The next day, the Clippers were ready to move on to the next city after a night's rest in Portland, and the players all had a rare good night's sleep, except for Jermaine O'Neal, who had a sleepless night, but no one but Rodman noticed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Los Angeles Clippers who took a day off, the next opponent is the Seattle SuperSonics, the Seattle SuperSonics is also a veteran powerhouse in the West, the team's glove Gary Payton, is a well-known superstar in the United States, Tiger Tiger's new star in the same year Rashad Lewis also grew up and became the team's new star, although the team's former All-Star player Wenbeck began to go down the road because of alcoholism, but in the summer they traded to the New York Knicks logo, Patrick Ewing, one of the league's four centers, Become one of the most interesting teams in the summer trade market.

In the regular season last season, the Seattle SuperSonics were squeezed out of the top 8 in the West at the last moment, losing the opportunity to play in the playoffs, before the start of the new season, the Seattle SuperSonics were full of fighting spirit, hoping to make a difference in the new season, but reality gave them a heavy blow again, Patrick Ewing is 38 years old, and he is no longer the gorilla under the rampant basket of the New York Knicks, Ewing dedicated his youth and all his basketball talent to the city of New York, When he left New York for Seattle, it meant that his time was over, and perhaps he made a mistake in coming to Seattle.

In this game, Jermaine O'Neal faced Patrick Ewing, showing a strong desire to attack, facing the league's legendary center, Jermaine O'Neal completely vented the depression in his heart, his confusion, his doubts, his dissatisfaction, his unwillingness, teammates all found Jermaine O'Neal's abnormality, but they all thought that he was too excited to meet Patrick Ewing, so they began to create more offensive opportunities for him, and tried to put the basketball in his hands. Only Rodman, who was sitting on the sidelines, shook his head helplessly, and finally did not stop Jermaine O'Neal, some things need to be experienced by oneself to be realized, which may be a good thing for Jermaine O'Neal.

Just 3 minutes into the third quarter of the game, Jermaine O'Neal collided with Patrick Ewing in a defense, Jermaine O'Neal's knee hit Patrick Ewing's body, the two fell to the ground at the same time, and then were sent to the hospital together, and the game was once terminated, and the post-game examination results showed that Jermaine O'Neal's knee was fractured, and he had to rest for at least 4 months, and his season may be reimbursed, which gave the momentum of the Los Angeles Clippers a painful blow, also gave the high-spirited Jermaine O'Neal a slap in the face.

Jermaine O'Neal and Patrick Ewing were injured, and after they left the court at the same time, the Los Angeles Clippers lost all their reliance on the inside, but the Clippers still maintained their previous lead with the joint efforts of the three outsiders, and won a thrilling victory over the Seattle SuperSonics by 3 points, winning 11 consecutive games for the team, but the outside world began to lower the evaluation of the Clippers, because of Jermaine O'Neal's injury, the Clippers had a crisis, and their opponent in the next game, It's the Utah Jazz who are still spicy, and the future of the Los Angeles Clippers is worrying.

This season, the three elders of the Utah Jazz became the second elders, Hornacek chose to retire after the end of last season, leaving Karl Malone and Stockton to continue to impact the championship, in the playoffs of the 1997-1998 season, the Utah Jazz in the West, all the way through, reached the finals, and was finally defeated by the Chicago Bulls led by Jordan 4:2, and then for two consecutive seasons, the Utah Jazz were eliminated by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second round of the playoffs. Karl Malone is 37 years old, Stockton is 38 years old, and the other three starters on the team, Starks is 35 years old, Brian Russell is 30 years old, and Marshall is 27 years old, this team with an average age of 33 years is the oldest team in the NBA on average this year, how long can they fight? That's the concern of all Utah Jazz fans.

Jerry Sloan's Utah Jazz Honored Coach and one of the Utah Jazz symbols, if you ask what coach Sloan loves the most? There will be many answers, but the Utah Jazz are definitely in the top 3, if you ask Coach Sloan what is the biggest regret? What's the answer? But Tiger Washington is definitely in the top 3 as well. Before the start of the 1998 NBA draft, the Utah Jazz hoped to trade the Clippers' top pick to bring back Tiger Washington to the team, but the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers at that time, Sterling hoped to use Tiger's prestige in college to bring him more benefits and decided to make a deal. And willing to eat any garbage contract with the Clippers for this, this sincerity cannot be insufficient, but at the last moment of the deal, the Clippers changed hands, and the new owner listed Tiger as the team's non-sale, so the Tiger Washington deal was completely bankrupt.

This season, the Los Angeles Clippers came to the home court of the Utah Jazz for the first time, and before the game began, a large number of Utah Jazz fans hung posters around the arena: Tiger welcomes you to the Utah Jazz next season! We're all Tiger Washington! Tiger is coming to the Utah Jazz! This is the place to be! The N commentator and Rick Barry, who were in charge of the live broadcast of this game, couldn't help but sigh when they saw this: "Oh! Utah Jazz fans are going crazy today, is this still the devil's home stadium that we are familiar with? It's the first time I've seen a player outside of the Utah Jazz recognized by fans here. N's commentator, Tiger's number one fan, said excitedly.

"Don't get excited, this season is Tiger Washington's contract year with the Los Angeles Clippers, Tiger Washington as the top pick, the original contract with the team was a 3+1 contract, next season he will become a restricted free agent, if he chooses to jump out of the contract and enter the free market, then it will become the focus of all teams, and the Utah Jazz has reached the critical time of the replacement of the old and the new, Tiger Washington if he can choose the Utah Jazz, it will bring new hope to this team, so I can actually understand, The behavior of these fans. Rick Barry began to answer everyone's questions.

"But Rick, the season has just begun, is it a little too early?" (To be continued.) )