If he can shoot the three ball at 36 percent, and play plausible defense, he’s an NBA starter - an absurdly good result from a second round pick.( Editor’s note: We are reviewing all players from the Houston Rockets who finished the 2020-21 season on regular contracts, i.e.
I think Martin is at least a rotation player, which is a good result from a second-round pick. I’d urge against anything too sweeping on the negative side. Which is to say, we might like to draw conclusions from a game, or a stretch of games, or even this season. What can we expect this year? More of the same with a bit more polish, as pretty much the whole team fits the description of “Young, talented, inexperienced.”
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And not one that had been a pro since he was nine and legal to smoke, like they do in foreign places. What else did he do? Look like a 19-year-old playing in the NBA. Rudy Gobert, Boban Marjanovich, you name him, Martin probably rejected him. What did Martin do with those minutes? Block every very tall guy he played against. Martin now has a season under his belt for the Rockets, and although that season was chaotic, the chaos served to bring him far more minutes than such a raw, but explosive, young player might expect elsewhere. The G-League Ignite was not yet a possible option for him, as it wouldn’t exist for another year. He went instead to the IMG sports agency training academy to wait out his NBA post high school eligibility year. Martin the Younger chose to eschew college at Vanderbilt when I’m guessing he was informed that Vanderbilt was good for social life but bad for basketball. That intent presumably being that the Rockets’ bizarre obsession with sub-six-foot-tall guards might be at a welcome end. Ironically, he was, however, a value pick by the Rockets, and a declaration of intent by a new Rockets executive suite. I’d be willing to bet that Kenyon Martin Jr has never shopped at a KMart, or heard of it in any context outside his dad. I don’t know what it is, but we can find it together. We know people call him KJ Martin, which I assume stands for “Kenyon Junior”, but again, he needs something better. There was, frankly, a lot less entertainment and distraction in those days, so hanging around for a blue light special might just qualify.Īnyhow, KMart is the KMart of nicknames, and we need something better. The concept, I think, was that these deals were so good it paid to shop, or simply hang around, at KMart in case such a deal appeared whilst you were in the store. This practice is also the source of the catchphrase “Attention KMart shoppers!” as someone on a store-wide loudspeaker would announce the Blue Light Special. This meant that in the store, a blue emergency siren type light would flash at times, and certain items, or even whole aisles of goods, would receive a special discount while the light was shining. It was known for having lower prices, shabbier stores, going into bankruptcy several times, and having “Blue Light Specials”. This is unfortunate, as in seemed to suggest he was a value-conscious sort of player.įor those who never experienced KMart, the store, it was kind of a low price Target, before Walmart filled that role (and every other, in some places). His dad was nicknamed KMart, along with Kevin Martin, or Another KMart, the weird shot one (who was also a Rocket). His father, a redoubtable NBA player in his own right is named, naturally enough, Kenyon Lee Martin.
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