Healing Basketball

Chapter 432 432. Boss, why don't you stay away from the team? (6000 words)
When looking at the two characters of "Alan", the vice president felt that he was not worthy of taking a private jet. He should buy a ticket and take an ordinary flight, and he could spend the money himself or not be reimbursed...

It's too embarrassing to fly on this plane!
However, he felt that if he said that he was not worthy of flying a private jet, the boss would probably tell him that he was not worthy of being a vice president... death by society or starvation, he chose to die by society.

Paul Allen's new plane hasn't been bought yet, but he can't wait to spray paint on the current plane first.

Seeing the shocking appearance of the vice president, Paul Allen was very proud and his mood improved a lot.

...

As the vice president thought, with the boss around, the work was completed very smoothly.

The recruiting target who met saw Paul Allen coming, and was so moved that he confirmed his intention to join on the spot.

Originally, because of Liu Xiu's KO of Artest, he was a little hesitant. Although he watched the video, he also felt that Artest was mainly responsible, but it was inevitable that he would have concerns.

But Paul Allen, a well-known wealthy boss, came to recruit him in person, and he, who was already emotional, had no thought of refusing.

In the evening, Paul Allen took the signing target to the dance, but the vice president didn't go, not because of his self-discipline, but as the vice president, he couldn't watch the team's games on the spot due to work reasons. Gotta watch it live.

The vice president didn't have much hope, and felt quite regretful. The achievement of 'refused to be swept away' is not a record, but man, he was so excited to get 5 kills in LOL and jumped up, not to mention that it would take a year Time to complete the achievement.

But unexpectedly, after 2 hours and 27 minutes of the game, at 10:27 p.m., Carter missed a shot at the buzzer, and the Trail Blazers narrowly beat the Pistons 75-74!
The vice president has also seen that statement-if Paul Allen doesn't go to the game to watch the game, the Trail Blazers are the strongest team in the league.

He's just having fun, he's a materialist.

But now, he discovered that some things cannot be fully believed, but he must believe them!

The vice president wants to discuss with Paul Allen: Boss, why don't you stay away from the team?
Something happens every time you come!
If you don't watch the game live, we'll be blown away when we play against the Pistons!
...

首节比分20比19、第二节比分22比17、第三节比分17比15，开拓者队靠着防守，以59比51领先活塞队8分。

In the final quarter, the Pistons launched a fierce counterattack and scored the highest score in a single quarter of the game, scoring 23 points, but the Trail Blazers scored 16 points. In the end, the Trail Blazers narrowly won by 1 point!
兰多夫12分19板1助攻1抢断1盖帽5犯规3失误、佩顿10分8助攻、拉希姆11分5板2助攻3抢断1盖帽、法外狂徒6分6板2抢断、夸梅-布朗4分9板5盖帽1抢断、小飞鼠12分1助攻、德里克-安德森11分2板2助攻。

活塞队那边卡特22分12板3助攻、本-华莱士5分14板3抢断4盖帽、比卢普斯16分8助攻、汉密尔顿15分、迈尔斯11分、普林斯5分。

Liu Xiu couldn't appear at the scene, but she also went to the arena to practice with her. During the game, she watched the live broadcast in the lounge.

After the fight, he already felt that the task of 'Blooming Rose: Tenacious Will' was cool.

But getting that 'Advanced Strength Card' has already stopped most of the losses, and he is already mentally prepared.

But, unexpectedly, he won!
No one scored more than 15 points, won by defense!
The defense against the Pistons' stars, they did not do so well. The six main players of the Pistons scored 6 points, which is a lot.

The key will be their defense of the Pistons' role players tonight.

The Pistons scored with these 6 people tonight!The other 3 players who played did not score a single point!
Those three made a total of 11 shots and 4 free throws, all of which were not converted into points, but if they get 1 point, the result may be different.

Teammates are awesome!
After watching the game, in order to make space for his teammates to celebrate and avoid disturbing them, Liu Xiu immediately left the locker room after receiving the task progress notification, rushed to the parking lot, and drove away.

As expected by the warden, Butcher refused all post-match interviews after the game. He rushed back to the locker room, kicked open the door and yelled, expressing his deep friendship with his teammates:
"Do you see, Warden, we couldn't beat the Pistons with you around, but without you, we won..."

In the end, all I saw was the TV set that hadn't been turned off, and the remote control that had been dropped on the ground and the batteries had fallen out...

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Time is a wonderful thing.

It makes the "team name" of the prison team more widely known. In the newly developed market of the NBA, there may be more people who know the "team name" of the prison team than the team name of the Trail Blazers.

The nickname of the warden is also more resounding, and the sales of the warden's second-generation boots have soared in recent days!
The nickname of the General is almost forgotten by people, and there is someone in Chicago who wants to grab this nickname, and the series of boots is nowhere in sight.

