Retired directly after winning a big contract, but retired as an artist with great talent.

if you are given a body full of basketball talent and just got a big contract worth tens of millions of dollars, how will you plan your career? On January 6, 215, Bucks' future star center Larry Sanders told fans his answer: I want to retire and become an artist.

Saunders' childhood has been turbulent. Old Saunders used violence against his mother, so his mother Marilyn decisively left him with Saunders' brothers and sisters, and the mother and son began to wander between different residences. Saunders was not good at sports since childhood, at least it seems that he was not good at it. Sanders, who lacked fatherly love since childhood, began to seek his own value in various ways and found it possible in the process of artistic creation. When the teacher asked about his future dream, Saunders never had a fixed plan. He might be a painter, a singer or a poet, but he never considered becoming an athlete. Until one day everyone around him told him that it was a pity that you were so tall that you didn't play basketball. Playing basketball? Let's try it.

Santos first came into contact with basketball when he was a freshman in high school. His talent quickly caught the attention of Rodriguez, the coach of the school team. After only one year of practice, the coach asked Sanders to play in high school competitions. And his first game surprised the world with extremely exaggerated performance, and he threw basketball into his own basket. Saunders is like Hanamichi Sakuragi. Although he made a lot of jokes after contacting basketball as a layman, he is really a basketball genius. After his first game, he became the core of the team with strong strength. In his last season of high school, he averaged 19. points, 12.1 rebounds and a horrible 5.9 blocks, and became a hot super center at that time.

Basketball has become the hope of Sanders' life before art. Numerous university invitation letters filled his mailbox, but he finally chose Virginia Commonwealth University, which is not an NBA university. Sanders chose it for only one reason. They have the best public art college in the United States. No matter how amazing his performance on the court is, in Sanders' mind, basketball can't comfort him. He has been seeking the meaning of life and finally pinned his hope on art.

So Sanders lived a black-and-white life in his college days. During the day, he was the most famous blocked shot genius in NBA and an unstoppable inside pillar. He scored 18 points, 2 rebounds and 7 blocked shots in the NCAA Division Championship, broke the admiral's rebounding record, was selected as the best team in the division, and won the best defensive player in a row, helping his alma mater win two regular season championships and one playoff championship in the NCAA Division. In the evening, he was keen on studying night courses in the school, majoring in religion and sociology at the university, and began to study art and music, and had a dialogue with his soul at night. The teammates on the team couldn't understand him and felt that he was a little discordant. Sanders gradually developed autism on campus. For saxophone, the happiness brought by art is far more important than his performance on the basketball court. When he was a junior, he chose to participate in the draft and become a professional player. There was no way, because the NBA gave too much. He also hoped that the contract he got as an NBA player would enable his tired mother to live a carefree life from now on. He promised his mother that he would put aside his artistic creation.

In the 21 NBA Draft, Sanders had grown to 2.1 meters, and his wingspan was amazing 2.29 meters. Coupled with his defensive talent, he became the best representative of the defensive center in that draft. In the end, he was selected by the Bucks in the 15th overall pick in the first round as the backup of the top draft center Bogut. However, the intensity of NBA obviously exceeded Sanders' expectation. Whether it was the melee inside or the fierce breakthrough outside, Sanders was somewhat overwhelmed. His rookie averaged only 4.3 points, 3 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game, and was even sent to the Development League for a time. In the second season, Santos still struggled, averaging only 3.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, but he still tried his best. No matter in the development league or the summer league, he would spare no effort to block opponents' shots and accumulate experience in rising again and again. At this time, Sanders didn't have any distractions. He focused on becoming a qualified NBA player and went all out to realize his promise to his mother.

In the 12-13 season, Bogut moved to Jinzhou, and Sanders' hard work and sweat paid off. He could get almost two pairs in an average playing time of 27.3 minutes, with 2.8 blocked shots, ranking second in the league. In the game between Bucks and Timberwolves on December 1st, Santos scored 1 points, 12 rebounds and 1 blocks, which announced the comeback of the once hot pot genius. Last time, the player who blocked ten shots in a single game was one of the greatest centers in NBA history-kareem abdul-jabbar Jabbar. In Milwaukee's eyes, the legend and the shadow of the rising star are gradually overlapping. Larry Sanders, is he trustworthy?

