In elite sport, more and more importance is given to rest. Sleep analysis is done, athletes are recommended not to use screens before sleeping, have an orderly life… It is also taken for granted that they will sleep on an adequate surface, but not everyone is clear about this matter. At least not Deandre Ayton, Blazers center, who claims he slept on an air mattress, which he blames for his poor performance upon arriving in Portland.
“My body was not just my body. People forget the human difference that it makes for me to adapt to everything. I didn’t feel comfortable when I woke up. I didn’t have a bed for quite some time. I slept on an air mattress. I’m just trying to resolve those things,” the player confessed to the newspaper ‘The Oregonian’. You might wonder how an NBA player who is earning $32.4 million this season didn’t have a bed..
Beyond rest, Ayton had to handle personal matters when he moved from Phoenix to Portland in the summer. Her family was coming and going from town, she had to consider what was best for her young son… “I have all the money in the world but, at the same time, money doesn’t matter. You just want to have your people close and the support you need,” says the 2.13-meter, 25-year-old center..
Ayton has had to deal with more worldly problems this season, like the day he He missed a Blazers game because a layer of snow in his neighborhood prevented him from getting to the stadium..
Your best version
Now more settled, the center is showing his best version in the last weeks. Until the All Star, his averages were 13.8 points and 10.4 rebounds with 56.0% shooting from the field in 31.7 minutes. After the break that weekend and with the 25 + 15 that he gave to the Bulls, His records have skyrocketed to 24.6 points, 14.3 rebounds with 64.3% in 32.4 minutes. She has eight double-doubles in nine games and in seven of them she has scored 20 + 10.
It seems that Ayton, number 1 in the 2018 draft, that of Luka Doncic, has managed to organize his life and it shows on the track. He is also playing harder and more focusedsomething he did not do in the Suns and that made it difficult for him to leave the team in the summer. “No matter the result of the game, you’ll see that I worked my ass off and played hard enough.”he says as a declaration of intentions for the future.
And in that future there may be a crossing with Spain in the Pre-Olympic. The center, born in the Bahamas, represents his country and was already the protagonist in the victory over Argentina that put his team in the pre-Games event with the help also of other NBA players like Eric Gordon and Buddy Hield. In that tournament, Ayton was devastating in tights 15.5 points, 13.8 rebounds and 25.3 efficiency. He must have slept well.
2024-03-19 11:36:46
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