Before the finals started, jokiki was asked a question: is playing the finals the most important moment in his career?

The answer given by yokiki is: yes, because there is a chance to let the veterans in the Nuggets get the championship ring.

“Jeff Green, DeAndrew Jordan, and Ishmel Smith.”

Yes, there is also Ish Smith. In a blink of an eye, this little man who once worked as a teammate in rockets and Yao Ming and was affectionately called “sister Yi” by domestic rocket fans and was slowly forgotten, just passed the 13th season of his career. He also created a historical record in this year: the total number of teams he played for was 13.

He finished four years at the prestigious University of Wake Forest, and Smith started his career in the rocket as a drop draft. Lorry, who worked for rockets at that time, still remembered how izhe stayed-“He made me and Aron Brooks very embarrassed during training. He was too fast, we couldn’t keep up with him at all,” Lowry recalled. “There was a time when I am really didn’t like to train against him, so he was really capable of going all the way to the present.”

As a result, “Yi” wearing the No. 13 jersey became the third defender behind “Black beans” and “lock and load spray.

In the rookie season, ish did pass the ball to Yao Ming, and the two really started together: in the fourth game of Ish’s career, the Rockets played against the Timberwolves at home, and Brooks and Lowry didn’t play at that time, ish was arranged to start for the second time in his career. His partner Yao Ming played for 41 minutes that day. In the next match, he got the reward of starting again, and his opponent was a genius. On that day, Yao Ming was injured and eventually retired. That is to say, in the last two games of Yao Ming’s career, the starting guards who passed him were all ish.

The last episode of Yao Ming’s career (the video is from teacher Zhu Jun of xiyushan), Smith on the 13th, and there are many old acquaintances in the video.

At any time, the return of the two main forces, ish lost time, was issued to the development alliance, and then recalled, and Battier was packaged and sent to the grizzly bear, and the rocket was replaced by tabate and Carol. Ish said that he had experienced everything in NBA in the first year of his career: starting, sitting on the bench, being decentralized, being recalled, being traded, these steps, most of the bottom players have almost experienced it. But in his first year, ish tasted the happiness that most people had no chance to experience: black eight.

Ish still remembered his feelings at that time. In a sense, this wonderful journey created his optimistic character-although in the 6-game series of grizzly black eight horses, I didn’t play for 5 minutes after adding it together. However, he can still feel the positivity and tenacity of the whole dressing room. No matter the top salary or the last bench player, everyone is a part of the collective. Even waving towels and shouting at the end of the bench is contributing to the team. Izhe was very lucky that the rockets and Grizzly Bear’s dressing room buddies set an excellent example for him.

But after the end of the first year, he lost his job. The grizzly laid him off, and the warrior claimed his contract the next day-a week ago, the warrior just laid Lin Shuhao off, while ISE successfully stayed in the starting lineup. What was even more amazing was that ish played a starting game in the warrior who replaced the injured Curry, and the opponent was Knicks. Izhe played 29 minutes, cut 11+6+4, and the warrior won 14 points. However, Lin Shuhao, who was not in the Knicks, only played the last 1 minute of garbage time.

In the warrior, he walked six cutscenes and was cut again. Then ish received the magic contract again. At that time, Howard became a demon. Instead, he got enough time and received the renewal contract for the new season for the first time. However, half a year later, he was sent to the stag in a big deal of 3 for 3.

At that time, the Bucks had not yet chosen brother alphabet. What he experienced was basically the middle and lower reaches of the mire. He once played 48 wins but missed the playoff Sun, and also played a full 64 starts in the 76ers of “believe in the process. It is common to be laid off, but he can always find his next home immediately-when your name is familiar to the whole league, it means that you have successfully established yourself in NBA. In other words, since Obama was elected president of the United States, Ish has never left the NBA, so he drifted around the whole league.

There are many players at the bottom of NBA. In their interviews, they can generally feel anxiety and fear. It is difficult to calm down and prepare for the game if there is a life without a last meal. But Ish is an absolute anomaly. He is optimistic, cheerful and generous. Every teammate and even the staff can feel his enthusiasm. For those moments without playing time, he can accept it safely and keep his motivation at all times.

