Today's Game of the Bulls at home against the Knicks, Chicago Union Center ushered in the "Noah's Night". The Bulls also signed a symbolic contract with Noah, allowing him to retire as a Bulls player. The Bulls and Knicks, two teams that carry Noah's memories, sent Noah on the last leg of his NBA career today. Noah, who was once passionate and also extremely crazy, also received a warm ending.
Noah is the most famous person. His father was 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah, the last native player to dominate the French Open to date, and he also led France to the Davis Cup twice, was inducted into the International Tennis Federation Hall of Fame, and is recognized as the greatest male tennis player in French history; his mother, Celicia Rod, was Miss Sweden and the runner-up of Miss Universe in 1978. His grandfather, Zacharie Noah, was also a cameroonian professional footballer and a 1961 French Cup winner.
On February 25, 1985, Noah fell to the ground in New York, and his family was well-off. From the age of 3, Noah spent 10 years in Paris before returning to New York at the age of 13.
Back at his birthplace, Noah's love of basketball was fully unleashed. According to him, he was the object of ridicule on new York's street court for the first time, where he saw a technical movement rarely seen in Paris. Mentor Tiron Green became the noble man in Noah's life, he not only let Noah gain a foothold on the court, but also taught him to change the habits of his noble son in life.
Noah's high school career also began in New York. He first attended United Nations International High School in New York, then transferred to Poly Preparatory High School in Brooklyn and finally at Lawrenceville High School in New Jersey. In the end, he was named a four-star high school student, ranking 75th among high school students in 2004 and 19th among the number four players.
Choosing the University of Florida was one of noah's smartest decisions. Here, Noah and Horford and Corey Brewer became teammates, with the current Bulls coach Billy Donovan standing next to them. After the hibernation of the freshman season, Noah averaged 14.2 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game in the sophomore season, ranking in the top two of the team. In the 2006 NCAA final victory over Ucla, Noah scored 16 points, 9 rebounds and 6 blocks and was elected mop.
Originally, as the draft pick climbed steadily, Noah had intended to participate in the 2006 NBA Draft. But after winning the NCAA title, Noah announced he would stay at the University of Florida for another year. This is undoubtedly also a wise decision. In the 2006–07 season, the University of Florida again reached the NCAA finals. In the confrontation with Oden, who was a favorite in the championship that year, Noah, although plagued by fouls, still laughed to the end, and won the NCAA championship with the team.
In the 2007 draft, including Noah, the University of Florida had 5 players selected at the same time, which was spectacular. For Noah, however, being chosen by the Bulls with the 9th pick is a great irony. Noah was a Knicks fan, and when he was still in Paris, he would sometimes get up in the early hours of the morning to watch Knicks games. At that time, the Bulls, led by Jordan, repeatedly cut the Knicks off the horse in the playoffs, and naturally became a thorn in the eye of Noah as a child.
The arrival of Rose in 2008 gave the Bulls their first appearance, returning to the playoffs after a year and meeting the defending champion Celtics, who lacked Garnett in the first round. This round of the so-called "greatest series in history" also made Noah famous. Series g6, the two sides fight three overtime. In the final moments of the third extra hour, Noah astutely snatched Pierce's pass, a dragon quickly attacked and dunked, and also scored 2+1, causing Pierce to leave the field with 6 fouls, making a miracle for the Bulls to win.
In the third season of his career, Noah won two double-doubles in a single season for the first time, which also earned him a five-year, 60 million contract extension in 2010. The 2010-11 season became the season for Bulls players to harvest. Rose was named the youngest MVP, and Noah was named to the All-Defensive Team for the first time. After taking the league top spot with 62 wins and 20 losses, the ambitious Bulls were bent on restoring the glory of Jordan's time, but eventually returned home. In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Bulls fell 1-4 at the feet of the Big Three Heat.
This was followed by a watershed 2012 playoff in Rose's career and the Bulls' history of this century. Rose's sudden and serious injuries wiped out everything the Bull and Noah had envisioned. Recently, recalling the scene when Rose was injured, Noah also said with some trepidation: "It's like witnessing the 911 incident again." ”
The next 2 seasons, the bull's downward movement and Noah's ascent contrasted. In the 2012-13 season, Noah was named an All-Star for the first time in his career, and the Bulls, who lacked Rose, lost to the Heat in the second round of the East Side. In the 2013-14 season, Noah climbed to the peak of his career. He became the first Bulls player to win the Best Defensive Player award after Jordan, and was selected for both the first team and the first defense. The Bulls, who had only 10 healthy Roses, finished 4th in the East Side, but returned home after five games in the first round.
The price of climbing to the top of the mountain is that every subsequent step is a downward spiral. In the following 2 seasons, Noah began to suffer from injuries, not only the data shrank sharply, but also gave the first shot to Mirotic, one of the "Blood Flower Brothers". Eventually, Noah came to the 2016 offseason, which had a profound impact on the years that followed. It was a crazy offseason, and Noah was wrapped up in it. Not long after Rose was sent to the Knicks, Noah also returned to New York for 4 years and 72 million, joining the most popular team of his childhood.
Years later, looking back on the signing, people labeled it with various labels, such as "catastrophic" and "the worst signing in Knicks history" and so on. At that time, for the Knicks to open such a large contract to Noah, who had a history of injuries and a sharp decline in the field, all walks of life could only sigh that New York was "stupid and has more money".
"If you love someone, send him to New York because it's heaven; if you hate someone, send him to New York, because it's hell." Noah did not expect that the moment he signed the fat contract, he would start his 2-year journey to hell.
In these two seasons, Noah has played only 53 games, averaging only 4.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. Fans remember his continuous injury stops and surgeries, his banning from the league for violating drug prohibitions, his déjà d'étating to the development league, his clashes with coach Honasek. Finally, when Noah took off his pants on the street and showed off his performance art, the Knicks chose to part ways with him and paid off the remaining 2-year contract by deferring payment.
Noah, who has experienced ups and downs and washed away lead, embarks on a journey of redemption in the Grizzlies and Clippers, but fails to do so. In December 2020, he was cut by the Clippers. In March of this year, Noah officially waved goodbye to the NBA.
"Its rise is also bold, and its death is also sudden." It is more appropriate to use this sentence to describe Noah's career. As a nobleman, he has walked into the hearts of fans by relying on the tough guy style and passionate performance on the court; at his peak, he was pampered, but he also became synonymous with obedience; he achieved brilliant success in the most hated team, but fell to the bottom in the most beloved team.
The former Noah becomes a memory, and the former Rose continues. In this game, when Noah in the stands and Rose on the pitch waved to each other, everyone's memory seemed to come alive again. Years later, the words will still ring in the ears of Windy City fans: "I have fired the last bullet for the Windy City, and I have no regrets." (Supine Braces/Hairy)