NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 282

In the NBA preseason game, the defending champion Philadelphia 76ers played against the New York Knicks.

In fact, the old Thomas led the team to the Celestial Dynasty a long time ago, and has been eating and drinking with Kumbu during this time.

With the advent of the offseason, the Knicks' lineup has undergone a lot of changes.

First of all, Big Zhi's inside partner Uncle Mu left the team and went to the New Jersey Nets to win a two-year 3200 million contract.

The Knicks can't afford this contract no matter what. Their salaries have been locked up by Dazhi, Payton and Wu Sheng. It is not easy for a team to offer three maximum salary contracts. Four maximum salaries may be given.

The Nets had a good record last season, but it's a pity that the strength of the inside line is too low. When facing the Philadelphia 76ers, they were completely overwhelmed.

They had a chance to take down Uncle Mu, so they paid for it directly.

The New Jersey native, who has always been looked down upon by the New Yorkers, finally made a comeback and did something big.

In addition to Uncle Mu, CIC King Houston's contract has also expired. He left the Pistons for money. Now that the Knicks can't offer him a satisfactory contract, he naturally ran away again. This time he joined the Spurs.

The Spurs offered him a two-year, $2 million contract.

Because Ginobili and Parker have all cut off the beards of Comb, the Spurs have not been able to achieve a record that satisfies Duncan these years.

Seeing that Duncan's resentment is getting bigger and bigger, Popovich can only spend a lot of money to sign Houston, after all, he is also a former first-tier star in the league.

The original starting five, without Uncle Mu and Houston, the Knicks' overall combat power has been affected, which can be seen from Lao Deng's worried expression.

After leaving these two, the Knicks can free up some salary space by gritting their teeth. Unfortunately, this year's situation is quite special, and there are almost no big fish in the free market.

The biggest fish is Rashad Lewis. When Lao Deng was in the Raptors, he spent a period of time with Lewis, and Lao Deng left the impression that he was a soft guy.

As one of the representatives of the Iron-Blooded Age in the last century, of course he despises soft guys.

Even if he could look at him, Lewis would be out of place with this Knicks team. He has a somewhat similar style of play to Big Zhi. He is almost a short and weakened version of Big Zhi. After joining the team, he overlaps with Big Zhi.

Unless Lewis is allowed to play as a substitute, or Da Zhi is allowed to play as a center, anyway, these two paths are not worthwhile in Lao Deng's view.

With two main players gone and no way to strengthen, Lao Deng naturally set his sights on the Philadelphia 76ers of Kumbu in the first place.

This time the Philadelphia draft won a lot of inside players, which made Lao Deng feel itchy.

Before the game started, Lao Deng left the Knicks' bench directly and rushed to Kumbu's side.

"Dear viewers and friends, this preseason is about to begin."

"We could see Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas taking his time chatting with Comb."

"Coach Thomas is a super celebrity in the NBA. The relationship between him and Combe is very good, like a mentor and student and a father and son."

"This kind of warm scene is rare in the NBA."

In the commentary room of CCTV, Zhang Weiping looked affectionately at Kong Bu and Lao Deng on the sidelines and said.

The fans really believed his nonsense.

"Kong, just say whether you can help me or not. If you don't help me, I'll throw myself into the Huangpu River tonight!"

"You can't just stand by and do nothing, can you? Right now, our lineup may not make it through the second round of the playoffs, and I may be fired directly!"

"I'd rather die than be fired. After I die, my three children will be raised by you!"

Lao Deng held Kong Bu's arm and said with a deadpan face, the scene was indeed a bit warm.

Kumbu said that his heart was broken, and his three children were over 20 years old!

"Old guy, why do I feel like your skin is getting thicker after you go to New York?"

"How can I help you? You don't want me to sell Yao Ming to you, do you?"

Kong Bu rolled his eyes and said.

Lao Deng smiled happily. Hearing Kong Bu's tone, he knew that Kong Bu's heart softened.

"That's not the case, I'm not that thick-skinned."

"Didn't you take a lot of newcomers this season? Send us a few."

"What about Carlos Boozer? You picked it with the 27th pick. I'll give you a guaranteed top 20 pick. How about giving it to us?"

