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Chapter 154 Brothers Come Cut Me Down (Today's first update)
"Third brother, you wait at home, we will definitely come back from Boston with a victory!"

"Third brother, just watch on TV how my second brother and I deal with the Celtics!"

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On January 1, when the Pistons players were about to embark on a journey to Boston, Wang Dalin personally came to the airport to see them off. Billups and Daben said the above two sentences to reassure Wang Dalin.

And when Wang Dalin sat in front of the TV to watch the game on the evening of January 1, he was very sad to see that his two righteous brothers were completely restrained by each other.

Big Ben encountered the "shark hacking tactic" again. In the first half alone, he hit the free throw line 10 times. As a result, he only hit 4 free throws... In fact, he only hit 6 free throws in the game!
So although Big Ben grabbed 14 rebounds and even sent 3 blocks in the game, he always showed negative effects on the court.

As for Billups, it is actually not easy for the Celtics to limit him, because they don't have good players in the first position.

Their starting point guard, Kenny Anderson, was selected to the All-Star team back then, but he is now 31 years old, and his height is only 183 cm. Shouldn't he be blown up against the 191 cm tall Billups?

By the way... Doesn't Billups like to bully point guards who are shorter than him and have no speed?

But the Celtics did not sit still. Most of the time they played against Billups on the defensive end was Paul Pierce, a small forward.

Pierce beats Billups in terms of height, wingspan, weight, strength, etc., and even his moving speed is not necessarily inferior to Billups.

Just like the later generations of the Cavaliers used LeBron James to personally defend Derrick Rose, in this game Pierce's defensive effect was surprisingly good, and the "second brother" was completely restricted on the offensive end.

Antoine Walker's defense is really bad, but his offensive firepower is the first in the league. Clifford Robinson couldn't do it if he wanted to form a mutual explosion with him, so he was naturally suppressed.

On the Pistons side, Hamilton's performance is fairly normal, but how can he beat the Celtics alone?

Even if he immediately evolves into the "Mask Man" of later generations, he can't do it!
At 95:104, the Celtics finally defeated the Pistons easily. With about 4 minutes left in the game, the Celtics led by as much as 15 points, and the rest of the game has been completely reduced to garbage time.

During recovery training the next morning, everyone was in a low mood.

自从王大林12月28日受伤离场，他们最近8场比赛输了7场，目前总战绩21胜13负，排名已经掉到了东部第三。

The 76ers, who are now ranked fourth in the East, are only one win away from them, and the Magic, who is fifth in the East, are not far behind them.

Although the team's losing streak was mainly due to Wang Dalin's absence due to injury, the Pistons' coaching staff has been under a lot of pressure recently, and even some fans in Detroit have already called for "Carlisle to dismiss get out of class".

After the training, Carlisle specifically asked the team medical team about Wang Dalin's recovery from his injury, and when he learned that there was no problem with his reexamination results, he was put on the squad for the game.

At the press conference in the afternoon, when a reporter asked whether Wang Dalin would play in tonight's game, Carlisle did not set off any smoke bombs, and directly announced that Wang Dalin would be back.

Hearing this "bad news", Hornets coach Paul Sellars suddenly panicked.

The Hornets are currently ranked eighth in the East, and their position is not very secure, because the Bucks, ranked ninth in the East, are eyeing them. Even if they only lose one or two games, they may be overtaken by the Bucks immediately.

Jamal Mashburn, currently ranked No. [-] in scoring among the Hornets, happened to be facing off against Wang Dalin.

Marsh is originally a breakthrough striker, his explosive power and speed are top-notch in the league, but it is precisely this kind of player that Wang Dalin is most afraid of... A striker with no shooting ability, just let him go two steps away?

After resting for half a month, Wang Dalin showed extreme bloodthirsty and hunger in the first game of his comeback from injury. He started killing God mode from the very beginning.

Since his ball control reached 80 and his dribbling speed reached 85, Wang Dalin only showed his breakthrough ability once against the Magic. Although people felt amazing at the time...but that was half a month ago, and it was at the "Water House Center Stadium" in Orlando.

It was the first time for Detroit's home fans to see Wang Dalin play so aggressively. His sharp breakthrough made the opponent Mashburn unstoppable. Later, he was replaced by outside defender Lee Nairon to defend him, but it didn't help.

这场比赛王大林全场里突外投疯狂出手26次，打进了其中16个球，而且他一向精准的三分球本场比赛更是4投4中，罚球也有12投10中，最终砍下46分11篮板4助攻2抢断2盖帽。

Wang Dalin scored a new high this season just after returning from injury, and his statistics and performance were all explosive. The home fans of "Palace of Auburn Hills" were naturally overjoyed.

When Wang Dalin was replaced with 5 minutes and 12 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the audience stood up and gave him the warmest applause and cheers.

The Pistons beat the Hornets 104:82, and finally won a hearty victory after a three-game losing streak.

After the game, Mashburn uttered nonsense at the press conference. When a reporter questioned his poor performance in the game, the explosive small forward lost his temper on the spot.

