The Whip of the God of Basketball

Since the free market was completely opened on July 1, this year's nBa summer has entered an unprecedented fierce arms competition. One novel ≦＜≤≦﹤﹤﹤≤﹤≤＜﹤≤≦﹤≦The Kevin Garnett deal for the Boston Celtics in the draft is undoubtedly the fuse of this game, directly detonating the entire freedom market. The Los Angeles Lakers announced the signing of Karl Malone and Gary Payton in early July, which pushed the game to the top.

Just the day after the Lakers announced that they would sign Malone and Payton, on July 6, the powerful New Jersey Nets in the East announced that they would sign the former Miami Heat free agent, Alonzo Mourning, to replace Chute. The veteran Mutombo hopes to use this to counter the swelling Boston Celtics.

On the same day, the San Antonio Spurs announced that they had reached an agreement with Timberwolves center Nesterovic. The center from Serbia will soon join the defending champion, and the Timberwolves already have Nestorovic’s compatriot, Milli. Sic, no longer needs this talented and diligent big center.

However, the Timberwolves don’t seem to be completely at ease with Milicic. They have won the once-anticipated 1998 champion Olowo Kandi on the free market, and now they own Walker. After, Olowokandi, and Milicic, the Timberwolves' internal book strength soared. Although they lost Kevin Garnett, it seems that their strength is increasing.

However, the Boston Celtics, who had been in the limelight before, were not idle. Angie ran and called in four games in order to make up the 15-man roster. Finally, on the morning of the 8th, the Celtics completed the first signing after the big deal. , Angie won veteran Eric Strickland on the free market as a supplement to the point guard position after Steve Kerr retired.

When Leon got the news, he was leading his team to the Orlando Magic training hall to participate in the third game of the Orlando Summer League, against the Miami Heat.

As an official and unofficial league, the Orlando Summer League was officially held in 2001. It is a small game organized and organized by the nBa team to train young players and select marginal players. The summer league is usually a game a day, a total of six teams participate in the game, namely the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Washington Wizards, New Jersey Nets and host Orlando Magic, all of which are teams in the East.

Six teams play a single round-robin match, the game is scored, and 4 points are awarded for winning a game. In this game, every time you win a quarter, you will get 1 more point. If the quarter is tied, both sides will get 0.5 points. Therefore, at the end of a game, the winning team can earn up to 8 points and at least 5 points; the losing team can get up to 3 points and at least o points.

After the five round-robin matches, the two teams with the highest points compete for the championship, and the two with the third and fourth points compete for the third place, so although it is only a small unofficial league with six teams participating, But it is also organized and very competitive.

In the first two days of the game, the Celtics won. They defeated the New Jersey Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers respectively. Especially in the game against the Cavaliers yesterday, the much-watched No. 1 pick LeBron James was defeated. The Celtics' 1-2-2 regional key defensive treatment, 3 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, did not have the style of the most popular champion.

As a new star who will pose a huge threat to the Celtics in the East in the future, Leon will tell him from the summer league not to take advantage of the Celtics.

It can be said that in all six teams, the Celtics do not have the best rookies, but they have the best discipline, the toughest forward and the most teamwork spirit.

"Strickland...that guy, older than me..." Leon frowned as he watched the news that the Celtics had signed for Strickland. Now the Celtics have a surplus of forwards and a serious shortage of guards. Whether it is a point guard or a shooting guard, except for Arenas and Reid, there is a lack of suitable freshmen on the bench.

The greatest significance of Malik Siri is to recruit Garnett. Now that his mission is completed, he is mainly pensioned by the Celtics; Steve Cole is exhausted, although both Angie and Leon have retained Cole, However, he obviously has a better future and development in other careers, and it is only natural to retire and leave the player profession. Now signing Strickland, this old gentleman was also a 17+1o master, properly quasi-all-star, best second team player.

The problem is, he participated in the draft in 1988 and is now 36 years old. Although the older the point guard is, the more popular he is. Last season, Strickland's data has fallen to 6.8 points and 4.6 assists, which is still a barely qualified backup point guard. However, Strickland's reputation in nBa has not been very good in the past few years, relying on the old to sell the old, being late for training, playing soy sauce in the game, is a guy that makes the team management and coach a headache.

Leon thought of how the Lakers Galacticos sank in his memory, and thought that Angie had added another element of instability to his team. Arenas's bad temper, I don't know if Strickland will smell like or out of place, in short, the babysitter burden on his head coach must be heavier.

After arriving at the Magic training hall, the players warmed up to start the game. The Celtics and Heat's game is the first game of the day. There will be Cavaliers and Nets, Magic and Wizards games later.

"Everyone, take out everything you learned in training and what you have summarized in the video. I tell you once again that I will not call a timeout during the game. Please solve all problems by yourself. Okay, come on, boy Guys, although this is the summer league, we just want to win no matter what the game is!" Leon's roar echoed in the training hall, and the players of the other teams looked at him.

Fortunately, this is not the first day. They are used to it. The Iron Fist coach from Boston. His deeds of playing a team in Indiana are widely praised by young players. Now it has come to rumor that Leon can punch. Overturned O'Neill the big shark.

The game was quite intense. This was the most motivating game the Celtics played since the beginning of the summer league. They did not encounter much resistance against the Nets and Cavaliers, but the Heat are different. They have big Dwyane Wade, a three-year-old player who participated in the draft-Obviously, Wade is more mature than James, who has never played ncaa. Facing the Celtics' systematic defense, he seems more calm and knows how to deal with it.

Moreover, his sharp breakthrough left the Celtics at a loss. In the first two games, Dalemport, who almost turned himself into Chamberlain in the summer league ~www.readwn.com~, was repeatedly fouled by Wade and Leon had to Replaced Dalem Porter, replaced by a substitute forward, Haslem.

This substitution has an unexpected effect. Although Haslem is not tall, he reported a height of 6'8, which is actually 6'6, but he has agile footwork and has played overseas for another year. He has rich ball experience and a very tough style. Compared with other young people on the field, he is obviously not at the same level of competition.

After he played, Wade was also restricted. Several attempts to break through and direct layups were interrupted. The Celtics used this wave of defensive action to counterattack and established an advantage in one fell swoop.

121:1o9, the Celtics won another game and scored 6 points, ranking first in the standings.

After the game, everyone went back to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes. Leon stayed in the stands on the sidelines, ready to watch the remaining two games. After all, the performance of the two newcomers was very interesting to him.

Suddenly, a person sat quietly beside Leon, raised Erlang's legs, and then took a cigar from his trouser pocket and handed it in front of Leon.

"Make a deal, Leon," the man said. (To be continued.)