The demonic energy is everywhere. Let’s take a look at the painful lessons of the tearing city. Yang Hansen must pay attention to his health.

Yang Hansen has landed in the NBA. This is a great thing for Chinese fans who love basketball. But the only place he went to made Fireworks a little worried. The Portland Trail Blazers are nicknamed "Tearing City". This place is also very strange. Since the Trail Blazers joined the NBA family in 1970, their players, or rather center players, will almost suffer serious injuries that are enough to destroy their careers here.

In this article, let’s talk about the tragic center injury history of the Tear City. I hope that Xiao Yang can pay attention to it and protect his body, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution.

Portland Trail Blazers were founded in 1970. At that time, it was the name of the Trail Blazers. It also means paying tribute to the workers who worked tirelessly and came from afar to the development of Portland and even all western cities.

In his first season in team history in 1971, in the home game against the Lakers, defender Jim Barnett made a super long-distance finale. The commentator Schoneli blurted out "RipCity! Allright!" His meaning was to tear the opponent's defense, but what spread was to tear the city. As a result, this nickname of Portland has been passed down for a full half century. The newly established team is naturally relatively weak. After two years of decline, the Trail Blazers selected their inside core in 1972. Royd Neal, who is 201 cm tall, has a very strong ability. He can score 13 points and 12 rebounds in a rookie season, with a shooting percentage of nearly 50%. He was selected as the first team of the best rookie team with excellent performance. With this performance and ability, after a few years of training, he will be a real beast in the interior.

But the good times didn't last long. After just three seasons, Neil suffered a right knee injury. The medical conditions were not well developed at that time. Neil played with injuries many times, his injury worsened several times, and was forced to operate in the fourth year. His postoperative recovery was not ideal. He played for six years in all his career. After playing four games in 1978, his injuries worsened and he withdrew from the NBA. The first generation of pride in heaven died.

In 1974, the Trail Blazers won the greatest star in team history, Bill Walton, the father of Lakers head coach Walton Jr.

Walton is very fierce, 211 cm tall and nicknamed "Red Giant". In his three years of college, Walton is the best player in the NCAA every year. He led the Los Angeles to win the NCAA championship twice in a row, and also led the team to play the longest winning streak in NCAA to this day, with 88 consecutive victories. You should know that the NCAAA had only 30 games a year at that time, which means that they had not lost for two consecutive years. In fact, Walton's NCAA career record was 88 wins and 4 losses.

NBA famous coach Ramsey praised Walton as a combination of Chamberlain and Russell, and was at a very high level on both offense and defense. In the 1974 draft, the Trail Blazers, who held the No. 1 pick, chose Walton without hesitation, thus Walton's tragic NBA career began.

Warton was very healthy when he played the NCAA before, and only missed 2 games in three years. What's strange is that since he came to the Trail Blazers, he had a serious sprained ankle injury in just seven games. He played a total of 35 games in his first season, averaging 13 points and 13 rebounds per game.

This is just a small beginning.

In the following two years, his legs had problems with ankles and knees. In the second year of his career, he played only 51 games. In the third year, in 1977, Walton almost dragged his leg and played 65 games in the regular season and 19 games in the playoffs, leading the Trail Blazers to win the first championship in team history.

In 1978, Walton was reimbursed for a serious ankle injury season and did not play a single game of the whole season. In 1979, Walton signed with his hometown team, the Los Angeles Clippers. During the physical examination, Walton's serious injury made the team doctor extremely surprised!

In his left ankle, more than eighty pieces of bones were mixed together like a pot of porridge. There was no way to distinguish each other. No surgery could be effective. In the end, in order to continue Walton's career, the Clippers' doctor performed a very advanced left ankle reconstruction surgery on Walton at that time, which was equivalent to directly replacing the entire structure of the left ankle. This was the most serious and most risky operation in the NBA at that time. The doctor's advice to Walton at that time was-

Don't think about playing in the NBA first, you can stand up first.

The good news is that the operation is very successful. Walton can walk and run like a normal person. The bad news is that the operation is not so successful. My ankle needs to be overhauled every once in a while. In the next three years, Walton was reimbursed for another year, and played 14 and 33 respectively in the remaining two years.

Warton is really the most regrettable star in NBA history. His entire career has been shrouded in injuries. No one knows what he looked like when he was truly at his peak. The initiator of all this was when he joined the Portland Trail Blazers.

Wharton sued the Trail Blazers' management in court and claimed 6 million yuan, saying that the Trail Blazers concealed his serious injuries from himself for the sake of record and box office, and urged him to play with injuries many times, which led to his injury continue to worsen. By the time the Clippers, the injury was irreparable. Later, Wharton won the case and received a compensation of 100,000 yuan..

After retiring, Walton also wrote a book called "Resurrection from the Dead", which not only criticized the Trail Blazers' management, but also compared the Trail Blazers' team doctor to "veterinary". This book had a great influence at that time, and everyone in the Portland Veterinary Group knew it well.

During the days when Walton was often injured, Morris Lucas, who transferred from the ABA, supported the team's inside line. In his first season with Portland in 1976-1977, he played 79 games and averaged 20 points and 11.4 rebounds per game. This man was previously an Iron Man in the ABA. He played in the ABA last season, and because of the transfer, he played 86 games in a season and also played 80 games the previous year.

