At the end of the game, Spurs head coach Popovich was full of helplessness at the press conference.

"The Trail Blazers shouldn't actually be in the league, this team is too strong and upsets the balance of the league!"

"I can guarantee that the Trail Blazers will continue to defend their title this year, and even for years to come, this league will be their own!"

"I can't think of any team that can shake the Trail Blazers' kingship......"

"As long as Richard is in the Trail Blazers, the Trail Blazers will definitely stand!"

The reporters in the audience were stunned by Popovich's words, they didn't expect Popovich to praise the Trail Blazers so much......

When Richard learned that Popovich had killed himself so much at the press conference, he had only one thought in his mind.

This bad old man, very bad......

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The league can tolerate a team winning three in a row, but more in a row will certainly not be tolerated.

Because there are too many consecutive championships, the fans have lost their freshness, and the Trail Blazers win the championship anyway, so what's the point of view?!

This is not good for the development of the alliance and conflicts with the interests of the alliance!

In fact, the reason why the league hurriedly introduced restrictions on shark cutting this season is probably to balance the strength between the Trail Blazers and the Lakers.

The strength of the Trailblazers made the league begin to panic......

If they don't take the initiative right now to build a team that can compete with the Trail Blazers, the league feels like they're going to have a hard time in the next few years.

After all, it was the Trail Blazers who won the championship, and fans will inevitably get tired of it and lose interest in following the NBA.

It's a scene that the NBA management committee never wants to see......

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After taking out the Spurs in the regular season opener, the Trail Blazers began their "swing" journey again.

It can't be said that it is rotten, the main thing is that Richard still wants to cultivate more newcomers in the team.

Every newcomer in the team is a well-known figure in the future, and if Richard is not trained well, it will be a big sin and may delay people's careers.

Moreover, the new people who have been trained can also be used for trading to seek greater benefits.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Richard to train new people.

Of course, the main thing is that Richard wants to trigger the god-making quest in order to get some rewards.

At present, in the Pioneer team, Big Ben, Xiao Ao, the driver and the demon knife have all completed the god-making task.

Kobe Bryant and Harrington, who used to do god-making missions, have now left the team.

The six god-making tasks still gave Richard a lot of benefits.

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At the end of October, Richard finally started a new round of god-making missions, and the three people who triggered the missions were Lewis, Reed, and Byron Davis.

When these three played against the unjust Los Angeles Clippers, they scored more than 20+ points in the same game, which directly triggered a new round of god-making tasks.

What made Richard a little pleased was that the god-making task of the three of them was not very difficult, and if it was very difficult, I am afraid it would be quite difficult to complete.

Richard actually had a hunch that this season could be his last season with the Trail Blazers.

After leaving the Trailblazers next season, you'll have to wait a while before you want to trigger the God-making quest again.

After all, if you join a new team, you will definitely not have the luxurious squad you have in the team at the beginning.

Now counting the three newly triggered people in the team, seven people have started the god-making mission.

In the twelve-man squad, the old Curry and Robinson, Richard felt that it should not be able to trigger the god-making mission, mainly because these two were already old players when they played under Richard.

After removing these two, there are three people left: Kirilenko, Ricky Davies, and Artest......

Now Richard's goal is to quickly complete the god-making mission of the three Lewis, and then try to complete the mission of the three Kirilenko before the end of the season.

Strive to complete every player on the team before leaving the Trail Blazers.

In this way, even if Richard leaves the Trail Blazers, there are no regrets.

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Lewis's god-making mission has no limit on the hit rate, so in Richard's opinion, the difficulty is quite low.

You only need to let Big Ben and Xiao Ao do a good job of inside rebounding protection, and they can brush the data one by one.

By the end of November, the trio's tasks had been completed!

Lewis's god-making mission was the first to be completed, and it was also overfulfilled, which finally rewarded Lewis with five points of single defense!

To be honest, these five points of single defense ability are relatively chicken in Richard's opinion.

Although it seems like a lot, Lewis's foundation is too weak, and his single defense ability is only 68 points, and improving these five points only makes his single defense ability reach 73 points, close to the league average......

If Lewis's single defense ability is 75 points, then the five points of improvement are worth it......

Of course, if his single defense is only 75 points, I'm afraid the task reward will not be five points, but two points.