“I have played every role. What impressed me most was that I believed in the process in Philadelphia. We won more than ten or twenty games in a season, but I did my best in every game, “he recalled,” in the first three years of my career, the most calls I received were, ‘ish, you are a player in our team now, we need you to be ready and come early, ‘so I took a taxi an hour or two in advance, first, get familiar with the coach in the team and start one-to-one, two-to-two. After the training, I have to put on a suit and sit at the end of the bench. Do you still remember to wear a suit on the bench at that time.”

Few people, like him, adapt to any difficult environment with optimistic attitude. During the period when he coached the piston Stan Van Gundy, ish signed a multi-year contract for the first time, but the piston was in poor condition at that time, with more wins and losses. On the training ground, the coach and teammates were dignified and silent.

Only Ish, who shot there alone, was in a very high mood. Fan looked gloomy when he walked over, but he was immediately amused by izhe’s words.

“I said coach, do you dare to believe it? We just do these things, and they pay us?”

No one can always think of the angle of happiness at the first time when anything happens like izhe, and he must share happiness with everyone around him. “But this person is quite unreliable,” recalling the disciple, Fan also smiled. “Our coach is used to looking for players to understand the situation of other teammates. But you can’t hear a word of truth from Ish. He, as a person, thinks that every teammate is the greatest player in the world. He loves everyone and can tell all the advantages of everyone immediately, there is no disadvantage.”

“This is his belief in life. When dealing with everyone, he will only see the positive side and wish to tell everyone that his teammates are the best.”

He is the favorite type of person among all teammates, happy and humble. This kind of character may come from his family. His parents are ordinary workers. His mother looks after four of their brothers and sisters at home. His father teaches in a high school in the morning, in the evening, I did cleaning work in a housekeeping company. Life is very poor, and I have been used to hardship since I was a child.

“But what he really deserves admiration is that in this alliance full of anxiety and impatience, he has never complained about being traded, being laid off and getting a basic salary,” Stan Van Gundy said, “He will take the initiative to share his story. He will tell the people around him how lucky he is to play in NBA, and he will be grateful for it. He never said how hard he worked. He only said that one more day would be a happy day. We only know one thing, Ish will never be defeated.”

In a sense, Stan Van Gundy was also a noble person in Smith’s life-in the summer of 2016, Da Fan’s leader offered Ishi a contract of 3 years and 18 million years, this was also the first time in his whole career that he got a multi-year contract that was not a basic salary. Of course, what impressed the team was definitely not only the character of the optimists, but also Ish was constantly honing his skills: as a small defender who was good at speed and was only 1.83 meters tall, in fact, ish didn’t pass the shooting. More of his attacks came from the breakthrough after the change of rhythm. However, in the two years of the piston, his mid-distance emergency stop jump shot was firm. In the 2017-18 season, ish played 82 games and started 35 games. He scored 10.9 points and 4.4 assists every 24.9 minutes. At the age of 29, izhe proved why he deserved the contract.

However, injuries prevented him from continuing to make progress, and wandering was inevitable. However, he was so sweet that there were still only simple layoffs, contracts and transactions about him until the summer of 2022, he and Caldwell-pop were sent to the Nuggets together, and he broke the league record. He lived in 13 teams and was alone.

This time, his optimism played a role. He was no longer a low-level role, but a big brother who had been wandering around for many years. In this young-led team, izhe used his rich experience, or many years of setbacks, to relieve pressure and cheer his brothers. He is 34 years old and has no past lightning speed, but Pope said that seeing the smile on his face was no different from the first time he met him.

In the 13th team in 13 years, Ish was not a real NBA successful person, but he told everyone with his own story that there was no TM bastard in NBA. Even though he has gone through thousands of sails and 230 teammates, he only played 23 playoff games, but he is still the locker room eldest brother and the energy source of this champion team.

Before the start of the finals, he accepted an interview and asked him to count the teammates who had won the championship in his whole career. Since 2010, there were 36 people in total. He finally guessed 28 of them, some of which had already faded out of the country and disappeared. Now, Ish and his 16 teammates are all members of the Championship.

His career was finally successful, but he himself did not take the championship seriously.

“The championship is good, but not everything.”

“Those trading calls at any time, those experiences of being forced to move before experiencing the city, in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit, those lost times, and those dark hopes, is the best thing. What we are experiencing now is just the icing added to the cake.”

“The really good thing is that I have played in this league for 13 years. Think about it, I am too strong!”

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