In addition to the influence of Richard's external factors, in the Clippers internal meeting, after the players learned the news, they also quite rejected the old Dunleavy.

For no other reason, because the captain of the Clippers right now is Elton Brand.

The Bulls have not been able to go far in the playoffs for several years in a row, and Williams, who was brought in by Ranbir, had a car accident and was scrapped, causing them to start rebuilding directly.

Although Rambier has not been fired yet, it is not far off, this is the last year of his contract with the Bulls, and when the contract ends, he will probably have to leave Chicago......

Brand was sold to the Clippers by the Bulls in a three-way deal.

As for Odom, the original big man of the Clippers, he was traded to the Heat......

Brand has high hopes for the Clippers to lead the team out of the quagmire, and now that Brand is strongly opposed to the signing of Dunleavy Sr., the Clippers management will definitely not consider Dunleavy Sr. again.

Stevens' popularity in the league is still quite high, at least he is also an assistant coach of the Trail Blazers dynasty, and it is not difficult to accept that he is invited to coach the team.

Moreover, Stevens is also twenty-eight years old at the moment, and his age is not an exaggeration of youth.

In this way, Stevens squeezed out Dunleavy Sr. and began to take on the position of head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.

There is no pressure on Stevens this season, mainly because the official strategy of the Clippers is to prepare for a bad set, so there is no need for Stevens to lead the team to play too good a record......

At the moment, the Clippers are firmly in the bottom of the West, and the goal of this season must be to sign for the top pick.

Under normal circumstances, the head coach of the Clippers this season is the old Dunleavy, if this guy is really allowed to sit in the position of head coach, then I am afraid that it will be difficult for Richard to use the No. 4 pick of the Pirates in exchange for the Clippers' top pick.

The Clippers must also know that this draft has two excellent interior players, one is Howard and the other is Okafor.

It's just that they have Brand on the team, so they don't have a special thirst for the inside......

And now that Stevens is the head coach of the Clippers, Richard feels that he can help the Clippers.

On his own side, he traded for the Clippers' pick, and then suggested that Stevens take Iguodala.

In this way, the Clippers' roster is almost enough, and there is no big problem in reaching the Western Conference playoffs.

A team like the Clippers, and they are still in the West like a meat grinder, their goal is actually the playoffs, and they have no hope of winning the championship at all......

……

Right now, Richard is waiting to see if Frank or Carlisle will be able to qualify as an All-Star.

If it was Carlisle, with Carlisle's temperament, it was estimated that Richard would open this mouth, and he should agree.

Carlisle has led All-Star teams before, and he has little interest in this kind of occasion.

As for Frank's words, then Richard is not easy to open this mouth, the other party is a young coach, when he needs a glamorous resume, although the All-Star coach is nothing, but for a newcomer, it is also a resume that can be used.

……

In the blink of an eye, the time is in January.

Richard was still anxiously awaiting the first round of All-Star voting, only to be shocked by the shocking news.

Green Kai, the league's No. 1 small forward, Paul Pierce was stabbed in a nightclub.

He was slashed eleven times......

Just like normal history, Pierce got into a verbal altercation at a nightclub and was attacked by a local Boston gang.

The first time Richard learned the news, he was very anxious.

Although under normal circumstances, being slashed 11 times this time did not have much impact on Pierce, who was discharged from the hospital in less than a week, and was able to play in less than a month.

But Richard could not guarantee that Pierce's injury would recover as he normally would.

I reminded Pierce more than once that he must stay away from nightclubs, but he didn't expect this tragic thing to happen to Pierce.

According to news reports, Pierce went to a nightclub to celebrate his friend's birthday, and he couldn't find anything wrong with that.

As soon as he learned the news, Richard called Pierce, but it turned out that he couldn't get through, which made Richard even more anxious.

"Myers, I'm flying to Boston this afternoon, and I'll have Mr. Abdul-Jabbar coach for the last few days." Richard was impatient and made the decision to fly to Boston.

Although I can't change the status quo now, I can at least feel at ease if I stay there.

If there is really a rather fatal injury, then the intact pill that I have in hand may be able to come in handy.

At the moment, Richard doesn't care about the high value of this intact Dan, he only thinks about the lives of his players.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Richard got off the plane from Detroit to Boston and immediately called O'Byrne, the head coach of Green Kai.

Knowing the hospital where Pierce was staying, Richard rushed over without stopping.

……

Richard was definitely a celebrity, and after entering the hospital, he was quickly recognized by medical staff and led him to Pierce's ward.

"Mr. Richard, this is a sterile ward, and it's not time to visit...... the medical staff said helplessly.

Richard waved his hand and looked through the glass of the door into the room.

Pierce's eyes were closed, and his body was full of tubes, and Richard didn't know what they were for.

I don't know if Pierce is asleep or unconscious.

How is Paul doing now? Is there a danger to life? Richard asked anxiously.

Now he was most worried about whether Pierce's life was in danger, and if so, he would definitely find a way to sneak into the ward and give this intact pill to Pierce.

It's a lifesaver!

"It's not a good situation, but you can rest assured, Mr. Richard, that there is no danger to your life at the moment." The doctor on the side said to Richard.

"What exactly is the situation, and where did it hurt?"

"The deadliest knife almost stabbed into the heart, this is a blessing in misfortune, if it really hurt the heart, then it must be ...... now"

Richard nodded, if he really wanted to hurt his heart, then he was afraid that what he saw now was Pierce's corpse.

