BEARD

We met Lamont Smith with last summer in Novi Sad.
Smith is currently the first assistant coach of the New Mexico University to look at potentially interesting players from this part of Europe for his college. Why is Smtih relevant to this story? In the 2008-12 season, Smith was an assistant coach at Arizona State at Herba Sendeka and spent most of his time working individually with James Harden. The story of the then still neatly shrouded bush has a tendency.

A good number of them are unfortunately not in these queues and mostly concern James's venture out of the field. Those in the field are equally interesting ...

"James is a boy from Calif. People born in California generally have a lighter approach to life, there is no hurry than most Americans." Harden is sometimes too relaxed but loves to compete. What I was thrilled with at the first training with him is what they have all the reactions to the attack in a fraction of a second. "Nothing is done in advance, but reacts at a given moment." He has a perfect instinct. "

What would you tell me, Harden knows he's playing basketball. It is not particularly fast, not particularly jumpy, not particularly strong but will effortlessly stride 30. Approximately 10 free throws, two to three trophies and an infinite series of intersections from different angles to the ball underneath the knees ...

"On the second year he had already had the reputation of a big shooter so that most of his opponents in his position were burned to stop him. One match was played by a guy two or three times with a good defense against him and then he spoke ... James looked at him then he has us on the bench and then asked for the next ball to go to him and he put 20 points in a row without fail in the upcoming 8-9 attack. "I was following his reactions ... it seemed to weep," Smith remembers.

Sam Presto was prepared in detail to draft Hardena. It has done a lot of homework. It was as long as Harden had filled up various types of tests and what did not, all in order to complete the dossier ... Oklahoma liked the fact that the attacking Harden could do anything.

If he needs to stand in the corner, he can. If he needs to translate the ball, he can do it. If he needs to play one by one or two on two, it's not a problem.

Harden needed Thunder to bring complete assault flexibility, as he did. Entering as the first reserve from the bench, Harden has passed the road from a stabbing spur from the ankle to the player who created the OKC attacks in the finals of the match to receive the best sixth player award. As Nick Collison said,

"You are surprised how many tricks you have in the attack and how much you have a natural feel to play."

Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka.

All are extraordinary in their own way, no one over 23 years at that time. A team that will likely win at least two NBA titles. The Nucleus that lets you out of this perspective make you feel when you think about what everyone can do. In reality, they played an NBA Finals where they were defeated and that was all. The sketch of leading people in Oklahoma is also out of this perspective unmanageable. All the stories about costly maintenance of such a team, the famous luxury taxi, drop into the water when you say just one word - the dynasty.

Oklahoma might have been the Sheriff of the West, the team through which all the way to the title goes ... now that story looks like a distant past.

In essence neither Harden did not help himself, playing probably his worst NBA partying career just against Miami in the final. Probably not even at its usual level, Oklahoma would not grab a wallet, but as if they were barely receptive to the story of how Harden is not a player for the maximum contract.



He did not mean the "dumbbell" from Houston Darryl Morey. He had Harden's Agent Rob Piggy promised the maximum contract and soon was agreed on the exchange of players in Oklahoma's journey to Martin, Jeremy Lamb and the choice of the draft that was later transformed into Steven Adams ...

Harden has been armed with a $ 80 million contract, a move to Rocket's celebrated in his favorite habitat - the Strip Club. Since joining Houston, "the beard" was armed with self-confidence and went quite aside as it did in Oklahoma.

Of the guy who talked about team and team victories, we came to James to declare himself to be the best player in the world, both he and Howard the game bearers, and everyone else in the "role players" team, and then pointed and Lotte Moteijunas with a statement that "Harden and Howard never eat with the rest of the team." His year-long vacation in defense during last season was a Youtube compilation.

Houston since joining Darryla Morey as a general manager trying to make the concept of the game form what advanced statistics say. Experiment with NBDL's Houston, Rio Grandeo, whose players simply silenced for three points and a free-throw racket, mostly ignoring a shot with poludistance, further convinced Morey that it was the best way to win them (the experiment was also brought by the players like Troy Danielsa, Isaiah Cananna, Roberto Covington who have developed into the right specialists of this kind of basketball

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ANIMAL

No fear, no preconception.
The basketball camouflage lives in Oklahoma, where he arrived from Los Angeles and at this time there is no person playing with less fear for his health than Russell Westbrook.

