Despite his fame and fortune, he insisted on being himself. He didn't start going to nightclubs, eating, drinking and having fun like some players, but took care of his family while doing his job.
I fell in love with my college girlfriend Nina and got married. At the age of 365,438+0, I was already the father of a son and two daughters. I am honest and try to set up a good father image for my children. Shao Wei's parents are still alive, and he has a brother with a master's degree. His family is happy enough.
During the thunder period, signing AJ was the top card of AJ at present, and personal signature combat boots have also been issued to the third generation. "Why not?" It seems to be the life creed closest to Kobe's "Mamba Spirit". Fox, Morant and even Johnny's son, Browne, regard him as their favorite player. It can be seen that Shao Wei's personal influence is so great.
Is this the life you envy? To tell you the truth, I envy it. If we put aside boring topics such as "historical position", Shao Wei's present situation is the peak of his life. Shao Wei, many players' lifelong pursuit-money or fame-has been possessed. It seems that he should have entered the "don't want to work hard" mode long ago. However, he didn't. In the 12 season of his career, Shao Wei was still as energetic as his first appearance, and he always maintained his desire for victory. You can look at his performance as a rookie, and then compare his recent games-rush layup, thunder dunk, angry roar after scoring 2+/kloc-0-Shao Wei is still that teenager!
The more games you watch, the more you will respect players like Shao Wei. We all admit that Shao Wei has obvious shortcomings that have been exposed all the time, such as being easy to reach the top, not being smart enough in shooting choices, not being efficient enough, and so on; But no one has ever denied that he is one of the most competitive players in the league. Whether he is behind 10 or 20 points, you can't see the depressed "we are going to lose" expression on his face. Similarly, you rarely see Shao Wei exhausted and panting under the relay lens-he is like a tireless perpetual motion machine, always chasing for victory.
Of course, the most representative game in my heart, Shao Wei Never Give Up, is the fifth game of Sir Thunder in the 20 18 playoffs, which is still fresh in my memory. Thunder returned to Oklahoma with a big score of 1-3, and the next round of series is almost a foregone conclusion. Thunder's "Big Three" is about to become the biggest laughingstock of the league, and Mitchell seems to be entering the discussion of "the strongest freshman in history" ... At this time, Thunder still started behind and played poorly. After half-time, when Claude hit a three-pointer in the middle of the third quarter to widen the difference to 25 points, head coach Donovan called for an emergency timeout, and the head coach turned pale at this time, but Shao Wei did not believe that the game was final.
Maybe you will feel the despair in the air at the scene, with a big score behind and only one and a half days left in the game. If eliminated in such a humiliating way, it will be a dark day in the history of Thunder, and Thunder will become the laughingstock of the whole league. Now, even the noisiest Chesapeake Energy Arena in the league has become silent in this situation.
However, the "savior"-Shao Wei came. First, two decisive three-pointers narrowed the difference to the range that can be chased, and then broke through, changing one gear and one gear to cover the middle distance ... Shao Wei scored 20 points in a single quarter and pulled the Thunder out of the pit with George. In the fourth quarter, Shao Wei scored another 65,438+03 points, and responded to Gaubert's contraction defense with a series of symbolic middle distances. Thunder staged a shocking reversal.
In my mind, this may be one of the best playoff games of Shao Wei's career. He is such a player who doesn't give up, doesn't give up and doesn't want to be defeated. This has become a label on him. No one doesn't know this big boy "Russell? Westbrook ".
In the last two seasons, we can clearly find the change of Shao Wei-he no longer stubbornly faces the media "next question" and even jokes with the media; He laughed more on the ground outside the stadium. After the game, he embraced his younger generation like Morant, just like a gentle veteran ... Shao Wei even reconciled with Durant, and they stopped fighting on the court. Everything makes me a little dumbfounded: is my favorite master Wei really going to lose his edge and gradually return to mediocrity?
I suddenly realized that he was 3 1 year old. Marriage, family, and time spent with children have made him lose his simple appearance and become more mature and stable. He began to know how to protect his body and play in a more sure and clever way (for example, a lot of back-to-back singles replaced recklessness). Now when he hits 0 in the fast break of 1, sometimes he even chooses to make a layup. Even two years ago, he would have staged a dunk. But everything is in the past. Now, how incredible it is!
Shao Wei has really changed and become better. Since 2020, Shao Wei has averaged 30+8+7 and shot 565,438+0%, playing the most efficient and unstoppable offensive performance in his career. Those who say that he is easy to head the ball or is inefficient and poorly organized, after he won the scoring champion, MVP, assists champion and 47% super-high shooting rate this season, all kept silent. He finally became the Shao Wei that people wanted him to be.
But on the court, he still maintained a 200% desire to survive. In the first game of the season, he snarled at the audience after a dunk and set the Toyota Center on fire. In the last game before suspension, he did the same thing after a one-handed fast break-"As long as I play basketball, only basketball is my friend", which Shao Wei said a long time ago and has been practicing.
Now, personal honor, historical position, money and reputation have been possessed, and Shao Wei's only goal as a basketball player is to win the next championship. Although he is 30 years old, Shao Wei can still make a living-we can expect him to really realize his dream.
As for me, I only hope that Shao Wei, who has gone to the Wizards, can stay alive and join hands with the coaches in the Thunder period to create better results and launch an impact on the championship. I hope the road to the championship in Shao Wei is smooth.