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I feel like his past experiences are presented in his play every time that he steps onto the rift. He truly plays like a man with nothing to lose and everything to gain. A person who will stop at nothing to reach the status he has longed for. Making plays that very few players are willing to make. Doublelift is often seen as a very careless player but regardless of the mistakes he makes in and out of the game, he is constantly learning from them. His fearlessness and passion is hard to match and difficult not to appreciate. Here you have a professional player who has outlasted the rest of his colleagues that he began playing professionally with. We are in the sixth season of the NA LCS and five years since he joined the scene he is still competing at a world class level. Not many players have the benefit of saying that. Yet day in and day out Doublelift continues to put in the hard work to prove that he is one of the greatest professional gamers of all time.

Growing up as a Laker fan I see a lot of similarities between Doublelift and Kobe Bryant.

Both often times seen as arrogant players, hard to work with, too critical of their teammates, but what is often ignored is the most important trait in any professional competitor. The desire to win. Nothing matters more to both these guys than to win the game. To prove all the naysayers wrong and win the big games with everything on the line. They were built for these moments. Kobe lost his best teammate in Shaquille O’neal and many critics believed that he would be incapable of winning another title without the all-star center. Through perseverance and dedication to his craft, Kobe went on to win two more championships. Never giving up despite the bad seasons he had to endure. Playing alongside teammates that were not on the same wavelength as he was. Kobe Bryant stayed loyal to his team and worked his way to the top of the ladder once again. Now Doublelift finds himself in a similar situation. Having parted ways with Counter Logic Gaming after many memorable years with the company, Doublelift now finds himself center stage once again. Facing off in the semi-finals of the NA LCS, against the team that he once called his own. Now representing his long time rival Team SoloMid.