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Chapter 288 Returning to Detroit

Early the next morning, Xiao Hua held a press conference and announced the results of Li Xun's punishment.

The Suns' Morris was suspended for three games, and Morris Jr. was suspended for two games.

Li Xun is suspended for five games.

This belongs to playing fifty big boards each.

Obviously, this punishment plan is extremely biased towards Li Xun.

The reporters are not surprised, after all, this is the treatment that Chaoju should be treated.

There are some stars whose foreheads are bleeding from the elbows, and they don't even get suspended.

Li Xun is now suspended for five games, which is not unacceptable.

It's just that the Morris brothers are a little sad. They made such a big scandal in front of fans all over the world, and they had to be suspended in the end.

After hearing the punishment result, Li Xun was all smiles.

Stern is still very good, this punishment plan is to be treated lightly, at least it is much lighter than Li Xun thought.

Li Xun originally estimated that he would be suspended for at least ten games, but now there are only five games. Of course he is happy.

In the next five games, the Mavericks will face strong and weak opponents.

The strong ones are the Thunder in the west and the Raptors in the east, and the weak ones are weak chickens at the level of the Bucks and Wizards.

The fifth game was also played against a weak team, which was the Charlotte Bobcats.

This year, Jordan directly acquired the shares of the big owner of the Bobcats. Now Jordan is no longer a small boss, he is the owner with the largest shareholding of the Bobcats.

Because this is an away game, Li Xun came back from a suspension, so he came to Charlotte with him.

"Lee, do you know?"

"I'm so happy right now."

After the game, Jordan specially invited Li Xun to have a meal, and chatted with Li Xun during the dinner.

Li Xun was puzzled. In the game just now, the Bobcats were hanged up by the Mavericks, so how can Jordan feel lucky?

"It's not the game just now."

"If you lose the game, you lose. This year we are going to do it again."

"So it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, as long as you don't let you play that kind of monster-level data."

Jordan waved his hand and said indifferently.

"I'm fortunate that I traded the second pick to the Pistons before."

"Otherwise, I will really fall into the public opinion that is beyond redemption now."

"It's beyond my expectation that that guy can swim to that extent."

"I'll tell you the truth, in fact, if I had the second pick, I would definitely choose that guy."

Jordan felt like a doomed survivor.

I have already proved twice that the draft vision is "sinister", but I don't want to do it for the third time.

Of course Li Xun knew who Jordan was talking about, and whoever it was if it wasn't the parallel importer.

To be reasonable, it is indeed relatively rare for parallel imports to reach his level.

"Michael, I think it's better for you not to get involved in the future draft."

"Leave this kind of thing to professionals, and you can concentrate on being your boss."

"If you really choose another parallel importer, at least you won't have to take the blame."

Li Xun persuaded with a wry smile.

Jordan was immediately dissatisfied, "Li, what you said is too ugly."

"What is a professional person? How many people in this league can be more professional than me?"

"I'm just unlucky."

"Look, this time the performance is bad, I have to choose the next strong newcomer."

Jordan said confidently.

Li Xun almost cried, but fortunately Jordan is not his boss, otherwise it would be really uncomfortable.

Under normal circumstances, this season, the Bobcats played the second-worst record in the league, and then drew a No. [-] pick.

With the No. [-] pick, Jordan used it to select Cody Zeller.

Generally speaking, when it comes to the position of the fourth position, it is rare to describe it as a commodity, but if Zeller really wants to talk about it, he definitely does not match the status of the fourth position.

It seems that his entire career can only be regarded as a qualified rotation player.

But the Zeller family is quite interesting. The three brothers have all entered the NBA. The eldest brother played for the Suns, and the second brother played for the Cavaliers. However, none of the three brothers achieved any dazzling results.

According to Li Xun's guess, Jordan chose Zeller with the fourth pick, which must have the influence of the previous two drafts.

Kwame Brown is an athletic big man, right?

Adam Morrison is a white guy who can shoot, right?
This time, he simply took the essence and discarded the dross, and directly chose Zeller, a big white man with a height of 213 cm, excellent athletic ability and ability to shoot.

It turned out that Jordan still took it for granted, the draft is not that simple.

This is not a math problem where one plus one equals two.

So Li Xun's advice is correct, this kind of thing still has to be left to professionals.

But to be reasonable, Jordan is not to blame for not picking a good player in this draft.