At the same time, the heat of the topic has gradually cooled down.

The time has come to March 3st, and a new month has arrived.

There is almost no room for hype about the warden KO Artest. Fans have already fought over what they should argue about. In fact, trying to create a new explosive point.

This morning the league announced the best of the month awards.

In terms of the best rookie of the month, Okafor averaged 13 points and 12 rebounds per game and regained the best rookie of the month in the East.

Regarding the best rookie of the month, the topic of media hype is that the west is strong and the east is weak.

Eastern Rookie of the Month Contenders: Okafor, Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, Nelson, Howard, Childress, Iguodala.

In the West, it is the turn of some teams' backup point guards. Udrih of the Spurs took it once, and now Telfair of the Rockets also took it once.

Best Coach of the Month, East: Stan Van Gundy, West: Don Nelson, the coach of the team with the best record in the East and West in February.

These two awards are not controversial. Even Telfair took advantage of Sura's injury and averaged 6.8 points and 6.3 assists in a single month to win the Rookie of the Month Award. There is indeed no rookie in the West this month. Play better.

But the Player of the Month controversy came...

小皇帝詹姆斯在2月份率队打出7胜6负的战绩，场均26分8.3板8.7助攻，拿下本赛季第二次东部月最佳球员奖。

The point of controversy is that Wade achieved a record of 2 wins and 9 losses in February. After playing against the Heat in February, he rushed to No. 3 in the Eastern Conference. Wade's monthly average of 2 points, 24 rebounds and 6.5 assists is not bad. .

But considering that the warden has already won the best player of the month award twice, James is qualified to win the best player of the month, and the league gave it, which is not surprising.

Just because it's not surprising doesn't mean there's no controversy.

Even more popular is the Western Conference Player of the Month Award.

Nowitzki beat Nash to win the award!

In February, Nowitzki led the Mavericks to a record of 2 wins and 11 losses, ranking first in the league in single-month winning percentage!

Nowitzki averaged 22.3 points, 8.7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1.3 blocks per game. The data is average. Liu Xiu and Nash have better data, and the gap in record cannot make up for the gap in data.

However, Nowitzki's data is just not good enough to see the value. He averaged only 2 minutes per game in February!

整个2月，诺维斯基投篮命中率51.9%、三分命中率41.7%、罚球命中率95%，生涯首次单月180命中率！
For an inside player who mainly shoots, his shooting percentage is too exaggerated.

Moreover, when Nowitzki needs to score points, such as playing against the Suns, although he lost, he scored a career-high 54 points!
Compared with other insiders of his type, Nowitzki has completely widened the gap by a grade.

Among the active insiders who use COSCO as their main scoring method and average 15+ points per game in their careers, only Wolf King and Tianzun have better shooting percentages than Nowitzki. These two are rare who can maintain 50 points all year round. % shooting-based power forward.

But the number of shots between these two is much less than that of Nowitzki.

Nowitzki's outstanding performance this month has also brought him into the eyes of the media and experts, who regard him as an MVP candidate.

And the most popular MVP is still Nash.

The topic that Nowitzki won the best player of the month is-the years when Nash and Nowitzki delayed each other.

...

The best award of the month is a summary of the previous competition month. Entering March, there is a new topic-the deadline for registration for the playoffs.

Before March 3 of each season, each team needs to submit a playoff entry list to the NBA official. Players who join each team after the deadline will not be eligible to play in the playoffs.

Therefore, in March every year, some veterans seek buyouts and join their favorite teams.

When this topic is mentioned, we have to talk about the trade deadline that did not attract much attention because of the Warden KO Artest.

Every year during the All-Star Weekend, many players apply for a trade. Like the Trail Blazers, Derek Anderson took the initiative to apply for a trade. Delfino and Lynch Hunter both expressed their willingness to accept being traded.

After playing for half a season, the players themselves know whether they want to leave or stay.

There is another group that is very special-veterans who want to go to a championship team, they want to go to a championship-level team.

Regardless of whether it is a young player or a veteran, only a very small number of players who apply for a trade can meet their requirements.

On February 2 this year, there was a transaction that not many people paid attention to at the time, but people were shocked and puzzled when they looked away from the warden.

On the morning of the trade deadline, the Spurs and the Knicks completed a buzzer trade, with the Spurs' Malik Rose and the Knicks' Nazr Mohammad swapping clubs.

Knicks general manager Isaiah Thomas was judged -- brains drowned in Manhattan waters?

Nazr Mohammed, the best leader role player in the league today, may not even have one.

The Knicks have been able to win relatively steadily in the past two years. Marbury must have taken the lead, but Muhammad also contributed.

