Chapter 395 393. Preseason King

The cool breeze is blowing, and the autumn leaves are all over the sky.

The National Day Golden Week in China has just passed, and autumn is already here in Atlanta. Although it is located in the southeastern region of the United States, the climate in Atlanta is humid, and late autumn is coming.

On October 10th, the Eagles ushered in the first game of the preseason and played against Charlotte at home... Now they are called New Orleans Hornets, and they will be called Waterbirds in the future.

As a person who can't read the national map, Liu Mang didn't know that although New Orleans is said to be in the west, it is actually a city on the south coast. It is only 400 nautical miles away from Miami by sea, and only 400 nautical miles away from Orlando and Atlanta. About 600 kilometers, and Atlanta to Orlando are 650 kilometers away.

It’s just that Liu Mang, who is blind on maps, first flew from Los Angeles to Louisiana, where New Orleans is located, then from Louisiana to North Carolina, and finally from North Carolina to Atlanta. He knew that Florida was in Georgia. next to Georgia, but never noticed that Louisiana was also next to Georgia.

So in the preseason, the first game of the Eagles was actually against the "Western team" Hornets who had just moved.

In the past ten days, apart from the Glenn Robinson mutual injury incident that shocked the entire United States at the beginning and made Eagles fans quite worried, everything after that seemed to be a good thing.

According to the reporter's description and interviews with Eagles players, they all praised Glenn Robinson's training attitude after returning to the team.

After the Big Dog came to the Eagles, it seemed that he really had a new look, and the training became harder. You must know that when the Bucks were in the Bucks, the Big Dog was the bankrupt version of O'Neal among the guards. He played better than O'Neal. It depends on talent, I was fat at the beginning of the season, and it took two months to return to normal shape.

After that, Jason Terry signed a three-year, $3 million endorsement contract with a Chinese sports brand called Li-Ning, becoming the second Hawks star to have an official sneaker endorsement.

Then Liu Mang shocked the Americans, and the most outrageous 7-year endorsement contract of 90 million and 1 US dollars since Jordan was presented by Nike.

On October 7, after Nike executives sent people to Atlanta to hold a press conference, the contract stunned the Americans!

In the past two days, the news has been frenzied about the signing of Liu Mang and Nike. Nike has already started designing the boots for Liu Mang's Christmas game. The Eagles have finally become a part of the Christmas game. The opponent... the Houston Rockets!

David Stern has been waiting for this day since Liu Mang just played last year. Now, he has been looking forward to it for nearly a year. The Chinese Derby is finally coming!

Liu Mang has received more than 10 pairs of his customized sneakers from Nike, ranging from Jordan Nike era sneakers to Air Jordan, and some non-star endorsement sneakers. In short, Liu Mang started from the first preseason game of the new season , you have to wear Nike boots.

The enthusiasm brought about by Liu Mang's signing didn't gradually dissipate until the start of the preseason.

For the Eagles fans, this is all a good thing. Fans are the part with the strongest sense of substitution for their own team stars and their favorite stars. If their favorite stars and teams are good, they work more smoothly and even eat. Well fragrant.

Before the start of the preseason game against the Hornets, I don't know if it was intentional or not. The reporter from Sports Illustrated found Big Dog for a pre-match interview.

Sports Illustrated has always hated Liu Mang, mainly because he has a bad relationship with the Lakers. Popular teams always have a live broadcast of their preseason games. The Eagles are also one of the most popular teams this year. This season, there are 16 live broadcasts across the United States, second only to the Lakers with 19 games and the 76ers with 17 games, and one more game than the Magic and Raptors.

Mr. Joe can’t drive the Wizards’ ratings this season. There are only 9 live broadcasts in the United States, and he is in the middle and lower reaches of the league. Since the second half of last season, fans don’t want to watch Jordan play. They don’t want to see such a struggling Jordan.

On the Chinese side, the Wizards had the most live broadcasts, more than the Rockets and Eagles. The Wizards, Rockets, Eagles, and Lakers were the four teams with the most live broadcasts in China.

Today's preseason game is not included in the number of regular season broadcasts in the United States. Time Warner Cable will conduct a national live broadcast, so the interview before the game is Time Warner's Sports Illustrated.

It seemed to have subsided for a few days, and the impetuous temper finally couldn't hold back. The big dog said in an interview: "Now is a beginning. I will bring new helpers and win the first place in the regular season until I win the championship. Champion, prove myself!"

Liu Mang heard Dagou's interview during shooting practice and couldn't tell what it felt like.

It has been 10 days since Glenn Robinson returned to the team. The relationship between the rest of the Eagles and the newly joined All-Star player is lukewarm. Glenn Robinson mainly wants to improve the relationship with Ratliff. With Raheem, the two oldest players on the team other than him, the others, including Liu Mang and Glenn Robinson, have not had much contact with each other. It is said that he is a boss, but it is not as expected That way of being arrogant to the "little brothers" is a bit low-key.

