leave just because the grass here is indeed yellow, as a result, it is only a personal choice to comfort that the grass on the other side will not be greener or jump out to eat the grass on the other side. There is no point to compete. It is good to be willing to gamble and accept defeat.
However, the reality is that Alexander’s five-year contract has not officially started yet. He has expressed his loyalty to the team countless times, sweet words such as “I hope I can design jerseys for Thunder in the future” emerge one after another, and Presti also responded to the peach. Honey words such as “Alexander is not our short-term investment” also blurted out.
I like Alexander’s basketball story, that is, there is no story, no miserable childhood and the struggle history of gnashing teeth. A young man plays basketball with other younger people, there are not too many people paying attention to them, and the biggest waves they set off are only the 10th in the West. You don’t know why they play so desperately and disciplined, especially compared with the Rockets next door, you don’t even know why they are willing to believe in “playing according to the rules” when they are so young. It is likely that they themselves are not very clear, of course, I would like to say that Paul taught Alexander what is called “professionalism”. When the veteran was traded to a young rotten team, everyone was not optimistic about it, he can also carry the team forward and even enter the playoffs, which may itself be a high-level professional ethics education course. Not every veteran is willing to do so, I really want to believe that when all the veterans leave, Alexander will pass on this style, affecting other younger teammates, the so-called Paul’s legacy, this will certainly be another wonderful story, but I have no evidence.
Up to now, it is still hard to imagine that thunder will immediately become another rising power in the West. Although they are the second youngest team in the league, the average age of grizzly bears is only 24.5 years old, it is only 1.5 years older than thunder. The League is the 7th younger, but it is already the top competitor in the West. It is hard to say that youth must mean infinite future and hope. Even when we observe Alexander’s game, it is still unknown how much the anti-trend style can raise its upper limit.
We went to observe Alexander’s modesty and kept telling people that “don’t just care about my performance. We win as a team”, so clever talk, as familiar as his and Thunder’s two-way promises.
Every person who observes NBA all the year round may have a knowing smile when seeing these familiar scenes and dialogues. We know that this league is too good at writing similar stories. Year after year, how many teenagers swore to tear up the covenant again. They called it “growth”, and I didn’t have much objection to it.
Alexander is 24 years old and has reached the age of late marriage and late childbirth. He belongs to a tiger. In a few days, his birth year will pass. The next time he comes to his birth year, he will wait 12 years later, at that time, it was unknown whether he was still playing in the league. At the thought of this, we should lose our calmness and fold our reverie, because regardless of whether it is the year of birth, we will leave the year of the Tiger and run to the year of the Rabbit, which is the irreversible fate of all people. What we can do is nothing more than to applaud the present and the wonderful and beautiful things that have happened in the past year, even a little bit of imaginary beautiful moments that know that there is a high probability of being broken, after all, beauty itself is beautiful, just like the existence of the first love that she never met after breaking up. She will not grow old, crack her eyes, or droop her mouth, no hair, gray waist, like a bucket.
Gidi and Alexander said in an interview after the game: “I hope we can become a very good backcourt combination for a long time.”
I hope so. Just like we had so many good hopes when we were young.
I wish the old railways in Houchang Village a peaceful rabbit year and can embrace good memories and expectations to enter the next reality.
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