On October 18, Beijing time, before the deadline for the 2019 Rookie renewal in advance, little Kevin-PROTONIC reached an agreement with the rockets on a four-year contract of $82.5 million, of which $10 million was an unlikely bonus.
This is a contract with extremely harsh conditions and completely beneficial to rockets. Only the first year is fully guaranteed, the middle two years are partial guarantees, and the last year is the team option. If the Rockets want to give up the small PROTONIC, they don’t have to pay too much.
The rocket management took great pains to set up so many restricted conditions. What they were worried about was not that wavelet had not been expected, but the bad temper that could explode at any time. It was only three years since Xiao PROTONIC entered the business, but he was already covered with negative stick label. Xiao PROTONIC had been in the dressing room of Knights and rockets. He had been arrested for illegal guns and fined for illegal trips to nightclubs.
With the talent of Xiao PROTONIC, the Rockets, which are still in the Reconstruction period, are willing to spend time and energy to cultivate him as the answer to the team’s No. 1 future. However, before Xiao PROTONIC proved that he had expelled the demons in his body, the rockets would not completely rest assured to draw him into the future blueprint of the team.
In 1993, Lao PROTONIC, the father of Xiao PROTONIC, was accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl in flower season. The only witness at the scene testified that Lao PROTONIC did not kill on purpose. In the end, the old PROTONIC was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for first-class manslaughter.
The old PROTONIC returned to his family after being released from prison. However, in 2004, the tragedy occurred. The old PROTONIC shot five times in the bar to help a person who was being beaten and died. At that time, PROTONIC was only 4 years old.
The death of my father hit little PROTONIC hard. The loss of my father’s love from childhood led to the defect of his character, which was manifested in irritability, difficulty in controlling emotions, and good behavior, this laid a curse for the later ups and downs of Xiao PROTONIC.
There is no denying that Xiao PROTONIC has a great talent for basketball. He was born in Seattle and grew up watching legendary stars playing basketball in Seattle. I dared to challenge professional players in Grade 7 of junior PROTONIC. When Brandon Roy, Jamal Crawford and Nate Robinson played in Seattle semi-professional league, small PROTONIC who can only be spectators on the sidelines always challenge them during the competition.
“He always wanted to do one-on-one with us, and he tried his best to prove his strength,” Crawford recalled.
In the last year of high school, Xiao PROTONIC games averaged 27 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists, leading the team to 22 wins and 7 losses. In the state championship, Xiao PROTONIC scored 22 points and 11 rebounds, but unfortunately lost. After the end of the season, Xiao PROTONIC was elected as Mr. Washington basketball and was awarded as a five-star high school student. After weighing the advantages and disadvantages, he joined the University of Southern California.
Xiao PROTONIC has attracted the attention of NBA teams before he started his college career, and insiders marvel at his super talent. Small PROTONIC height 1 M 93, arm spread to 2 m 06, sports talent is not historical level, but its left-handed characteristics, rhythm, the technical characteristics of being good at backward steps remind people of James Harden. Xiao PROTONIC himself also said that his template was harden, because Harden was unstoppable on the court.
However, the career of the University of Southern California, PROTONIC junior, was destroyed by his character defects. In high school, when little PROTONIC was out of control, Clifford would play the role of father to calm him down and give him advice, like a horse, not to let him out of the right path. But after leaving Seattle, the little PROTONIC lost control.
Xiao PROTONIC was banned by the University of Southern California for some time due to factors such as being at odds with the team coach. In addition to injuries, 33 games in the whole season, only 21 games were played in PROTONIC, and 9.8 points, 4 rebounds and 1.4 assists were scored in 22 minutes, he did not fully demonstrate his talent and ability.
Once, Xiao PROTONIC’s mentor told him that Yogueta worked hard enough, he would be a super star with the same name as Zion Williamson in the 2019 draft conference. As a result, at the 2019 draft conference, Xiao PROTONIC, who had a bad rating, was not selected by the Knight until the 30th order.
