"Okay, we agree, if there are no problems, let's officially submit a trade request to the league!" O'Hill hung up in his office.

Ruan Erniu and Paul also happened to be discussing the direction of the team's development at this place, so they got the news as soon as possible.

The Magic agreed, but they vetoed the request for a second-round pick. O'Hill explained.

"Orlando can't keep Howard, so they're certainly not willing to give up draft picks, even if it's a second round. Ruan Erniu said with a smile.

Chris Paul also nodded: "If it weren't for the league to halt the Lakers trade, I'm afraid I would have met with Kobe and Dwight on the Lakers this summer." ”

"There's no one else here, Cannon, so you want to go to the Lakers more?, are Bryant's thighs more attractive than mine?" Erniu deliberately teased.

The third cannon ignored him, but rolled his eyes in front of him.

Ruan Erniu laughed, and then said with a straight face: "After JJ Redick came, I suggested putting him in the starting position." ”

Paul asked, "What if you meet a strong number two?"

Erniu said: "Of course, it is to compress his playing time and let Sean top the No. 2 position." ”

The deal was quickly settled, with the Clippers sending Morris Williams and the Magic sending JJ Redick to complete the quick trade.

OJ used Twitter to announce the news a day in advance, and Erniu seriously suspected that the Clippers and Magic had Woshen's secret agents inside, and it was not clear that Neil O'Hill, the general manager, was OJ's informant.

As for why the O'Dolan Magic are reluctant to add a second-round pick?

That's because they've fallen out with Magic management this summer, and he has a player option to jump out of his contract and leave the Magic at any time next season.

Of course, judging from the current situation, Sparks has basically compromised with the Magic, and it is very likely that he will choose to stay with the Magic this season.

But next summer, who would dare to say that the Magic will not choose to trade him, after all, the Los Angeles Lakers have never given up the pursuit of the spark, just as they chased O'Neal with all their might.

In fact, as long as the trade deadline doesn't come one day this season, no one can be sure that the Sparks will choose to leave the Magic, so from the perspective of Magic management, it is not surprising to trade JJ Redick for Morris Williams.

The Magic are short of the No. 1 spot, Bird's form has declined significantly since a serious injury, and with the amnesty of "Agent 0" - Arenas this summer, they do need a reliable point guard.

In addition, Redick and Xiao Mo are both in the last year of their contracts, and the Magic can't say whether they can successfully renew Redick's contract in the end.

In this way, whether the Magic finally chooses to keep Xiao Mo or not choose to renew his contract, they can more actively adjust the window period after Spark suddenly leaves, although it is impossible for them to make up for it completely.

Once the Sparks choose to leave this season or next summer, the Magic will enter a rebuild, in fact, none of the news media are optimistic that the Sparks will stay with the Magic for a long time.

Because the Orlando Magic's tradition is to produce the league's top center, and then the league's top center runs to other teams.

Interestingly, the owner of the Magic is still the founder of the Amway Group, Richard Devos, and he doesn't know how this old guy who is over 80 years old is Amway's own player.

Sight transferred to Los Angeles, and the Clippers expressed their welcome to Redick on their official website, and by the way, wished Xiao Mo, who was packed and taken away, good luck in the future.

The initiator of this deal is, of course, Ruan Erniu, and the most important reason why he chose to trade Morris Williams must be that Xiao Mo himself is not compatible with the current Clippers.

The team has Paul, Xiao Mo itself lacks value, in exchange for a three-point shooter, not only can concentrate the ball more in the hands of Erniu and Paul, but also can help the team increase offensive firepower.

Since the game against the Spurs, Erniu and Paul have realized the problems of the current Clippers team, in defense, they have little room for improvement in a short period of time, but on the offensive end, they have a higher possibility of improvement.

The championship belongs to the team that has both offense and defense!

The Clippers' defense will get better as Kawaii grows, but on the offensive end, they need more immediate power.

If these are the main reasons for Erniu, then he has a secondary reason that he will not declare, and that is that JJ Redick will not be Paul's faction even if he comes to the Clippers.

Why?

It all started with the college days of Reddick and Paul.

