Chapter 458
After Bird retired and Jordan got old, how long has no one pretended to be strong in three days!
46+11+11, 23 points in the final quarter, defeated Marbury with a crushing attitude, language, action, double response!
However, Liu Mang's pretentious remarks in this game are not the most discussed things by people. The most hotly discussed is that he "thinks about life" in the game. After knocking down his opponent, he did not continue to break through , Instead of shooting directly, he slowly dribbled out of the three-point line, and then shot a three-pointer after the opponent defended him.
This...Combined with Liu Mang's words before and after the game...
After Larry Bird retired and Jordan got old, it has been a long time since such a young man appeared.
Jordan is not weak when he says that he is weak, and he is at the All-Star level, but when he is said to be strong, there are a lot of players in the league who are stronger than him. Jordan is now spouting trash talk, using his strength... He can no longer do the star of many teams. Jordan can only say to Kobe now: I have 6 championships; to Iverson: I have 10 scoring champions; to Carter: I have two slam dunk champions; to O'Neal: I have six championships MVP; to Duncan: I have 4 regular seasons and double MVPs in the finals... Jordan has basically finished his game, and he will retire permanently after playing this year. There is nothing worth bragging about.
Trash talk in the NBA is becoming more and more vulgar now, and David Stern is about to ban trash talk.
There are no more than three types of trash talk now. The first one is Kobe who imitates Jordan and likes to use honor to attack opponents. One of the dual-core winners of the three consecutive championships obviously gave Kobe a lot of status. To beat opponents, what Kobe loves to say is: Mud wins....
The second is Payton's kind. When the team's strength is not bad, in order to beat the opponent, the whole court chatters.
The third type is the Garnett kind that annoys David Stern so much, vulgar and unbearable...
The strongest trash talkers are Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, whose eloquence is as strong as that of a magician, and they are both inferior. When these two have faded out of the league one after another, NBA trash talk has gradually become worthless As mentioned, opponents are disgusted, fans are disgusted, and league officials are annoyed, which is the status quo of the current trash talk world.
However, in the past two years, it seems that trash talk has started to come alive again! People are starting to look forward to trash talk again.
This trash talk is actually a one-person game. In the 1980s, Larry Bird and Jordan in the 90s. Except for these two people who made golden sentences from time to time, the trash talk of other people is not much remembered and enjoyed by people. You know, everyone else has a flash of inspiration occasionally, such as Pippen's postman who doesn't work on weekends.
Therefore, in an era, as long as there is a leader in the trash talk field, it is enough.
Obviously, people now put their expectations on Liu Mang!
Liu Mang scored a 40+ triple-double which is rare once a year, but it didn’t make the headlines. The headlines of the major sports magazines almost all mean: "A new generation of kings is born..."
When these news spread to China, many black fans expressed disbelief, saying that it was fake news, and then the black fans temporarily disappeared, waiting for the next opportunity to "rise". Liu Mang became popular on both sides of the Pacific this time...
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Time: January 30.
Location: Los Angeles.
Good place.
Luxurious and wealthy, crowds of beauties, crowds of nightclubs, female stars from the 3rd, 4th and 18th tiers are all eagerly looking for gold masters and male stars who want to climb high and become famous.
Today, the now hot Eagles came to Los Angeles. The streets and nightclubs are full of hot girls who are well-dressed and wearing clothes that can best show their bodies. Regardless of the fact that it is still a bit cold in winter even in Los Angeles , I want to be lucky enough to meet an Eagles player, and then send a message to the paparazzi, and the two of them are photographed lingering overnight, maybe it will become popular.
However, none of the Eagles players left the hotel tonight.
Because Raheem said that as long as the team can end this month's game with 4 consecutive victories, after the game against the Clippers, he will treat his teammates to have fun that night, and he also bought a ticket for Liu Mang. On the flight ticket back to Atlanta that night, he said that he couldn’t take Liu Mang to the nightclub with great fanfare.