Lao Deng directly opened his mouth to ask for Boozer.

Kumbu shook his head quickly, what a joke, this guy Boozer can't be sent randomly, he and players of Okur's level can eat Yao Ming to death.

If his partner is Da Zhi who is at least two grades better than Okur, then Yao Ming's hard life will come soon.

"How many for you? Are you a fried chicken burger as a player? Give it away if you say so?"

"Don't think about Boozer. His potential is higher than Zach Randolph. Do you think I might give it to you?"

"Not to mention the top [-] guaranteed picks, even the top ten guaranteed picks, I can't even trade."

"Don't say I don't take care of you, the Udonis Haslem I signed, give it to you."

Kong Bu also knows that Lao Deng is indeed in trouble now, since he has spoken, it is not good to really not let him take advantage of anything.

"He? He's a little too weak. I saw his performance in your training camp, and I feel that he is a very ordinary forward. Maybe his rebounding ability is something within his height range."

"But if you give it for nothing, of course I'm willing to accept it."

"What I really want is Reggie Evans. I feel like he's going to be the perfect inside partner for Big Zhi."

Lao Deng finally revealed his true purpose.

Kong Bu looked at Lao Deng with the eyes of a fool, and he felt that Lao Deng might be confused.

"Reggie Evans is 203 centimeters tall, and his rebounding is indeed strong enough, even a little stronger than Da Ben's. Compared with the rebounding of your original center Mutombo, of course it is stronger."

"But have you considered his defense, two of them together, the defensive deterrence may not be as good as Mutombo."

"And he doesn't have the slightest ability to finish at the basket. You can look at Da Ben for this."

"When you get him, the only thing he can do is rebound, nothing else."

Kong Bu kindly reminded.

The reason why he selected Evans was not because he expected Evans to play a big role, but more because of his philatelic psychology. Facing this historical level of rebounding idiot, he was also a loser, and he would not be selected. Need to spend any price, of course it was chosen.

"I don't care, I want Reggie Evans, I want that Haslem, anyway, it's useless if you keep him."

"I want it all!"

Lao Deng began to play rogues, and he knew that Combe liked it.

"There's really nothing I can do about you, well, I'll give it all to you."

Kong Bu patted Lao Deng's head in a strange way, his face was full of pampering.

This scene was captured by the cameras on the sidelines, and Zhang Weiping in the commentary room spoke again.

"Look at this scene of deep master-student love, how enviable it is!"

……

Kumbu didn't expect that he would lose such a big loss in a preseason match, directly losing two rookies.

But these two are really of little use to Comb and the Philadelphia 76ers.

And after giving it to the New York Knicks, it will not let the Knicks pose any threat to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Haslem is almost synonymous with role players, and he is too much of a role.

He doesn't have any skills at all, whether it's offense, rebounding or defense, they all have them, but none of them are up to the grade.

Putting it in the Philadelphia 76ers, Comb really doesn't know how to arrange him to play.

Backup Randolph?No, Randolph has Boozer on the bench, and Haslem is much worse than Boozer. Although one of the two is a rebellious boy and the other is a representative of loyalty, Combe would rather Use anti-bones.

Evans is actually not as good as Haslem, and his offensive and defensive abilities are not as good as Haslem, so he can only grab rebounds.

In fact, no matter which team is placed on such a player, there is no way to become the core of the inside.

If Comb really wants this kind of player, there is actually a rebounding idiot similar to Evans in the league, whose style is almost exactly the same as Evans.

Danny Fortson, the No. 97 pick in the first round of 10, entered the league almost at the same time as Combe.

He is only 201 cm tall, not as good as Evans, and his style is also only rebounding, not offensive and defensive.

It's a pity that his rebounding is a bit worse than that of Evans, and he is roughly at the same level as Da Ben, and his body is too fragile and very easy to get injured.

Lao Deng left contentedly. After getting two rookie players from Kumbu, he regained confidence in the new season.

Although it is unlikely to win the championship, at least the chances of reaching the Eastern Conference Finals are not small.

"Dudududu!"

