Shams broke the news that free agent center Giles has returned to his hometown and agreed to a one-year contract with the Hornets.
Giles signed a two-way contract with the Lakers last season, averaging only 2.7 minutes per game, 0.3 points and 0.6 rebounds, without much opportunity to perform.
However, Giles was also a gifted teenager at one time, quoting college teammate and friend Otter Rabbit: "He was the only one who made me say in high school that he was better than me." ”
In high school, Giles was already a nationally known five-star high school student, and led the team to win the state championship in his freshman year. Sophomore represented the United States men's basketball team in the U16 tournament;
In his junior year of high school, he was selected as the best team of high school students in the United States, and faced the Orangeville Preparatory School led by Murray and Meck, scoring 26 points and 14 rebounds in a single game to lead the team to win the championship;
He didn't play in his senior year, but he was still rated as the No. 1 high school student in the United States, beating the best players in his prime, including Otter Rabbit, Big Ball, Reba, Fox, Fultz, Monk and others.
At that time, everyone would be amazed and impressed by this young big man, who was obviously a standard interior player with a height of 2.08 meters and an arm span of 2.21 meters, but he could control all kinds of skillful control sports in the 1/2 position;
A series of incredible skill packs such as back hits, passes, turnover jumpers, pull-up jumpers, and more.
As for why the senior year of high school "hung up the exemption card", it was naturally due to injury.
Giles was already scarred in high school, a sophomore in high school, and a senior in high school.
Still, he was able to land a Duke offer with his coveted talent and underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee before his freshman year.
But when he returned from injury, Giles could never go back, and his former dominance no longer existed.
In the scouting report, advantages such as excellent explosiveness, outstanding scoring ability, not afraid of confrontation under the basket, and ability to protect the rim online began to fade away;
The sluggish Giles also began to plummet in the 2017 draft, and it wasn't until the 20th pick in the first round that he was picked by the Trail Blazers and sent to the Kings.
The rebuilding king must also scratch the lottery ticket with the mentality of gambling, not believing that Giles will be the "next Oden", but unfortunately the result they scratched out was "thank you for your patronage".
Giles, who was new to the league, went straight to the ground; The first year was reimbursed, the second year was fought with Bagley III for a few playing minutes, and the third year was played and stopped with a recurrent knee injury;
The Kings' confidence in him was gradually eroded, and he directly gave up the team option to execute his rookie contract, and let Giles wander everywhere, and it took three years from entering the industry to losing his job.
Then the Trail Blazers, the Nets, and then the Lakers last season could find Giles, but he failed to catch up with himself who had high hopes.
The most impressive thing is that at the moment when Giles was hitting a wall everywhere, Otter Rabbit also reached out at one point, retweeting the former's job search on Twitter, trying to save his good brother who was destroyed by injury.
However, the ups and downs along the way did not bring a good ending, and the two knees that were hit hard made Giles lose his explosiveness and lateral speed, which greatly affected both offense and defense.
The biggest advantage at the moment is that he is still young, only 26 years old this year, and if he is healthy, he can still play the role of a cake-eating power forward who comes off the bench.
The youthful years when the rabbit wants to compete with the sky are simply dreamlike. Back in his hometown of Charlotte, will Giles be able to regain his familiar self? I hope so.