The second-largest pick in Duncan that year, he played 575 games in his 9-year NBA career, and opened high and closed low at the peak of 21.8 points.

' draft pick second only to Duncan, known as the "second Larry Bird", but suddenly retired at the age of 30! What's even more outrageous is that after retiring, the team was used as a "trading chip" and earned 4.3 million yuan without a single game, and indirectly helped the team win the championship? This plot is even more magical than a TV series!

In 1997, there were two ruthless people in Salt Lake City: the Jazz made it to the finals, and the University of Utah produced a Van Horn! Average of 22 points and 9.5 rebounds per game, the media directly called him "Bird". In his junior year in 1996, in order to fulfill his promise to his father (to fix the yacht he had ruined), this guy refused to take the lead in advance and insisted on finishing his college entrance examination. As a result, in the 1997 draft, he and Duncan became "small two players", and were picked up by Philadelphia with the second pick, and then traded by 8 people to the Nets - the "first lesson of business" in the NBA, which came faster than the rookie contract!

Rookies will kill madly in the season! Average of 19.7 points and 6.6 rebounds per game, bringing the Nets from 26 to 43 wins. After 4 years of entering the playoffs, he became the first white player to appear on the cover of "SLAM"! The second year is even stronger, ranking fifth in the league with 21.8 points per game, with a three-point shooting percentage of 38%, making him a "space power forward" pioneer! But in that era when "the insider fight is king", his elegant style of play was criticized as "soft eggs" - especially when Duncan had already won the championship, doubts were overwhelming: "How far can a big man who can shoot three-pointers go?"

In order to prove himself, he began to gain weight against the inside, and he could score 25 points and 17 rebounds in the face of Da Ben! But the price is a lot of injuries. Kidd joined in 2001, and the Nets became the Eastern Conference champion. Van Horn's data fell to 14.8 points, but reached the peak of the playoffs: he scored 27 points in the first round of double overtime, and 21 points and 10 rebounds in the key match of the Eastern Conference Finals. He also hit a three-pointer that killed the game, leading the team to the Finals for the first time in history! Unfortunately, facing the Lakers, his shooting percentage in the finals was less than 40%. After being swept, he began to wander - Philadelphia, New York, the Bucks, the Mavericks, and finally played a substitute for Nowitzki.

In the fifth game of the 2006 finals, he left silently after only 4 minutes. No one expected that this would be the end of his career! At the age of 30, he retired directly and went home to take care of his children. As a result, in 2008, in order to exchange Kidd, the Mavericks insisted on "resurrecting" him as a bargaining chip - he signed first and then sent to the Nets. He didn't play in a game, and he won 4.3 million in vain and helped the Mavericks pave the way to win the championship! Now he is completely invisible, living in seclusion with his family, away from the spotlight - perhaps compared to the hustle and bustle of the NBA, this is the "Bird-style life" he really wants.