Chapter 546: The Rookie Situation in 2008 and I Want to Yes!
On February 22, 2008, the media room at the Key Forme in Seattle was packed.
The Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Portland Trail Blazers, who are now 12th in the West, at home with a yes strike.
It was also Yes' fourth consecutive mid-distance kill.
Even if the post-match press conference has ended, even the back of yes has disappeared from the scene of the press conference.
At the scene, these media reporters from all over the United States and the world were still excitedly discussing the game.
is still excitedly discussing the recent conversation between Jordan yes and Kobe Bryant!
Outside the press conference, Ye Si had just walked out when he received a phone call.
A call from the Lakers' backup point guard, Wilcon Roy, one of the Garfield Five Tigers.
"Ye, I was traded by the Lakers, and the Lakers sent me to the Jazz in exchange for Fisher."
Durant beside Yes couldn't hear who the call was, but he could clearly feel that yes's brow was furrowed right now.
"yes, are you alright?"
"It's fine."
Yes ended the call, and the tone of his voice made Durant feel like the temperature around him had dropped several degrees.
Conroy was traded by the Lakers, and the whistle at the trade deadline was sent away by the Lakers.
According to what Conroy just said to him on the phone, Fisher has been preparing to return to the Lakers.
Fisher is still in pursuit of the Championship now, and after Sloan's departure, Fisher is like leaving the Jazz.
Now that Sloan is gone, Deron is ready to trade again, and the Jazz are willing to let Fisher go.
The Jazz thought of his status in the NBA and his contribution to the team, knowing that his team would not win a championship this season and not enter the playoffs, so they also saw that a veteran like Fisher would pursue the honor he wanted.
A buyout contract or a transaction is acceptable.
It depends on Fisher's own meaning.
Fisher is now thirty-four years old, but he showed his talent for defending Durant before the All-Star break, and he has plenty of options after being released by the Jazz.
With seven teams from first in the West to eighth in the West, and eight teams from first in the East to eighth in the East, the doors of each team are open to Fisher.
Fisher himself was on the sidelines, and after the Lakers beat the Suns on the road, Fisher finally made up his mind.
The Lakers' win over the Suns on the road gave Fisher a chance for the Lakers to win the championship.
The gap between the Lakers and the Suns is just the gap between the rotational bench lineup.
Moreover, when I return to Los Angeles, a place that I am familiar with and have achieved, I will have more things to strive for.
Now that Bowen's status with the Spurs, which role player isn't covetous?
In the current NBA, there are very few role players who can retire their jerseys, and Fisher is the one who can compete.
As long as he can win one or two more championships with the Lakers and play well in those two championships, it is possible for him to retire his jersey in the Lakers, and in other places, it is impossible.
So, eventually, Fisher returned to the Lakers with fifteen teams in the league coveting him.
And if the Lakers want to get Fisher, it is naturally impossible to use the buyout contract to sign after the clarification period, and the Lakers' fifteen-man roster is full.
What's more, according to Conroy, Fisher's other request for the Lakers is to trade Conroy.
According to Fisher, the Jazz treated him well, and he couldn't leave nothing for the Jazz.
The Jazz traded Delon and needed a quality point guard without him.
The Lakers' strong point guard, in addition to Kidd, is Conroy.
Fisher's request almost named Conroy before he was willing to return to the Lakers.
For Fisher's noble and noble reasons like a righteous gentleman, a fool can see what Fisher's true intentions are.
Conroy has been a good dribble guard with the Lakers in the past two seasons.
It's not bad to be a substitute for Kidd, he can pass the ball, he can shoot, and there is basically nothing wrong with him except for defense.
As long as Conroy is with the Lakers, he can definitely play and share time.
Now that the Lakers have a starting point guard like Kidd, who is like an iron man, if there is also a very good third point guard Conroy, how much time can Fisher have as the second point guard?
There was certainly more time than Conroy, but definitely not enough for him to do anything.