The referee blew the whistle to start the game, and the starters of both sides began to play.

Because it was a Chinese game and there were Chinese fans on the scene, Kumbu must let them see what they wanted to see, so he directly sent the strongest starting lineup, regardless of whether it was reasonable or not.

Center Yao Ming, power forward Randolph, small forward Steven Gerrard, shooting guard Ginobili and point guard Iverson.

The fans cheered. It is a rare experience for fans to see such a luxurious lineup without going to the NBA scene.

After a few minutes of playing in the opening game, the Knicks were overwhelmed.

On the one hand, Uncle Mu's departure caused the Knicks' inside defensive strength to drop by at least a notch, allowing Yao Ming to do whatever he wanted at the basket.

Although Dazhi's defense is not bad, his style of defense against Randolph is very effective, and defense against Yao Ming is almost meaningless. The tonnage gap between the two is really too big.

Payton, on the other hand, is another year older.

When he first joined the Raptors before, that Payton was still in his prime. Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

To put it bluntly, he can no longer keep up with Iverson.

Seeing that the Knicks were at a huge disadvantage, Combe directly made substitution adjustments and put young players on the bench on the field.

Evans, Boozer, Prince, Butler and Beard.

In fact, the bearded man, like Iverson, suffered a great crime from Payton.

When he was in the Raptors, he always played as a substitute for Payton, because Payton was so iron, he didn't get much playing time at all.

Finally, Payton went to the Knicks, and he slapped the bearded severely in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

The bearded man has not shown his head in recent years, and Payton "has contributed a lot."

Now Payton's defensive ability has declined, and the bearded man seized the opportunity to start a crazy attack.

Beard himself is the kind of point guard who relies on his body to eat. He is extremely strong. In this game, he kept hitting Payton with his back.

This style of play is really tormenting for the old man, because it requires a lot of physical energy.

Within a few minutes, Payton was replaced, and Lao Deng was unwilling to take the risk of injury to fight for a preseason game.

With Payton's end, the bearded Davis completely let himself go.

His style is completely different from Iverson's. Iverson is a dexterous type, while the bearded man is a heavy-duty fighter at the point guard position.

After the whole game, Beard played only 25 minutes, and scored 37 points and 7 assists, almost blowing up the Knicks by himself.

The Chinese fans at the scene were all dumbfounded. Of course they are no strangers to the big beard, after all, they have also been the main control of the Raptors for the past two years.

Who would have thought that this guy, who had been insignificant around Pierce and Carter, would show such terrifying fighting power after returning to Kongbu's subordinates.

It's also fortunate that Kong Bu showed mercy in the end, otherwise Da Zhi would definitely lose face tonight, and he would torture someone bloody in front of his father and fellow villagers.

The next night was the Suns' game against the Lakers.

Combe went to the scene in person, but as a spectator.

The Utah Shuangsha on the Lakers side didn't come, it was just the OK team leading the players to play the preseason.

Even so, the Lakers won comfortably.

It can be clearly felt that the Suns still haven't found a way to make Nash and Yi Jianlian have a chemical reaction. The two play each other on the court, and there is almost no cooperation.

Even the Suns haven't decided what position to let Yi Jianlian play at the moment, and the third and fourth positions are often switched on the court.

Boxing champion Chandler couldn't defend against O'Pang, he was crushed by O'Pang and hanged him, allowing O'Pang to score 40 points, 16 rebounds and 5 blocks in the whole game.

Kobe didn't encounter too much defensive resistance tonight, scoring 31 points.

Yi Jianlian also played very well. Although he didn't cooperate with his teammates, after all, his personal ability is there, and he easily scored 35 points in the game.

Originally, Kumbu thought that after the Suns got the UAE, they would rise directly.

Now it seems that they still have a long way to go, at least within two seasons, it is difficult for them to be the opponents of the Lakers.

After the preseason was over, Comb immediately led the Philadelphia generals back to welcome the arrival of the new season.

Before leaving, Comb held a trade conference with Lao Deng in Shanghai, and gave Haslem and Evans to the Knicks on the spot, allowing them to follow the Knicks back to New York.

(End of this chapter)