As for the reward for overcompleting the task, this time Richard took a new item that he had never seen before.

"Indestructible Beginner Scroll: After using it on the target player, he will be injury-free for a week!"

It's a relatively chicken prop, mainly because it lasts too shortly, only for a week.

If it lasts for a month, or even a season, then the value of this scroll is much more valuable.

Since it's a beginner scroll, it only lasts for a week, but it can be justified.

Of course, this scroll can't actually improve the strength of the players, and there are really not many places where it can be used, and it can only play a preventive role.

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Byron Davis's god-making task was also successfully completed, and it was also overfulfilled!

He was rewarded with two strength attributes, which is a pretty good value.

The strength of the beard itself has reached the point of 83 points, which is already comparable to some weak interior players......

Counting these two improvements, the beard's strength directly reaches 85 points, which is almost the average level of an interior player.

In the Trail Blazers, in terms of strength, I'm afraid that Big Ben and Little Ao can be stronger than the strength of Big Beard.

Big Ben eats by strength, and naturally it is much stronger than the 85 points of the beard.

As for Xiao Ao, strength is not his strong point, in fact, the current strength attribute is only 89 points, which is not much higher than the beard......

Speaking of which, in fact, under normal circumstances, Xiao Ao's strength is a relatively short board in him.

But because of the appearance of Richard and Big Ben, he spent a lot of time polishing his strength in the offseason, so his strength attribute is a cut above his normal situation.

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The bearded man overfulfilled the task, and Richard only got a little reward for all the attributes of the coach, which is better than nothing.

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In the end, Reed's mission allowed Reed to increase his speed by two points, and he didn't exceed it......

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I don't know if it's his own delusion, but Richard feels that if he wants to get some good things now, the difficulty is much more difficult than the first season of winning the championship.

When the Trail Blazers won their first championship, Richard had a huge win.

But when he won the championship last season, Richard didn't get any reward at all......

At present, the god-making task is still like this, and the reward given is quite chicken, anyway, Richard is not eye-catching.

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The October and November fixtures are over.

Because Richard has been doing god-making tasks and cultivating newcomers, his record is not particularly outstanding.

At present, it has only won the second record in the West.

Originally, this second-place record in the West was Richard's goal this season......

But now Richard has to raise this goal a little higher, mainly because the first team in the West is not the Lakers.

It's a spur!

The Spurs are currently at the top of the league's record list, but the Lakers, whose record has slipped a bit this season, I wonder if they are accumulating energy and waiting for the playoffs to explode again.

Anyway, the Spurs are currently sitting in the first place in the West, which is quite unfavorable for Richard!

If this rhythm continues, then the coach of the West this year will not be Richard, but Spurs head coach Popovich.

Richard is looking forward to this All-Star, has been looking forward to it for a long time, and it is naturally impossible to miss this opportunity now, after the end of the schedule in November, Richard directly enabled the super main lineup of the Trail Blazers and began to sprint for the regular season results!

At the very least, before the All-Star starts, catch up with the Spurs and get the status of the coach of the Western All-Star team!

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The Trailblazers' side suddenly became abnormal!

Originally, in the first month and a half of the schedule, the Trail Blazers mainly focused on cultivating newcomers, and it seemed that they didn't care much about the regular season results at all!

But after the time entered December, the Trailblazers suddenly began to exert force.

Against any team, they will directly take out their main starting lineup, completely break down the opponent, and after they completely surrender, Richard will change to the rookie lineup at his discretion.

The fans were a little puzzled and didn't know what Richard was really stimulated by......

The previous pioneers, who seemed to be quite Buddhist, didn't care about winning or losing at all, and wanted the cultivation effect of newcomers.

And now they are fighting every game, and every game is a star-eyed fight!

It seems that this Trail Blazers has become the Trail Blazers in a shrunken season, with a posture of not giving up until they win all......

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In this year's Christmas war, maybe the league doesn't want the Lakers to lose at home anymore, so this time they didn't let the Trail Blazers play against the Lakers, but according to the previous rules, the East and West giants faced off.

In early December, the Trail Blazers played the Lakers once at home.

With the Trail Blazers all out of the game, the Lakers didn't seem to want to be hard with the Trail Blazers, and Kobe Bryant and O'Neal both played only 35 minutes in this game before they left.