Someone who knows the ball posted a prediction on the Internet-the Knicks will fall to the bottom without Muhammad.

Some fans also ridiculed-maybe Isaiah Thomas didn't want to delay this excellent player and sent him to the championship team so that he could play his due role.

Muhammad is not only strong in leadership, but also strong. He has played 54 games with the Knicks this season, averaging 11 points, 8 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block per game. After observing the Spurs lineup, you will find that Muhammad Mulder went to the Spurs to be the second-in-command insider. Only Duncan will definitely be better than him.

The Knicks have few high-quality contracts, but Isaiah Thomas exchanged the most valuable contract for Malik Rose, who has a long-term contract!

In the summer of 2002, the 28-year-old Malik Rose, who was at his peak, had just played a season with an average of 9.4 points and 6 rebounds per game. , Popovich felt that it was a good time to rush for the championship. Malik Rose's agent also saw the opportunity and asked for the longest 7-year long-term contract. , the now 7-year-old Malik Rose is obviously not worthy of the current annual salary of 31 million dollars, and this contract will not end until the 546-08 season, when his salary will reach 09 million dollars...

Just like no one expected Pat Riley to get rid of Bryan Grant's contract, no one expected Popovich to find a pick for Malik Rose!Judging from the Spurs lineup, they have strengthened an insider with an average of 11+8 per game without loss, and the team with the highest probability of winning the Western Conference has a more stable throne.

And there are not many players as good as Muhammad Ming, and even fewer veterans.

This year, after the All-Star Weekend and the trade deadline, few well-known veterans were traded. The reason is that few of these well-known veterans have low salaries. It is not easy to trade, and not all veterans are as good as the 34-year-old Payton. With an average of 20+8 per game, it can also be used to trade to Ray Allen.

But if they insist on changing teams, there is another way-buy out!
Players who can complete the buyout are generally veterans of bad teams with big contracts. The players sacrifice part of their salary; the team buys out the contract to increase the success rate of bad teams and save part of their salary.

There are many such veterans in the league, and there are many who are willing to give up part of their salary to go to a strong team, but whether there is a strong team is another matter.

Therefore, veterans are often very cautious when seeking buyouts. Even if the team gives them permission to contact other teams, they will rarely propose a buyout. The age and the less money they get will definitely not reach the salary they can get next.

But this year, at the beginning of March, a veteran decisively completed the buyout!
The Hornets officially announced-I am very grateful to Van Horn for providing experience to the team's young players and contributing to the team's reconstruction. Now both sides have their own goals. It is a pity but happy to end this period of time long cooperation.

Van Horn, who was in the same class as Duncan and McGrady, got a contract with the same maximum salary as the two in the summer of 2000.

According to the latest news published on the NBA official website, Van Horn gave up the remaining salary of $477 million for this season, and part of the salary for next season. , Completed the buyout of the remaining contracts at a price of 467 million US dollars.

It is no surprise that Van Horn bought out. Van Horn did not want to play in the Hornets, and the Hornets did not want to stay. They exchanged Baron Davis for Van Exel and Magloire for Van Horn, obviously doesn't want to win.

But after giving up two years of middle-level salary, the team Van Horn joined surprised people!

The Trail Blazers officially announced the joining of Van Horn!The two parties will cooperate until the end of this season!
The Trail Blazers, which had just dropped in popularity, once again became the center of the topic, not as hot as the previous few days, but this time it was a serious topic.

...

"We usually come to sit here during the intermission... The burgers here are delicious, and the butcher will eat one before every game...Here, Keith, let me introduce you, Mr. Tony , I think he's the best hairdresser in Portland with a cropped haircut, short cut, he has to be..."

"Warden, I told you that my name is not Teacher Tony, but Wormsweet..."

"Good teacher Tony."

"..."

Liu Xiu took Van Horn around the Rose Garden Arena.

What a surprise!

His teammates went to play three consecutive away, but he didn't go, he was in the arena rolling iron.

Squeezing, the vice president and the general manager brought Van Horn to the training ground and told him that this was a new teammate.

At that time, Liu Xiu, who was lying down and practicing core muscles, turned over + Thomas jumped up!
"Keith Van Horn, 29 years old, 208 cm, 104 kg, PF, ability evaluation 78, offense 85, defense 62... In the Hornets stage of the 2004-2005 season, he played 30 games and averaged 22.6 minutes per game. 12.2 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2 assists, 0.6 steals... Shooting 47.2% from the field, 38.5% from the three-point range, 86.2% from the free throw..."

Now Liu Xiu took a look at Van Horn's player detection report and was still very excited.

