NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

Anfernee Hardaway is a very magical player. He is known as the successor of Jordan and Magic Johnson. He is also Tracy McGrady's idol and role model.

In McGrady's autobiography, he once said that all his skills were learned from Anfernee Hardaway.

The same elegant style of play, the league's super-fast first step, and the same basketball career destroyed by injuries.

And Hardaway's injury is not so much a joke of fate as it is a joke of the management of the "Star Delivery Camp" Magic team!

Last season, at the beginning of the 95-96 season, O'Neal, who had a great time playing for the Orlando Magic and eliminated the "God" in the playoffs last year, will miss the first two months of the season due to injury.

Facing many unscrupulous media, and when everyone was pessimistic about the Magic team with its core players missing, Anfernee Hardaway made a stunning debut, leading the Magic team to a 13-2 start in the first month, slapping all the media people in the face.

"What if you can't beat them? Just join them!"

The media, who were slapped in the face by Hardaway, had no power to fight back, so they began to praise Hardaway.

Besides, Hardaway's average of [27+6+6] was not embarrassing to brag about!

And this round of praise reached its peak when playing against the Bulls on November 15.

Because~this young [Jordan successor], facing the defense of Jordan himself, Hardaway made 12 of 18 shots, 4 of 7 three-pointers, and 8 of 9 free throws, and handed in 36 points and 5 rebounds, giving the 96 Bulls their first defeat of the season!

With Jordan's recognition, Hardaway has made a great comeback!

In the middle of the season, Hardaway was once again selected as an All-Star starter with Jordan. At that time, his advertisements with brands such as Nike were well-known and popular!

Here we have to mention the technical characteristics of peak Hardaway:

1. Solid basic skills;

2. The first step of the breakthrough technique is particularly fast, which can be called the fastest first step at that time;

3. The play is elegant and agile, and he can easily complete a silky back-to-the-basket performance in front of Jordan himself!

4. All-around dribbling attributes with both hands;

5. Signature ~ jump step layup.

6. Retain the attributes of a traditional point guard, qualified defense, excellent overall view, and unrestrained passing. One of the best outside passers and inside ball handlers.

7. More back-to-the-basket than facing the basket in positional battles, the unique ability of a big point guard to protect the ball well with his body.

In summary: This is the ancestor of a modern two-way guard, and you Yanzu can regard him as the prototype of Sendo in "Slam Dunk"!

(The last person who played like this was Magic Johnson)

At this point in the story, it was like a great saint coming out of the mountain. Hardaway should have had a good career.

But all this was ruined by the Magic management!

Facing a spirited young man who played well and efficiently, the Magic management chose to "fuck him to death as long as he could not be killed"!

Their original intention was to use "Jordan's successor" as the cornerstone of the team. After forcing O'Neal away and not getting a good helper for Hardaway, they started to mess with Hardaway again!

For the sake of the team's record, the impatient Magic management allowed Hardaway, who led the team alone, to stay on the front line even if he was slightly injured. His average playing time was more than 40 minutes for several consecutive months.

After Hardaway suffered a cartilage injury in his left knee, he was actually required to return two weeks after the operation!

You should know that the main reason for Hardaway's injury was the weight gain arranged by the Magic team. Now that he is injured and not protected, he is required to return quickly. Even the donkey in the production team would not dare to use him like this!

Hardaway, who was originally expected to rest for more than a month, was forced to return in 20 days.

This is the first and last case of a star player who returned so quickly after surgery in the NBA!

And the result of his return was of course another injury!

After just one game, Hardaway suffered another left knee injury, an old injury plus a minor injury, and an injury on top of the injury.

After that, he kept resting, returning, and getting injured again, playing on and off.

But under such circumstances, Hardaway still helped the Magic reach the playoffs this season.

And he scored 40+ points twice in the series against the Heat, leaving the suspense in the last game.

But now, Hardaway's Magic team will not play against the Miami Heat, but the Toronto Raptors!

Although he is "half-disabled", in view of Hardaway's amazing performance this season, the task of defending Hardaway was unanimously given to the defensive pioneer Doug Christie.

The two core players, Das and Hanamichi, locked in two starting spots.

The remaining Walter Williams played well this season, averaging 16+5 in 73 starts, and also locked the starting position of small forward..

The only remaining center position, Oakley missed the first game of the series against the Magic due to physical discomfort.

At Hanamichi's suggestion, Ben Wallace, whose afro was even more swollen, replaced this starting spot.

When Ben knew about it at the first time, he secretly made up his mind: I must not lose with the honor of being a master!

So far, the starting players of the Raptors in the first game of the playoffs have been determined.

The starting players of the "Star Delivery Camp" Orlando Magic are:

Forward: Derek Strong (203cm, 100kg), averaging 12.2 points + 10 rebounds + 0.8 assists in the original history of this playoffs!

Guard: [Penny] Anfernee Hardaway (201cm, 88kg), averaging 31 points + 6 rebounds + 3.4 assists in the original history of this playoffs! Among them, there were two wonderful performances of 41 points and 42 points respectively!

Guard: Nick Anderson (198cm, 93kg), averaging 5.6 points + 5.8 rebounds + 0.6 assists in the playoffs!

Center: Ronnie Seikaly (211cm, 104kg), averaging 6.3 points + 5.3 rebounds in the playoffs!

(Sharon White, who was originally traded to the Magic, has been removed from the Magic's starting center list because his performance in the regular season dropped sharply to 6.5 points + 3.1 rebounds + 0.5 assists!

The new starting center Ronnie Seikaly's data in the regular season was 17.3 points + 9.5 rebounds + 1.2 assists, but was blown to pieces by Alonzo Mourning in the playoffs!)

Forward: Denis Scott (203cm, 104kg), averaging 3 points + 1.8 rebounds + 1 assist in the playoffs!

Having written this, I have to mention that in the original history, the injury-plagued Hardaway fought five games with the second-ranked Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference with these four guys, and won two of them!