Chapter 175 The players who left
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"That was a lucky draw. I would never believe that he could still shoot like that. Yes, we did lose in this game, but this does not mean that my performance is worse than him, nor do I think that the Jazz are a team that is better than us, we are a team with stronger overall strength, and we have the ability to enter the finals again."
"Will the evaluation of him change? I have no comments on him. He is a very good scoring player and a very good lucky scoring player. I wish he can always have such luck in his career in NBA."
The Jazz and the Bulls' match, with Lin Han's extremely domineering final victory, helped the team defeat the Bulls, the next day, almost as everyone could expect, Lin Han became the focus of major American media, not only newspaper media, but also TV media such as ABC and CBS. Almost everyone in the United States has set their attention in this game.
After all, the attention of this game was too high, and Lin Han's popularity was too strong. Just like after Lin Han used this celebration move, Lin Han knew that things might be far beyond his imagination.
Because in Lin Han's opinion, although he doesn't know what level of player Arenas is, according to his evaluation of being just a bronze legendary player, perhaps his strength has reached the level of quasi-superstar or superstar, but his popularity and other aspects are definitely not that outstanding. At least compared with Lin Han, that is really impossible to compare with Lin Han. After all, after Jordan left, although Lin Han is far from the top five, and even the top five may not be able to rank in the top five, in terms of popularity, Lin Han is now a player in the general trend of the NBA. As long as Lin Han grows normally, there will be almost no doubts about replacing Jordan in the future.
Lin Han can be said to be the number one balloon star in the NBA now, and even in the entire American professional sports circle. This Chinese player is also very famous. It is a rare event in a decade for such an extremely domineering young rookie in the American professional sports circle. In this case, the effect of Arenas completing this action in the game is completely different from that of Lin Han completing this action in the game.
Just like Lin Han performed the performance of more than 30 seconds and 13 minutes, known as the Miracle Moment, if Lin Han faced the Bucks, even if it was 30 seconds and 20 minutes, it would not be affected by the Knicks. Of course, 30 seconds and 20 minutes are naturally impossible. Therefore, when Lin Han looked at Pippen and was thinking of humiliating himself at the last moment, he had almost no hesitation. After using Arenas' three-point jump shot to make a final shot, he used Arenas's early celebration action.
Nothing else, it is to hype the game to the hottest end. Since Pippen can hype when the game has not started, Lin Han can also hype after the game is over. Everyone's ideas are the same. Pippen thought he would win at the time, while Lin Han had already won.
But what Lin Han never expected was that he could already predict that he would be very hot after he made that action, but in the end, the hotness was beyond his imagination, and it really exceeded his imagination.
Similarly, this also made the Bulls team, especially Pippen, very embarrassed at this time. As Lin Han's opponent in this game against the Jazz, it was indeed very uncomfortable to be shot by Lin Han continuously in the game, but as a defensive player, who dares to say that he has not been shot by Yan in the game? So, although this makes him embarrassed, just like a warrior who has always had to leave a few scars on his body, this can also be regarded as an honor.
So, if it weren't for Lin Han's final moments that defiant kill, he wouldn't even think that many people would remember Lin Hanyan's shot in this game, or even remember that he was the mid-range jump shot in front of Lin Han, and only remember that he scored 26 points, 13 assists, 11 rebounds, 4 steals, 3 blocks, and super all-round triple-double data in this game. However, in the end, everything was ruined by Lin Han's last goal in this game.
When the Bulls player appeared in the post-match press conference or was interviewed in the locker room, these people didn't ask him anything about his own performance in the game. Everyone was asking about Lin Han's final kill, because it was simple, Pippen was the best background board for this final kill.
After Lin Han took action, the action of turning around to celebrate in advance happened next to him. The next day, almost all newspaper headlines were used by Lin Han turning around and raising his hands to celebrate in advance. The Bulls No. 33 player standing next to Lin Han with a shocked and fearful look on his face was Pippen. It can be said that these guys didn't ask who Pippen asked?
Many media don’t like Lin Han, but this does not prevent them from hyping this history when Lin Han created history. Before, they really hoped that Pippen could defeat Lin Han, so that he could create a lot of news. But it is obvious that the news that Lin Han created now is much more valuable than the news that Pippen defeated Lin Han, so in the end, he can only feel aggrieved by the second master of Pippen.
It is estimated that after the game, looking at the newspapers from major media across the United States the next day, the Bulls's leading player would definitely vomit blood.
Of course, the day after the game ended, media across the United States were reporting wildly about Lin Han's extremely domineering final victory the day before.
So when Lin Han and the team boarded the plane early the next morning to prepare to return to Utah, they were also shocked by this situation. After all, although Lin Han was very popular before, this is a fact. Many media that focus on comprehensiveness have basically made the front page headlines. However, when some economic and political media such as the Wall Street Journal also reported Lin Han yesterday's game, Lin Han was really incredible, even other Jazz players who were bored reading newspapers on the plane were also bored.
