What s the special time in Wall s NBA? Kentucky s Golden Age started by him

Perhaps, Wall is not a player defined under the "great" framework, but he must be very special...

You should know that in the long river of the NBA, it is particularly difficult to become the No. 1 pick in the future, especially the point guard identity. Looking at the list of previous top picks, people can only see a few limited names such as Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, John Lucas.

After all, in the American basketball soil, what is most lacking is the ball handler with explosive physical fitness and gorgeous style. No matter how outstanding a point guard is, it is difficult for him to have enough recognition in the NBA world with harsh vision and taste to impress those scouts and team managers.

But Wall did it. In just one year of college, he conquered the entire NBA scouting system and made himself a peerless genius that all teams dreamed of having in the 2010 draft.

And when the Wizards selected Wall in the first round on June 24, 2010, the whole of Washington, DC was full of joy. The mayor Adrian Fendi even named June 25, the first day after Wall joined the Wizards, John Walley, to mark this moving historic moment.

After joining the Wizards, Wall has indeed become the darling of fans for a long time. In his rookie season, he averaged 16.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, 8.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game. In the final season's best rookie selection, he just regretted losing to Griffin and failed to win the final trophy. But in the rookie season, Wall's lightning style, his sharp breakthrough like a sharp knife, and his sharp steals in defense have shown some signs of a super giant in the future...

In addition, Wall gave 9 (or more) assists in the first three games of his career, and scored a triple-double in the 6th game of his career. In the All-Star Rookie Challenge in the season, he actually gave up as many as 22 assists in a single game. These monster-level data also allowed him to have his own footnotes on the historical record list early.

In the next few years, Wall's career development was smooth. During the 9 years he played for the Wizards, he was an irreplaceable candidate for the main controller. In the summer after the third year of his career, he won his first maximum salary contract in his life at the Wizards. In his fifth season of his career, he was selected for the second team of the All-Defensive Team; in his seventh year of his career, he was selected for the third team of the All-Article Team. It was also due to the latter honor that Wall also unlocked specific terms in the labor-capital agreement and became one of the few stars in the league (including Harden, Curry, Westbrook) to obtain a super maximum salary renewal contract with a designated veteran qualification.

is not only a personal success, but Wall also led an unexpected wave. You know, before Wall was selected by the NBA, Kentucky had never produced a draft No. 1 pick. But after Wall, Kentucky's origins must be a fine product and became one of the most reliable creeds on draft night. After Wall, two Kentucky players, Davis and Towns, entered the NBA as the No. 1 pick...

It was also since 2010 that Kentucky has become the NBA's top talent pool. In the past 15 years, as many as 49 Kentucky players have entered the NBA through the draft, which has even firmly suppressed another basketball school, Duke University (40 people have entered the NBA in the past 15 years). In addition, the success rate of Kentucky players is also outrageously high. For example, SGA, Booker, Davis, Towns and others have long been the mainstay of their teams. SGA also won MVP+FMVP and championship trophy as an absolute core last season.

But what people should not ignore is that the golden age of Kentucky in the past 15 years actually started from the moment Wall was selected as the No. 1 pick...

Unfortunately, as the leader of the Kentucky legend, Wall lost to many of his juniors in the NBA. In his career, although his output has been stable, the data order has always been quite decent. But in terms of his ability to lead the team, he has been criticized and questioned.

In his nine years in Washington, Wall has only played in the playoffs in total, one round + three semi-finals. Although, with his and Bill's efforts, Wizards supporters have also seen hope of rushing to the top of the mountain, the failure of the playoffs has finally ruthlessly exposed Wall's talent limit, making people realize that he is not the correct answer to the team that won the championship.

In the entire career, Wall only had one season of the highest victory sharing value in the team, and this set of high-level data also clearly exposed his lack of leader core under the gorgeous output. In 2016, when Durant became a free agent, Wall and Bill also joined the long dragon recruiting KD. But later, KD didn't even give the Wizards a chance to have a double gun interview. Perhaps in the eyes of his peers, Wall is not a reliable partner.

Later, after suffering from severe injuries caused by Achilles tendon rupture twice in 2018 and 2019, Wall's competitive state quickly fell into a decline channel. Without the "speed", his key treasure who settled in the NBA, only examining his skills, projection and consciousness, he immediately became a mediocre player and was unable to "stand up" again.

In 2020, Wall was traded to the Rockets and was bought out by the team two years later. In the 2022-23 season, he joined the Clippers for a short time and made his last work hard, but he was once again ruthlessly abandoned.. In the next two years, Wall was still making various job seeking attempts and always hoped to make a comeback. However, in this era when the defender market is already super inclined and severely saturated, no NBA team will have his place again...

In the summer three years ago, Wall publicly stated in the media that he lived a very painful life. Due to continuous injuries and workplace setbacks, and because his beloved mother and grandmother died one after another within one year, he developed a serious mental illness, and even considered suicide during struggle.

But fortunately, the next three years of emotional precipitation allowed Wall to re-align his life route, allowing him to finally say goodbye to the basketball court with a more indifferent attitude today and start a new life.

It is worth mentioning that since last year, Wall has changed his career and become a basketball commentator. In the farewell letter on social media, Wall also firmly stated, "I have retired but never stopped. I must continue to move forward in Wall's way." Perhaps, he has gradually walked out of the haze of previous years, and a new door of hope is slowly unfolding in front of him...