Generally, the sins that belong to Jordan's draft will only be taken out of Kwame Brown, Morrison, and Gilchrist, the second place in the parallel import list.

Instead of taking Zeller out as a crime.

The main reason for this is that there are not many high-ranking talents in this draft.

The top ten picks can really be called talents, and only second place Oladipo, No. 10 Otto Porter and No. [-] pick McCollum.

The embarrassing thing is that talent belongs to talent, and of the three, only Oladipo has been selected to the All-Star team, and neither Porter nor McCollum have been in the All-Star team.

In other words, there is only one All-Star in the top ten picks.

Everyone chose water, so of course it can't just blame Jordan for his bad vision.

To blame the bad environment.

If it weren't for the emergence of many first-line stars in the follow-up draft, this 2013 draft will definitely become the most tragic rookie.

It is impossible for any rookie class to have only one All-Star in the top ten.

Most importantly, Bennett, the most watered champion in NBA history, is the champion of this session.

The last No. 01 pick in the draft was parallel imports, Kwame Brown in [-]. At that time, there were three All-Stars in the top ten picks: Chandler, Jiasao and singles Joe.

The last one was Olowokandi in 98, so there are more All-Stars in the top ten this time, Bibby, Jamison, Carter, Nowitzki, Pierce.

Others who have become talented are the anti-aircraft gun LaFrentz, the defensive steal king Larry Hughes, and Bai Qiao.

It is equivalent to saying that in this draft, the No. 98 pick and No. 96 pick Traylor did not become talents. If we only look at the success rate of the top ten picks, the success rate of [-]% in [-] is even higher than that in [-].

In such a comparison, the top ten picks in 13 are really eye-catching.

Li Xun really wants to persuade Jordan that any season can be bad, but this season should not be bad.

Because if you get the top ten picks after a poor performance, you are basically doomed. It is better to play well and get a pick after the top ten picks, and you may be able to select decent players.

But after thinking about it, the Bobcats' current damn strength, they put it nicely, is deliberately showing off.

To put it bluntly, they are a super bad team, and they don't need to be shown at all.

"Hey, Michael, then I can only bless you."

"I wish you the best luck in picking the next good player in the coming year."

Li Xun said with a sigh.

"Huh? Who said I would choose?"

"I'm going to continue to trade with the Pistons, and now I'm looking at their point guard."

"Curry probably won't be able to change it, but that Dragic can definitely be changed."

"To be honest, the Parsons I traded with you last time is really good."

"If you want to talk about strength, I'm sure I won't put it in my eyes, but this guy is very popular with women. The number of female fans at home for the Bobcats has skyrocketed."

"The number of female fans has increased, and by the way, more male fans have come to watch the game."

"I think that Dragic is not bad, and his strength is also very good, so he just got it."

Li Xun was speechless, what is Jordan doing?
A whole troop of Charlotte male models?
He never expected that Jordan would become addicted to poaching corners of the Pistons.

Parsons' strength is definitely nothing in the eyes of players like Jordan.

But because the Bobcats have no offensive points in the team now, he can also get an average of 20 points per game.

Averaging 20 points per game and being handsome, Parsons is now Jordan's baby bump.

Such a baby bump is better than a draft pick.

Now Jordan still continues to think about the Pistons, thinking about getting a high draft pick, and then continue to dig the Pistons players.

Li Xun sighed. It seemed that the little family background he had accumulated in the Pistons was about to be defeated by Gers.

If the Bobcats really get the No. [-] pick, Li Xun can guarantee that Gers will definitely agree to the trade. After all, a replacement point guard for the No. [-] pick is a good deal.

But the premise of not losing money is that the No. [-] pick can select decent players.

Compared with Zeller, Dragic has at least double the value.

The most frightening thing is that in case Howard does not renew his contract next season, Gers may use this draft pick to select a big center.

At that time, his most likely choice is the original No. [-] pick Alex Len.

If Zeller's No. [-] pick can barely accept it, then Alex Len can't accept it anyway.

By then the piston will be completely cold.

Thinking of this, Li Xun couldn't help but sigh. This feeling is like being a parent, watching his child go on the wrong path.

Just in the next game, the Mavericks will play away against the Pistons.

Li Xun's mood is extremely complicated, and he doesn't know how the fans there will treat him after returning to Detroit.

