41-year-old veteran of the five Olympic dynasties! Yao Ming’s partner bought out for 3 million yuan, Argentine Diamond Scola!

The final whistle of the 2004 Athens Olympic Men's Basketball Team Finals was whistled, and the 24-year-old Scot pulled his torn jersey and roared to the sky. When the Argentine flag was raised, the young man with long blonde hair shattered the unbeaten golden body of the American men's basketball team with a terrifying hit rate of 65.5%. 19 years later, when he scored 17 points against Australia at the Tokyo Olympics at the age of 41, the gray hair on his sideburns and accurate back-to-back singles became the most moving time capsule in the basketball world.

In 1998, 18-year-old Scola signed a ten-year contract with Spanish Tawu Ceramics, and this seemingly guaranteed contract became a nightmare in the future. When the Spurs selected him with the No. 56 pick in 2002, the $17 million buyout fee issued by the parent team made Popovich shake his head and give up. In the next five years, he swept La Liga with the label of "Bryant Europe": he won two MVPs and was selected for the Champions League best team three times, but he repeatedly watched NBA videos every night. In 2007, Rockets general manager Morey seized the opportunity and exchanged Spanoris + cash for the signing right. Scola completed the buyout for $3 million - which was equivalent to 80% of his total savings at that time.

On November 1, 2007, the 27-year-old Scola made a foul in his NBA debut with a 0-point and 5 foul. ESPN slandered the comments "It's time for the old rookie to retire." But three months later, he played against the Spurs, and he used 19 points and 17 rebounds + a back-to-back to Duncan, which made Popovich angrily throw the tactical board. In the 2009 Western Conference Semi-Final G6, Yao and Mai retreated in a desperate situation, Scola faced Gasol + Bynum + Odom, dragging the series into a tiebreak with 24 points and 12 rebounds. Its signature "diamond dance moves" - the left foot flickered continuously to catch a backward jump shot, becoming the last collective memory of Rockets fans.

In the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, 39-year-old Scola, with a group of post-95s, shocked the world with three epic performances:

Fighting eight: Facing Jokic 20 points and 5 rebounds, key three-pointers to lock in the victory

Second finals: 28 points and 13 rebounds to beat Gobert, and the French domestic line group left the game

Finals: 15 points and 8 rebounds against the Gasol brothers, and after the game, I sent text messages to Messi to pay tribute to Messi

When the Argentine president called in person to comfort him, he was soaking in an ice bucket to relieve his knee swelling: "I can still play Tokyo again. "

Even if he left the NBA in 2017, he still scored 45 points in the CBA, using the Italian League MVP to prove that "the floor flow will never go out of time ".