John Wall retired: The man who was once the fastest in NBA finally stopped

John Wall, retired.

The No. 1 pick in 2010, but he has not had a 15-year career so far. His most recent NBA game was still in January 23, and it has been two years since his performance.

Or to be more precise, he has only played 74 games since 2019.

He also tried hard in the Rockets and Clippers, but he couldn't go back to the fastest man in the NBA and the first player in the East, so he dragged it until today and retreated.

Wall is the kind of star who is very niche.

Although he was the top scorer, he did not cause much trouble in his entire career and had no brilliant achievements.

He has the strength and is definitely not a sub-production, but he has never entered the center of the league stage and starts regular holidays at the latest in May every year.

He also brought the Wizards to the Eastern Conference semi-finals, and even allowed this ill-fated capital team to spend the most glorious era since Mr. Unseld in the 1970s.

But the fact that he is telling a cold joke:

His career almost coincides with LeBron's domination over the East, but he never even met LeBron in the playoffs between 2010 and 2018, and he didn't get the chance to fight against James.

If you encounter teams like Pacers, Eagles, and Raptors, you will lose.

But those who like him really like him.

He was as fast as lightning, reaching 10.3 seconds in a hundred meters, and dribbling in just 3.14 seconds in three quarters of the game. He has the most powerful motor among basketball players on the planet, accelerating instantly like a jet.

Many people still remember how extreme Wall was to cross the audience's self-tips and self-tabolism in that era when social media and smartphones were not yet fully popular. More importantly, he is a pure point guard. Although he has a speed and physical talent far exceeding this position at that time, he has a pass first and team-first stadium brain. Such a character cannot even hide his starlight.

Many people have overlooked that he was the first super defender developed after he transferred to Kentucky after coach Calipari brought out Derek Ross (a second Jets guard) at the University of Memphis.

After that, Alexander, Devin Booker, Fox, Jamal Murray, Hero and others began to soar in the fast lane.

In 2010, all five Kentucky generals (Wall, Cousins, Patterson, Bloodbrow, Orton) were selected and were all in the first round, and there is no second one so far.

But combined with Wall's career, he is a bad guy with less outstanding strength (compared to other super top picks), and he went to a bad team that he could not help (but he still led the team to play the best record in nearly 40 years), and his career was very unlucky (breaking the Achilles tendon in a bath).

When the Wizards selected Wall in 2010, the team was already messed up by Arenas, and he was cleared out after playing 21 games in the 10-11 season.

Although the Wizards' management has poor ability and at least his intelligence is normal, the general who really doesn't want to draw his gun when he gets angry leads Wall, who has just entered the league.

But even if Arenas was gone at that time, there were still a bunch of gods.

Nick Young, who treats NBA as a one-on-one show, always thinks that he is KG and Shi Buddha reincarnated, but his attention is often taken away by cheerleaders on the sidelines.

The head is comparable to Chamberlain's "Five Great Embarrassing GOATs" Javier McGee.

Wall is not a master like Kidd, Paul, and Nash who turns into gold. Faced with such a group of "mental players" in the future, he has no choice.

The most unlucky thing is that the rookie was originally the best rookie in the rookie season, but after returning from a year of reconciliation, Griffin, who played the regular season as a dunk contest, had to rank second.

Just say it will be declining.

The second year (November 11-12 season), due to the league suspension, his 16.3 points and 8.3 assists not only did not improve compared to the rookie season, but instead declined. The Wizards still looked dismal, and they looked "those who are close to the Ink" as well.

Then start in the third year. In the 12-13 season, the Wizards cleared the brainless people in the team almost all and made two good deals.

won the fourth pick in the first round of Florida talent Bradley Bill, and exchanged for the 27-year-old champion 3D Ariza.

Plus Nene who traded before, and Okafor helped Okafor in the last year of his career, he finally became a normal team.

Although the team still has a bleak loss of 29 wins and 45 losses, it was because of Wall's injury at the beginning of the season. After the effort, the team's winning rate was close to 50%.

entered the 13-14 season. He attended 82 games, 19.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 8.8 assists, and was an All-Star, leading the team to 44 wins and 38 losses in the East.

The Bulls 4-1 in the playoffs, and the loss to the Pacers, the number one in the Eastern Conference in the semifinals was not a shame.

After that, Wall became a stable Eastern All-Star, selected for five consecutive times.

As Bill, Otto Porter and others matured, the Wizards also had their own stable iron triangle and became a playoff team in the East with stable configuration.

An interesting time node

It was also in this year that the great Stephen Curry was selected as the All-Star starter with 24.0 points and 8.5 assists per game. Although the coach was still Mark Jackson, people have given him the first nickname "perverted accurate".

All-Stars are the pinnacle for Wall, but for Curry, it is just a brilliant starting point.

And in the 14-15 season, Curry threw the car's taillights so that Wall could not see it.

To some extent, it was Curry who ended the NBA future of Wall, a traditional point guard. Before Curry, the playback was still a position that was not as demanding as scores and shooting, especially three-pointers.

Rondo is still considered a point guard template, and there are still many old point guards like Old Miller who averages three-pointers per game.

The success of Curry and the Warriors quickly updated the league's basketball concept, and Harden and Lillard all untied the shackles of three-pointers. The guard who is preferred to the organization like Wall has to pick up the projection.

It is quite acne-like that the Wizards selected Wall in 2010 to replace the lawless Arenas.

But when Wall's career is getting better, the popular "number 0" ball holders like Arenas are popular in the league.

So in the three years of 2015-18, Wall was actually undergoing a painful transformation. The direction of the league is forcing him to take more and more ball-holding attacks. His pride and label were once the first to pass the ball, but now it has become a bottleneck that restricts himself and the team to go further.

He had to play more pick-and-roll to dismantle the defense, rather than directly knocking the opponent with one kick and one throttle like he did back then.

His transformation cannot be said to be a failure. After all, the Wizards can still make it to the playoffs, but they are not successful. They have fallen in the hands of the Celtics, Raptors and Hawks for a row.

didn't even have the chance to touch LeBron, the "big boss" in the eastern region at that time.

Then there are more bizarre injuries, and whether it is not self-discipline or poor resistance to drugs. Anyway, he finished his last game with the Wizards in December 2018.

He was sent to the Rockets in exchange with Westbrook again in the 20-21 season, but at that time he could no longer impress the Rockets who had just lost Harden.

He could not be the cornerstone of reconstruction, but was just a hurry passerby.

As for the comeback in the Clippers in the 22-23 season, it would be better not to mention it.

This is Wall, who is the kind of player who is so sloppy that he does not disappoint or surprises.

Many people lamented his injury and ended his peak prematurely.

But even if you are healthy, can you defeat LeBron in the East, or Durant, Curry, and Rockets in the West?

He has never won a chance to win a championship in his entire career, nor has he stood in the center of the power stage.

As the No. 1 pick, he retired, and the 2010 rookie who is still playing in the league, is the great Paul George, who still has a salary of 150 million to receive in the next three years.

Comparing people with others is so annoying.