"There's nothing wrong with the other viscera, right?" Richard breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask.

As long as it's not life-threatening, if there's life, then everything is not a problem.

"There is nothing wrong with the other organs, most of them are just skin injuries."

Richard was completely relaxed, and the situation was not so bad that it could not be managed.

He remembered seeing a real inside story of Pierce's stabbing in his previous life, which described Pierce's lung injury.

Now it seems that Lady Luck is still on Pierce's side, and there is nothing wrong with her lungs.

……

After determining that Pierce was not in danger of life, Richard sat outside the hospital room, feeling only a deep irritability.

There was a sense of powerlessness in my heart, and there were some things that I had tried my best to warn the Silafayette players to avoid the same tragedy.

But now it seems that history is so difficult to rewrite, Pierce was still stabbed, and even the number of stabs stabbed was the same, 11 knives.

……

Near twelve o'clock in the evening, Pierce woke up and heard the nurse say that Richard had been waiting outside for about ten hours, and his heart warmed.

"Coach, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you......" Pierce seemed to be in good spirits, and said to Richard with a guilty face on his face at the moment.

Richard waved his hand, "It's inevitable, now you can recuperate with peace of mind, don't think so much......"

Pierce nodded, and Richard had arrived from Detroit and waited outside the hospital room for nearly 10 hours, much to his devastation.

In this life, he can meet a coach like Richard, and Pierce feels that he has lived in vain.

"Coach, the luckiest thing in my life is to meet you."

"Don't talk like that, kid, take a good rest, I'll stay in Boston for the last few days, and I'll go back when your condition is stable."

……

Early the next morning, Ben and others, who came to Boston to play away, also appeared in the hospital for the first time.

Over the next few days, many of the West Lafayette players took advantage of the opportunity to play away from home, or simply took time off work to visit Pierce in Boston.

Taking this opportunity, Richard had a good chat with some problem players.

For example, Odom, Richard almost grabbed his ears and warned him to control his lower body, and even more so to stay away from illegal drugs, otherwise, his fate would be even more miserable than Pierce's.

……

To everyone's surprise, Pierce's discharge request was approved after five days in the hospital.

Being able to be discharged from the hospital naturally means that there is no big problem.

Of course, he will definitely not be able to come back now, and he will have to continue to recuperate.

Richard also relaxed, and said goodbye to Pierce and returned to Detroit.

Abdul-Jabbar led the team to win both games, not to say that Abdul-Jabbar's coaching ability is better than Richard's.

It's Abdul-Jabbar, the head coach who was appointed in a critical situation, and it is naturally impossible to train newcomers, and the two games are all on the pure main lineup, and the result is enough to abuse the opponent......

This feeling of bloody abuse of opponents made Abdul-Jabbar feel like he was back in his playing career, which made him more determined to take the coaching route.

……

Soon, the results of the first round of All-Star voting were in.

Yao Ming is still the top voter in the All-Star vote, but with the gradual development of the NBA in China, many Chinese fans are also obsessed with some NBA stars.

For example, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, such as Carter, a demigod, such as Iverson and Maddy......

The four quarterbacks are very popular.

This also led to Yao Ming being the king of votes, but there was not much gap between him and Kobe Bryant, who was in second place.

The three frontcourts on the eastern side are Yao Ming, Carter and Clark.

Originally, Pierce actually had a chance to get a frontcourt starter position, but now that he suddenly had such a thing, he would definitely miss the All-Star, so he cheapened Clark and continued to participate in the All-Star as a starter.

Artest, Gerrard and others were also selected as All-Stars.

Among them, Artest is selected as an All-Star for the first time this year, and if Richard can lead the team to an All-Star, he can get an All-Star light from him.

In terms of the backcourt, there are still a few people in general, but Reed, who just joined the Bucks this year, got an All-Star backcourt bench spot.

At the moment, Richard doesn't pay much attention to this matter, after all, whether he can lead the All-Star team is still a matter of two words.

The Nets and the 76ers are still tied at the moment, and the devil knows who will get the All-Star qualification in the end.

……

On February 8, after the All-Star list was released, the coach who led the team was also decided.

In the end, the Nets took a one-game lead, allowing their head coach Frank to qualify as an All-Star team.

Richard could only sigh secretly for this situation, God can't help me, there is nothing to do.

Frank wasn't one of his own, and Richard certainly couldn't open that mouth.

This kind of thing, if someone rejects it, will be quite embarrassing.

Feb. 10 happens to be the day when the Pistons host the Nets.

Naturally, there is nothing to say about the game, and the biggest highlight is Gerrard's super all-round data of 33 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals.

But after the game, when Richard shook hands with Nets head coach Frank, he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

"Li, this time the all-star team, I don't know if you are interested?" Frank was younger than Richard, and looked at Richard with reverence in his eyes.

It can be said that Richard is the idol of all young coaches and is what they strive for.

Even if they don't achieve such a terrifying achievement as Richard, only half of it will be enough for these young coaches to enter the Hall of Fame in the future.

Faced with Frank's question, Richard didn't react for a moment.

"Frank, you're not going to lead an all-star"

"Yes, Lee, my wife is not in good health, and I want to take advantage of this weekend to spend time with her."

"If you don't want to lead the team, I'll reach out to Carlisle to see if he's ......interested," Frank said with a smile.

Richard couldn't keep his mouth shut, this is simply a pie in the sky......

Ancient Ryder said

After that, it started to break out normally, there are monthly passes, there are recommended tickets, remember to leave it to the big black......