Yes has no problem asking Fisher for his playing time when he is seeking a trade, but this sanctimonious statement makes Yes quite contemptible.
Conroy is the person he is close to, and he will naturally be on Conroy's side.
Conroy could have stayed with the Lakers, and even if the Lakers cut people in order to get Fisher, it would not be Conroy's turn to cut him.
And, as the Lakers' management and coaching, it's also a good thing to have such a strong third point guard.
But because Fisher is actually very selfish, but he is very sanctimonious, the Lakers have to compromise in order to get Fisher.
And Conroy also had to leave a championship team like Los Angeles to go to a small place that is now chaotic because of Fisher.
"Hypocrite!"
Hypocrite?
yes, who is this scolding?
Durant, who has been following Yes, is the first time he has heard Yes scold someone like this.
Who is so powerful that yes can give such an evaluation?
Durant is quite curious now, but no matter how curious he is, he doesn't dare to ask.
After two back-to-back games against the Trail Blazers, the focus of the nation and the NBA as a whole is now on Yess to complete four consecutive mid-range kills.
Deron to the Heat and Fisher to the Lakers trade can only be news in the corner.
For journalists and fans, who cares about a trade between a team that is now at the bottom of the league and a team with little exposure like the Jazz?
What's more, Delon is just a player with superstar potential or All-Star potential.
Potential is potential, and if it hasn't grown up, then there is no popularity, and without popularity, there is no intersection, and the media and fans are such a reality.
But for Yes and the NBA players and teams, the deal is still something to watch.
In addition to the two role players who were used to tie Delon to his 4 million contract, the main chip in the Heat trade was their draft picks.
The Heat are terrible right now, they have played 53 games now, and their record is only 5-48!
It's really a magical record, and it looks difficult for a team with a Finals MVP to win 10 games a season when it plays superstar Dwyane Wade.
But in the face of the Heat's record, no one in the league felt that the Heat was rotten.
It's really that Wade is so crazy to win every game, I can't bear to say that the Heat are brushed.
Even if everyone knows that Pat Riley sent O'Neal away from the Heat this summer to all the teams that could play, just to put it on the spurs, for the sake of the champion.
It can only be said that this guy Pat Riley is too yin to say that the Heat is brushing the champion.
The Heat are so bad, so bad that no team dares to compete with them for the bottom spot.
It's so bad that it breaks all the losing streaks and negative records in NBA history.
But there are a lot of people in such a team who are willing to trade with them.
The main chip in the Heat's trade for Deron was the 2008 Heat draft pick.
The Heat's main chip in trading Delon was a first-round pick to protect the Eye Guard.
The protection of the top eye, which is easy to understand, is for Ross and Mayo.
If the Heat's 2008 first-round pick was the top two, the Heat would send three unprotected first-round picks from 2009, 2011 and 2013 to the Jazz.
DeLong's current trade value is less than the top four picks in 2008.
Pat Riley dared to trade his own first-round pick in 2008 to lure the Jazz into the bait.
Fools can see it.
If the Heat's bottom-to-bottom results this year don't draw the top pick and the top spot, then the Jazz will earn blood, whether it is the third choice Beasley or the fourth choice Curry, it will be earned.
With Deron now trading at such a low value, if he can get a Beasley and Curry, it will be really blood-earned!
What's more, even if there is no gambling success, there are still three first-round picks guaranteed by the Heat in 2009, 2011 and 2013.
With Deron and Wade or Mayo and Rose next season, the Heat's record will certainly not be worse than this season, but it is difficult to say how strong it will be.
In terms of the lack of people in any position shown by the Heat this season, it will take at least a year or two for the Heat to rise, so the 2009 first-round pick is likely to be a fairly high lottery, and 2011 and 2013 should also be two good first-rounders.
These three first-round picks are of course low relative to Delon's actual value right now.
But in a trade that is now very bad for the Jazz, there can be Beasley and Curry bets, and there are three good chip guarantees, and this trade is acceptable for the Jazz overall.
