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After the finals, Duane was finally able to relax.

Last year, I had to prepare for the new season and give it another try. Although I didn't train very hard in the summer, I managed to eat properly and didn't let myself go.

Now that the finals are over, the last championship of my career has basically been won.

As for whether the Bulls have a chance to win the championship again next year, that is no longer something Duane needs to worry about.

It would be great if Jokic, Curry and others could lead Durant to win another championship.

Dunn wouldn't care if he didn't successfully defend his title.

Anyway, next season is going to be a retirement tour, and the real last dance has already been played this season.

Let go of the burden, let go of the responsibility, and at the same time let go of the fatigue accumulated from playing diligently in the past.

So in the following championship celebration, Duane became very excited all of a sudden. It was not like in previous years when he was already numb from winning games and was not particularly excited even after winning the championship.

Now that he has let go of everything that has accumulated in the past, his mentality has suddenly become much younger, and Duan's passion seems to have been regained.

Of course, Duane's physical condition couldn't support him from getting too excited.

Dunn did not have a hearty, drunken hangover like most of his teammates.

Instead, after feeling a little tipsy, he returned to his room early, looked at the stars outside through the glass window for a while, then took a warm bath, and then went to bed and had a comfortable sleep.

The next morning, Duan got up on time as usual due to the influence of his biological clock. Apart from a slight discomfort in his brain, other symptoms were not obvious.

By noon, I basically felt no discomfort.

So, Duane called his team members, contacted the team management in advance, and drove to the United Center with a group of people.

The last dance has been played, and Dunn's fans are celebrating the last championship of Dunn's career.

As the protagonist of this scene, Duane still has some things to do.

As he is about to bid farewell to the big stage of the NBA, Durant will have to rely on his own team to continue marketing and release information to stay in the hearts of fans.

In order to make that perfect ending appear for a longer time.

In order to make his dominance more vital, Duane, like when he first entered the league, constantly took people to shoot and practice everywhere in the gym in order to accumulate more little-known materials that could attract the attention of fans.

This day was purely a one-man show by Dunn.

The next day, Duane began to call his friends, including his current teammates who recorded material together, his teammates who had left the Bulls but were still playing in the NBA, and then his retired teammates and friends...

Through this series of designs and shootings, the character image in Dunn's personal biographical film has undoubtedly become fuller and more specific.

Of course, many materials that have not been released outside the movie will one day be unearthed by Dunn's personal "die-hard fans".

But what the specific situation will be is not something that Dunn can know now.

Millions of dollars in marketing expenses every year can’t be wasted, right?
Dunn is willing to bear this expense because they can indeed generate value continuously and increase Dunn's personal wealth.

Duane will soon leave the NBA, and will no longer receive high compensation and salary in the NBA as an active NBA player.

After leaving the NBA, Durant's daily consumption, family expenses, and other expenses remain the same as before.

In fact, because you don't play basketball anymore, you will have more disposable time and your personal consumption will increase significantly, which will lead to increasing expenses throughout the year.

If Dunn doesn't think about making more money from other places, one day he will run out of money.

Of course, Duen has a huge amount of assets in his hands. If Duen were to squander them all by himself, as long as he didn't invest or start a business recklessly, he would probably never be able to squander them all in his lifetime.

But Duan had children, and more than one.

As a parent, Duen naturally saved some money for his children and future generations.

By the time the Bulls' championship parade started, Duane had basically finished shooting everything he needed to shoot.

All that’s left is to wait for the new season to arrive and cooperate with the performance on the retirement tour.

After participating in the championship parade, Duan temporarily left the United States with his team.

This summer, Duane will also supervise the men's basketball team and the Olympic Games as a senior, veteran and meritorious player.

Duane actually has nothing to do with this Olympics, and the problems currently faced by the men's basketball team are not something Duane can solve.

Although the men's basketball team is playing well now, it lacks a backbone who can make the final decision.

More importantly, the members play in the CBA all day long, and their potential cannot be fully realized.

I can only say, what good outcome can there be if you play chess with a bad chess player?

The men's basketball team has talent but some of it is wasted. In Asia, they can still compete for the top three, but in the world competition, they seem to be neither good nor bad and are neither fish nor fowl.

Due to limited strength, the men's basketball team has little hope of qualifying for the group stage this year, and can basically only win one or two games in the group stage.

Under such circumstances, even with Duane's supervision and guidance, it would be difficult for the men's basketball team to achieve better results.

What's more, Duen himself went there specifically to take advantage of the popularity.

However, unlike the self-media that insult and smear the men's basketball team, Duane's image is that of a senior, a mentor and a helpful friend.

Because of vested interests, even if the men's basketball team does not play well, Duane has to stand up to defend it and bring some hope to the fans in order to maintain the existing commercial value of the men's basketball team.

However, in a few years, when my son grows up, perhaps things will change.

Therefore, helping to protect other people's jobs can also help to leave more room for your own family and earn more food, right?

In a word, the world of martial arts is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly wisdom.