The Trail Blazers scored nine points at home......

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In this year's Christmas game, the Lakers will play at home against the Philadelphia 76ers in the East.

As for the Trail Blazers, they are away to the New York Knicks......

Speaking of which, in fact, the Pacers are more qualified to play in the Christmas game than the Knicks, but there is no way, who makes the Trail Blazers' ball market not as big as the Knicks......

The showdown of the Christmas war, first, considering the strength of both sides, strives to fight a big war like Mars hitting the earth.

Second, it will definitely take into account the team's market situation, and the league will definitely not want to miss this great opportunity to make money.

That's why the Knicks and Lakers are the teams that have played the most Christmas games in NBA history.

The Lakers play a lot of Christmas games, which makes sense, after all, they are super giants, and the team has always had a good record.

The Knicks have played the most Christmas games in the entire NBA history, and it doesn't make sense if it's really based on strength.

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Away to the New York Knicks, the Trail Blazers played an easy one.

The strange New York fans cheered for Richard wildly, and even booed the Knicks players when they touched the ball on the court!

That's right, New York fans are the kind of thing......

The fans of this team are quite ruthless, quite ruthless, quite vexatious.

Last season, Richard led the team to play the Knicks' home court once, only to have the fans almost boo Ewing the Gorilla to tears......

Anyway, Richard saw it with his own eyes, and the gorilla heard the overwhelming boos at the scene, and his eyes were red!

No matter how the gorilla says, he has dedicated his peak to the Knicks, but now he is being treated like this by "old age and decay", which is really embarrassing!

This also made Richard determined that his coaching career, even if he starved to death, would never coach the inhuman team of the Knicks.

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The reason why these ruthless fans booed Ewing so wildly last season is actually very simple.

That's because of the salary......

Ewing has an annual salary of $15 million, but only 15+7 data has been credited, which makes fans quite dissatisfied!

They wonder why you Ewing can't take a pay cut, free up $10 million in salary space, and then let the Knicks recruit a giant!

For example, before Kobe Bryant left the team and Rashid left the team, it is impossible to say that the Knicks are not interested in them!

But it's useless to be interested, Ewing occupies half of the team's salary space, and they are also powerless......

This must have caused the fans to complain a lot about Ewing and booed Ewing in various ways.

It is impossible to say that this matter has nothing to do with Knicks management, and they probably also played a role in fueling the situation, wanting Ewing to give up his contract.

This is called seeking to breed as cheap as a dog at the beginning, and now the suspect is ugly.

You must know that Ewing joined the Knicks when Stern used a black trick, which is the famous draft envelope corner door incident......

As a result, especially because the Knicks dedicated fifteen years of youth, and now they end up in a disliked end.

The experience of Olajuwon, the big dream, is actually quite similar to Ewing.

It's just that the Rockets fans are still humane and haven't booed the big dream......

The Rockets management was reluctant to give Big Dream a large contract, and as a result, Big Dream joined the Raptors and got a three-year, $18 million pension contract.

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Compared to Rockets fans, Knicks fans can almost be regarded as heinous.

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With such a team and such fans, Richard definitely doesn't need to save any face for them.

In the Christmas War, the direct main force was all out, and in less than three quarters of the game, he directly defeated the New York Knicks, and finally gave the Knicks a shocking defeat at the Madison Garden Arena!

With a final score of 119:82, the Trail Blazers won by 37 points!

What Richard didn't expect was that this wave of wild wins only aroused the frenzy of New York fans even more, and even the Trail Blazers' bus was stopped by the fanatical fans when they left Madison Garden.

If it weren't for the NYPD, I'm afraid Richard and they wouldn't have left so easily that night.

These fanatical fans are not saying that they stopped the Trail Blazers bus because of the home team's heavy defeat......

The purpose of their stopping the bus was to let Richard see the enthusiasm of their New York fans, and see how much they expected Richard to join the Knicks!

But they didn't expect that this kind of fanatical behavior would make Richard sick to his stomach!

You must know that when Ewing joined the Knicks, Knicks fans beat gongs and drums, and they almost went to the street to twist Yangge......

Now that I've run out of people, I don't even give people a good look.

Richard must stay away from this kind of inhuman team and fans.