"Lin, it seems you are really going to be popular this time!"
"Hahaha. Didn't Lin become popular long ago? But this time it's just more popular."
"Yes, if the All-Star vote is postponed for a few days, the boss might get more than 1.5 million votes. I'm excited to think about it, hahaha."
After finishing the away trip to the East, the Jazz embarked on the return journey with a three-game winning streak, which is a very happy thing. Of course, the reason why Jazz players can do this at this time is that the team's head coach Jerry Sloan has been confirmed to be the head coach of the NBA All-Star Game Western Conference. This is also the first time this Jazz head coach has become the head coach of the All-Star Game in his coaching career.
Although Jerry Sloan is really a serious head coach, I have to say that after the league confirmed this matter, the Jazz's head coach has always smiled today.
Jerry Sloan is no stranger to the NBA All-Stars during his player age. As a legendary player of the Bulls, he has been to the All-Stars during his player age, but this is the first time as a head coach.
After coaching for the Bulls for a season, he was swept out because of his poor record. The Jazz came to serve as an assistant coach for the then legendary Jazz coach Frank Rayden. Just because of the introduction of his fellow brother, Frank Johnson, that Jerry Sloan was abandoned by the Bulls and he really didn't know where his future was. After Frank Johnson left the Bulls, he came to the Jazz to serve as an assistant to Frank Rayden. At that time, the Kings fell in love with Frank Johnson's ability and asked him to coach the Kings. When he left the Jazz, he recommended Jerry Sloan to Frank Rayden.
But I didn't expect that in just a few years, the head coach who was swept out by the Bulls would achieve such achievements after Frank Rayden retired. Of course, this is also inseparable from the reward he ordered when Frank Rayden retired. This is also why Jerry Sloan and now Jazz General Manager Scott Rayden have been quarreling on many issues but have a good relationship, because Frank Rayden is Scott Rayden's father. After Frank Rayden retired, the head coach position was passed to Jerry Sloan, and the general manager position was passed to his son.
Of course, this is also the reason why Jerry Sloan would be so happy after defeating his old club in the Bulls and being crowned the All-Star Head Coach in the League. If he hadn't known that Jerry Sloan was really a model of ** [Silk] counterattack, Lin Han heard the coaching experience of his head coach from Stockton and Malone today, and was really exclaimed. This guy is definitely the protagonist mode in the novel. When the Bulls had the legendary coach Mota as their mentor, and after the failure, Feier Johnson was helped by his good friend. After coming to the Jazz, he had the reward of his mentor Rayden. Along the way, in addition to encountering some setbacks in the Bulls' first season, Jerry Sloan's life was simply perfect. Even if he failed in the Bulls, it might not be that he was the protagonist because of the need to attract hatred. Isn't many Cavalier novels the protagonist being ridiculed and despised by all kinds of people as soon as he appeared?
At this time, the successful counterattack of the Bulls made Jerry Sloan very fast [sense], and the unexpected side of Feier Jackson would definitely be a little depressed. It was his turn to go to the All-Star Game this season to prove that he could succeed without Jordan. At this time, he lost to the Jazz at home, directly down the Bulls' ranking from the second before to third place. After defeating the Knicks, the first in the Eastern Conference, he succeeded. As the head coach of the Hawks, Wilkens, made a counterattack of Feier Jackson on the last day of the league's All-Star coach, replaced Feier Jackson and became the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star Game.
This is probably why after the end of this game, at the post-match press conference, Feier Jackson, who has always been very temperamental, was very unhappy with Lin Han. He really couldn't get happy. Lin Han directly smashed him to prove himself.
Now I'm afraid the Bulls coach will have to coach with Jordan's shadow for a while now.
Of course, in addition to announcing the All-Star head coach today, as a new game newly established by NBA All-Star All-Star Rookie Tournament, the NBA official also selected the game mode for the outside world and NBA players some time ago.
The new game system has not been determined. Perhaps it is because the popularity of the two rookies Lin Han and Hardaway is really the top ranking in the history of the NBA. In addition, there is a super newcomer insider like Chris Webber who can compete with Admiral and Olajuwon as soon as they enter the league. It can be said that the league is very concerned about the newly established game this year, because if it is done well, it is very likely to create a game that is not as influential as the All-Star Game. After all, in the United States, not everyone likes to watch adult games. For example, NCAA has always been more popular than NBA. As rookies, most of these players have just come from NCAA. It can be said that they are all young players of NCAA and are extremely influential among NCAA fans.
It can be said that a large part of NBA's All-Star rookie game is one of David Stern's ambitions. This guy not only founded the Thanksgiving battle and NFL to grab the audience like NFL, but also was preparing to pry NCAA's corner to attract a lot of fans from NCAA.