I remember the scenes from the final of the SP 2010 year. The rejected ball is played by Asik, Gonlum, Turkoglu and Chandler. From the fifth plan, like jumping into a pool with fully-fledged legs, as if he had a cloak on his back, down Westbrook. For the elbow is higher than the other in the skok. Grab the ball. Parquet flooring. He looks around, holding the ball in his hands like a waving bomber.

Moving in dribbling. It almost falls into the car. Throw the ball back to Igoudali. Run in defense. Bark around the center. He comes back. He is trying to take his place in the attack.

We just looked at the forums without words and started laughing.

Russell Westbrook is all this!

Courage that without a problem crosses the limit of madness. The man who most often makes you say "Stop the fuck!", "Add more" and "Haha, this is an impossible move" after full sprint slides into the hoop by spraying the dangling anger of the entire hall. And these are mostly reactions to some of Westbrook's moves. Any domestic or visiting ground fans stay silent on his spectacular breakthrough, as if they can not even figure out what they have just seen and strike the glances at the big screen waiting for a slow-motion shot and only then the enthusiasm moves .It was not accepted at the beginning. It is not yet fully accepted. Though he is a puppet, he is not. It's no shortage. While playing for the first year at UCLA, neither coach Ben Howland did not know what was in his hands.

Russell was a playmaker without a preview of the game and was kicking off without a shot. Then he created himself and his position on the ground. Self-taught. He did not have an influential coach in his environment as he grew up.

Dad kept him constantly training but the exercises he had invented and which with organized basketball did not have much to do. Howland used it as an aggressive defensive player and a player who mostly scored in the counterattack. About the NBA's future there was not much story, at least not his first year. After all, many were skeptical that the biggest star of that generation Kevin Love would appear in the strongest league with its 30 pounds of surplus, suspicious silence with distance and inadequate reflection. Westbrook was somewhere in the margins.

Then he started the second year. Howland, who during a stay at UCLA gave a large number of NBA players, realized what was available. The camera was still occasionally shown by the late John Wooden, who in the audience pulled a blindfolded eye on Westbrook's additions, but every little bit, Russ would start a rocket launch and then snatched everything to catch his head.

There was no one to set up a toy. In vain advice, guidance, criticism. Russell played his game and looks finally to win. More and more Basketball Puritans may be skimmed but accept Westbrook the way it is. More and more people realize that no matter what Durant is a better player and Russell with all his bosses - lost balls, Nerezons' whispers, excess dribbling, and quarrels with teammates mean for this team almost the same as Durant. The energy Westbrook has at the moment has no one in the league.

Two years ago, the boyfriend had never been hurt. Never. High school. College. NBA. He has played all the games since his style is another marvelous thing. There is no player playing Bolt in the first and 45 minute games. Except one. Which can also be silenced and 40 times in the match.

Westbrook has a little Scottie Pippen in it. In the sense that Pippen was a player who did not break into the air when he was hit, to strike next to his opponent. He always went directly. The same goes for Westbrook. He started right, jumped to the head of the defensive player, and what is it.

I dangled with Rob Hannigan, then with the right hand of Sema Performances, now the general manager of Orland. He talked to him that what Oklahoma played was street basketball. Yes, Scottie Brooks has no idea and style that can win adidas streetball but NBA titles.

Brooks has a special player in the game organizer's place, and if we're to get him to play like any other puppeteer, he'll lose what makes him special ... "

"He kills all the teammates in the term, and he does not feel like leaving the rest of the team." Send him somewhere and bring some normal play, "I said.

I was stupid!.