Although coach Kruger is a little ashamed of Raheem's weird way of encouraging his teammates, he has to say that this is a good way. This is the only way to pay attention to this group of black players with brains.
White people have a good face, Chinese are reserved, and most black people have no self-discipline, because when they were in Africa, their natural conditions were so good that they didn’t have to do any work, and God could feed them. All kinds of natural foods that are cooked for thousands of years have allowed black people to "drink today with wine" for thousands of years without worrying about tomorrow's food.
The life of Africans is not quite the same as we have understood since childhood. Africa’s poverty and backwardness are inseparable from the fact that a large number of young and middle-aged laborers were taken away by Europeans during the colonial period and sent to North America as slaves. They are poor, but the lazier they are The poorer, the poorer and the lazier... It is not the kind of "actively surviving in a difficult environment" written in textbooks.
The lazy personality of most blacks has also continued in the United States, and most blacks are still like that today, as can be seen from the fact that many black athletes went bankrupt and committed suicide after retiring.
Of course, there are also many black people who have worked hard to get rid of that "tradition" and become great people.
Raheem attaches great importance to this year's results, and he knows the taste by eating the marrow. Last season, he made the playoffs and the Eastern Conference finals. The spiritual refreshment made him want to stop! The thirst for victory is no worse than that of Liu Mang.
Phoenix, Arizona is very close to Los Angeles. The Eagles players arrived at the hotel in Los Angeles at eleven o'clock in the morning. Therefore, after the Eagles arrived in Los Angeles, they all huddled in the hotel, having nothing to do, just waiting for the All-Star Game The starting list is released.
There is no hope for Raheem to start this year's All-Star. Tracy McGrady is ferocious and Carter remains super popular, but Ratliff and Liu Mang have great hopes of being on the All-Star starting list.
A team with multiple All-Star starters represents high popularity, the number of live broadcasts in the United States, and jersey sales. These are all things that are closely related to everyone on the team. Take jersey sales as an example. , it is not yet the future jersey sales. All players in the league will be divided equally. It is how much their own jerseys can sell, and this player will get as much as they want. For example, Liu Mang, because Adidas prepared his jerseys last year. The money was only over $10,000. Raheem was not bad at first, and he was the most popular Eagles team in Atlanta. The inventory was not bad, and he was allocated more than $30,000.
Generally speaking, the team will discuss with the high-selling stars and distribute the money equally to everyone on the team. Liu Mang, Raheem, Jason Terry, and Ratliff, who share more than 10,000 yuan, do not The exception is taken out and divided equally.
Because the money is not too much, the jersey share is about 3%. Last season, the Eagles sold about 3 million dollars in jerseys, ranking 9th in the league. Left and right, the Eagles got thousands of dollars per player.
It is precisely because all teams basically have this unwritten rule, so the league simply changed the rules later, and the received share is shared equally by everyone in the league. Stars will not be unhappy because of this, and players from weak teams can also A little more income, the money for the role players of the popular teams is a windfall, and if there is a little less, not many people will make a fuss.
The Eagles’ jerseys were out of stock last season, but this year is different. The Eagles’ jerseys have been very popular since the offseason. Adidas, the naming supplier of NBA jerseys, also regards the Eagles as a cash cow and reserves a large amount of inventory to avoid There was the despair of seeing the money delivered to the door and not being able to make it last season.
Even the appearance of the big dog did not affect the jersey sales of the Eagles. The Lakers, 76ers, Hawks, and Kings ranked among the top four jersey sales announced on December 31.
In terms of personal jerseys, Liu Mang's jersey sales rank fifth in the league, second only to Iverson, McGrady, Carter, and Kobe. There is no suspense. Duncan, Kidd, Jordan.