In this case, the All-Star Rookie Championship must be held in the first quarter. For this reason, the president of the league did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to advertise, hoping to get the best game system from outside. A while ago, although most people have focused their attention on the Jazz because of the Jazz. In fact, in addition to the Jazz's winning streak, another major event for the NBA is the hosting of the All-Star Rookie Championship and the game system.
Finally, today, the NBA League finally selected one of the suggestions from tens of thousands of suggestions. The latest All-Star Rookie Tournament held by the NBA will divide all rookies into legends and challenge teams. The two teams will respectively assign a former legend player in the league and current superstar player to become the team's head coach. The former legend player of the NBA is naturally coaching the legendary team, while the current superstar player coaches the challenge team. Then the head coaches of the two teams will select 8 players from all the NBA rookies by drawing lots, and a total of 16 players will become the team's players, and each team will assign a captain.
According to the rules of the game, each team originally had 10 players, 8 of which were NBA players and 2 NCAA players. The coaches and captains of the two teams each invited an NCAA active player to participate. However, in the face of such blatant poaching behavior of David Stern and NBA, the NCAA League naturally refused directly. It was a joke, sending its own players to NBA to participate in any rookie match to increase popularity for NBA. They have no benefits, and only fools will do it. Moreover, the date of the NBA All-Star Game is the NCAA game date.
So after being rejected by the NCAA League, David Stern was not embarrassed. After all, not all NBA players are composed of NCAA players. Isn’t there another group? NBA high school students can also directly participate in the draft. For many talented high school students, especially talented high school students who do not want to go to college to participate in the draft directly, it is extremely tempting to have an all-star stage to show their strength.
Therefore, after being rejected by the NCAA League, David Stern directly focused his attention on these high school students and players, turning the players who each invited by the head coach and captain of the two teams from NCAA players to invited high school students.
That's right, this year's NBA's first All-Star Rookie Tournament will be a confrontation between NBA rookies and high school students and geniuses. You should know that in the United States, NCAA is said to be more popular than NBA. Some high school players are also not as popular as many NBA stars or even superstars. For example, the super genius Allen Iverson of Virginia High School, who has been very popular recently. This guy is now an existence that is no worse than some first-line NBA stars in terms of popularity.
Therefore, David Stern wanted to poach fans from NCAA or the high school league, and this replacement was very correct.
In the previously announced head coach list for today's first rookie challenge today, former Celtic legendary superstar Larry Bird became the first legendary head coach. Last year, the NBA regular season MVP Barkley, the Suns superstar who is likely to miss the All-Star Game due to injury will become the head coach of the challenge team.
And after the two draws the lottery, Barkley has the right to select players first. The Suns superstar ignored the No. 1 seed player Lin Han and directly selected Anthony Hardaway as the No. 2 seed, and appointed Hardaway as the captain. As for Lin Han, he was selected by Larry Bird, who was later selected.
After the two head coaches were selected, the members of the Barkley Challenge team were: Hardaway Chris Webber, Sean Bradley, Isaiah Lydel Winbeck, Lynch Hunter, George Lynch and Kukoc. The team leader was Magic player Hardaway.
As for the legendary team selected by Larry Bird, in addition to Lin Han, there are also Marshburn, Calbert Chaney Rodney Rodney, Alan Houston, Van Eksel and Dinoladia and Brian Russell. As for the captain of the Legendary team, Lin Han is naturally.
So, when he got the news from the newspaper early this morning that he became the captain of the legendary team of this year's rookie tournament, Lin Han was speechless. He really didn't think that he would become the captain one day. He also didn't expect that he would even choose his own high school teammate.
As a newcomer who had never been in contact with basketball in high school before, Lin Han is not from a prestigious basketball school. In this case, Lin Han had any connections in the high school basketball industry, and even knew no one, which made him really not know how to choose.
However, according to Aili's meaning, because the All-Star Rookie Tournament is held in the first session, there will be a special reward for winning the MVP. If Lin Han has the chance, try to get it as much as possible.
Of course, Lin Han really seemed to be unable to find anyone at this time to choose a high school genius as his teammate, which made him a little upset. After he returned to Utah, such troubles soon disappeared.
Because Adidas came to tell Lin Han about a huge news, after the last Jazz and Bulls game, Lin Han's sneakers bookings increased significantly again. You know, Lin Han's Miracle Generation will be on sale on February 1st, and it is now January 31st. Adidas stores have shipped a few days ago. In this case, it is basically impossible to make reservations, because there is no need to book today, and major Adidas stores will be able to buy spot stock tomorrow.