After the junior PROTONIC rookie season, the Knight intended to train him in the direction of core players. But in the off-season 2020, Xiao PROTONIC was lost again. In October, Xiao PROTONIC was updated on social media, revealing suicide tendency. In November, a car accident occurred in Xiao PROTONIC. When the police arrived, they found a loaded pistol and marijuana in his car and arrested him immediately. In another case, Xiao PROTONIC was also accused of beating women.
These charges were dropped later, and the Knight also gave Xiao PROTONIC time to adjust. However, in January 2021, Xiao PROTONIC made a fuss in the dressing room because he found that his wardrobe had changed positions, this directly cut off his back path to the Knight, who decided to trade or simply cut him off.
At the lowest point in his life in little PROTONIC, Rockets helped him. At that time, the rocket just sent Harden away for less than a week, while the template of the small PROTONIC draft was harden. In addition, Stone has seen the competition in the junior PROTONIC high school, and he knows how talented the junior PROTONIC is. Stone certainly knows the personality problems of little PROTONIC, but he firmly believes that old Lucas, who has trained many Thorn players, can put little PROTONIC on the right track.
In this way, the rocket exchanged small PROTONIC with only one round sign, and then began the transformation plan for small PROTONIC.
In the Knight era, the little PROTONIC played the second and third positions, but the Rockets decided to transform the little PROTONIC into a point guard. Xiao PROTONIC first went to develop the alliance Viper team for training and competition, and adapted to playing the control guard. In the Development League, Xiao PROTONIC’s performance can be called a dimensionality reduction strike. He scored 24.1 points, 6.4 rebounds and 7.3 assists in each game, leading the development league and ranking second in assists. At the time of Knight, the percentage of PROTONIC block and split was 26.2%, but in the Vipers team, his figure soared to 37.2%.
Seeing that Xiao PROTONIC adapted well, the rocket recalled Xiao PROTONIC. In the second half of the 2020-21 season, Xiao PROTONIC became the full-time starting guard of the rocket. He handed over an average of 16.6 points, 6.3 answers to assists. During this period, the proportion of small PROTONIC block disassembly was as high as 39.8%, and the number of block disassembly times in 100 rounds was double, which was the standard of holding the big core of the ball properly.
The peak work of Xiao PROTONIC came from the first battle against the stag on April 29, 2021. at that time, Xiao PROTONIC hit 9 three points to cut 50 points, 11 assists, and 5 rebounds to lead the team to win, he became the youngest player who scored at least 50 points +10 assists in a single game in NBA history, and he was also the fourth youngest 50 points in history.
Harden specially updated Twitter congratulations to Xiao PROTONIC: “The left hand will be different.”
Xiao PROTONIC not only won Harden’s recognition, but also won 25 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 three-point shots in the first game of preseason last season. Durant praised, “a very special genius.” Throughout the season, the small PROTONIC games contributed 15.6 points and 6.2 assists, with a three-point hit rate of 37.5%.
In most people’s view, it is a whimsical thing for rockets to cultivate small PROTONIC in the direction of “harden successor”. They are just similar in size and style. In terms of ability, small PROTONIC is not comparable with Harden, his singles and block splitting efficiency is far less than Harden. Even if PROTONIC is only 22 years old, there are still unlimited possibilities in the future.
However, “If you can’t make progress through technology, you can’t.” compared with the upgrading of technology, the first thing that little PROTONIC should learn is to control their temper. After joining the Rockets, Xiao PROTONIC was banned for conflict with old Lucas, and he was fined 50000 dollars for violating the rules. The reason why the rocket is unwilling to give Xiao PROTONIC a four-year full guarantee contract is that whether Xiao PROTONIC can fully fulfill this contract depends on whether he can really change his evil spirit and correct himself.
Xiao PROTONIC once said that it was the rockets that saved his career. But in fact, the rocket just gave him a chance to save himself without losing his job at a young age. Whether he can really save his career depends on himself.