Teenagers are bumpy, courageous to move forward; escape from gangsters, accidentally become NBA superstars; after the peak, fade away; unintentional willow, but become a top-notch Internet celebrity, floating and heavy, the interpretation is not very exciting, let us peer into the unique story behind the "black question mark".
Los Angeles has children who have just grown up
The mention of the "black question mark" stem must be familiar to everyone. Especially for self-media creation and young people chatting, "black question mark" emojis are always indispensable royal emojis. But what is less known is that there is actually a real story of ups and downs behind this classic expression.
Pictured: Nick Young, the prototype of the black question mark
The black guy's real name is Nick Young, full name Nicholas Aaron Young, he came from a poor background, a rough life, but he loves basketball, is very talented, once became a teammate of Kobe and Jeremy Lin, rap singer Iggy Azalea's fiancé, Los Angeles Hollywood celebrity, but soon retired from the NBA. Next, we get to the point.
On June 1, 1985, Nick Young was born in Los Angeles, the largest city in California, which is the home of Hollywood, the world-famous film center, and the home of the famous NBA team Los Angeles Lakers.
Pictured: Los Angeles, known as the "City of Angels" by the sea
Although the Yang family is relatively poor economically, the family gets along harmoniously and enjoys it. Nick is the youngest child in the family, his brothers are famous dunk masters in the area, Nick and his teenage second brother Junier have the best relationship, Junier wherever He goes, Nick will go. Although Los Angeles is known as the "City of Angels", it has extremely serious security problems, and Los Angeles is the home base of the two famous gangsters in the United States, the Blood Gang and the Lame Gang (the real background of the gang in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas).
Pictured: Portrait of the Los Angeles Blood Gang and the Lame Gang, the realistic background of the gang in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Since the 1970s, the drama of vendetta between large and small gangs has been staged continuously. When Nick was five years old, his happy life was shattered forever by a bullet. A member of the Blood Gang mistakenly identifies Junier for a gang enemy in the darkness of the night and shoots and kills Junier, who has just left school. Although the murderer was arrested and arrested, because he was only 15 years old, he could only be sentenced to 10 years in prison at most, and Nick's elder brother John was also sent to a mental hospital because the blow was too big, and he was sent to a mental hospital because of the blow. In the words of Nick's father, a single bullet took away two sons. On the day of the funeral, the third and fourth brothers took Nick to play a basketball game. The court was a favorite place for Junier, and whenever the sound of dribbling sounded, Nick felt as if Junier had returned to him, and in this way, Nick grew up day by day under the Nets.
Pictured: Nick Young as a child
He doesn't like to read, and people say he has a learning disability, but he has a basketball talent like a fake bag. He never had formal training, but at the age of fourteen, he was able to play head-to-head with adult men, even against college professional players. Nick always had a happy smile on the pitch, and that hasn't changed in more than a decade. But high school life suddenly pulled Nick back to that nightmare. The Dorsey High School he attended was the sphere of influence of the Blood Gang, when the second brother Junier was killed was only a few hundred meters away from the school, many of the students here were gang members, Nick could not mingle with the Blood Gang who had a vendetta against his relatives, and the Blood Gang members were also unhappy with him, and often provoked him with Junier's things. So, he pretended to go to school every day, and then went to the park alone to practice, imagining himself as an NBA star, and took the trouble to practice shooting again and again.
The sea and the sky are singing
But he knew it wouldn't work, and he would have to be guided to get into the NBA. Fortunately, an off-campus basketball coach named Cooper learned about Nick's situation, and he was very sympathetic to Nick's plight, so he recommended him to a basketball school outside the district, Cleveland High School. At this time, Nick was still very thin, but Coach Chevalier of Cleveland saw the huge potential in him at a glance and urged him to read and practice every day. Nick was born with the first systematic training, and in the face of the master's careful cultivation, Nick was grateful, and he decided to seize this opportunity to change the fate of the whole family. In his junior year of high school, Nick had become a nationally american high school player, averaging 27.2 points and ten rebounds per game. Cleveland High School also achieved a good score of twenty-five wins and four defeats under his leadership, and many universities handed him olive branches. Maybe it was his brother who had a spirit in heaven, and Nick's basketball path would be so high. After graduating from high school, Nick joined the University of Southern California (USC).
