"Editor-in-chief, the press release has come out, how about you look"

In the early morning of January 17, 1994, in the office of the basketball department of USA Today headquarters in Rosslyn, West Virginia, the entire office was already busy.

Today's America, which is the main coverage of youth basketball in all international media in the United States, has been very busy recently, because of the Utah Jazz, this team has recently focused all its attention on the NBA, or all the focus on the NBA Jazz team, and in terms of NBA game time, as long as there is a Jazz game, it is difficult for them to rest early.

"I'll take a look, well, yes, not bad, yes, this can be taken to the editor-in-chief, and it can be used as a headline tomorrow"

After carefully looking at the press release about today's Jazz game sent by his subordinates, Alex nodded with a satisfied face and said, the content of the news is actually not so surprising or special, just an ordinary manuscript touting Lin Han and Jazz.

But at this time period, such a manuscript is actually the most needed, and the United States today does not need to make any unconventional demands on Lin Han and raise any concerns about the future of Jazz during this time period, this is not necessary, especially for the United States Today.

"Editor-in-chief, it's amazing, this Lin Han is really amazing, your vision is really unique, and you actually realized that this kid is a talent so early"

After the subordinate took the manuscript away, another editor of USA Today's basketball department sent in another piece of news that had just been written. said excitedly that in the current public opinion circle in the United States, the United States today is one of the few dense media. In this newspaper, there is not only such a 'brainless fan' as the editor-in-chief Alex, but most of the editors and reporters are actually fans of Lin Han.

As Alex used to say in the newspaper, when you look at Lin Han without prejudiced eyes, you will fall in love with his basketball, which is the most charismatic basketball in the NBA right now.

This is Alex's evaluation of Lin Han, in fact, it is also the reason why Lin Han's popularity is still high without the support of Jordan fans, and Lin Han's current attraction to fans is terrifying. It's not even worse than when Jordan entered the league.

"It's really amazing, the first time I led the team alone, I played a progression of 4O+1O jù, but. Although I thought he would succeed in the NBA, I never thought that Lin Han would be able to achieve this point, which is incredible."

After enjoying the praise of his subordinates, Alex was also proud, although modest. But at this time, USA Today's basketball editor-in-chief does not look modest at all. Because of Lin Han, he has been very beautiful recently, who made him the first person to dig out Lin Han? When the whole world didn't know Lin Han, he was the first to think that Lin Han could succeed, and then he was ridiculed by all his peers at that time, and now those colleagues who laughed at him would have a weak and embarrassed face when they saw him, which made him very happy.

Only, as he himself said. Lin Han can succeed in the NBA, that's his prediction. But he really didn't think that Lin Han would be able to perform so well in his rookie season, which was already out of his prediction.

"By the way, editor-in-chief, should we follow the news of Aaron Iverson's release from prison and continue to report it? He's going to graduate next year, but no university in the United States wants to take him in, so do you think we can start a movement about racism? ”

Alan Iverson is the pride of Virginia, and America Today is the media of Virginia, in the basketball world in the United States recently, there are two most important things, one is not to mention the consecutive wins of Linham and Jazz, and the other is about Iverson's release from prison after half a year in prison and some questions about racial discrimination by this little man.

Compared with Lin Han's scenery, this high school genius in Virginia can be said to have a bleak future, as the most talented player in Virginia this year, he has been reduced to the point that he doesn't even want a university, and even the local universities in Virginia are afraid of him.

"Forget it, there's no need to hype it anymore, now his reputation has been set, no matter how hard we try, we can't compete with those public opinion in the United States, let's focus on the NCAA on Duncan in the ACC League, this kid who can beat Mourning after half a year is a character, maybe it's the next Lin Han"

Alex closed his eyes a little tired after ordering these things, although Lin Han's madness has made many media newspapers in the United States sell well recently, but it has also made many of them very tired.

Especially in the United States Today, as one of the few media in the United States that does not discriminate against Lin Han, they have a lot of opponents.

USA Today was busy almost all night after the game between Lysham and the Cavaliers, and in fact USA Today is the epitome of most of the American media recently, because of the matter of Lynnham and Jazz, they have really been happy and troubled in recent times.

In this case, when Lin Han led the team to victory for the first time in his career, the next day, almost all major media in the United States basically made the most important coverage of the game on the front page.

Originally, before the game, most of the media in the United States were questioning whether there would be a so-called appearance after Lin Han left Malone, and in the end, the result of this game was that although it was difficult for the Jazz to win and most of the team's players were not in very good shape, Lin Han's expression was absolutely undoubted.

So at the post-game press conference after the game, the head coach of the Cavaliers, Mike Fratro, even broke out foul language, when the reporters on the scene repeatedly asked Lin Han about the game table, the head coach of the Cavaliers really couldn't help it, and it can also be seen from this game that Lin Han hit the head coach of the Cavaliers.