When Duane leaves the men's basketball team and the NBA, who else can inherit Duane's influence besides his children?
Any successful person will think this way when he reaches a certain age.

Therefore, when things develop to a certain stage, they will always decline.

After all, the children of vested interests often do not have the talents of their parents, but they occupy better positions and reap more benefits.

The NBA is a commercial league and cannot avoid this.

The men's basketball team says it's for national honor, but how could it not be affected by personal factors?

Before the remnants of the old era exit the stage of history, they always have to pave the way for the newcomers they are familiar with before the arrival of the new era.

Duane doesn't mind who the successor to the NBA is, but he also hopes that his descendants can inherit his legacy, rather than becoming mortals after losing his care.

Of course, before leaving the NBA, Duane will continue to do something for himself.

Time quickly came to the end of September, and the Bulls training camp for the new season opened again.

Dunn returned to Chicago with his team and began to get busy again day by day.

After a round of negotiations in the summer, it was confirmed that this was the last season, and Duane had no regrets.

With the new season here, Dunn is just seizing the moment and working hard.

Whether it is for playing basketball or for life after playing basketball, Duan needs to spend more time and effort.

The media in North America and even around the world are also focusing on Duane and his retirement tour.

After the preseason started, every Bulls player became a beneficiary.

Although Duane was the focus of media attention, the attention on Duane's teammates also increased significantly.

Everyone was also happy to talk about Duen in front of the camera and share what they saw, heard and felt when they were with Duen.

As the days went by, the Bulls players and staff also expressed this situation.

The regular season soon arrived and the Bulls welcomed the regular season opener, and before that was another championship ring awarding ceremony and championship flag-raising ceremony.

“Every time I experience a moment like this, every time I see the championship banner rise, I get excited.

It is my honor to have my jersey share the same sky with them!

See Red! The Chicago Bulls will not stop, please continue to support us! ”

After Duane's closing speech, the Bulls' opening game of the new season, which is also Duane's retirement tour, officially began.

In the next home game, Duane tried to reduce his shots as much as possible and his playing time was reduced to about 25 minutes, trying not to cause trouble for everyone.

A retirement tour must be done, but the team's performance must also be taken into consideration.

The Bulls are the defending champions. They can't give up this season's record and even fail to make the playoffs just to cooperate with Durant's performance, right?
Curry has also gone downhill, but Curry's career has not yet reached the end stage.

In other words, Curry also needs to put a perfect end to his remaining career. In the last two or three years, Curry wants to fight again and win that damn championship!
Even though he just won last season...

And with Durant not interfering too much in the home game, the Bulls played very well under the leadership of Jokic and Curry.

Because the Bulls have maintained their championship-winning lineup, they will be very competitive in the new season without having to adjust their lineup.

In addition, the league also intends to increase ratings and attention through Duane's retirement tour.

Therefore, the Bulls' convenience in penalties also allowed them to play more smoothly and easily in the initial stage of the regular season.

Of course, the away record is slightly worse than the home record.

After all, the retirement tour is a real performance, especially the four teammates who performed with Duane, who were accompanying the prince to study.

Duan was not polite either. He took a shot when it was time to do so and attacked with the ball as soon as he got on the court.

However, opponents will not feel ashamed of Duane just because they respect him. Some players even harbor ill will towards him. In order to become famous, they even take the initiative to commit fouls against him in an attempt to find a way out.

Duane can understand this, as there were many such players during Jordan's two retirement seasons.

After all, as long as you are famous you can make money, so what does it matter if a bad criminal pays a fine?
To put it another way, even if his action was too big and someone was hurt, and he was given a bad name and cursed by Durant fans, it wouldn't hurt him at all. Instead, he could make a fortune by eating up the black traffic.

This is just the way some people survive!

At the same time, these are just some minor villains and interludes in Dune's Last Dance.

Thanks to their hard work, Duane's story has become more interesting and interesting.

As long as Duane was not hurt, everything was acceptable.

Duane has played in the NBA for so many years, so he naturally knows how to protect himself during the game, and he is also quite durable.

Therefore, the slight hardships encountered in away games could not prevent Duane from releasing his fiery passion in front of away fans.

At the end of the season, Duane averaged 5.6 shots per game at home, and only averaged 8.3 points, 4.2 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game.

On the road, he averaged 21.5 shots per game, scoring 27.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists.

Just from the data analysis, we can tell that Duane's scoring efficiency is not high when playing away from home, but he does work hard.

如果单纯是刷数据，同时追求数据的数量和质量，杜恩完全有能力刷出一个20+10+5，甚至15+10+10的完美数据。

It is also in order to satisfy the away fans as much as possible that Duane will attack and score at all costs.

Then due to lack of physical strength, he was unable to protect the rebounds and organize the game at the same time.

He didn't even try that hard on the defensive end, just to concentrate his energy and show a stronger and more aggressive Dunn on the offensive end.

This is what the fans think of Duane, who is close to his prime, and this is the Duane that the fans pay money to enter the arena and look forward to seeing.

