Ten years after being drafted by the Wizards and two years after his last game, John Wall left Washington in an exchange with Russell Westbrook, to Houston. As with the 2017 MVP with the Thunder in 2019, it’s a turning point for the player and the Capital franchise.
John Wall played the Wizards of the 2010s and now he’s going to have to get used to seeing him with a jersey flocked with the Rockets logo.
“I was a 19-year-old, thin and without a beard, and I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life”, remembers the playmaker, when he arrived in the NBA, in 2010, for ESPN. “This franchise has seen me grow, build a family. That’s all I can say. I love them. My heart will stay there. The way I communicated with the fans and the community still exists and will be forever. I wish the best to this team, to this franchise. “
Now he must revive in Houston. John Wall hasn’t played since December 2018 and his last full season was in 2016-2017 when he played 76 regular season games. Since 2017, therefore, he has played only 73 matches …
“I’ll try to come back and be an All-Star”, he announces. “To be the player again that people think I am no longer. In the field, I’m going to be John Wall. At the same time, I will be able to do things that I was no longer able to do because I was injured and I was having physical problems. That’s why I think my game is evolving, because I’m finally healthy. I don’t have those injuries like these last six or seven years. People are finally going to be able to understand that I was playing with problems and that what I was doing on one leg was quite unique. “
A speech that sticks with the words he made last May. Very vengeful, John Wall had told “Having been an All-Star five times with bone growths in the knee and heel” and he announced that the public had “Not even had the best John Wall yet, just a preview”.
Getting that work in. ????
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— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) December 6, 2020