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Dominique Wilikins

They missed him in the famous selection for the top 50 NBA players of all time. He was not in the original Dream Team either. He was defeated by the champion title. Atlanta, his home team, sent it to Clipperse at the time it was first in the East. In Greece, he won the first important trophy in his career and packed his coats before the end of the contract. He was the best shooter of Spurs in their worst season. It is often omitted from various polls and voting, but no one can deny that Nique was one of the most attractive players ever playing this sport.
It is an ancient day, a traffic noise that cracks. A handful of journalists finish their questions with Panathinaikos players before the start of the first official training session. The goal is only one. Become a European champion in the end. Only, the main stars are not ... Constricted behind the knife, behind the backs of the construction Dominique Wlikins looks at the panel of the newly built OAKA hall and offers pumpkin with mouth ...

Božo Maljkovic and a fitness coach approach a man who will be in 1995/96. collect $ 3.5 million net, no bonuses, and ask what's the problem ...

- "I do not think I can train."

- "For what?" Ask the confused coaches.

- "Severance, punishment ... when my asthma is doing so," says Wilkins as he meets the pumpkin with his mouth.

"To try, though, the first training session ...".

"No, no, halfway," Nique said shortly.

So they went to the circle. Asthma, punishment, dying baby, and she has died several times. Judges who play the steps in the run. Run rackets. Zone. Fiskulturne rooms complimented as halls. Sliding terrain. Dominique landed on the Euroleague match against Maccabi landing in front of the OAKA, a helicopter. Fans fell into delirium.

Pavlos Janakopoulos, the boss, still liked to share the concerts. Legendary concerts. "Here's something to buy ... What did your mother come for? So why do not you talk!" Take her to dinner ... ". And follow the concave. You open it for "dinner" when there's $ 50,000 for "low costs".

Pavlos took the coffin to Dominique before the start of the Greek Cup. "This is for you if we win."

It is difficult to explain it. Big players mostly earn millions but sneak as little children when they see the envelope with the cabbage. Some because they can spend that money by supervising their wives, some because they just love the sight of the dollar versus some account number. Wilkins won the Cup of Greece himself. Even after the sagging tire was the beast when he wanted to be. To wrap the banana over the rim from the other side. He laughed as Sigalas tried to hit him on the jumpsuit, his, with his bent knees, where he often seemed to be flying from above.

"You are going to gamble with Jordan, and you will know Niquee to meet women, beautiful women."

It's an old, urban NBA legend. Mike had a lot of fun in black trying to keep the cache in the casino. Dominique has made it possible for all the young players who have gone through Atlantis to "socialize" with the beauties of the South. No, it was not scratch when women were concerned. "This is my dear friend, and this is Doc Rivers ...".

It had an incredible house in Athens. They led me to see her. The queens in front of that house were like a nightclub. Greeks love celebrities. That's right idolatry. According to them, they are sickly kind. Every comment is laughed that Eddie Murphy personally tells a series of jokes. The women came out of this house and walked in like a hairdressing salon. The traffic was so great that Nique left an open door on the flight from Athens, enough that passengers - enthusiasts would walk in and take the complete interior.

Euroliga, his only big trophy trophy, won in his hometown - Paris. Of course his dad was a military figure. That's why he was born there. I got CSKA Moscow. Kudelin, Karašev, Kisurin, Gundars Vetra, and JULIUS NIVOS. Wilkins drove them 35th in the final 16 with 10 rebounds and one downhill trajectory of Stojka Vranković. The first Euroleague in the history of Panathinaikos. On return, Nique slammed the car. Fourth of that season. He left him beside the road.

Before the Olympics, he began to get threatened with death. His other fitness coach named Gino was beaten by 10 Olympiacos hooligans in the gym. Those with metal rods. He's up to five pounds. A spit on life and death that passed on to a nearby pizza. There was Gino grabbing the kitchen knife .... Epilogue: Six Olya fans in the intensive care unit and Gino in the combo on the appliances.

After that, he overcame the cup, and Dominique packed, forgetting to return the money lent to some players. Yes, he loaned despite the 3.5 million contract. It happens.

In Spurs, he was the best shooter of the team who remained without Admiral Robinson. Nique never had a lot of conscience when it was a shot. It was about 40% realization. Spurs had the worst spell in the last 25 years, but they drafted Tim Duncan in the summer. Avery Johnson still believes that San Antonio should make one ring for Wilkins. He went to Fortitudo with David Rivers and Pere Scans, there he still remembered

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Dean Smith.