Pictured: The University of Southern California, also known as the University of Southern California
USC is not a strong basketball school, but the coaching staff values Nick very much, and they further stimulate Nick's potential, practicing his footsteps, shooting and three-point shooting. Nick soon became the absolute core of USC.
Pictured: Nick Young, who represents USC fighting on the pitch
In his junior year, Nick led the team to beat the world-famous "Nets" forward Kevin Durant. That same year, Nick entered the NBA draft. Nick's offensive ability, especially his three-point technique, is very good, but due to years of practicing alone and receiving systematic training later, his passing awareness and defensive ability are lower than the league average, but many people believe that he will go further. Nick was eventually selected by the Washington Wizards with the sixteenth overall pick to become a professional player.
Highlight years are easy to stumble
The suffering Yang family has never been short of money again. Unfortunately, in the next dozen years, Nick did not make much progress. The Washington Wizards' star is the famous Arenas, who is highly skilled, hot-tempered and mouthless. Rookie Nick soon became Arenas's little brother, the two people had a good relationship, but in those years, Arenas was injured every year, Nick did not learn much with him, but learned the skill of night fixing and the style of mouth. The Wizards also had a player named Clementon (who was later sentenced for murder with a gun).
Pictured: Arenas poses with her wax figure at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Los Angeles, USA, in 2008
On Christmas Eve 2009, Krittanton and Arenas each brought their pistols into the locker room over a gambling debt dispute. The scandal frightened the entire league, and the two dangerous elements were banned for a whole year. The bizarre environment is not suitable for new players. Later, Nick tossed between several teams, and finally around 2014, he signed a big contract with his hometown Los Angeles Lakers. Los Angeles fans and the media are very fond of Nick, on the one hand, he is a local, at the same time, Nick is a master of riots, running trains with his mouth, always able to say some strange things. He also used his location and people to break into the Hollywood entertainment industry, and became engaged to rap actress Iki, during which time he wore fashionable clothes and his fiancée every day to go in and out of various high-class activities until his leg splitting was discovered.
Pictured: Nick Young and rap actress Iggy Azalea are in love in 2015
Nick also gave himself a famous nickname, Swaggy P (presumably for Hipster P Brother). And the black question mark we are familiar with was also born in these years.
The "black question mark" rose to fame
At that time, a YouTuber named Cassy Athena followed him to take a video of a day called Nick Young, Nick's mother appeared in it, when recalling Nick when he was a child, he couldn't help but spit that his son was a well-known clown, Nick was dissed by his mother, he forcefully made a very confused expression, YouTuber pulled a close-up here, and added six question marks when post-processing, "black question mark" Thus was born the stem.
Pictured: "Black Question Mark" Terrier Birth Scene, Nick was teased by his mother
The image began circulating on Twitter around 2015 and is still widely used today. Although the popularity is explosive, but Nick's performance on the court is more than ten years as a day, little progress, three points is good, defense is not done, catch the ball is not passed, shooting does not score, because Nick he plays too "alone", among the fans, there is even "you strong, Lao Tzu Nick Yang" and the like slip of the tongue. One of his most famous performances on the Lakers was to grab the ball of his teammates during the game and then shoot the game, which is also a famous scene in the history of the NBA.
Pictured: Nick Young and NBA generation superstar Kobe Bryant on the court
After leaving the Lakers, the Warriors gave Nick a chance because that year's Warriors were the strongest lineup in history. Although Nick did nothing in the playoffs, he still lay down and won an NBA championship, which is the only honor in Nick's career. Sadly, after winning the championship, no team was willing to sign Nick, and he entered a state of forced retirement. Compared with the bloody counterattack of his youth, Nick's career was not successful, and even a little stumbling. Although he earned about $40 million in salary, what about Nick's mark after 12 years? The main thing is the black question mark, the funny commotion, and the nickname Swaggy P.
Pictured: In 2018, Nick Yang rode a bicycle to take photos on the Waibaidu Bridge in Shanghai, full of handsome fans
Interestingly, many fans are very nostalgic for this player who is full of shortcomings but always smiling, even if he is only one of the stars in the NBA, but as long as he can play, he will continue to shoot, even if most of the time always misses, disappointing, there are always a few times to make people shine, clap their hands and applaud. Maybe this is also a portrayal of most people's lives.
He's crazy, and I'm Nick Young. Although he has gone through thousands of sails, he is still a teenager when he returns, love or not, he is there, laughing alone, and living up to Shaoguang.