nba: legend maker

A day later, the Rockets host the visiting Washington Wizards.

In this game, Wu Hang was holding his breath in his heart, because in the interview after the last game, Wu Hang said in front of all the audience that winning the Grizzlies was the beginning of the Rockets' winning streak, and he didn't want to be slapped in the face so soon.

"Hey, bro!"

"Hey!

Despite meeting just yesterday, Woo and Nick Young had a passionate hug in the players' tunnel.

Not far in front of Nick Young, Arenas is chewing gum with a relaxed face, and although the team's recent record is not ideal, he is still full of confidence in this game.

About Arenas, definitely an inspirational figure.

When Arenas was in high school, his coach once told him that you are not playing basketball, and that your ceiling is here, but Arenas did not choose to give up on himself, but practiced diligently from morning to night, and successfully transferred to another high school to become the best in the high school league.

When he arrived at college, Arenas, who shot in Los Angeles, could have joined UCLA, a famous basketball school, but UCLA thought that Arenas was not qualified and did not choose to recruit him in the end.

When it came to Arizona, Arenas was still not a top choice for coaches at first, when the college basketball team had the likes of Richard Jefferson and Luke Wharton, but Arenas took advantage of the summer informals to beat his college rivals and get the starting spot.

During his six years in the NBA, Arenas successfully completed the transformation from an "ugly duckling" to a "white swan".

Many people only see the scenery in front of the Arenas, but few people see the efforts of others.

In the summer of his freshman year of high school, he climbed over the wall at 4 a.m. to shoot at a nearby junior high school basketball court, and one of Arenas's most familiar friends at the University of Arizona happened to be the team's assistant coach who kept the keys to the arena, and who helped him open the 13,000-seat arena late every night for him to practice basketball.

After entering the NBA, he often entered the arena at two or three o'clock in the morning to practice hard, and even after a game with 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, he would still toss and turn because of his small mistakes and couldn't sleep, and finally simply got up and ran to the training hall to shoot crazy until 5 o'clock in the morning the next day, and simply slept in the arena after the training......

Arenas' unusual philosophy of life is probably due to his childhood.

When he was 3 years old, his mother left him and his father, and he didn't see his biological mother for the first time until he entered the NBA. When Arenas was 8 years old, his father brought him to Los Angeles with a dream of becoming a movie star, and the two had only $50 on them and lived on cheap McDonald's burgers every day.

In an interview, Arena confessed: "The only impression my father had on me was that he kept working, working, working, so I knew at that time that if I wanted something in my life, I had to keep working, working, working, working......"

Perhaps his tenacity and big heart were cultivated at that time, and his experience destined him to become a basketball player like no other.

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As last season's killer king, Arenas is also quite popular, and even some Rockets home fans chanted his name when he entered the game, but Arenas, who was used to this kind of thing, was very calm.

It's game on!

The Rockets' starting five are still the same: Woo Hang, Maddy, Battier, Hayes and Da Yao.

The Wizards started five players: Arenas, DeSean Stevenson, Caron Butler, Antoine Jamison, Brandon Haywood.

The Rockets attacked first, and Wu Hang easily hoisted the ball to Da Yao on the inside.

began to let Da Yao attack first, which has almost become a fixed style of play for the Rockets, Da Yao encountered the Wizards' inside and outside wraps after receiving the ball, and distributed the ball to Wu Hang outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle.

After holding the ball, Wood successfully attracted DeShawn Stevenson to help the defense, and after making a shooting feint, Wood Air lightly distributed the ball to Maddie, who was in the open position.

In this large empty space that can no longer be empty, Maddie even has a full two seconds to adjust.

Then Maddy raised his hand and hit a three-pointer, and the Rockets took the lead.

Offense and defense transition, Wizards baseline serve.

Arenas dribbled the ball while staring intently ahead, not Wu Hang directly opposite, nor his teammate slowly falling into position, but the basket that was constantly approaching him.