He was probably the best player of all time, and it would only be enough to write about him and the story forever, and that was just part of what Dean Smith represented.

Greater glory hardly could have led the humble man. He never wanted to win at all costs, he just wanted to convey knowledge. He raised dozens of top players and coaches and was there for them every day whenever he needed something, and he never wanted anything in return.

He went the way he came, quietly, without the pumps. Others simply did not know.

"I want to say something about Dean Smith ..." this is how Alexander Džicic turned to me.
How to refuse a man who runs on the bar almost 200kg. The crazed duo will continue to try to see what Smith all meant for basketball.

"Kouč Žile" is a great respect for the character and part of Dean Smith. Respect jumped to the sky when he and a couple of trainers from El Deano came to his office and talked to them as flush with them and patiently answered all the questions:

"I've been at 33, and I'm discussing with Dean Smith, you can understand my excitement."

Dean Smith on the bench North Caroline came after the NCAA sanction and the departure of the celebrated Frank McGuirre. McGuirre was pure charisma. He had anecdotes for every society but after his departure, the main men for sports at UNC have been looking for someone to do their job and to run the basketball program clean without any bullshit. The choice fell to the former assistant - Dean Smith.



The election has also faced significant public opposition. The coach's life is less - more everywhere the same. Discontent, criticism, ridicule ... At least, most of the beginnings are such. Later, those famous "I've always believed in you."

"The doll with Dean Smith's dress was hanged on Chapell Hill, his second or third year on the bench. The results were just not some, and most of the fans wanted to have a sounder name from the beginning ..."

Jille often tells this story when Smith is advised and she clearly shows that no environment is particularly different to coaches. When they get the results then suddenly they create those who "provided support from scratch ..."

Dean Smith played basketball under the guidance of one of the inventors of this legendary Kansas Phog Allen coach so he had where to learn this game from the start. What Dean did at the end of the day and did the best in life - taught others how to play basketball. John Wooden, who could always say for himself that he was the best coach of all time and a little bit to find the opposite, unconvincingly admitted:

"The best basketball coach ever is Dean Smith."

Not just basketball. With the media he was mostly silent, with no spectacular statements.

"I'm just saying what I mean. I'm just not saying anything I mean."

He was in the courtroom, but when something was to be done, something of social and social importance, Dean Smith did it without much philosophizing and empty talk.

"When I was a boy in Kansas with me in high school, American football played a different black skin color. It was very good in football and basketball but basketball did not play in our team. My dad was a drug with the school director and I left to ask him about the case, he told me that the problem would be a dance after school and that he can not play in our team. "I said hello and went out." I was stupid. "



The person who created racial equality in Chapell Hill was just Dean Smith. The first black sportsman at North Carolina University has been awarded a sports scholarship and Dean Smith ran into racist races at places where blacks were not allowed to eat, and of course both would be served. That's how it started.

"It's hard for me to list everything that makes this man a legend," says Jille.

"One thing I always think is that only the biggest ones leave behind great players and great trainers who follow their path and their basic philosophy, which can only be the greatest."

Especially in coaching. Leaving behind the trainers is not easy. There were a lot of big basketball coaches, but a significant number of them were very scanty about transferring knowledge. The assistants mostly took the clam and the obedients who were there to mass their ego or work those dull, sideways things.

Smith taught Larry Browne, Gregg Popovich, George Charles, Roy Williamson, Douglas Moore, Billy Cunnigha to trainee the most important ones ...

"The man has introduced a thank-you for basketball assistance, you know the one with his finger to the scorer after his knee, his invention, his secondary invention, his invention, the basketball analytics, the average number of points per attack, something that we call today's advanced statistics. 40 years ago, he was the first to change the defense, two of the three types in each game, he introduced a gay passing as an attack system, a flow of balls and players without a lot of dribbling and adultery.