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As soon as the Christmas War ended, the first round of voting for the NBA All-Star Weekend began.

In the 2000-2001 All-Star Game, Richard was actually quite impressed.

Even in Richard's view, this All-Star Game may be one of the few games in the entire history of the NBA that has actually been played in earnest.

The main thing is that there are two more real players in the East and West, Kobe and Iverson......

Although Iverson won the MVP of this All-Star, it was actually quite thrilling, and the East team only narrowly beat the West with a score of 111:110!

If the East loses, then the All-Star MVP is actually Kobe Bryant, who has the best data on the West.

This All-Star can be said to be a contest between Iverson and Kobe!

The reason why this situation will occur is because O'Neal did not attend the All-Star this time because of injury, and if this living treasure attended, then I am afraid that the two sides would not have played so much.

As the most entertaining big man in the NBA, O'Neal actually added a lot of color to the All-Star Game, and the All-Star Game without O'Neal was a lot less fun.

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But now that Richard is here, this All-Star is not expected to be as intense as in history!

Because......

Richard had said cruel words before, and he wanted to let the Lakers' all-star players play soy sauce!

Although Kobe Bryant is a disciple of Richard, but since he said it, he must not slap himself in the face, and if Kobe really goes to participate in the All-Star, Richard will not be soft.

O'Neal estimates that he will still miss the All-Star due to injury, and the Lakers will only have one Kobe Bryant participating in the All-Star this year!

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By the end of January, the All-Star roster was announced, and the entire NBA league was shocked!

Because there are countless new faces this year, the league's older generation of stars basically lost in this All-Star vote......

The starting lineup in the East: Mourning is still the center position, but embarrassingly, Mourning, like O'Neal, missed this All-Star due to injury.

It was the Philadelphia 76ers' interior player Ratliff who was actually eligible to replace Mourning, who got the second-highest vote at the center position, but the league made a direct move and selected the Raptors' center Antonio Davis into the All-Star starting lineup.

With this operation of the alliance, even a fool can see the purpose.

The goal must have been to develop Toronto's ball market......

Vince Carter is the starting frontcourt, and Antonio Davis has been officially designated as the starting center, and the league's operation is really a little off the line.

Carter didn't have a problem starting, after all, his death dunk at the previous Sydney Olympics attracted a lot of attention from fans.

And Davis's words are really not qualified to be an All-Star starting center, and the gap is not small......

On the eastern side, Ratliffe, Mutombo and Big Z are definitely more qualified than Davis.

This guy only has 13+10 data this season, which is really shabby.

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The two frontcourts in the east are Carter and Dazhi.

As for the two backcourts, it is Maddy and Iverson......

The frontcourt and backcourt lineup in the east are really strange to say.

I can't find anything wrong with it, but it's just unspeakable confusion anyway......

Dazhi's current height has reached 215 centimeters, exceeding the standard center forward height of seven feet......

If it weren't for Maddy's performance this season being too outstanding and running for the All-Star as a backcourt player, then Dazhi, a big man with a height of 215 cm, would have run for the All-Star as a backcourt player.

It's unbelievably weird!

In the previous Sydney Olympics, although Dazhi improved a lot compared with normal circumstances, because of the poor schedule and poor performance, the Chinese men's basketball team finally finished eighth in this Olympic Games and did not further enter the semifinals......

If you can make it to the semi-finals, in fact, if you fight hard, you will have a chance to win a medal!

However, even if it is only eighth, it is actually the best result in the history of the 96 Olympic Games, which is acceptable to domestic fans.

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Under normal circumstances, in this Sydney Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team only played the tenth place, and now it has won the eighth place, which shows that Dazhi still plays a big role.

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Maddie, who joined the Magic with the highest salary this season, can be said to be living a very comfortable life.

Grant Hill had just joined the Magic, didn't play a few games, and was directly reimbursed for the season.

Duncan, who was originally expected to be introduced, did not come......

This puts Maddie directly in a lonely situation.

The personal data is naturally soaring, and the current super data of 25 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists per game is enough to compete with Iverson and Kobe Bryant.

And in the case of leading the team alone, the team's record is not completely unbearable, at least it has broken into the top eight in the East.

Now Maddie, who has only left the Trail Blazers for half a season, has grown into a hot super backcourt in the league, and he was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career and went directly to the starter!