"I scored 21 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in tonight's game. I don't know where I didn't play well?"

"Don't say that my shooting percentage is low. Everyone knows that my shooting percentage is the highest in our team tonight. No one feels bad when the team loses. But if you say that I lost because of my poor performance, I really want to swear!"

"Look at my teammates. They only scored 22 goals. How do you think we can win the game?"

"If the Hornets want to go further in this year's playoffs... Oh, no, it should be said that if the Hornets want to keep the top eight in the East this season, they need to find me a stronger helper. The team can't succeed with me alone!"

"That's right, you heard me right... I'm just saying that the strength of my teammates is not good enough, they can't give me more help!"

"If the team continues to be so unwilling to make progress, I hope they trade me to a more powerful team. At least I can pursue a chance to win the championship in my peak period!"

If I had to use one word to describe Mashburn's behavior, it would be... "forced palace"!
Obviously, the conflict between the former All-Star small forward and the Hornets has reached the point of irreconcilability, and now there are only two ways in front of the Hornets uniform team, one is to find a suitable next home for Mashburn and send him away, and the other is to use the few chips in his hand to exchange for a strong teammate for Mashburn.

No matter which way you choose, the Hornets will undoubtedly suffer heavy losses, and may even completely degenerate from a strong team in the playoffs to a belly in the East.

And don't think that Mashburn's behavior of blaming his teammates for not being strong is very LOW. In fact, this situation has happened many times in the NBA.

For example, after O'Neal left the team, Kobe complained many times that his teammates were not strong enough to give him more support. For this reason, he even threatened the Lakers management to find more powerful helpers for him by leaving the team.

There is also McGrady, who is very familiar to Chinese fans. After retiring, this gentleman bombarded Chairman Yao many times, saying that his strength is relatively hip, and it is not enough to help him compete for the championship.

McGrady said this in an interview——

"Yao Ming was an important member of our Rockets team, but he was never able to be as dominant as O'Neal, and Yao Ming couldn't average 25+15 per game. I don't even remember Yao Ming averaging 20 points per game. This caused me a lot of trouble because I had to feed him the ball."

It is conceivable that McGrady's remarks caused a lot of surprise in the American public opinion circles, because they still recognized Yao Ming's strength.

And how could Yao Ming "have never had a season averaging 20 points per game" as he said in his peak period?
In fact, this is not the first time that McGrady complained that his teammates dragged him down, which caused him to fail to win the championship.

McGrady has always believed that if he also has the opportunity to cooperate with O'Neal, then Kobe and Wade's championship will be given to him... In fact, McGrady's performance in the Rockets did not reach the level of Kobe and Wade when they won the championship.

麦迪在火箭状态最好的一个赛季是2004-2005赛季，那个赛季他在火箭队出场78场比赛，场均上场40.8分钟，可以得到25.7分6.2篮板5.7助攻1.7抢断和0.7盖帽，这也让他成为火箭队史上第一个能够同时达到单赛季2000分、400个篮板和400次助攻数据的球员。

This season McGrady was selected as the All-Star Game starter in the Western Conference, and was also selected to the third team of the NBA All-NBA Team.

However, he has been plagued by injuries. The Rockets averaged only 54.5 games per season in his career, and he was only selected to the third team of the best team twice and the second team once, which is far from the "dominant level" he hopes Yao Ming will achieve.

So... McGrady has never been a noble star, no matter how strong he was back then, it can't change this fact!

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After winning the game against the Hornets, the Pistons are undoubtedly relieved from top to bottom. They have really lost their hearts recently.

They will still sit at home in the next game, and their opponent is the Raptors, currently ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference.

Recently, Vince Carter's performance has been extremely explosive. Many people think that he was stimulated by Wang Dalin... After all, he is far behind Wang Dalin in the All-Star voting!
Wang Dalin has a good impression of Carter. The current signature star of the league is not only superb, but also low-key, usually very humble when facing reporters.

Wang Dalin knew that he was an extremely rare evergreen tree in the history of the NBA. The superstar had just retired when he crossed over. The "half man, half god" had played in the NBA for 21 seasons!
上个月的东部最佳球员正是文斯.卡特，他在2001年12月场均可以砍下27.8分8.1篮板4.5助攻1.8抢断1.1盖帽，投篮命中率达到了48.8%，三分命中率更是高达40.1%！

If it weren't for Carter's explosive performance, Wang Dalin would actually have a good chance of being the best player of the month. In January 2002, he had missed 1 games. Of course, he had already lost the selection qualification, but last December he only missed 8 game.

There are still two or three days before the game on January 1th. Carlisle did not arrange too much training for the players. During this period of time, they played back-to-back twice in a row, and everyone was a bit exhausted.

During this time, Wang Dalin, Ben, Billups, and Hamilton were not idle. Wang Dalin was going to shoot a commercial for his "Vulcan II" basketball shoes, and the three teammates joined the "Li-Ning" family under his introduction.

