LaMarcus Aldridge makes a statement in his career, getting elected to be on the ballot for the Men's U.S. Olympic Basketball team for second time in his career.
Being on a depleted Portland Trailblazers team that has continually made several post season appearances, it seems that Aldridge has never received the recognition he deserves as one of the NBA's most elite power forward.
This season, Aldridge is averaging 22.7 ppg with 9 rpg, leading the team in both categories. With injuries plaguing the Blazers every year, LaMarcus has found ways to produce great numbers to help his team reach their full potential.
Playing along side the NBA's greatest talents such as Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Dwight Howard in the 2012 Olympic games, Aldridge will get the recognition he has truly earned.
Aldridge being an underrated big in the league, has some big shoes to fill if he is to make a statement with the Olympic team, but he has not shied away from a challenge yet.
Source: http://espn.go.com/olympics/basketball/story/_/id/7467657/blake-griffin-los-angeles-clippers-added-us-olympic-team-pool
LaMarcus is a Texas guy, and so being from Houston, I'm happy for him.
ReplyDeleteMy middle school coach is actually his like uncle or grandfather or something along that line.........so their both related to Allen Aldridge who won a super bowl with the Broncos.
But anyway, he is definitely a great basketball player who has been overshadowed in terms of all-star voting and stuff because of his injuries and the hype surrounding other power forwards like dirk or stoudemire when he was in the west and gasol...........all those guys. And I don't think he cares about that because I'm sure he's well aware.
The Olympic team should be crazy nice this year..........just as good as the dream team. Kobe's still Kobe........and all the other players who were on the 08 team that will be on this one are all way better now than then. So they better blow everybody out by 30!