boyutpedia Chapter 445 The alliance is surging! 【Subscription】
Chapter 445 The alliance is surging! 【Subscription】
It's not that Stern didn't take this into consideration, it's even the opposite. Before the official ban number was announced, one of the most heated discussions at the top of the league was about whether the ban should be that long, or whether to really sacrifice this year's All-Star.
In the end, it was Stern who fought against the crowd, and one person was going to be severely punished for this fight, just to make them miss the All-Star, just to let everyone know that in today's NBA, you want to be like in the 80s when you don't agree with one word. Direct all-armed action will not work!
The league will not condone this behavior!
Whether it is a superstar or an ordinary player, the league will crack down on and stop this kind of behavior.
Stern wants to show his investors and those above middle-class families a positive alliance without violence and discord!
And this time the long suspension and sacrifice to the All-Star Game are exactly Stern's determination!
He will use this suspension to reduce the number of fights in the league as much as possible!
Even if this will greatly reduce the starlight of this year's All-Star, he will never regret it!
Even, the league directly deprived Lin Long of the player of the month in December. Lin Long, who originally averaged 31 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, led the team to a complete victory in December, is the best choice for the player of the month. , But the league awarded the award to A-Len Iverson, who averaged 30 points, 7 assists, 3 rebounds and 3 steals per game in December, and led the team with 9 wins and 3 losses!
The league, in letting everyone know from every angle, that fights don't work-!
In the office of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry West looked at the only remaining players who could play, half of them were mercenaries recruited from the G League temporarily. It's a pity, what does West think? I can't find one from this group who can change the team like Aaron last year - Puyu!
In the end, West threw away the roster, picked up his small books again, and wondered how the team's lineup could be changed.
After the last month of research and watching the game, there are many more names on the Westbook, but there are still a lot of names with crosses on them.
After thinking for a long time, West finally stood up, called his assistant and asked him to help book an immediate flight ticket.
West decided to take a trip in person!
Go to Indiana and have another good chat with the toughest villain in the league! Hope to convince him to join LA!
Unlike West's hasty action, Auerbach is still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai in the Celtics' office.
In his vision, this season the team should just stand still, and not making any adjustments is the best adjustment for a championship team!
Where Auerbach should really struggle is next year's offseason!
In that summer, the team will have a large number of players whose contracts expire and need to be renewed, but there is no doubt that this large group of people will be robbed by other teams in the league with high salaries, and Auerbach cannot keep everyone. , Even if he really wanted to do it, such a result would be considered an excessive luxury tax.
Auerbach couldn't explain it to the boss.
Now, apart from Lin Long who is sure to stay 100%, Big Ben, Bowen, Sprewell and Billups have given Auerbach a headache for a while.
Who goes and who stays, what contracts can be matched, what cannot be accepted, and how to make up if someone leaves.
These problems are enough for Auerbach to worry about from January to July!
Fortunately, although the team lacked a few main players, the record actually stabilized and the game was very good!
Barkley was ordered in danger once again, burning the blood of the veteran and becoming the core and first main point of the team. With Rashid returning from injury, the Celtics' inside line is still their strong point and main point of attack. !
Coupled with Rashard Lewis, who performed well as soon as the team was injured and suspended, and rookie Manu Ginobili, the Celtics' lineup didn't look too bad!
Although their unbeaten streak was quickly broken, the Celtics went 5-5 in the first ten games without Lin Long and others, protecting themselves in the East and the league. The position of the first name!
Compared with the Los Angeles Lakers who ran out of ammunition and no one to play, and ushered in a wave of 2 wins and 8 losses, the Los Angeles Lakers fell to the second place in the Western Conference. The situation of the Celtics does not know how much better!
During this period, the NBA All-Star voting finally came to an end. Lin Long won the vote again, and O'Neal and Kobe ranked first and second in the Western Conference, respectively. Because of the suspension, all three of them will be absent from the current session. All-Stars! Coupled with the almost certain absences of Billups and Karl Malone, this season's NBA All-Stars are destined to be the bleakest and most boring All-Stars in recent years.
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In the end, with a three-man suspension, the All-Star starter became Vince Carter, Allen Iverson, Alonzo Mourning, Grant Hill and Eddie Jones.
The West is Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Jason Kidd, Gary Payton and David Robinson.
The Spurs became the biggest winner, and the twin towers also squeezed into the All-Star starting lineup.
The selection of the bench lineup was also instructed by David Stern. All the coaches did not vote for the players of the Celtics and the Lakers. The two sides changed from 9 All-Stars the previous year to 0. people are selected.
Under such circumstances, many people have successfully ushered in the first All-Star trip in their careers, such as the blue-collar player Dale Davis, the aging Stockton, the young Dirk Nowitzki, who has just returned Ewing, who only played 5 games and averaged 10 points and 7 rebounds, all entered the All-Star lineup.
Stern's anger at the fight and the severity of the punishment can be seen from this.
Fortunately, this year's All-Star Game has also ushered in some reforms. For example, the All-Star Rookie Tournament will be changed from a rookie match in the first year to a battle between the first and second years. The fans of a direct spectator feeling!
Celtics sophomores Rashad Lewis and rookie Manu Ginobili, both selected for the rookie game, will face off against each other in this game.
It also kept the Celtics from last year's All-Star Game with a large group of people, so that no one was there for this wonderful weekend.
And although Lin Long's inability to participate made Huaxia fans extremely disappointed, the changed rookie game mode also made them wait for good things!
Roughly after the showdown with the Celtics, his performance was getting better and better, and he gradually stabilized his status as the main rotation of the Mavericks. The backup combination between him and Nash became more and more tacit, and the two not only became good friends, Always a nice fit!
In the end, based on the wonderful performances in December and January, and the data of averaging 9 points and 5 rebounds per game, he successfully squeezed into the list of the first-year rookie game!
Even without Lin Long, there are Chinese people in this year's All-Star Game! Great.