Which players in the NBA were poor before they entered the league?

As one of the highest-paid sports leagues in the world, NBA teams are full of millions or even billionaires. They sit in luxury houses with luxury cars and beautiful women, spend money like water in their lives and buy whatever they want. However, these players are not born to live this life. You know, most players come from a very poor family. Not to mention having a wonderful childhood, it is difficult to guarantee food and clothing for yourself and your family before you become famous.

For Garnett, the image of his biological father has long been blurred in his memory. After all, when Garnett was very young, his parents chose to go their separate ways, and his mother could only choose to remarry because she could not raise two children. However, his adoptive father doesn't like the two children born by this wife and her ex-husband. From the age of 13, Garnett had to choose to go out to work every day to earn a meager income to support himself and his sister. As long as the work is permitted by law, no matter how hard or tired it is, Garnett will rush to do it, carry the luggage and brush the car. Young Garnett has done more than a dozen different jobs, even working 20 hours a day during the holidays.

Similar to Garnett, there is another superstar, Iverson. Iverson's mother Ann Iverson gave birth to her only son at the age of 15. In order to provide a good environment for her son to grow up, Ann left Hartford with Iverson, who was only three years old, and came to a small town called Newcastle with her new boyfriend Freeman. But the environment here is no better than Hartford, where violence and drug trafficking can be seen everywhere. Even if Ann works around every day to make a living, it can't change the basic environment of the family. It can be said that there is no water, no electricity and no food. The sewer pipe often breaks, which makes the house full of sewage. Although his stepfather Freeman wanted to support his family, an unexpected traffic accident made Freeman fired. In order to support his family, Freeman began to sell drugs, but he frequently went in and out of prison, which made the poor family worse. Iverson was in 65438.

Fans familiar with Alphabet know that his nationality is not the United States, but Greece. What many people may not know is that his parents came to Greece with Alphabet, his brother was a stowaway, and the young Alphabet naturally became the most unpopular illegal immigrant in Greece. In order to share the troubles of parents, Alphabet and his brother often need to set up stalls in the street during the day and sell some gadgets such as glasses and watches. Singing to those tourists in the evening, in exchange for some meager income, but even after a hard day's work, Brother Letter mostly lives on an empty stomach. He started playing basketball because the sport can bring him a stable income.

If you describe Butler in one sentence, what is it? God gave him ten thousand reasons to fall, but he chose the hardest and brightest road? Indeed, Butler, who had never seen his biological father since childhood, had to live with his mother since childhood, but her mother didn't like his children either. When Butler/Kloc-was 0/3 years old, his mother kicked him out of the house and gave him only one sentence? I don't like your looks? For such a ridiculous reason, the homeless housekeeper could only wander around and spend the night at a friend's house, but he didn't give up his dream of basketball. It was not until he met Jordan Leslie, a high school alumnus, that Butler had a fixed place to live, and finally he could show his basketball talent wholeheartedly.

Compared with the above four superstar players, the name Boucher may be unfamiliar to most of my friends. Like Brother Alphabet, Boucher is not a native American player. He was born into a very poor family in Castries, Saint Lucia. In order to survive, after graduating from high school, Boucher could only choose to drop out of school and go to a restaurant to wash dishes in exchange for his meager income to subsidize his family. He came into contact with basketball for the same reason as Brother Alphabet, but unlike Brother Alphabet, Brother Alphabet joined the professional team, but Boucher started to get in touch with the black ball. Because of his excellent physical condition, someone found Boucher and asked him to take part in an amateur competition, promising that the more points he scored, the more rewards he would get. Boucher, who became famous in World War I, has attracted more and more attention from amateur league organizers. More and more people invited Boucher to play, which also gave him a chance to step onto a higher stage and sign him as a draft loser and a warrior. I once told my mother that one day we would not have to go hungry? .

Of course, in addition to these players, there are many players born in slums, such as James, who is very stingy in life, Durant, a superstar who spent a good time with him, Beverly, who almost became a drug dealer, Wade, a star who was raised by his sister, Ross, who was born in the most chaotic slum in Chicago, and so on. Compared with the above five players, these people's childhood can be said to be much happier, at least not hungry, and not born in poverty.