Chapter Eighty-Four: Matt Barnes
The Clippers' 5-1 preseason start made Clippers fans very happy, especially Wei Zhiming's outstanding performance, which made him known to the outside world for a star-studded team like the Clippers.
In a big city in Los Angeles, Wei Zhiming's exposure rate is very terrifying.
After the game with the Clippers, the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban looked mysterious, after watching Wei Zhiming's performance, especially against the Warriors Wei Zhiming who used Nowitzki's golden rooster independent posture to almost equalize the score, the heat in his heart has not come down, his biggest wish at the moment is to bring Wei Zhiming over, he is willing to sell everyone on the team except Nowitzki.
The Mavericks have a good record this year, with a 3-3 50 percent win rate that Cuban didn't expect, and he thought his team was going to lose on a losing streak.
So, Cuban immediately ordered his coaching staff that he wanted this group of people to communicate with the Clippers and let the Clippers hand over Wei Zhiming, otherwise there would be no mercy.
The Mavericks coaching staff immediately felt that they were very hard, that Reeves guy was not easy to deal with, but the boss gave the order, even if they knew it was a wall, they had to hit it
The Clippers played the Grizzlies, Paul returned, and Stephenson was still the starter. After 6 regular season games, Wei Zhiming has adapted to the home atmosphere a little, but even if he adapts, listening to the cheers in the sky, he is still enthusiastic.
The Grizzlies' starting point guard is Mike Conley, scoring guard Tony Allen, small forward Contney Lee, power forward Zach Randolph, and center Mark Gasol.
After the two sides entered the court, the veteran players of the Clippers, Paul, Redick, Griffin, Jordan Jr., Rivers Jr., Crawford, etc., all walked up to the Grizzlies players and Matt Barnes to reminisce and greet each other.
Wei Zhiming looked at it from afar, he looked at Matt Barnes, and still walked up.
The NBA is a commercial league, but Matt Barnes has a LAC tattoo around his neck, meaning that he will not leave the Clippers. In the end, he was abandoned by Reaves, and Wei Zhiming felt that the Clippers were sorry for Matt Barnes, after all, his salary was not much, and he was still a bench bandit.
Matt Barnes (born March 9, 1980 - Santa Clara, California) is an American professional basketball player who plays as a forward for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.
He was a rookie in 2002, but he did make his debut with the Warriors. Having previously played on a number of teams, including the Clippers, Barnes attended the Warriors' training camp in the summer of '06 and worked hard to get a base-salary contract, where he played a role as a backup for McDonleavy Jr. early in the season.
It wasn't until 11/25/06 that he scored 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting in the game against the Nuggets, thus establishing the team's role as the team's main bench.
It is said that old Nelson always produces such talents, and later Morrow cut more than 40 points when he came up.
Matt Barnes made a name for himself with the Warriors as a major bench bandit and contributed to the Warriors' Black Eight Miracle, but his saga was just beginning.
In the season of the Warriors' Black Eight Miracle, Barnes averaged 9.8 points per game, and as a role player, he performed well, but in the second season, he only scored 6.7 points, and the Warriors didn't even make the playoffs, and Barnes left at the end of the season.
But at this time, Barnes is no longer the down-and-out he was back then, and has appeared in the league as a qualified role player with fierce defense and accurate three-point accuracy. So he joined the Suns.
This season, the Suns chose to trade O'Neal in order to reverse the unfavorable situation on the inside against the Spurs, and the Sharks swam back to the West, triggering an arms race in the West, the Lakers got Gasol at a very small cost, and the Mavericks let Kidd go home again, and the Rockets made drastic reforms.
But the shark is old, and he can't do it as much as he did back then. Smalls was injured for a while in the second half of the season, and Barnes took the starting position and performed very well, averaging double-doubles in points per game, but in the playoffs, the Suns were eliminated by the Spurs with little resistance, and the previously envisioned Sharks were completely useless against Duncan.
At the end of the season, the Sharks chose to leave, and Barnes also left, joining the Magic.
But ironically, the Suns immediately recovered after sending off the sharks, and under the leadership of Nash, they reached the Western Conference Finals in one fell swoop, and the most relieving thing for the Phoenix people was that they eliminated their arch-rival Spurs in the semifinals. Of course it's not Barnes' fault, he's just a role player.
In stark contrast, the Magic, as the runners-up of the last edition, came in a surging manner, and their lineup looked formidable, sweeping the Bobcats and Hawks in the first two rounds, but losing to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference and missing out on the finals. Barnes averaged 8.8 points per game and was qualified.
Barnes's unfortunate journey began in earnest, and in the old Chinese parlance, it was called a backer. In desperation, Barnes defected to the two-time championship Lakers.
As a two-time champion, the Lakers have the twin towers of Kobe Bryant and Gasol Bynum, the substitute Odom is the best of the non-All-Stars, and a fierce player like Ci Shiping, plus a more ferocious forward like Barnes, it seems that the triple championship is within reach, and Barnes's years of wandering look like a happy ending. But......
Everyone knows what happened later, the seemingly incomparably powerful Yellow Empire could be so vulnerable in front of the Texas cowboys, and in the semifinals, he was shaved and slipped out of the tournament, and by the way, the great Zen master Phil Jackson ended his coaching career with such a dismal ending.
After playing for another year with the Lakers, averaging 7.8 points per game, Barnes once again entered the playoffs with the Lakers, but at this time the yellow empire was already crumbling, and after barely passing the Hornets led by Paul in the first round, he was eliminated by the Youth Army Thunder in the second round, and Barnes and Cishiplane had almost nothing to do with Durant, and the Lakers could only accept the fate of defeat. Barnes had no choice but to leave again.
I heard that the Clippers are now recruiting, let's go over and take a look, so Barnes came to the Clippers, the Clippers were stripped of their skin after seven games with the Grizzlies in the playoffs last season, and lost to the Spurs in the semifinals without suspense, and the starting small forward Butler was considered not fierce enough, so Barnes became a good addition to the Clippers.
But what made Barnes desperate again was that the Clippers, who were able to beat the Grizzlies with Rudy Gay last year, were actually killed by the Grizzlies in the first round this year, and they were 2-0 ahead. And the Grizzlies made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals, setting a team record.
After the lineup was adjusted, Rivers came to the Clippers, and under his tutelage, the Clippers, who had more than 50 wins last year, actually improved, and the Clippers were all united and went straight to the championship.
The situation in the playoffs is also very favorable, and the opponent's Australian center Bogut, who can limit Griffin, is actually injured. But before the start of the fourth game, the pig teammates reappeared, and Sterling's racist remarks were exposed, and the whole team was greatly affected by this.
After seven big battles, he barely defeated the lack of soldiers, and he couldn't even get a decent interior line, and sometimes the tallest on the court was even the 203cm Harrison Barnes Warriors.
Then the Clippers miraculously defeated the defending champion Spurs the following year, and then were reversed by the Rockets 1-3, I think Matt Barnes can be said to be very bleak in his heart.
Before he could continue to work for the Clippers, Reaves waved his hand and traded him out. Wei Zhiming walked up to Matt Barnes and said, "Matt? ”
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