What surprised Lin Han was that the news from Adidas was that these fans who booked again did not want to book the authentic products of Miracle Generation, but hoped that Adidas could produce the special version of Lin Han's Miracle Generation. What special version? It is very simple. After the final victory between Lin Han and the Bulls, they turned around in advance to celebrate the back of their backs. There are still many people who have such a request.
In this case, Adidas has already started to do it again. After these guys told Lin Han about this, Lin Han was really happy. Although the fans that this special version can attract are definitely not as good as the genuine one, the number of fans who are loyal to Lin Han and some fans who have a grudge against the Bulls is definitely not the same. At this time, Lin Han really thinks whether to play this kind of thing frequently in front of some super teams in the future? Of course, this is just thinking about it. After all, this kind of thing is not something that Lin Han can control, and luck accounts for a large part of the reason.
Of course, even if Lin Han wants to play a few more times at special moments like the Knicks and the Bulls, it is a fantasy, but there is a fantasy that has become a reality at this time, that is, the most important thing in the news brought by Adidas is that, except for those who book and cancel the reservation, Lin Han’s Miracle Generation’s global reservation number exceeds 850,000 pairs, of which the reservation volume for the United States is 500,000 pairs, of which Europe and Asia are 300,000 pairs in total. Especially what surprised Lin Han was that even China booked more than 10,000 pairs. You should know that Adidas officially opened a specialty store in mainland China not long ago.
With China's current economic conditions, not everyone can afford a pair of shoes worth more than 1,000 yuan. But no matter what, Lin Han Miracle Generation's pre-selling sales of 850,000 pairs on Adidas promotion have been achieved, which is a sales of over 100 million US dollars, which is very close to Jordan's 130 million sales that year. No one even doubts that Lin Han's sneakers will definitely surpass Jordan's in terms of sales.
Of course, the Jordan generation was able to reach 130 million in that era, which is not comparable to the current 130 million. However, no matter what, this can be regarded as Lin Han's huge commercial success, which also means that Adidas has officially gained a foothold in the United States. Although they rely on the energy of their own company but the Miracle Company that cooperated with Lin Han, no matter what, the success of Nike's use of the Jordan brand as a pioneer back then was also a copycat.
Now for Adidas, they want to make Adidas surpass Nike or the Miracle brand surpass Jordan brand. The only thing they can do now is to wait and see what step Lin Han can grow into in the future. Of course, in addition to waiting, another thing is to pave the way for Lin Han and to maximize Lin Han’s performance on the court into commercial interests.
As for Lin Han now, his influence and performance in the game have not been completely transformed into commercial interests, and he may not even have half of it. It is really far from Nike's development of Jordan.
Of course, from Adidas, I know that my current sneaker brand and my Miracle Sports Brand Company, which owns 50% shares, have now begun to slowly catch up with the news of the Jordan brand. This is very exciting for Lin Han, so the next day, on February 1, when Lin Han went to the team, he was in a mood.
However, when Lin Han came to the team, he found that the expressions on most Jazz players' faces were not very good at this time, or everyone's faces were a little gloomy at this time, and even Karl Malone, who has always been a little calm at this time.
Soon, Lin Han thought of something in his mind. When Lin Han glanced at the team's locker room and found that the cabinet that originally belonged to Jeff Malone, the nameplate of Jeff Malone on the cabinet was removed, Lin Han knew why Malone and Stockton looked a little ugly at this time.
Jeff Malone was traded!
After Lin Han looked around, he also found that the nameplate of several Jazz players was also taken away, such as the team's former starting center Spencer, and the team's substitute swinger Humphries is still the team's former starting small forward Bennot. All the nameplate of these guys is gone.
Obviously, this transaction should have happened early this morning. Before Lin Han came to the team, I'm afraid that these players who were traded had already come to the team to say hello and then moved all their things away.
As a player of the league's first record team, unless you take the initiative to ask for a trade, just like Jeff Malone, if other players are forced to trade, it will basically be a shameless thing to see others.
Of course, Lin Han naturally would not think that Stockton and Malone were sad for other players at this time. For this team, these players sent away by trade were probably Jeff Malone's departure, which made people feel extremely sad.
After all, this guy has really been recognized by everyone in the team. At least as a competitor, Lin Han doesn't want him to leave. It's just like the previous announcement that the three All-Star starters were selected. Although the All-Star substitute lineup was not announced, Jeff Malone had basically no hope of entering in the data. Lin Han could clearly see a lot of regrets from Jeff Malone.
For most NBA players, pursuing championships is a lifelong pursuit, but this does not mean that these players must give up everything for the championship. For Jeff Malone, he still has a lot to pursue. At least, this shooting guard who is a little older still has ambition.
"Where was Jeff traded?"
Lin Han finally sat in his seat helplessly and asked dejectedly.
"Nets"
After getting the answer from Stockton, Lin Han nodded as well.
This is NBA, and all he can do now is to wish this competitor all the best. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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