Chapter 550: Lone Wolf Story
"Alright, Mike, I've already brought the man, you can just bring him over!
I know...... But when Nick was introduced, was it risky to be different?
So, you have to have faith in yourself, Larry Brown is Larry Brown, you are you, just by him, it can't affect the quality of the water cooler!"
Billy Knight is joking with Woodson lightly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Regardless of whether the Hawks can break the Bulls record in the end, Knight's recruitment evaluation this summer has advanced from C- to A+, and whether it can reach S depends on the Hawks' final record.
At an intra-team training session in early February, everyone was attracted to Woodson's new teammates as the warm-up began.
Wow, it's him!
That's probably the first reaction of most people!
Ruan Erniu scratched his head, and said to the embarrassed Sen next to him in a slightly surprised way: "He hasn't retired yet?"
Embarrassed Sen nodded and said, "It seems that the New York Knicks have finally bought him out!" In the Sports Illustrated survey last month, I voted for him in 'Who is the player you least want to be teammates with?' ”
"Well, that's still funny, but this guy is your teammate now, so let's welcome a new teammate! Anyway, he's also the second point guard in the league, the son of New York, Stephen Marbury. Ruan Erniu said with a smile.
"Hello, Stephen!" Ruan Erniu stepped forward first to high-five him.
"Hello, Kraft, I'm your fan and it's a pleasure to be here in Atlanta to work with you. "Marbury didn't show any of his recklessness.
Later, Embarrassing Sen and others also stepped forward one by one to greet the former NBA All-Star player who made big news in New York.
Regarding Marbury, most Celestial fans like to call him a "lone wolf", so much so that some pseudo-fans subconsciously think that this person does not pass the ball.
This must be nonsense, the data shows that in the era of the main control, Marbury's average assists per game have remained around 8-9 for many years, which is completely a first-class control data.
At one point in the league, he was the second point guard in the league, and at the No. 1 position, he was only below Jason Kidd.
So why was such a brilliant figure hidden by the team or even bought out? It can only be said that this is a long story:
As a Brooklyn-born New York native, returning to play in my hometown should have been an honor and excitement.
In 2004, when Marbury joined the Knicks in an eight-man trade, many people did think so.
In his first two years with the Knicks, Marbury did not disappoint, averaging 20 points and 9 assists per game.
But after that, New York's record plummeted under the new coach Larry Brown.
It was also during this period that Marbury and Brown had a conflict. As a result of an open altercation with the coaching staff, Marbury also received bad reviews from the New York media.
But for Marbury, this was just the beginning of the nightmare.
In the 2006-07 season, legendary point guard Isaiah Thomas succeeded Brown as the new head coach of the Knicks.
Originally, Marbury was a little admirer of Thomas, and he also looked forward to regaining his form under Thomas's coaching.
However, in 2007, two major events occurred in a row, making Marbury and Thomas enemies.
The first stems from Thomas's 2006 sexual harassment scandal.
In 2007, the court heard the case. As an eyewitness, Marbury was asked to testify in court.
In Marbury's own words, "I grew up watching Thomas play, and he was a great player, but I didn't want to lie about it, so I stated the facts, and for that, the Knicks lost a lot of money, and Thomas's perception and attitude towards me changed." ”
In 2007, at the start of the new season the year before, Thomas took over the general manager and manager, and then he quickly decided to change Marbury from the starter to the bench, and he even claimed to the team that the team lost because Marbury did not play well.
Such actions and rhetoric obviously made Marbury feel disrespected and extremely depressed.
And then, in December of the previous year, an even more serious incident completely led to a break between Marbury and Thomas and the New York Knicks.
At that time, the game was a key battle between the Knicks and the Suns, and Marbury's father had a heart attack while cheering in the stands and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
As the head coach, Thomas knew it was happening, but he didn't tell Marbury about it.
When Marbury rushed to the hospital after the game, his father had already died.
Later, in addition to his grief, Marbury also said angrily: "I can't trust these people anymore, they are just thinking about their own interests." ”
Marbury was not even allowed to show up on the training floor, and the story was even more bloody, as Marbury paid out of his own pocket to fly to the road on a Knicks flight and told reporters about the injustices he had suffered.
Larry Brown, who advocates defense, doesn't want to see Marbury, but D'Antoni, who advocates offense, doesn't want to see him either, and the two sides insist on each other's words and don't give in to each other, but it should be the Knicks fans who suffer the most damage.
Finally, when Marbury or Thomas showed up on Manhattan Street, there were always Knicks fans who stopped their cars, rolled down their windows and shouted at them, "Stephen, which one of you or Isaiah will get out of here?"
The first to get out was the smiling assassin, in April 08, and Marbury, who was carrying a 20 million contract, finally got a buyout contract with the Knicks in February this year and became a complete free man.
On the surface, the Knicks are quite ruthless and unrighteous in dealing with Marbury, but in fact, Marbury himself has a lot of off-court troubles, and during the Suns period, he was arrested for drunk driving, and was eventually sent to the Nets by the Suns.
After coming to the Knicks, it was actually not much better, and in April 2005, Marbury took the initiative to seduce the Knicks intern, lured her into his car, and had sex with her.
In response, Marbury also gave a detailed description of the details during a court testimony, which was stopped by the judge in court.
In the process of the Knicks and Marbury exposing each other's shit, there are so many bullshit that it is impossible to go into detail one by one.
In short, the current Marbury is simply a guy who is annoying in the NBA.
Of course, he was a two-time All-Star after all, so after Marbury was bought out, he was soon contacted by a team aspiring to win a championship.
Among them, the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics are the closest.
Although he and Garnett are old acquaintances, Marbury chose the Atlanta Hawks, who have more hopes of winning the championship.
In fact, no matter which team he is in, with Marbury not having formal training for a long time, he can only be a backup supplementary player, and it is already rare to be able to get 3-5 minutes of playing time on the court.
Of course, whether it is the Hawks or the Celtics, they are just using him to make a prepared choice.
In the subsequent team training, Marbury's competitive form also showed all this, and now he can only compete with Assilao for the only five minutes.
On Feb. 4, 2009, the Hawks flew to Minnesota, where Marbury's career began, to play against a team called the Timberwolves, which is actually a Husky.