It's not just Cavaliers head coach Mike Flatrow who is extremely angry and helpless with Linhan, like the Cavaliers' central forward. This game was completely humiliated by Lin Han, who didn't know Doherty, the Cavaliers' center forward didn't even enter the locker room after the game. Leaving the stadium directly and returning to the hotel, not only did he not accept an interview with reporters, but he also did not participate in the team's assembly.

Obviously, being able to make such a veteran player do such a rude thing can be seen how much Lin Han has influenced him in this game, and he can't see anyone, that's right. After this match, Doherty couldn't see anyone.

An All-Star center was repaired by a rookie shooting guard, both offensively and defensively, how could that make him think about it so quickly.

So. The post-game press conference after yesterday's game between the Jazz and the Cavaliers was quite interesting, and the Jazz were cautious before the game, and everyone never talked about the outcome of the game, while the Cavaliers were extremely high-profile. The head coach of the Cavaliers is just about to end the Jazz winning streak in this game, and he will lock Lin Han with such words.

It's just the end result. In addition to escaping from the press conference after the game, the Cavaliers were angry, and everyone on the Jazz side was extremely excited, especially Lin Han, the best player in the game, it can be said that once again made these media in the United States feel like a spring breeze, and he was in a very good mood for the first time did not choke on these reporters at the post-game press conference.

It was indeed a great pleasure to be able to beat the Cavaliers in the game against the Cavaliers to maintain a winning streak and have a very good appearance, and what made Lin Han even happier was the day after the game. Lin Han was actually called to the office by the team's general manager to discuss some things.

It's not the first time that Lin Han has been called to the office by Jazz general manager Scott Rayden to discuss this kind of thing, but this time it is obviously not to talk about Lin Han's endorsement contracts. It's about the real big things about the team, about the current state of the team.

Although the Jazz have been on a winning streak recently, because in January, the league's trade information has become more and more frequent, as one of the teams in need of trades, the Jazz have actually been very frequent in recent times about player trades, especially about the team's center Spencer and the team's All-Star guard Jeff Malone.

As the team's three leaders, although Lin Han has not been able to participate in the construction of the team before, but he has heard a lot of team things, Lin Han knows that Jeff Malone and Spencer are afraid to leave in the near future, Spencer's things are very understandable, if Jerry Sloan is just going to enter the playoffs, and there is no pursuit of the playoffs, then keep Spencer will stay, although this guy can't stand it at a critical moment, but he is big, powerful, and not too old, It's a potential stock, and it's okay to keep it, but now the Jazz are not as unpursued as they were at the beginning of the season, on the contrary, this team is for the championship, and in this case, Spencer is completely useless now, and even has no development value.

Spencer hasn't even been on the activation list for a while, Aaron Williams is the team for the most part, and even Spencer hasn't even come to practice in the last two days, so it's clear that he already knows he's leaving.

As for Jeff Malone, to be honest, neither Lynham nor Malone nor Stockton nor head coach Jerry Sloan want him to leave.

Although he is a competitor with Jeff Malone, Lin Han has always been extremely respectful of this competitor, this is a very professional player, a very, very professional, although he lost when competing with Lin Han, but even if he returned to the bench, the Jazz guard also showed a very good attitude and did not have complaints and opinions because of his substitution, in this regard, it is much better than Humphries or Bennaught and others.

Without Jeff Malone, who averaged nearly 16 points per game off the bench, the Jazz would not have won as many games this season under the leadership of Lynham and Stockton and Malone.

So if Jeff Malone is willing to play off the bench, there's no way Jerry Sloan or the Jazz can trade him.

It's just clear that although Jeff Malone doesn't want to leave a team like the Jazz that is competing for a championship, he also doesn't want to be reduced to a bench in his playing year now, in this case. After thinking about it for a long time, Jeff Malone submitted a trade statement to the team.

In the NBA, although players have contracts, they cannot leave freely. But if the player really makes up his mind to leave, generally speaking, the team will not obstruct it, of course, players like Malone and Stockton and Lin Han want to leave, the team will repeatedly dissuade and communicate again and again, until it is really impossible to communicate, and will finally choose to trade the player. There is no such thing as forcibly keeping a player because he has a contract, and if the player does not want to, he will be thrown out of the squad. I couldn't even play the game, so I just abolished him.

If this kind of thing really happens, not only will the league intervene, but the players' union will also intervene. Even teams that dare to do so don't want to find good players in the free market in the future.

So. When Jeff Malone chose to leave after Jazz's repeated communication, the Jazz could only let go except for regret.

Although Jeff Malone was a substitute for Lin Han in the Jazz, as a player who even Jordan was afraid of back then, the king of the league's mid-range shooting, Jeff Malone's market is quite good, although there is no shortage of good scoring guards in the NBA now, but All-Star scoring guards like Jeff Malone who have proven themselves are still extremely rare.

No other team has the luxury of the Jazz. After having a Lin Han, there is actually a Jeff Malone.