At the very least, Pat Riley is much more sincere than the teams that want to rob the Jazz.
The Heat-Jazz deal isn't a big deal in terms of NBA trade history.
But for this trading period, it is already the biggest deal.
I have to say that now the big picture of the alliance has been decided.
Most of the strong teams are satisfied with their own team's lineup, so the trading market is not so active.
If it weren't for the Jazz's Sloan and Delon incident, there wouldn't even be a trade at this level.
It can only be said that in the summer of last year, the changes in the NBA were too big.
It is equivalent to having overdrawn all the changes in this trading period.
On February 22, 2008, the SuperSonics defeated the Trail Blazers at home, and on February 24, they will face the Golden State Warriors, who are now 11th in the West.
Now the playoff format on the Western side is that the Mavericks in ninth place in the West have basically missed the playoffs, the Jazz in the tenth place in the West, the Warriors in the eleventh place in the West, the Trailblazers in the twelfth place in the West, the Clippers in the thirteenth place in the West, and the Timberwolves in the fourteenth place in the West, these teams have similar results.
However, in the face of no hope of the playoffs, some teams, such as the Mavericks and Jazz, have already prepared to give up in advance.
But some teams didn't give up.
The Warriors, Clippers, Trail Blazers and Timberwolves are among the teams that have not given up.
All four teams have excellent rosters, and what is needed is not to trade draft picks for hope, but to sharpen the team's potential youngsters with wins.
If there is a real hope of a top-four finisher, they don't mind messing around.
But in the competition for draft picks this year, which of these teams in the West can compare to the East!
Even if the king who is the penultimate in the west is placed in the east, he can be ranked in the top ten in the east!
Each of their four teams, each of which is in the East, can compete for the playoffs!
Since there is no hope for a high-pick pick, let's play well.
This makes for a very interesting landscape.
The current lottery teams in the West and those in the East have a completely different drawing style!
Those lotto teams in the east are now out of play, but the list, Tanhua and the fourth pick are still very dramatic and attractive!
The second-to-last in the league can get a minimum fifth pick, even if David Stern controls the court, the top four Rose, Mayo, Beasley and Curry can't get it, and I won't lose the fifth-place LeFou!
The 2008 draft year was comparable to the 2007 Diamond Year!
The fact that the lotto teams in the West are working so hard now is really not good news for the strong teams in the West.
Ye Si's previous two games blew up his head in order to control the Trail Blazers.
Fortunately, in this game with the Warriors, Yess is much less difficult to control the court.
Compared to the Trail Blazers, the Warriors have a stronger offense, but a weaker defense.
Comparatively, the Warriors still have a better control of the court.
Yes has no interest in surpassing Jordan in the mid-range field, he knows what his current strength is, he has never done that kind of media hype, he just takes it seriously.
He also had little interest in crushing Kobe, and he knew that he had never crushed.
What he's after now is winning and improving his stats.
In the case of ensuring victory, it is perfect to improve the attributes.
This game against the Warriors was easier for Yes than against the Trail Blazers, and the Warriors are Yes's favorite team in the league, with the exception of several special teams such as the Nuggets, Pistons, Cavaliers and Spurs.
This game is no exception.
Ye Si's feeling in the last few games can actually only be regarded as average, but in terms of his current confrontation, three-point attributes, as long as he takes the initiative to find Monta Alice, Monta Alice has no way to deal with him.
In the face of the Warriors, he can let the Warriors choose his death.
Of course, the Warriors do not have the right to choose the way to die in this game, and this game, the Warriors' death, is already a sure thing!
"108 to 106!"
"yes once again in the middle distance!"
"This is yes' fifth consecutive mid-range kill!"
Not only Barkley in the commentary box, but even many Warriors fans on the scene were applauding and cheering, and the sound of MVP was almost endless!
"I want yes!"
On the Warriors bench, Warriors head coach Mark Jackson is now all about the aftermath of that Garfield hurricane at the University of Washington!