The next day, in the back-to-back match with Boston, Saunders once again scored the luxury data of super center, knocking down a large double-double with 18 points and 16 rebounds, and scored five blocked shots, becoming the first player to score such data in the past nine years. At the end of December, Saunders once again scored 17 points, 2 rebounds and 2 blocked shots over the Celtics, setting a new career rebounding record. With his help, the Bucks ranked fourth in the East, and such excellent performance touched the team owner. In the summer of 213, they signed a big contract with Sanders for four years and 44 million yuan, becoming the team's top card, and the national team also expressed strong interest in him. Bucks have also changed their lineup, taking Sanders as the cornerstone of reconstruction, signing flower scout oj Mayo, cultivating powerful planets like Alphabet and Jabali Parker, and Middleton waiting for their own accumulation. Young bucks are full of talent and vitality. Although people in Milwaukee didn't expect their team to be the first in the league at that time, and they wouldn't believe that any player could grow into a superstar who won the MVP award again, they were willing to believe that the future of Bucks was bright.

Sanders got the big contract as he wished, and since then, he and his mother have no worries about food and clothing. The short-lived happiness brought by money and honor was quickly washed away by endless anxiety. No one told him how to face the materialistic society, and Sanders lost himself. Love of art, he is incompatible with his teammates around him, taciturn and lacking the same topic. Saunders once again fell into the dilemma of his student days, and the loners broke out again. Whether it's training or competition, as soon as the basketball time is over, Sanders will retreat to the art studio on the top floor of the apartment, sometimes painting and sometimes recording. The inner loneliness erodes the only reason left in Sanders' heart, and the future belonging to Sanders is dark.

In November 213, Saunders was caught in a notorious nightclub fight. The video of him throwing champagne was exposed by the gossip website, and he himself tore his thumb ligament in the fight, which made him miss the game for eight weeks. Saunders can't concentrate on the basketball court. Throughout the 213-14 season, he only averaged 7.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 23 games he played. On March 2, 214, Saunders, who had just ushered in an upswing in his career, was reimbursed for a fractured right eye socket. In these days of endless recuperation, Saunders couldn't sleep at night every night. Injury became the last straw to crush Saunders. He thought he had to put his spirit into the burning of grass. About two weeks later, NBA officials announced that Larry Sanders would be suspended for five games for violating the illegal drug regulations, which was only the beginning of his negative news. In the following year, Sanders violated the league's illegal drug policy four times and successive suspension clauses. People began to believe that the basketball genius who used to be like Hanamichi Sakuragi finally went to indulgence.

In order to reasonably treat depression, anxiety and emotional disorders, he volunteered to receive psychotherapy. However, while recuperating in the hospital, Sanders made friends with many patients in the same boat. With mutual guidance and encouragement, Sanders finally decided to face up to his life. The higher the professional basketball climbs, the more sacrifices it will make, and letting him give up his artistic career is a living hell for Sanders. On January 6th, 215, Larry Sanders told Bucks that he didn't want to play any more. The management was somewhat closed. How many people tried to get in on a big stage like NBA? How could anyone decide to retire after getting a big contract for less than a year? Sanders told them the answer: I am Larry Sanders, a man, a father, an artist, an author, a painter and a musician, and sometimes I play basketball. In his own artistic world, basketball has become an obstacle to his life. Bucks can't change Sanders' inner thoughts, so they have to reach a buyout agreement with him on February 19th, and use the treaty of delaying the payment of wages, so that Sanders can get $1.86 million from the bucks every year for nothing. Anyway, Sanders' original intention in the NBA draft is to make money and support his family. It seems that there is nothing wrong with this.

After retiring, Saunders experienced real freedom for the first time. He was able to display his artistic talent to the fullest, covered his skin with various patterns, and made many like-minded friends. Saunders gradually recovered his enthusiasm for life. He went to Los Angeles, a street cultural shrine, and became a rapper. In order to commemorate his nickname during the Bucks period, he named himself L8show. He wrote his own songs, tried to make accompaniment, and made his famous work "Black Mercedes" into MV. Saunders loved fine arts since he was a child. After retiring, he naturally became a painter. He designed patterns for his skateboard, began to create his own comic novels, and formed his own artist association com. Finally, he took com as the name of his clothing brand. He not only created infinite possibilities in his own art ocean crazily, but also taught himself how to build a website and set up a official website for his clothing company within a week, but all his efforts can only please himself in the end.

What he has been squandering is the money he earned from playing NBA. In March 217, he suddenly rekindled his basketball passion from nowhere, or perhaps because the deposit in the bank card was about to run out, Sanders joined the Cavaliers and announced his comeback. His performance in the five games he played was very bad, and he didn't surprise anyone, so he was quickly laid off by the team.

Every time I talk about this matter, Sanders blushes and the veins on his forehead burst out, arguing: Can the poet's business be judged? Then there are difficult words, such as cognitive behavior theory and intuitive thinking, which make everyone laugh, and the inside and outside of the arena are full of happy air.