They lack the inside line that can be drawn beyond the three-point line and focus on long-range shooting, which is gradually becoming popular. They used to use Raheem to cover it, but Raheem is actually more suitable for inside work as a power forward. So fast It's a pity to pull out his footsteps and make a three-pointer.

Now, there is finally a functional insider who is good at this!

He had long heard that the team had a signing target, but he didn't expect it to be Van Horn!

He was very curious, what magic trick did the vice president use to abduct Van Horn back?That's awesome!
He couldn't think of the reason for Van Horn's joining at all, but the big dog in his eyes went to meet Van Horn in person, and the latter was so excited that he agreed to join on the spot.

When Liu Xiu took Van Horn to familiarize himself with the arena, he did not hide his joy and excitement for Van Horn's joining. Van Horn didn't talk much, he just said a few more words.

As for Van Horn, the first time he met Liu Xiu in private, he had a very good first impression of Liu Xiu.

Handsome looks, active and familiar personality, polite conversation, each item makes Van Horn, who likes to make friends but has a slight social fear, feel very comfortable.

Color control does not distinguish between men and women.

Mainly there is contrast and contrast.

The warden in the news description - vicious, violent, unqualified, vengeful...

But what Van Horn, who has the attributes of a dog, saw was a handsome, lazy young talent who was suspended but was still training hard!

Before, he thought Liu Xiu was a very cruel person. He had watched the video of Liu Xiu fighting with the Pistons, and the video of Liu Xiu KO Artest.

Now, he thinks, the Pistons players are beaten, so they have no problem at all?They are the successors of the bad boy army!

Although the picture of Artest being KO is terrible, it is Artest who took the initiative to pick things up, and most of the responsibility should be on Artest...

Before, his good friend McDyess told him that the warden was not that scary and easy to get along with, but he didn't really believe it.

Now he believes it!
As for what McDyess said, 'but don't think that the warden is a warm and warm-hearted man just because of his appearance and politeness', Van Horn, as a Yan dog, ignored it.

The arena was almost finished, and Liu Xiu sent an invitation to Van Horn: "Keith, do you have any plans tonight? If not, come to my house for dinner? My family just bought a very good Kobe steak by air today."

"Sorry, warden, I have to go back and help my wife clean up the house. I can't go today." Van Horn declined Liu Xiu's kindness.

Liu Xiu nodded: "It's a pity, then I'll go first, today I will be responsible for picking up my sister home from school."

"Okay, after my house is packed, please come to my house for dinner..."

After Liu Xiu left, Van Horn went to the office area and said goodbye to the vice president and general manager. He said he was going home to help his wife clean up the house. It was true. They just rented an apartment yesterday.

It is rare for a player to come home to say goodbye.

The vice president recalled that the last time this happened, he was still an assistant coach, when Liu Xiu first reported to the Rose Garden Arena.

The vice president asked, "Keith, how is our arena? How does it feel to be in Portland?"

Van Horn is in a good mood: "I like it here very much. The early spring in this city is great. It's not as cold as Milwaukee and Rutherford, and it's not as dry as New Orleans. The arena is also very good and the facilities are very advanced. I think I'm going to have a great playoff run."

He wants to go to a winning team and a happy team. The Trail Blazers must be a winning team. If he stays happy, he is very happy now.

He is very special. He was predicted to be the top three pick in 1996, but he refused to participate in the draft because his child was just learning to walk and he chose to go to college for another year to accompany his child's growth. He likes that half of the year in Toronto is covered with ice and snow. He likes places with flowers, grass, birds and fish, and Portland has them all.

And he is very emotional. When he saw Paul Allen, an idol entrepreneur he admired, he agreed to join without saying a word.

He feels that he has already made a lot of money, the way he spends it, the money he earns he can spend his whole life, and if he loses a little money, go to a team that makes him happy, a city that makes him like, he feel worth it.

The vice president learned from McDyess that Van Horn is a strange man who always has a better impression of good-looking people, so he asked Liu Xiu to receive McDyess. Hit it!

"Keith, if you have time in the future, you can teach Jess some techniques. He has a strong learning ability, and he is quite a good person. Unlike what the reporters wrote, he won't hit his teammates with a baton."

Van Horn replied: "Of course, I will. If he needs it, I will definitely help him polish his skills."

The vice president nodded, thinking that McDyess was right, the introduction of Van Horn would help the team in many ways.

Van Horn said with emotion: "The young players today are different from ours at that time. At that time, we all graduated from college before entering the NBA. Many young players now enter the NBA at the age of eighteen or nineteen and make money. I started to get lost, and it is rare to see someone as talented, hardworking, polite and humble as the warden."

The vice president is in a mess, he doesn't know whether he should complain about Van Horn's "beauty of the past and the present", or complain about the warden's hard work and humility?
(End of this chapter)