So, after Jeff Malone appeared in the trading market. There are at least ten teams in the league that have shown extremely strong interest.

Of course, the strongest interest naturally comes from the 76ers, since Barkley left, the team has been rebuilding, they don't want Jeff Malone because they want Jeff Malone to hit the playoffs or as the core of the team's future rebuild, now the 76ers have lost confidence in all the players on their team, in this case, they need to clean up a lot of high-paid long-term contract players, and also hope to be able to exchange for some players who are very good but have short contracts, Jeff Malone has two years left on his contract, just right for the 76ers.

It's just that although the 76ers fell in love with Jeff Malone, Jeff Malone didn't look down on this current fish belly, in order to respect Jeff Malone's choice, the Jazz did not move, and did not immediately accept the one-on-one trade between Hornacek and Jeff Malone.

Instead, today we brought in the team's head coaches Jerry Sloan and Lin Han, as well as Malone and Stockton, to discuss what to do about it.

Truth be told, although the Jazz are now the first in the league and have started the season with a 36-game winning streak, there are just too many flaws in this team, the team needs to be patched up inside, and the team's bench needs to be reset, and in this case, a Hornacek and Jeff Malone trade is not enough to solve everything.

Although Hornacek is excellent, can score and pass, and is probably willing to escape from a team like the 76ers to play as a substitute for the Jazz, but the key is that after losing the chip of Jeff Malone, it is really difficult for the Jazz to find a high-quality interior lineman.

So there are two kinds of remarks in the current Jazz team, in fact, these two remarks are generated in front of Lin Han, Jerry Sloan is hoping to get an inside, defensive inside, and now the general environment of the league is like this, although Lin Han can make a cameo at times, but Lin Han's cameo inside line is useless even if he can beat the league's 8o% inside, because 2o% of the inside line like Olajuwon and other people who Lin Han can't win are the biggest opponents of the Jazz.

So, although Lynham's win over Doherty yesterday is exciting, it doesn't mean anything, and the Jazz can't meet the Cavaliers in the Finals.

And if the Jazz want to break through from the West and want to win the highest honor, no interior line is simply not good, so Jerry Sloan hopes to be able to trade Jeff Malone for an interior line.

It's just that the inside line in the league now, especially the excellent inside line, is extremely precious, even if it is Jeff Malone, it may not be able to be exchanged, in this case, most of these teams that are interested in Jeff Malone do not come with an inside trade, so according to the general manager Raidon, this season will solve the problem of substitutions first, and then slowly solve the inside problem, and it is more inclined to take Jeff Malone to change to a level outside first.

However, at this time, Lin Han watched these two team bigwigs stir up, and he didn't interject, jokes, even Malone and Stockton didn't interject, he just watched from the side.

Malone and Stockton didn't interject because they were used to the two arguing, while Lin Han didn't interject because he hadn't figured out the situation yet, and this was the first time he had come to the team's top management.

"Jerry, if you're definitely going to need an interior lineman, then here's a trade, the Nets want to trade P.J. Brown and Kevin Edwards and Rick Mahon for Jeff Malone and Spencer, do you think we should take that trade?"

In the face of Jerry Sloan's aggressiveness, the general manager Raidon said sarcastically, and after Raiden finished speaking, Jerry Sloan's face also changed.

Kevin Edwards is Pietrovic's spare tire, after Petnovic's death last season, the Nets urgently needed a scoring guard to poach the 1.91-meter Edwards, but it turned out that the 1.91-meter guard didn't meet Chuck Daley's requirements at all, but this guy's contract has four years, four years of high-salary contract, which is a semi-garbage contract.

As for Rick Mahon, this guy is 36 years old, if it was 1o years ago, Mahon would also be an inside titan, but is it useful now? As for PJ Brown, the Nets bench, this guy was a second-round pick last year, and he returned to the Nets after going to Europe for a spin, and his strength and potential are good, and it can be seen that this player is the compensation of the Nets Jazz, but this guy is too young to be trusted.

And Jerry Sloan has been scared of Spencer as a potential center, and now Jerry Sloan is most afraid of potential centers, especially the kind of potential centers that have no offensive ability.

So after being sarcastically ridiculed by Raidon, Jerry Sloan was also a little weak, except for the Nets and their trade involving the inside, other teams did not have an inside, and the Nets were obviously robbing them. Even if Jerry Sloan wants to go inside, he will never agree with this trade from the Nets.

"I think it's a good deal, and it would be nice to add David Wesley."

Just when Jerry Sloan was sarcastically speechless by Raidon, Lin Han, who had been looking at these transactions in his hand at this time, pointed to the Nets' trading chips in his hand and said with a serious face.

It's just that after Lin Han finished speaking, whether it was Scott Rayden or Jerry Sloan, or Malone and Stockton, they were all surprised.

Although they called this kid this time this time, they never thought that Lin Han would really express their opinions.

But in any case, this is the first time that Lin Han has made his own voice on the Jazz team. (To be continued!)

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