15-year career, only 4 seasons to attend 70+, No. 1 pick Coleman, best rookie, and injury, can t escape fate

Derek Coleman, the 1990 No. 1 pick, whose talent once made the Nets see him as their future. However, due to injuries, alcohol and personality, he has gone from a "front killer" to a "wandering passerby" - rookies are at their peak, and they are injured in the later stage and lose control of off-court. No one cares about retirement, becoming a typical footnote to the NBA's "Injury Zhongyong".

In 1990, Coleman joined the Nets as the No. 1 pick, averaged 18.4 points, 10.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game in the rookie season, winning the Best Rookie. He had 20 + 10 many times in his early career. He was selected as the All-Star in 1994, with comprehensive skills (compliant with the No. 1 pick), and should have been the embryo of a forward superstar. After Peterlovic's death, Coleman became the core of the Nets, but began to "self-destruct": being late, absent from training, and even insulting the coach's family in person. The Nets could not bear it and traded him to 76ers, and their career declined from prosperity - injuries (injuries such as ankles, wrists, thighs, etc., missing 145 games in the 95-98 season) and their mentality were completely insulated from the "core".

There were occasionally recovering in the middle of his career, but injuries were all in the shadows: he attended more than 70 games in only 4 seasons, and although he was "only" absent from 2000 to 2001, he was still defeated by injuries in the future. When he retired at the Pistons in 2004, he had no ceremony or applause. The former No. 1 pick ended with "depressed and unsuccessful". The "hot temper" that experts had worried about did not destroy him, but instead caused continuous injuries and alcohol dependence, which dragged down his talent.

Coleman admitted in an interview: "I always want to 'secretly give me a glass of alcohol' (alcohol) when I want to cheer up, but I can't do it." He is talented but lazy to be self-disciplined. The superposition of injuries and off-field factors has made him become a "future superstar" to a "league tramp" - his story is a warning of the imbalance between talent and self-management, and a regretful footnote to the NBA's "fall of geniuses".