Except for the command and communication of running positions during training, Liu Mang and Glenn Robinson haven't spoken once in private, so they really don't know this teammate.

And Rahim was not enthusiastic at first, even the only time he was drunk with Liu Mang, he didn't talk much, just silently watching Liu Mang bragging.

Ratliff is very mediocre, he greets everyone with a smile, and never involves himself in any disputes, because he doesn't need to stand in line or other things. A defensive pillar center like him, even if he goes to partner with Duncan , must be the starting center occupying the basket, a center of the best defensive player level with a normal height, maybe O'Neal will give him the position at the basket on the defensive end during the peak period.

And Jason Terry is very disgusted with his new teammates who took away his shooting guard position. He doesn't like to play point guard, he likes to shoot.

So Glenn Robinson was very depressed after coming to the Eagles, and he deliberately kept a low profile in the training camp.

But when the game was about to start, the restless heart finally couldn't hold back!

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There are not many tricks in the preseason, and there are few pre-match activities. After all, the attention is just like that, and there is no need to invest too much money.

Although the salary of the Eagles is still very good this year, except for Raheem's salary of 12 million, Glenn Robinson, Ratliff's salary of 9.8 million and 9.3 million, the other highest salary is Mohamed's 4.7 million, and then 4 million Newbell, who renewed his contract, sent away DeMar Johnson, the No. 6 pick. The salary of the Eagles this year is even lower than last season, because Alan Henderson, who has a salary of 7 million, was not taken by the Eagles. The team implements the team option, the other Jason Terry 2.57 million, Dean Grove 2.25 million, Chris Crawford 2.66 million; Boozer and Prince are rookie contracts of about 1.5 million , Liu Mang and Barnes both spend more than $500,000 a year.

It seems that the Eagles have introduced three rookies and an All-Star player with a lot of money. In fact, the salary is 3 million lower than last season, only a total salary of more than 49 million US dollars.

It’s just that this is the last season that the Eagles can still enjoy the rookie bonus. The Eagles management is actively negotiating with the agents of Jason Terry and Liu Mang about renewing their contracts in advance. Schwartz on Liu Mang’s side The attitude is very tough. At most, the contract will be extended for one year plus the priority renewal clause. Jason Terry originally negotiated a good agreement at the end of last season. With Robinson joining, Jason Terry is not in a hurry to renew his contract.

If the two have not renewed their contracts until the end of the new season, other teams will definitely snatch up poisonous offers, which will cause headaches for the Eagles management.

Therefore, with the personality of Steven Price, the stingy owner of the Eagles, he started to save as much as he could, and waited for the event that neither of them renewed their contracts in advance, and they had to match as many contracts as others gave them.

Of course, it was Jason Terry. On Liu Mang's side, the Eagles knew that Liu Mang only wanted to renew his contract for one year and wanted to get the bird rights. Don't worry, he really can't renew his long-term contract, so he signed a 1+ 1-player option Contracts with priority extension clauses are also available.

Soon, the game began. The Eagles sent a lineup of Dean Grove, Glenn Robinson, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff in the first preseason game.

The Hornets sent David Wesley, Jamal Mashburn, George Lynch, PJ Brown, and Jamal Magloire.

The bearded Baron Davis will miss at least two months of the new season from the start of the preseason due to an injury. It is said that his thigh muscle was torn during training.

And Jamal Mashburn, who was reimbursed for half of last season, is back, and he seems to be in good physical condition, but he just moved to a seaside city. Mashburn felt weird playing this year.

It is said that Jack is the starting killer, and from time to time he sacrifices the starting teammates who are on his head and then becomes the starting player himself. In fact, Mash has a similar function.

This year is the tenth season of Mashburn's career. Before that, there have been 4 seasons where he was reimbursed halfway through the season, and each time the second season after the season was reimbursed, there was an All-Star level at the beginning of the season Teammates are injured, and then Mashburn is almost full attendance in the new season...

After the game started, Liu Mang looked at Jason Terry who was sitting next to him, and asked strangely: "I said Jason, why are you playing as a substitute? There are no three-pointers in the starting lineup." I play casually on the bench, are you not allowed to try? Don’t you give me a chance in the preseason?” Jason Terry said with a ferocious expression.

"Okay, okay, wait until next season, next season I will switch with you, you can play the sixth man!" Liu Wei said helplessly

"Why next season?" Jason Terry was puzzled.

"I want to win two sixth men of the year! Breaking all NBA historical records is my dream!" Liu Mang had a Martin Luther King-style expression of the same dream.

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After the start of the game, Ratliff of the Eagles won the jump ball first. After the Big Dog started the game, he was as irritable as he could be. He was very active and shot from inside and outside. He scored 22 points in the first quarter to overwhelm the Hornets. The team didn't want to play anymore.

Seeing that Glenn Robinson played so well, coach Kruger asked him to continue playing on the court with Barnes, Prince, Boozer, and Newbell in the second quarter, replacing all other main players.

