Ariza's Hard Work Finally Paying Off (REALGM ARTICLE)

[Swish14]

The game wasn't starting for another three hours. The parking lot was empty and the fans hadn't yet left their homes. The players and media were just making their way into the building and a familiar noise could be heard. It was the sound of a basketball being swallowed by a net. Over and over again.

The noise was coming from Trevor Ariza, who was already in his warm-ups, alone on the court hoisting jumpshot after jumpshot. The sweat drenched swingman was intensely focused on the rack of balls by his side and the basket that stood twenty feet away.

http://www.realgm.com/src_feature_artic ... aying_off/

Enjoy!

[Speedlot]

Erm.. ehh. I read in Men's Health that Paul Pierce goes to the gym at 9:15 when practice starts at 11.. LOL NICE

I read the kobe Practice early too.. LOL wow

Now i read Ariza is practicing early.. WOW winnnar

LEBRON work hard, and this made him the playa that he is.. LMAOWIN

Now I'm going to go warm up.. for intense gaming.. I am winnar.

/nooffense for the article.. It's just :HARD Work: business is making me yawn.

RESULTS, I WANNA SEE RESULTS

[Iamabeasttt]

During one of the family’s trips to Venezuela in 1996 to watch him play, Ariza’s two younger brothers Tajh, 6, and Kenny, 9, were in the hotel with a babysitter. The children began wrestling and horsing around near a window. Somehow, Tajh fell to his death thirty stories below.

Trevor, who was only eleven at the time, would be haunted by Tajh’s death for a very long time. "It was real hard," he says. "My little brother was my best friend. We slept in the same bed together every night. We did everything together. For my mom — for anyone to lose a child — it was very hard. And Kenny actually saw him fall. He had nightmares for a long time.” Flying home from Venezuela was just as hard "knowing my little brother was in a box on that plane," says Trevor.

wow, I didn't know about this. This is just something else. Keep ya head up trevor, we need you.

[TruSkool]

i got chills, and i swear my heart skipped a beat...thats just hard to swallow. big ups to ariza and his fam.

[KObe Bryant]

Wow, That's an inspiration.

[That Nicka]

Lets let him walk for Anthony Parker, Roger Mason or Wally Szczerbiak

[magic1fan]

i met his mom before. i was at the dwp payment center on crenshaw and i heard the lady next to me say her son plays for the lakers. i asked here who,and she said trevor. when she said that all the clerks in there were asking her for a autograph. she said trevor bought the house she lives in now in baldwin hills.

[Erik Eleven]

Go Trevor.

[lakersfanatic]

good job trevor.. No wonder i've been seeing him hitting trays like no other. He's focused and poised. Keep it up mang!!

[dznutzz]

contract year.

bet sasha and luke did the same when it was time