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Garnett

Garnett's ability to not even notice 20 journalists in the dressing room and not react to anything they ask, so ... strange. But so. Garnett does not answer the questions before the movie ... learn about the mistakes of a fractured fellow (or his while you're in love with a girl who turns out to be Kevin's wife).
He was born in the village. Rural South Carolina. Where segregation, at least silent, always existed. He watched a pair of his companions lean on a white boy in the school who said, "We'll hang you again ...". He was watching ... like half the school. And they were caught among the guilty. Climate change was needed. He ended up in Chicago.

Farragut Academy. Ronnie Fields and he. Ronnie was a bigger talenat. So at least they say. Physical predisposition to export. The odds of 127cm but also the complete lack of understanding of the game and the desire to work. Ronnie was a creature she did not want to be perfected. He thought he could skip everybody. And the female "No" did not accept the right way ...

Garnett had always dreamed to wear a gold bracelet. Since his mother struggled to provide three meals a day for his kids, let alone a little bit more, Kevin found a transitional solution, a dinghy. What used to be an egg shell, Garnett wore his arm, hit the right shade.

Fields and he thrilled the audience in Chicago. Kevin looked like an alien. So elongated when you see it for the first time you think it has 230cm. So speed, jump, agility, movement co-ordination ... is incredible for someone of 211cm.

"I've never seen a child who enjoys so much in anything that has to do with basketball, not just play, but every exercise that has to do with this sport." Everything was done with the utmost pleasure and pleasure, adding his work habits to his talents. perish. " That's how Stan Hopkins, director of the school in South Carolina said.

Kevin took the Farragut Academy to the title of the City Champion. $ 2 cards were sold at 60! Everyone in Chicago wanted to see a new wonder from the player or to play against him. Garnett did not refuse any challenge.

"Chicago has shaped me as a player, I've been on all the best terrains, where you are not afraid of losing a basket but life, and no one has ever caught Faul's, and for the first time I realized there was no grace on the ground." Coach Wolf Nelson told me if you are a beast, be a beast. "

There were 13 representatives of NBA teams in the hall. KG did not have the grades to finish at college and it was already rumored that after 20 years a player directly from high school could go to the NBA. There were Flip Sounders and Kevin McHale. Most of them got tired as Kevin dribbled, shut up, jumped. McHalea bought it right away. Kevin went down to Kevin and gave him a couple of tips to fix a shot ... nothing more.

A little fancy to dress a Minnesota jersey one day, but Garnett was the term. McHale and the Sounders cast a cube on the fifth choice drawer and took 19-year-olds directly from high school. McHale believed from the beginning. Similar thinking was also the Flip Sounders who "pushed" in the fifth in the second part of the season.

In the following year, Minny moved the young New York child, one of the most talented ever, to Stephon Marbury. Only heaven had boundaries, did not it?

Yeah right!

"I'm the second violin for this farmer!" Marbury said in the dressing room. When you're in New York City for 10 years, you do not think there is anybody above you. You still punish yourself by finishing in Minnesota, the focus of the game is this slogan for you who worshiped Coney Island to Manhattan.

This is in the final line and cost Marbury. After two years he was sent to New Jersey where he wrote the first day on the pharmacy: "All I am". She did little to figure it out in the right way. Well, there is the fact that it is clinically insane, as we later found out.

In the meantime, Kevin was maniacally trained and in pairs watched cartoons. Shut up, brace yourself, drive you to the car ... now give Transformers and Inspectors Gadgets and so on. Sam Mitchell took him under his arm. He taught him how to tie a tie, how to curb the media, what girls to believe, how to be a professional. Minnesota hit Kevin Garnett and then missed everything after that, or almost everything.

What did not bother the team leaders took their destiny. Upon returning from his 24th birthday, Malik Sealy, the best teammate, was killed. He was killed by a drunk driver who never smoked alcohol.

The Wolves lost to Kevin Garnett's pure power and fell into the first-round and there regularly in the first round. There was no support. There were no real squads. Garnett had, for 12 years, perhaps, but maybe only, six of the real players. Marbury, Cassell, Sprewell, Joe Smith, Wally Szczerbiak and Terrell Brandon. We could take a long time to discuss at least three of these six ...