"Li Ning" is of course very happy to be able to sign three NBA stars, Ben, Billups and Hamilton at the same time. This is undoubtedly the first step in the expansion of the "Li Ning" brand in the United States, and they will definitely sign more NBA stars in the future.

The price of the endorsement contracts of the three of them is the same, 5 million US dollars for 1200 years. For Wang Dalin's three teammates, "Li Ning" company completely treats them equally. This is also a happy result.

Daben was born in a slum and was afraid of poverty since he was a child. Of course, he was quite satisfied with being able to sign such a commercial endorsement contract at such a price.

He has played in the NBA for several seasons. Since he can't attack but can only defend, the major sneaker brands have turned a blind eye to him, so he has no sneaker endorsement so far.

This is also normal. Even if he is the type of center with good offensive and defensive skills, the sneakers of big players are not easy to sell. Even Duncan's sneakers are not selling well.

Billups and Hamilton are undoubtedly in a much better situation. They originally hoped to sign sneaker endorsement contracts with "Nike" or "Adidas". It can only be said that "Li Ning" took the lead.

In fact, even if they have the opportunity to sign a sneaker endorsement contract with "Nike" or "Adidas", it is estimated that most of them will still choose to cooperate with "Li Ning".

After all, they are not fools. How popular are they in China if they hang out with Wang Dalin?

This can be seen from the results of the second round of voting announced by the All-Stars. Among them, Big Ben ranked second in the Eastern Conference center position, and is currently second only to the 76ers' starting center Dikembe Mutombo.

Billups ranks third among guards in the Eastern Conference behind only Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson.Moreover, his number of votes is not far behind those two. There is still about a month left in the All-Star voting period, and Billups may hope to achieve a comeback.

Hamilton's popularity is still a bit low. After all, his style of play is so low-key that not many Chinese fans vote for him, and his votes in North America are even less.

Even so, his number of votes can be ranked fifth in the guard position in the Eastern Conference... It is true that there are not many Chinese fans voting for him, but this "not many" is calculated based on the number of Chinese fans.

After filming the advertisement, Wang Dalin attended the signing ceremony of the three teammates.

In order to welcome the three NBA stars to join this time, "Li Ning" company specially released a new slogan - "No brothers, no basketball!"

Of course... this slogan was written by Wang Dalin again. Such a classic slogan has not been thought of before "Adidas", so why not rush to release it in advance?
You must know that after "Adidas" launched the "No Brothers, No Basketball" commercial in the original time and space, they turned over and stepped on the "Nike" that had always been crushing them. One can imagine how powerful this advertisement is!

Taking advantage of this shareholder wind, Big Ben and Billups said that Hamilton should be added to the ranks of their brothers, so Hamilton became the "third brother" instead, and Wang Dalin had to be downgraded to become the "fourth brother".

At the signing ceremony, Wang Dalin, Da Ben, Billups, and Hamilton sat neatly in a row, and the "three nightclub brothers" turned into the "four Li Ning brothers"!
When they chanted the new slogan "No Brothers, No Basketball" in unison, a series of extremely absurd scenes seemed to flash before Wang Dalin's eyes——

Zhang Jiahui: "Hi everyone, I'm Zha Zhahui. I've filmed many scenes. I played "Lan Wan Lan Yue" a few nights. I introduced the new version of the ship that you have never been late. If you are almost late than Legend, I will be your brother. I will drive on time at 8 o'clock tonight... If you are a brother, come kill me!"

Chen Xiaochun: "Hello, everyone. I am Chen Xiaochun. It has been two years and I am back... You who did not come at 8 o'clock back then, you must not miss this time. The battle will start at 8 o'clock tonight. I will wait for you in the festival... If you are a brother, come and kill me!"

Gu Tianle: "Hi everyone, I'm Gu Tianle, and I would like to recommend a super late game, "Lan Wan Lan Yue", a new version of the ship. It takes only 3 minutes to experience it, and you will fall in love with the game like me! See you at 8 o'clock tonight... Brother, come and kill me!"

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On January 1, the "Four Li-Ning Brothers" came to the "Palace of Auburn Hills". They all had a strong young and Dangerous atmosphere on them. During the warm-up, Carter wanted to come over to say hello but was scared away.

In the end, it was Wang Dalin who took the initiative to say hello. After Carter hugged him cordially, he asked with a smile, "Have you fully recovered from your injury?"

Wang Dalin nodded and said with a smile: "Of course, you just wait and see my performance tonight!"

Not to be outdone, Carter said: "You have to be careful, I don't like to keep my hands on a kid like you who only knows how to make movies!"

The goal of the Raptors this season is naturally impossible to just reach the playoffs. They have been recruiting and buying horses in the past few seasons. The team not only has Carter, a super powerful star, but also high-quality role players such as Antonio Davis, Maurice Peterson, Alvin Williams, and Keon Clark.

The Atkins deal for the Pistons has been settled, probably after this game the Pistons and the Bucks will make an official announcement...

(End of this chapter)