In the ACC league of the NCAA basketball league, Duke University and the University of North Carolina are known as sworn enemies, but in reality, North Carolina and NC State, Duke and Wake Forest are also very competitive.

Duke University, where Reddick studied, and Wake Forest University, where Paul studied, were only a 90-minute drive away. From 2002 to 2006, Redick was the absolute main force, and Paul also became the core of the team from 2003 to 2005, and the old feud between the two schools planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the two.

"We had a lot of fights against Wake Forest," Redick later recalled, "and in that atmosphere we were all going to be fighting and put our heart and soul into it, and each team used to get three or four technical fouls for that. ”

"We weren't friends at all until we really got to know him as a person, and that's how it was. But that's all old in college," Paul said.

In 2004, Paul and Reddick's hatred for each other reached its peak.

While attending a basketball camp held by a sports brand in Santa Barbara, the two were once again placed on different teams and faced each other as rivals.

Paul's bone-like defense completely enraged Reddick, and he hit Paul.

"I do have to apologize to him," Redick said in an interview, "and I couldn't help but assault him during the match and just swept my hand in his face...... I don't know how to describe that action, we were both living in UC Santa Barbara dorms at the time, and someone said I had to apologize to Paul for that. I knew he didn't like me, but he accepted my apology anyway. ”

In 2005, Paul was drafted early to join the Hornets, and a year later, Redick, who graduated from college, was drafted by the Magic.

One East and One West, who have worked hard in the NBA league for many years, they don't say a word about each other.

That's because Paul is gradually growing into the league's No. 1 point guard, while Redick, the NCAA three-point champion, is struggling to get out of the danger of being cut at any time and becomes a main rotation player for the Magic.

Of course, Reddick knew very well that he and Paul didn't really have a deep hatred, and according to his future statement, they didn't like each other, just because they both loved the feeling of life-and-death competition.

If the absolute leader of the Clippers is CP3, maybe a role player like Redick will bow his head and be small. But now that the Clippers are at the heart of Nguyen Erniu, Redick doesn't have to stand on Paul's side in the locker room.

Does a pitcher need to pass the ball?

Unless Paul is crazy, he easily won't cut back on the passes given to Redick in the game.

Contradictions always exist, but such a thing as dismantling Taiwan obviously does not conform to the code of conduct and logic of the Third Artillery.

The Clippers didn't wait for JJ Redick on their next home court, so Randy Foye returned to the starting lineup.

The home team's opponent is the Bucks from Milwaukee Forest.

John Salmons, an old acquaintance of the two bulls, was sent to the Kings by the Bucks in a three-way trade in the draft, and the Bucks' current starting No. 3 position is Stephen Jackson, who has been wandering in recent years and is about to change from a "martial saint" to a "warrior monk".

This in itself is a game that lacks highlights, and the Bucks lack the confidence to compete with the Clippers in terms of overall strength, but Brandon Jennings, who scored 55 points in his rookie season, seems to have something to say: "I don't think the Los Angeles Clippers are better than us, I will beat Chris Paul in the matchup, I am the best No. 1 in the game." ”

At this time, Jennings also said the famous "6 promotions" and "I'm better than Wade" amazing remarks, but his brain-dead behavior has long been famous in the league.

For example, he once wore a "Nobody Likes Snakes" T-shirt to taunt Kobe, but he soon changed his tune and claimed to be a black mamba fan.

There are many players in the league who like to play pressing, but as the core of the Bucks' rebuild, it is extremely rare for a player like Jennings to take the initiative to slap himself in the face.

To tell the truth, the so-called brain-dead, that also depends on the person, the powerful pretending is not called pretending, but self-confidence; if you don't have the strength, you have to pretend to be coerced, strictly speaking, it's nothing, but frequent provocations are slapped in the face, and you don't know the existence of repentance, at least in terms of innate spiritual attributes, you must have added the wrong point.

Sancang chose to refuse to respond to Jennings, but Ruan Erniu stood up and commented: "Although, everyone has the right to express their opinions, I don't think Brandon Jennings is qualified to evaluate CP3, he is better than Paul in statistics, or he leads the team to better results than Paul, don't forget, when the Bucks reach the playoffs, the team leader is Salmon." ”

The first person on active duty came out to speak for his teammates, and Jennings didn't dare to continue to be brain-dead, and the goods were coaxed in an instant, probably although God mispointed his mental attributes, but in some ways, he still left him with the function of even stopping losses.