So there was money. Kevin's manager agreed in 1997 to extend the cooperation for six years worth $ 126 million.

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Zeljko-Obradovic

He opened the drawer and pulled out a thick book without a cover ...

"Look at this," with a smile, "I only consult this from time to time ..."

San Antonio's action from last, championship season. Season in which they cleared the floor with Miami Heath. The book for free evaluation has 150 pages of drawings. All kinds of combinations for all types of defense. From the front car, from the ball to the side. What is the Spur Specification, the release of a spell while you are thinking of building a position under the basket and anything else that throws an opponent's knee defensive.

Gregg Popovich had enough of his basketballs from Ivkovic and Obradovic. The basic principle of attacking San Antonio's "penetration and backward ball" was brought to perfection by Zeljko Obradović, the leading PAO. Gregg Popovich never bothered to admit where he borrowed this system. Before the match with Fener in Istanbul, Gregg complained to his new assistant Ettore Messina:

"Imagine, he does not drink ... not even a glass of wine. How can somebody be a good trainer if he does not drink?"

Popovich, with all the temperament and nervousness of a coach, has learned over time that the job is not being carried home. He does not usually wear it home.

"We're doing our best to win ... If it's enough ... great, if it does not ... we're going to dinner anyway ... life does not end there."

Željko Obradović and after eight European championship titles are burning for any defeat. His long-distance lines have long been legendary. His face absorbs an incredible shade of purple color as he stretches out his hands, lashes and turns his back on the ground and "heightened tone" explains the bench what was not right.

"Does anyone feel angry if you are silent? No ... If you hit haha ​​..."

He always found a way. Tactical is ahead of every European coach. How many just broke their teeth by trying to copy his style of play. Popovich succeeded, but he had a couple ... hm ... good players to do it in action. Others are not. Or they simply could not understand. A little bit of crying. You can watch the trainings. He says mostly everything in lectures.

In Partizana he had Djordjevic and Danilovic. In Juventus Villacamp, Jofres brothers and Corny Thompson. In Real Sabonis and Arlauckas and the most awesome possible group of blessings (as he once described to Dejan Bodiroga: "Antunjeza all called the Tantunjez in the dressing room ... because this one did not quite understand some things").

Benetton played Henry Williams and Zeljko Rebrača. Then came Panathinaikos and decades of rule. Players, good players changed. The system of games was changed as well, and the trophies came to fruition. Total five for 13 years on the bench. Only twice during that period were not Greece's premiers. Two!Boziroga, Diamatidis, Rebrača, Lakovič, Spanoulis, Batiste, Alvertis, Dikoudis, Tomasevic, Nicholas, Fotsis, Tsartsaris, Hatzivrettas, Kutluay ... The ball rolled under the basket, Bodiroga played one by one at the height of the penalty line. Middleton worked all over the country. Then the best pick'n'roll attack was played in the history of European basketball, a breakthrough and a return, and another, and another, while the defense did not rupture and the player remained silent.

He returned to the game with three low in five. The same game that Giannakis wrote over leading Greece to the title of the European Champion in 2005. It seemed, especially after the 2007, 2009, 2011 series, that Panathinaikos wins European championship titles when it wants. It only needs to add a couple of players each year to the nucleus that exists and ride to the sunset. But in all European countries, with the exception of Germany and somewhat of England, good things in sports do not last.

When something is wrong, then it needs to be changed because it is not worth it. When something is good, then that needs to be changed because it has been good for a long time ....
He left Athens and made a break for a year. They watched the pistons work ... Fenerbahce waited and waited for his chance.

Fenerbahce is among the two clubs in the world by the number of fans - 30 million ... Wait a bit to balance this information. Yes, 30 million registered people who really breathe and live blue-yellow. Basketball? Which black basketball player. The ball is there mom, daddy, shaved, aunts ... The containers are on Atišehir blue-yellow. Bus stops. Pools in the nearby restaurants are so color. People start to shake hands when Fener is mentioned.

