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Position: Power Forward/Center
Height: 2.06 meters
Weight: 109 kg /240 lb
Birthday: 1974-09- 10
Team: Cleveland Cavaliers
Draft: Non-draft
School: Virginia United University.
Nationality: USA
Nickname: Big Ben
07-08 season salary: 654.38+05.5 million USD.
Contract status: 4 years, 60 million yuan, signed in July 2006/13, and expired in April 2065 +00 summer.
Ben wallace was born in a poor family in rural Alabama from 65438 to 0974. Ben wallace is the tenth child. While playing with children around him, Wallace began to get in touch with basketball. At that time, because he was too young to have a new partner, he rarely received a pass from his partner, so Wallace learned to grab the ball in his own area. He was always the most desperate one on the court, and this style of play influenced his later career.
Ben wallace is also a player who is good at all kinds of sports, such as track and field, American football and baseball. Of course, basketball is his real hobby.
After graduating from college, ben wallace entered Auburn University, but at that time he failed to dream of becoming a basketball player. The reason of the school is: "You can't join the basketball team because you only have a football scholarship." The misunderstanding between the school and Wallace has never been eliminated, and he can only say goodbye to the basketball team with regret.
Then there will be a chance to bring this rebounding genius back to the basketball court. Charles Oakley held a basketball summer camp in Alabama, and ben wallace took part in activities that changed his life. Charles Oakley was very surprised to find the existence of this genius. After learning about the situation in ben wallace, oakley helped ben wallace to study in a community college called Cuyahoga in Ohio through friends. Familiar with the surrounding environment, Ben Wallace's basketball talent began to explode. In this low-level basketball school, sophomore Ben Wallace averaged 24 points 17 rebounds and 7 blocks per game. In his junior year, with the help of oakley, ben wallace joined oakley's alma mater, Virginia United University, where his style was completely Hanamichi Sakuragi in comics. In his senior year, Ben Wallace's outstanding performance of averaging 12.5 points 10.5 rebounds and 3.68 assists helped Virginia United University reach the semi-finals of NCAA B League.
In the second year of the NBA draft, Ben Wallace was not invited by any team (most of the newcomers selected by 1996 are famous now). Just as Ben Wallace was preparing to find another way out, then Celtic coach M.L. Carr gave him a chance to represent the Celtics in the summer league. But the coach later asked Ben Wallace to play as a defender on the grounds that he was not tall enough. With his style, the final result can be imagined.
After leaving Boston, Ben Wallace was going to Italy to find his own basketball career, and the result was also a failure. But at this time, he received a notice from the bullet in Washington at that time, asking him to participate in the team's pre-season training camp. This time, Ben Wallace finally made it to the NBA. However, what followed was the competition within the team. At that time, the bullets of the Michigan Five Tigers, Webber and Howard were all ace players of the team, and his chances were still very limited. It was not until Weber joined the king that Wallace began to have enough time to develop his talents. His hard work style and solid defensive skills began to be valued. 1999-2000 season, Wallace came to the empty magic inside, and Ben Wallace in Orlando became an indispensable pillar of the team. In addition, Outlaw, who is also tough, arranged almost all the dirty work of the Magic. Rivers, the magic coach at that time, commented on him like this: "He is Kidd among the inside players", which means that he can control the game through rebounding and defense, rather than scoring.
A year later, the Magic sent Wallace and Atkins to Detroit to get Hill. At that time, joe dumars, the manager of Pistons, was one of the bad boys, and he was ecstatic to get this expert. Wallace has since established himself as the main force of the piston. This summer, Wallace attended Pete Newell Big Man Training Camp in Pete Newell to strengthen his skills in footwork and singles position. This summer camp has made Wallace make great progress in attack. Pistons averaged 6.4 rebounds 13.2 points in the first season, a career high. The following year, joe dumars was replaced by rick carlisle because of its poor record. Carlisle began to build the Pistons into a steel defensive team on the basis of Wallace. At this point, the Pistons finally became the best defensive team in the league. Last season, the Pistons reached the top four in the East, and Wallace reached a peak in his career.
His style is a perfect match with the bad boy lineup of the pistons in the province. Some people even commented on him: "He combines Rodman's rebounding skills with the spirit of never dying, John Sally's blocking skills and the style of killing people without blinking an eye, as well as Du Masi's unremitting struggle." In the 2002-03 NBA All-Star Weekend, Ben Wallace finally conquered the hearts of fans and became the starting center in the East.