Duane tried hard to give back to the away fans, although his efficiency was not high, and even let them see a bad game in which the Bulls could have won but ultimately lost at the hands of Duane.

However, from the perspective of sentiment and personal heroism, most fans will feel satisfied.

Especially when playing away games, the local fans.

They saw Dunn "return to the top" and the team they supported won again.

If this isn’t a win-win situation, then what is it?
Of course, not every time Dunn takes action, he can help them.

Some teams were in a losing streak before meeting the Bulls, and wanted to use Duane's help to end their losing streak and solve the team's problems.

However, the Bulls are too strong right now.

Even if Duane is not in good form and plays randomly, there will always be someone to cover him.

This is also the biggest highlight of the NBA this season. The championship-level team provides Durant with the stage for his retirement tour. No matter how Durant struggles, the Bulls always maintain their championship-level strength.

Many passers-by fans came to accompany Durant through his last season and found that Durant played very reasonably at home and very passionately on the road, and the Bulls won in most of the game occasions.

Winning fans are the largest fan group in the NBA.

Overseas fans in particular are not like local fans at home who have been in contact with the team in community life since childhood and have been influenced by the team culture for a long time. Therefore, they will not become die-hard fans of a particular team.

When I watch the same team's games for more than half a year throughout a season, I find that they play quite well and even have the strength to win the championship.

This will undoubtedly make them more willing to support the team and then spend more time paying attention to the team.

However, just when these new fans had become interested in the Bulls and were focusing their energy on watching the Bulls' playoff games, expecting the Bulls to once again achieve brilliant results, the Bulls unfortunately stopped in the Eastern Conference Finals and failed to achieve their goal of winning the championship again.

The retirement tour consumed a lot of Duane's physical energy. The successful conclusion of the retirement tour also allowed Duane to let go of everything on the spiritual level.

Entering the playoffs, Durant was no longer competitive, and was not even qualified to be a starter for the Bulls.

Of course, Duan also knew his own limitations and had already made plans to step down and let others take over.

However, the Bulls did not take the initiative to withdraw Duan to the bench lineup.

After the game officially started, the Bulls coaching staff racked their brains to hide Durant's weakness.

Although Duane quickly adapted to his new role and was willing to focus on helping the team go further in the playoffs, the opponents the Bulls faced this year were stronger than last year.

At the same time, the Bulls' bench players may also be blinded by Duane's retirement tour.

Everyone is immersed in the media spotlight and the attention of the public, trying to be on the same stage with Duane, feed the ball to Duane, and take the ball and play more when Duane is not on the court, in order to achieve more impressive data.

All of this brings hidden dangers to the playoffs.

In addition, Durant's retirement is an established fact. So who will earn a big contract with the Bulls' more than 60 million salary space vacated in the new season?

You know, the Bulls have quite a few fourth-year rookies who have already made a name for themselves.

Their performance in this year's playoffs will definitely determine how big a contract they can get in the summer.

These are issues that the Bulls management and players have not paid much attention to before.

But in the playoffs, especially when the games weren't going well, everything was exposed.

What followed was not the players' disunity, but injuries.

The Bulls play in the playoffs every year, and neither the veterans nor the rookies on the team can always withstand such high-intensity games.

Especially this year, the Bulls held a retirement tour for Durant with great fanfare, and on the other hand, they had the idea and plan to win the championship again.

The Bulls can't have all the good things.

League executives and other teams also want a piece of the pie.

As early as last year, the Celtics sacrificed the team's historical honor and cooperated with the league to reach a tacit understanding. The league's top management was willing to help the Celtics win the championship.

It’s just that the Bulls were too strong last year, and at the same time, they didn’t make any unnecessary moves, and they blocked the Celtics for another year.

This year's Eastern Conference Finals became a battle of revenge for the Celtics.

Although the referee helped, it must be admitted that the Celtics players did play well.

As Dunn said last year, they already have what it takes to win the championship.

In the end, as Duane expected, the Celtics advanced to the finals without much effort and achieved immediate success, sweeping their opponents 4-1 and bringing the championship trophy back to Boston.

Thanks to the Celtics for winning the championship, and it seemed so easy.

The Bulls and Celtics played six games in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Bulls failed to win the championship this season, which certainly made some people feel a little regretful.

However, in the NBA, no one can win all the victories and honors, and no team can win all the time.

All the team and the players can strive for is to win the next game.

With Duane's contract completely ended, before the opening of the new season's free market, the Bulls solemnly held a retirement ceremony for Duane at the United Center, and Duane's No. 13 jersey will also be retired.

Previously, Dunn's No. 31 jersey had been retired after Dunn's first retirement and was raised to the dome of the United Center.

This is the first time for the Bulls to retire two jerseys of a star player at the same time.

As he watched his No. 13 jersey rise, Duane realized that his NBA career was completely over.

For this reason, Duane no longer lingered: "I believe that in the near future, we will return to the finals! But now, I must solemnly announce to everyone - Duane is out!"

...The whole book is finished... (End of this chapter)