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Chris Webber

Chris Webber united MTV and basketball, overcame shots and black socks and called for time-out that was not there. It was supposed to be one of the best in NBA history but it was still a step short. A good boy who wanted to be a rebel, a criminal, and a reperor. The most talented player of the modern age that this talent has never realized until the end.

"Unglaublih vas man trift! Kriz Veba! Traum !!" ... Frank Bušman from the German DSF fell into trans on Chrisa Webber's moves in his first year. Golden State Warriors. Tim Hardaway, Latrell Sprewell, beer stomach and unbreakable hand by Chrisa Mullin and a 20-year-old boy with fists like a shoe box. Naturally strong, extremely fast and spin-free with the preview of the game. He was blazing without mercy. Opposition centers could not get out of the box quickly enough. It was supposed to be a ticket to save Golden State, but did not want to play by the notes of Don Nelson. Donnie used it as a center, he wanted to play his natural position - the center. The others are moving. It's sent to Washington. There he reunited with his other Juwan Howard. Women could not look at him. Bullet's visit doubled as far as the woman was concerned. He had a contagious smile ... You know the story of the Sacrament ... It was the last chance for the ultimate glory but they could not over the Lakers ...

"Take the Christa Hunt!", Fans were screaming at Pallace of Auburn Hills, Piston Hall, when he was chosen as the first in the 1993 draft. Dad Mayce was crying out of luck. The entertainment that was organized into his honor that night could not get everyone interested. More than 300 girls left in front of the entrance. Men, of course, did not even let anyone in.

Chris Webber was one of those who were from the NBA primary school. His talents have been talked about since he was a founder. Detroit TV station made a story about Chrisu Webber, the best young player when this was the sixth grade of elementary school. She was already head taller than all peers. Not just higher. The larger. Webber was never a thin child. He looked like a tadpole, tried as a baby to bite and a basketball ball. He failed but he continued to play with her for 13 months.

Tata Mayce worked in the car factory. Where the other African American can honestly work in Detroit. Webber did not grow up in a devastated home. Mom and Dad had five children but the order knew every day. In later years, Chris has often talked about how Mom Doris had a "total silence" every day when she was not allowed to play music or watch TV. It was an hour since the children had to read the books and think.

Doris often went to high school near the Detroit Country Day high school and watched the perfect lawn and impeccably clean building and dreamed of learning there. When she has not succeeded, her son will go there. The Webbers did not have the money for such a school, but Chris was so good in low-heeled basketball that every school was waiting for his wide arms. So she ended up in a school where the kids come to Audi or BMW. He spent two seasons with sewing clothes and pharmacy on summer vacation stories in the Bahamas, Hawaii and the Azure Coast. He watched his team-mate from the table crying and ran into the classroom and reported that a car was stolen from the parking lot. Half an hour later when they called the police, a new Mercedes with a rosy butterfly on the roof appeared in the same place. Birthday present.

Chris hated Country Day. From the bottom of the soul. But he had been responsible and obedient since he was little. Tata Mayce was after Webber became the NBA star talking about the days when Chris was alone, without anyone saying that he fed his young brothers and sisters with a peanut butter sauce that I was crying to not wake up a mother who was obliged to sleep a little afternoon. Webber turned the stomach every fall when he had to go to Country Day but there was no talk to disappoint his parents and give up. He spent the summer on the land of the famous Detroit St. Cecilie where he played the best basketball in the city. They came to Steve Smith, Derrick Coleman. Sometimes Vinne Johnson and Isiah Thomas came. And every day there were Voshon Lenard, Chris Webber and his new best-selling Jalen Rose.

When it was time for Chris to choose where to go to college, there was no peace in Webber's house. The phone rang 200 times a day. Their number was in the phone book because Doris Dad was old and ill and feared he would forget the number to call if he changed. Phone ringing has become something that Webbers have begun to live every day.
Offers? Today, universities offer millions of talented children. If you can connect two, three in the package, it's a couple of millions pay for the parents plus a rich jackpot that manages to persuade them to come to the same college. At a time when Webber came to college the value of money was greater. There were 40, 50, 60 thousand dollars crates, cars. Bringing Dad Mayce has refused everything.

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