Fortunately, after I left, there was no burning of the jersey.

Maybe Dumars' press conference at that time really played a very important role.

After eating with Jordan, Li Xun returned to the hotel, tossing and turning, and didn't sleep well all night.

From the second day onwards, various media outlets have begun to report on this upcoming battle of focus.

The Mavericks challenge the Dynasty Pistons away!

So far, the Mavericks have played a total of seven games. When Li Xun was in the first two games, they won all of them.

After Li Xun was suspended for five games, the Mavericks won three games.

That is to say, they won the next three underdogs, and lost all the games against the Thunder and Raptors.

Losing to the Thunder wasn't much of a surprise.

After all, the Thunder is now the leader in the Western Conference and can enter the finals.

And it would be a pity to lose to the Raptors.

Because of Li Xun's absence, the Mavericks' inside line was somewhat stretched, and was overwhelmed by the combination of Jordan and Bosh's inside line.

Even though the outside Pistons played well with the trio, they failed to win the Raptors in the end.

With a record of 5 wins and 2 losses, at least Mavericks fans are quite satisfied with the current record.

As for the Triple Crown Pistons, they also played seven games.

Curry was injured in the first game and recuperated for several games, just in time for the next game against the Mavericks to come back.

The Pistons have only won four games in seven games and are currently only ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference.

This ranking is really embarrassing.

You must know that when Li Xun was there, the Pistons had absolute dominance in the East.

For three consecutive seasons, they have a terrifying record of 70 wins.

Now that Gers is so disturbed, the Pistons can only play such a half-dead record, which is really speechless.

Rivers Jr. has successfully proved that embarrassment is useful.

It's okay for him to be a substitute, but it's really not good for him to start.

Especially now that he is just a rookie and immature in every way.

The lob passed to Howard was almost unsuccessful, and Howard was almost fainted.

As for Gilchrist, the second place in the parallel import list, he is getting more and more troubled now, and he feels like he has resigned himself to his fate.

Averaged 35.2% shooting and scored 7.7 points per game, even if he wanted to accept his fate.

All in all, the Pistons are a total mess, and the vibe is pretty weird.

When Li Xun was around, he could hold down those top players. Now that Li Xun is gone, these top players have their own ideas.

Howard has already given birth to the idea of ​​running, so there is no need to play so hard, at least there is no need to work too hard in the regular season.

In terms of laziness, he has won the essence of O'Neill.

Leonard is such a boring gourd, he certainly can't be counted on to control the situation.

Curry's baby face is not the boss of the Pistons now, and he can't convince the public at all.

Cousins ​​has no brains, and he's fine if he doesn't make trouble.

As for the Serb brothers Vucevic and Dragic, the two of them are limp and honest.

So this Piston is showing more and more signs of falling apart.

……

At eight o'clock in the evening, the much-anticipated game between the Mavericks and the Pistons began.

The reason for the attention.

In addition to Li Xun's battle against his old club, there is also a reason for a strong dialogue.

Even though the Pistons got off to a bad start, many people still think that the current Pistons are very strong.

After the Mavericks got Li Xun, they were also regarded as the team in the West that could overwhelm the Thunder.

This game is regarded by many as a preview of the finals.

Of course, this is only one of the possibilities. The teams that have a chance to enter the Finals this year include the Heat and Pistons in the East, and the Thunder and Mavericks in the West.

"Li Xun!"

"Li Xun!"

"Welcome home!"

"Welcome our heroes!"

As soon as Li Xun walked out of the locker room passage, overwhelming cheers came from his ears.

It's as if it's the same as when I didn't leave.

It was an away game, but the cheers were even more passionate than at home.

No wonder the fans are so excited, Li Xun is the player who brought the Pistons a dynasty.

Although they left, no one blamed Li Xun, because they felt that it was Geers' fault.

So some fans even feel that they owe Li Xun a lot.

There are even some extreme fans who simply don't watch the Pistons game to express their dissatisfaction with Gers.

Previously, the Pistons ranked first in the league in game attendance, but after Li Xun left, this number has begun to decline sharply.

Although Gers bought the Pistons, he would definitely not lose money. After all, the broadcast fee rose sharply, and the team's market value also skyrocketed.

But if you don’t lose money, you are actually losing money. If you don’t make a lot of money with such a large amount of money, you are losing money.

(End of this chapter)