Ben Wallace
Ben Wallace (born the September 10th 1974 in White Hall, Alabama), is a player of Basket-ball. This pivot of 2m06 is the best defender of NBA. It evolves/moves with bulldozers of Chicago.
Biography
Ben Wallace has as a mentor Charles Oakley, the tested pivot of bulldozers and the Knicks which it meets in a camp of tennis shoe organized in Alabama. It is Oakley which will lavish councils to him on the choice of its university and which will transmit its knowledge of the play to him. After having evolved/moved at the university of Virginia Union, a school placed in the second division of NCAA (the American university championship) Ben Wallace is presented to the Draft NBA 1996. Considered to be too small (2m06) for its station (pivot), it is not drafté. It nevertheless is signed like free agent by the Washington Bullets little before the beginning of the regular season.
During 3 seasons, Wallace improves his statistics discreetly, passing from 1,1 points and 1,5 rebounds of average lasting its first season at honest 6 points, 8 rebounds and 2 counter of average three years later. It is transferred during the intersaison 1999 with Tim Legler, Terry Davis and Jeff McInnis against Isaac Austin with the Orlando Magic. Wallace finds himself in one of the weakest teams of the league. He is established by Doc. Rivers during all the season and is one of the persons in charge of the good course of the team, which finishes beyond all waitings with 41 victories. Ben Wallace, the best rebondor of the team, starts to make known himself in all the league like a player aggressive, hard-working, who devotes himself to the difficult works for the good of his team.
During the intersaison 2000, Magic, which has an enormous free wage bill decides to acquire the superstar Grant Hill, of the Detroit Pistons, via a sign and trade : to maximize the incomes of the player, Detroit resigns Hill and transfers it to Orlando. Nevertheless, to make the transfer valid, Orlando must add some players in the exchange. Joe Dumars, the general manager of the Pistons, requires to include Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins in the transfer. Orlando accepts without balking, the value of Grant Hill (20 points per match on average) being largely higher than that of Ben Wallace (4 points of average) at the time.
But against any waiting, the transfer largely will turn in favor of Strait: Grant Hill connects the wounds with the foot as of her arrival with Orlando, and misses 199 matches in 3 seasons.
For Ben Wallace, it is the explosion: he becomes at the end of two seasons with Detroit the best rebondor and the best contror of the league, a performance only carried out by legends: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton and Hakeem Olajuwon. He is elected better defender of the year.
The following season, he is elected in the 5 of departure of the All-Star Range and becomes the first player not drafté to carry out this performance. At the end of the season, it is again named better defender of the year.
In 2003-04, it is one of the key members of a team which practices a rigorous defensive play and gains the title with the general surprise vis-a-vis the Los Angeles Lakers. Its devotion for the team was worth to him the title of Co-captain with Chauncey Billups.
It again gains the title of better defender at the conclusion of the season 2005. He is the only player of the history of the league, with Dikembe Mutombo, to have gained this title with three recoveries. He becomes also the fourth player of the history of the NBA to be cumulated more than twelve rebounds and two counter by match on average during 5 consecutive seasons (three others being Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon and Tim Duncan) since the league records counter them.
Ben Wallace was also made famous from his haircuts afro. Concentrating mainly on defense, Ben Wallace forever exceeded the 10 points of average per match.
At the end of the contract in Detroit, it joined the Chicago bulldozers at the time of the summer 2006 as a free Agent. At the time of the matches played with the bulldozers with the Auburn De luxe hotel, the stage of the Pistons of Strait, Wallace is copiously whistled by the local supporters which do not forgive him its departure for the large rival: Chicago.
Prize list
- Champion NBA with the Strait Pistons in 2004
- Elected better defender of the year in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006
- Selected in the AlDefensive First TEAM (defensive standard team of the league) in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006
- Selected in the AlDefensive TEAM Second in 2007
- Selected in the AlNBA Second TEAM (second standard team of the league) in 2003, 2004 and 2006
- Selected in the Third AlNBA TEAM (third standard team of the league) in 2002 and 2005
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Better rebondor of the NBA on average of catches by match in 2002 (13,0) and 2003 (15,4)
- Better rebondor of the NBA of many catches over the season in 2001 (1052) and 2003 (1126)
- Player having taken the most offensive rebounds in NBA in 2003 (293) and 2006 (301)
- Joueur having taken the most defensive rebounds in NBA in 2001 (749)
- Meilleur contror of the NBA to the average of counter by match in 2002 (3,5)
- Meilleur contror of the NBA to the number of counter over the season in 2002 (278)
External bond
- Card on NBA.com