The former NBA star, known as the “king of dunks,” Nate Robinsonafter an exemplary career in which he has always given his all to win, without ever giving up, risks losing the most important challenge of his life. His is a very dangerous opponent: it is his own body that is rowing against him.
Robinson has always been a shining example of how determination, talent and commitment can really help a person in his life to make his dreams come true. He must have heard it many times as a kid that he could never play professional basketball, having a height below average. Yet he always believed in it and, with his 175 cm, he gave unique emotions to all NBA fans from 2005 to 2015.
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All of Nate Robinson’s Records
The playmaker boasts some amazing records in all the years of his career not only for his formidable dunks but also for his jumps: he reached 112 cm of elevation, despite being considered one of the shortest players in the entire league. This detail has never mattered much to Robinson, so much so that he has given unique emotions in all the teams he has played with, from New York Knicks ai Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets e Boston Celtics.
During his career he has achieved historic recordsplaying 618 games with the NBA, accumulating 6807 points and winning the dunk contest three times, precisely in 2006, 2009 and 2010. On that occasion he said: “You have to be spontaneous and creative: that’s how you win that competition…”.
After retiring from the league, he continued to play professionally for a few more years and when he looks back on his time in the game and the NBA today he reveals with a bit of nostalgia: “As a showman who can score points in this era, I would have enjoyed it even more. But I have no regrets, I played against Bryant, against Iverson, against LeBron…”.
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From the discovery of the disease to today
Many times, as unfortunately often happens, fate is quite cruel and so a champion of his caliber, who has competed with the giants of the sector, finds himself today fighting against an even more fearsome and strong opponent, kidney failurea pathology he has suffered from for several years.
When he discovered he was ill, as he himself said, he did not believe the doctors’ words, as he felt like “Superman”. Unfortunately, however, despite his extraordinary physical strength, his body began to show signs of giving wayThe former athlete must do the daily dialysis to be able to hope to stay alive as long as possible. The only way to change things would be to find a compatible donor for a kidney transplant that would save his life.
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Robinson went through a period of his life where anger took over. After all, living every day knowing you have a degenerative disease is not easy at all, so, as he himself said, he started to be hard not only on himself, but also on his family. At least until his wife made him understand that everyone was there for him but that he had to stop treating them with anger and so at that moment something clicked inside him. Now, the former basketball player lives his life day by day, continuing with therapy, enjoying every single day with his family, hoping for a miracle.
“I want to be alive for the next 40 years: being a grandfather, seeing my children’s children, taking them to the gym, telling them stories about when I was in the NBA with ‘Bron and Kob.’” This is the wish of the great basketball star and we can only hope that it can come true.
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Robinson dunks over Jared Sullinger during a 2012 NBA game against the Celtics.
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2024-07-04 23:45:38
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