But the good times didn't last long. After the Trail Blazers played for three years, Lucas suffered a serious injury in a game with a fractured tibia in his left calf. He was reimbursed for the season and was hurriedly sold to the Nets by the Trail Blazers after his comeback, and his career plummeted. In the 1984 NBA Draft, another heavyweight center landed in the NBA, and the Trail Blazers selected Sam Bowie from the University of Kentucky with the second pick in the first round.

Now some fans laughed at the Trail Blazers for missing out on Jordan and choosing Bowie, but in fact, if you were the Trail Blazers management that day, you would be impressed by Bowie's talent. This is why this guy didn't play. If he played, it's no exaggeration to say that the NBA will change the world!

Bowei's playing style and style were very rare in that era -

is 216 cm tall and has strong control ability (of course, it is incomparable to these big cores now, which was very good at that time). He can kill the basket with the ball and cause damage, and can dribble beyond people to create shooting space for himself. Bowei is not only skilled at the basket, but also has a very accurate small mid-range shot. In addition, he can pass the ball and defend, and he can not only defend slowly, but also has strong ability to assist in defense. After reading this, who will you think of?

(Durant's offense) + (Venbanyama's defense) - (three-pointer) + (Kuzma's face) = Sam Bowie. In his first year of rookie, Bowie played 76 games. During his playing time with less than 30 points, he averaged 10 points, 8.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.7 blocks and 0.7 steals per game, with a shooting percentage of up to 54%. He was selected as the best rookie team with an outstanding performance.

Strangely, Bowie has been injured since the second year of her career. It is different from Bill Walton's injury in one place. He was injured all over the body, either his arm fracture, his ankle sprain, his left leg fracture, or his right ankle fracture. Anyway, the injury points are ever-changing. Ibuprofen doesn't know where he hurts...

The next four years of the Trail Blazer career, Bao Wei played 63 games in total, of which, in 1986-1987, he only played 5 games in the season due to a fracture of his left tibia, and was reimbursed for the season due to a fracture of his left foot and a fracture of his right leg in the season due to a fracture of his right leg in the season due to a failure of his game...

In 1989, the Trail Blazers finally couldn't bear it anymore and traded Bowie to the Nets. Alas, it was strange. After coming to the Nets, Bowie suddenly got better. His waist was no longer hurt, his legs were no longer sore, and he went to the fifth floor in one breath, without any effort! In the four years at the Nets, attendance rate exceeded 85%.

The Trail Blazers are really...it's awesome...

The Trail Blazers are also the Hall of Fame superstar, Qiqi Van derwich. This guy played in the Nuggets for four years before, with an attendance rate of 89%. After coming to the Trail Blazers, he was still alive in the first three years. He broke his ankle in the fourth year and was reimbursed for the season. He played a total of 37 games throughout the year. When the Trail Blazers saw that the signs were a bit wrong, he decisively sent President Van to the Knicks. Like Bowie, after President Van came to the Knicks, all his problems were cured and he played 75 games throughout the season...

In fact, the player who really made fans know this tearing city was the No. 7 pick in 2006, Brandon Roy and the No. 1 pick in 2007, Greg Oden.

If these two people really have a long and short time, Oden is much worse than Roy. Roy has at least a few years of peak. He has played a name in the league and was also a superstar who was famous back then. As for Oden, he only played 105 games in his entire career. At that time, news broke out from time to time that Oden was about to make a comeback. In a few days, Oden was injured again...

No one has seen what Oden, who is truly full of blood, looks like. The so-called Oden is just in the mouths of fans. As a center, even a strong Oden cannot escape the fate of the tearing city.

Seeing this, many of the top brothers on the list may have to say, how long has this been news? Then Fireworks will talk about another recent example, Zach Collins.

This young man was the No. 10 pick in the first round in 2017. He was 211 cm tall and played as a center... In the first two years of his career, he was relatively healthy. He played 66 games and 77 games respectively in two seasons. The third year was November 2019, when Collins was seriously injured by a torn left shoulder ligament and is expected to have a 4-month quit.

It may be that the Trail Blazers also realized that there was some problem with the center's feng shui, so they were extremely cautious with Collins. After four months of rest, Collins directly raised for seven months, which was equivalent to reimbursing for the season..

Collins returned to play three park games in June 2020, performed very well and was very healthy. In August, during the team's training camp, Collins had a severe sprain in his left ankle and began to use conservative drug treatment. He was cared for 4 months but failed. In December, Collins had to undergo stress fracture surgery on his left ankle, and was reimbursed for the season. In June 2021, Collins failed in the operation, and the operation was done again...

Collins himself also felt like he was in the path of Portland. After the rookie season, Collins did not After three years of stopping, he joined the Spurs for 22 million yuan. After coming to San Antonio, Collins lived again. He played 63 games and 68 games respectively in two years, and renewed a two-year, 35 million yuan contract with the Spurs...

The Fireworks Master wrote these history not to scare anyone. I am a dignified atheist. I just hope that Yang Hansen’s lessons were learned from the past. Be careful. The evil spirits are everywhere in this place, and there may be evil spirits. Treating the center is especially unfriendly. As the same thing, the body is the capital of the revolution, and you must protect your body.

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