The Bucks' starting lineup for the night were:

C Al Horford

PF Drew Gooden

S.F. Stephen Jackson

SG Carlos Delfino

PG Brandon Jennings

And on the Bucks' bench, there are also Sean Livingston, Turkish forward Eisen Ilyasova, and the growing 10-year No. 15 pick Larry Sanders.

At the beginning of the first quarter, Jennings showed a super desire to attack, and he repeatedly held the ball to impact Paul's defense, but the result was a miserable shooting percentage in the first quarter of 6 shots.

CP3 didn't have any thoughts of arguing with him, but steadily distributed the ball to an easier position to score, but except for Erniu and Kawaii, the other players of the Clippers also did not find their touch in the first quarter, and shot iron many times.

At 15:24, the Clippers led by nine points into the second quarter.

In this quarter, Erniu stepped up and took over the game, and he scored 15 points in a single quarter, helping the team to play a wave of 14:1 attacks, which instantly widened the score gap.

39:61, the Clippers led by 22 points at halftime, although Jennings scored 6 points, 4 boards, and 3 assists in the half, and seemed to suppress Paul's 4 points, 1 board, and 3 assists in terms of data, but a comparison of efficiency can be seen that Paul is far superior to Jennings, who shot 3 of 10 in the half, while Paul shot 2 of 3 in the half, playing extremely efficiently.

At the beginning of the second half, the Bucks increased their defense against Erniu, but the Celestial Empire is still an unstoppable presence on the offensive end, as long as he wants to attack, whether it is Al Horford, Gooden or Ilyasova or Sanders on the bench, he can't be limited.

Even in a few low-post packs, Erniu was able to handle the distribution of the ball with ease.

Nguyen Er Niu, who didn't talk about it, diched out five assists in the quarter, four of which Kawaii enjoyed alone, scoring twice from the basket and hitting two three-pointers from the wing.

Kawaii shot 4-of-6 from the field in the quarter, including 2-of-3 from three-point range and 4-of-4 from the free throw line, earning him a career-high 14 points since entering the league.

After this game, Erniu began to re-examine Kawhi Leonard's role with the Clippers, and if he was defined as a defensive gatekeeper or a 3-and-D shooter, would it be a bit of a waste of his talent to be paralyzed?

At 25:34, the Clippers once again took a nine-point advantage in the first quarter.

The Bucks players have done their best, and this is the problem of the difference in strength, which cannot be alleviated by words.

In the final quarter of the game, Jennings finally showed a bit of leadership temperament and led the team to chase consecutive points, once narrowing the score to about 15 points, but the hole dug by the visiting team in the first three quarters was too big and finally failed to fill it.

86:112, while the Clippers won four in a row at home, they also gave their opponents a wave of four consecutive defeats.

The most amazing performance in this game should be kawaii, a rookie with 22 points and 6 rebounds in the 15th pick, completing the 20+ milestone in a single game for the first time in his career, which is quite a rare performance for a rookie player who does not currently possess the ball.

On the other hand, the question for the Bucks is not whether Jennings can surpass Paul, but whether they can make it to the playoffs this shrinking season.

After the win over the Bucks, the Clippers will officially welcome JJ Redick, who will also make his official appearance in the next game in Portland.

The Clippers and the Trail Blazers, these two teams just played each other.

With the Trail Blazers suffering heavy defeats on the road, they are increasingly looking to save face at home.

The Trailblazers who fought at home did bring a lot of trouble to the Clippers, and the two teams played quite anxiously for a while, but in the end, Ruan Erniu, who scored 50+20 in the game, still successfully led the Clippers to win this away game.

Truth be told, the Clippers were hoping for a quick win in this game, but it turned into a war of attrition.

In the next game, the Clippers will fly back to Los Angeles for back-to-back games, and their opponents will be the Miami Heat, who have come from afar.

Another key battle of the new season is about to officially begin.