Chapter 137: All-Star Game Preview
The Pistons' Ben Wallace was fined $300,000 and suspended for three games, and the Magic's Sean Lee was fined $200,000 and suspended for three games. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It seems that the penalties of the two teams are the same, and no one else has made a penalty, and the top management of the league seems to have slapped each other, but this kind of thing is already very tendentious. Sean, who shot first, ended up with a very low penalty.
This is very intriguing.
The Magic got a bargain, and the Pistons were not convinced, but the league upheld their decision.
This season, the hottest team in the league is the Suns, the Suns who play the big run and bomb tactics have received a lot of attention, and Steve Nash may win the regular season MVP, which is a rare honor in history.
Why is the league so much in favor of the Suns?
It's very simple, the Suns play well, the fans like it, and they are willing to spend money, and Sean, who can also play bombardment, is also valued by the league, and it is rare for a point guard who can pass the ball so much, and the league must praise it, this is a sure thing.
If it's another superstar or another team that fights Sean, the league has to hesitate to do it, but the Pistons, then hehe.
As for how the news of the Pistons leaked out, it is very simple, the league did it on purpose, otherwise how could the news of the Pistons be so tight. Only when the news leaks out, can the league be more fairly biased in favor of Sean Lee.
Banned for three games, Sean is also depressed, because then the Magic team's game will be even more difficult.
In order to trade for Sean, the Magic team spent a lot of money, and now the team's combat power is already very bleak, and if Sean is suspended, it is likely to be another wave of consecutive defeats.
This situation was expected by all.
Next, the Magic played the Celtics away and unfortunately lost.
Grant Hill paid at critical moments, coming off the bench to score 14 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, and played well, but Paul Pierce got 31 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Kevin Garnett got 24 points and 12 rebounds, and Howard's 24 points and 11 rebounds were good enough, but it didn't work. Darko, who played well before, met Kevin Garnett's poor performance, and the data of 12 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists just made Darko not so embarrassed.
The loss to Celtic was not a surprise.
After the arrival of Kevin Garnett, the strength of the Celtics has increased greatly, although the depth of the team has dropped a little, but the finishing defense of the Celtics has almost no flaws, and the strength is very, very strong. In this game, with Kendrick Perkins not playing due to injury, the Magic are no match.
After losing the game, the Magic played the Heat on the road.
In this game, it was even more helpless.
O'Neal and Wade's inside and outside combination is not necessarily better than the original OK combination, but the victory is in the Heat team, and the key ball has more advantages. After trailing in the first quarter, Grant Hill came out in the second quarter, and the margin was quickly chased by almost the same amount.
But in the third quarter, the Heat's Wade quickly shot 7 points and 3 assists in a row, while the Magic team played iron one after another, Grant Hill, Darko, Howard, Kenyon Dulin, Stephenson, and behaved helplessly at this time.
With a wave of 18-4, the Magic team lost without temper.
Howard didn't say anything after the game, even if it was the All-Star Game that followed.
After this game, the 2006 All-Star Game will begin.
Both Howard and Sean will be competing in this year's All-Star Game...... Rookie Challenge. Howard has a lot of opinions about this, because Howard has performed very well this year, and many media have put the name of the first center on Howard, but the coach and fans don't buy Howard, which makes Howard keep complaining.
This year's All-Star Game was held in Houston, at home of the Houston Rockets.
But...... It has nothing to do with the Magic.
Eastern starting lineup: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson, Vince Carter
Western starting lineup: Tracy McGrady, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming, Steve Nash
Eastern subs: Chauncey Billups, Chris Bosh, Paul Pearce, Richard Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace, Gilbert Arenas, Ben Wallace
Western Conference Subs: Sean Marion, Elton Brand, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol
This year's All-Star Game lineup has changed a lot from last year, with Wade and LeBron James becoming starters, and Chris Bosh becoming the bench, which also represents the beginning of the rookie class of 03 to officially enter the core of the NBA.
Among the starting and bench lineups, the Magic team did not have one, which can be described as miserable.
However, Sean Lee and Howard are not very bad, because the two are only first-year and second-year rookies, and it is a real pity that other superstars, such as Michael Reed, Cameron Anthony, Stoudemire, Sean Marion, Rashad Lewis, Ray Allen and others, these superstars have not been selected as All-Stars, which is embarrassing.
Especially Carmelo Anthony and Ray Allen, it is extremely embarrassing.
When the former entered the league, he was an NCAA superstar, an NCAA championship winner, and LeBron James, but now Wade and LeBron are both starters, but Cameron Anthony can't even mix a substitute, but Bosh is a substitute.
It's helpless.
In addition to the emotional intelligence of the players and the performance on the field, the biggest problem is that the east and west are in the lineup.
Carmelo Anthony's competitors are LeBron James, popular superstar Vince Carter, veteran superstar Paul Pierce and others, it will be very difficult for Carmelo Anthony to be selected first, but Chris Posh, if he is in the West, he will definitely not be able to enter the bench lineup, because the big forward and center positions in the West are already overcrowded, Duncan, Yao Ming, Sean Marion, Elton Brand, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol...... Chris Bosh if he goes, what kind of bird.
Even if Bosh averages 19+9 points per game, there is nothing to be done.
Although Sean also wants to go to the All-Star Game to see, he is not in a hurry at this time, he can't be selected this year, so what about next year and the year after, Sean is still confident.
In fact, although the starting five are mainly popular, in terms of substitutes, they are selected by the coach and president of the league, of which strength is the main reason, for example, Arenas was selected as a substitute.
Sean didn't get a chance because he didn't have an absolute advantage in point guard.