The jerseys of the Jordan Wizards sold really badly. His jersey sales were supported by the retro version of the Bulls. It was difficult for the little blacksmith jerseys to enter the top three. There was O'Neal who lost a lot of popularity until the 05-06 season , he entered the top three jersey sales for the first time, and with 81 points and an average of 35 points per game, he won the first jersey sales for the first time.
Eagles players naturally want to see the team jerseys sold as much as possible, and the team can have as many live broadcasts across the United States as possible, so that they can get money and show their faces in live broadcasts across the United States.
Therefore, everyone in the Eagles is looking forward to Liu Mang and Ratliff being selected as the All-Star starters, because this year, Raheem may not be able to make the All-Star bench. 50%.
The second is Raheem's data. At one time, he averaged only 17.3 points per game, the lowest since his rookie season. Thanks to his excellent performance in the past month or so, he now averages 19.2 points, 9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. This performance makes him an All-Star It's not a big problem, and it's not a big problem if you don't make it. The performance of the All-Stars is borderline, and the record is not outstanding. It is still difficult to make the All-Stars.
Jason Terry is even worse, averaging 16 points, 3 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. It is not as good as Liu Mang, who has just scored 46 points and has recovered to average 17 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.
However, just looking at the games in the last month, the three Eagles combined to score 70 points per game, but the data should be averaged.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the NBA's official press conference announced the starting lineup for this season's All-Star Game, as well as the plans for some events and the list of invitations.
First announced is the starting lineup of the Eastern All-Stars, the center position, Ratliff with 1.24 million votes to beat Ben-Wallace's 850,000 votes, ranking first in the Eastern Conference All-Star centers, and was selected as an All-Star for the second time in his career Start!
As for the forward, Raheem really can only see the old and the new. McGrady beat the 1.39 million votes of Carter, whose votes soared after his comeback, with 1.47 million.
In terms of guards, Liu Mang won the Eastern Conference with 1.55 million votes, and Iverson ranked second with 1.33 million votes. The two were selected as All-Star starters.
Jordan got 1.3 million votes, and for the first time in his career, he missed the All-Star starter.
West, the center position, Yao Ming 1.26 million votes beat 1.15 million votes O'Neal was selected as the All-Star starter.
As for forwards, Duncan and Garnett were once again selected as No. 21 All-Star starters together. Duncan had 1.14 million votes and Garnett had 1.09 million votes.
As for the defender, Kobe won the All-Star vote for the first time in his career with 1.61 million votes. This year, Kobe's performance really exploded. He performed 9 consecutive 40+ games in December, and his explosive scoring power began to show, winning the All-Star vote.
Another All-Star starter in the West is of course Francis, who is already very popular. After Yao Ming came, Francis finally didn't have to force himself to get half of the votes compared to Kobe. This time he got 1.01 million votes and became a million. vote member ranks.
The All-Star voting this time seems to be higher than Liu Mang's memory. It is probably because of his influence that the domestic market opened up earlier, and it may have attracted some fans who did not vote in the United States to vote for him. And to vote for one person, you must vote for nine other people, so almost every player has a few percentage points more votes than Liu Mang's original time and space.
Seeing that two teammates were selected as All-Star starters this year, the Eagles players were very excited. Jason Terry began to act like a monster, shouting for treats, and everyone else followed suit.
"Hahahaha... Treat yourself! You can choose any nightclub in Atlanta during the All-Star Weekend, and don't be beaten to death by your girlfriends and wives. Women can choose!" Ratliff was rarely so excited.
Seeing that Ratliff agreed to the treat, the Eagles players cheered.
Wait, I seem to have forgotten something, it seems that another person was selected as the All-Star starter.
It seemed to be the same last year. Everyone turned their heads to look at Liu Mang. He was so white, his beard hadn't grown out yet, he couldn't even go to nightclubs, and he was still the youngest on the team...
Keep cheering, Eagles players are chanting "DOY..."
Liu Mang was puzzled, why did this group of people look at him? Also, the young master was also selected as an All-Star starter, okay, why don't you cheer for Ratliff alone?