As for the original players of the Eagles except for the four new players, coach Kruger has already known them very well after one season. You only need to look at the training status to know that their new season is better than last season, so The key point is to see how the new players are doing. Seeing that Glenn Robinson is playing so well, coach Kruger wants him to play more, and see how strong Glenn Robinson is in the official game.

The Eagles took a 34-17 lead in the first quarter. After the start of the second quarter, Glenn Robinson continued to attack with the ball. On the defensive end, Barnes, Prince, and Newbell all defended desperately. He is a rookie substitute who wants to show his strengths in the preseason to gain playing time in the regular season. Newbell has a sense of crisis because of the addition of Boozer. He used to be the unshakable first inside substitute. Now There is an extra rookie who is stronger than him in the first season, and the pressure is a bit high.

And Boozer's defense is poor, but his weight is there, and he is very good at grabbing rebounds. In the case that the Hornets really have no fighting spirit today, Glenn Robinson played crazy!

Liu Mang and Jason Terry didn't get a chance to play today. Jason Terry was very sad. It's rare to play as a substitute. Can you give him a chance to perform!

"Ace, why do you think the Hornets are all starters and still play so poorly?" Jason Terry asked puzzled.

"Uh...Jason, I think they are probably worried about whether Charlotte's house will be sold." Liu Mang complained.

"It makes sense." Jason Terry really thinks it makes sense, "The players of the Hornets are too pitiful. The whole team moved. They may have thought of being traded for cities, but they didn't expect the entire team to be traded. Another city! There are at least five or six people in a team who have villas, and selling so many villas together is estimated to be a loss."

"Huh? I didn't expect Jason to have a good head! You can analyze it so thoroughly!" Liu Mang exclaimed.

"Hmph, of course..." Jason Terry suddenly reacted because he was being praised: "Damn! Ace! How stupid I am in your eyes!"

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The Eagles played a bit crazy in the preseason. The first 50+ of the new season actually appeared in the preseason. Glenn Robinson joined the Eagles in the first game. During the game, he scored 53 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists, leading the Eagles to kill the Hornets 122 to 89.

Not only that, in the next 7 preseason games, Glenn Robinson played crazy. In the second and third games of the home and away games against Magic, the sleepy-eyed McGrady went crazy watching the preseason game Glenn Robinson, decisively stated that he could not afford to provoke, and chose to retreat.

Glenn Robinson scored 35+ in two consecutive games against the Magic, leading the Eagles to three consecutive victories in the preseason.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry, two defenders who are both guards, didn't get any opportunities to perform, and they didn't have the ball in their hands. They played well, so they couldn't grab the ball hard, no, they occasionally received the ball that was allocated It's good luck to shoot threes.

In the next two games against the Heat, and then against the Hornets, and the last two games against the Wizards, Glenn Robinson's performance surpassed the sky!

Glenn Robinson played like crazy in eight games! When it came time to play the Hornets and Wizards in the next three games, the Hornets and Mr. Joe's team did not resist. After playing for a while, seeing how active Glenn Robinson was, they simply sent a substitute lineup to play against rookies.

Ever since, not only the fans were stunned, but the Eagles players were stunned. In the performance, Glenn Robinson averaged 39 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, leading the Eagles to eight consecutive victories in the preseason!

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Glenn Robinson's preseason madness made the Hawks headlines every day.

Originally, many Eagles fans were worried about the new season because of the big dog’s troubles before the official training camp time set by the league. It's a big deal.

However, after wearing the hat, Glenn Robinson seems to have broken through the mediocre impression he once gave people, and he really used his experience and strength to lead the Eagles to victory just like the rhetoric he put down!

Seeing Glenn Robinson's crazy performance of nearly 40 points per game in eight games, the Eagles have become the focus of discussion among fans almost every day, and the media have begun to tout the Eagles' five-star lineup again.

Especially Glenn Robinson played so well after changing teams. A lot of media said that Glenn Robinson’s eight years in the Bucks were delayed by the Bucks. Give him a group of good teammates. Can go beyond the sky!

The fans have the same opinion. When a controversial player plays well, he is naturally boasting.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the Lakers have ruled the league for three years, too long, just like the six years of Jordan's rule, what most fans in the league wanted to see most was not Jordan's The championship, but whether there is any team that dares to stand up and kill the Bulls. Of course, Jordan and Jordan, who supported the three consecutive championships, have become unbeatable god-level players in the same position.

After the Eagles finished last season, people expected them to go further in the new season and go to the finals to attack the Lakers. Of course, the players of the Eagles are still young, and they should go further in the new season. Now the West is strong and the East is weak In the current situation, except for the Nets with Kidd, no other team looks like they can stop the Eagles.

It's just that Glenn Robinson's sudden joining gave the Eagles a little uncertainty. After all, Glenn Robinson was a ticking time bomb before.

But now, people feel that the Eagles seem to have a tendency to be invincible!

Glenn Robinson was also dubbed the title: King of the preseason!

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