Michael Pitrus, one of the Warriors Black Eight Miracle

Everyone should not forget Michael Pitrus, one of the Warriors' Black Eight Miracle.

Mickael Pietrus, Michael Pietrus, 6-foot-6 (198cm), plays as a small forward (SF)/scoreback (SG). He was born in February 1982 in Lesabime, France, in the overseas province of Guadeloupe, France, was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the 11th pick in the first round in the 2003 NBA draft and has since entered the NBA.

In his ten-year NBA career, Michael Pitrus has played for five teams, namely the Warriors (2003-2008), Magic (2008-2010.12), Suns (2010.12-2011.12), Celtics (2011.12-2012), and Raptors (2012-2013). In the regular season, he played 557 games, including 172 starts, averaging 21.5 minutes per game, scoring 8.3 points, 3.1 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.7 steals, and 0.4 blocks. He played 69 games in the playoffs, starting in one of them, averaging 21.7 minutes per game, scoring 7.3 points, 2.4 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 0.7 steals, and 0.5 blocks.

Michael Pitrus has excellent physical fitness, strong explosiveness, a considerable outside range, and has relatively stable three-point shooting ability. His career three-point shooting percentage is more than 35%. He has scored 8 three-pointers in a single game. He can also cut into the basket and finish. He is good at flying dunks, has the ability to play singles on the back, has strong upper limb strength, strong confrontation ability, good defensive awareness, fast follow-up speed, strong individual defense ability, can fill in positions in time and send out blocks. However, he has poor offensive ability to hold the ball, limited independent offensive ability, low scoring efficiency, and has many bad habits when defending, and is too frivolous and rude, which makes it easy to give opponents a free throw opportunity.

Although Michael Pitrus is just a role player, he also has many highlights, especially during the Warriors' time. On April 8, 2005, local time in the United States, in the Golden State Warriors' 127:119 home game, Pitrus played for 27 minutes on the bench, making 9 of 11 shots (including 6 three-pointers), and 4 of 5 free throws, achieving the highest single-game 28 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists in his NBA career. On January 22, 2007, local time, in the Golden State Warriors' 103:108 away game to the Los Angeles Lakers, Pitrus started for 37 minutes, scoring 14 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 1 blocked double-double data, of which 14 rebounds set a single game record in his NBA career. On May 1, 2007, in the fifth game of the first round of the NBA playoffs, the Dallas Mavericks (now known as the Dallas Mavericks) defeated the Golden State Warriors 118:112 at home. Pitrus played for 26 minutes on the bench and scored a double-double with 11 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal. This is the only double-double in Pitrus' playoffs. In the end, in this series, Pitrus helped the Golden State Warriors eliminate the Dallas Mavericks 4:2 and staged the Black Eight Miracle. After the end of the 2012-2013 season, Michael Pitrus officially retired. In 2017, he joined the BIG3 League of Retired Players in the United States. In addition, he also founded his own company dedicated to the management of athletes' cannabis and CBD drugs.