When the Grizzlies arrived in Miami, they had lunch and immediately began to prepare for the game against the Heat in the afternoon, from the coaching staff to the players, as well as the fans who supported them, they did not want to suffer a losing streak.

If there is no losing streak throughout the season, it is undoubtedly a great achievement, no one wants to give up, if it is still in the middle of the season, this kind of thing is not easy to control, they will not have this obsession, now there are 14 games left, of course they have to go for it.

The Grizzlies are working hard to prepare, and something is happening in the league.

The buyouts of some of the team's veterans have exploded during this period of time.

Most of these veterans are in weak teams, they have a certain strength and don't want to continue to stay and waste the last part of their careers, they can't play for a few years, and if they stay in a bad team for a month, they will lose a chance to play in the playoffs, and they want to leave; The team didn't put him in their future plans and wanted to save money by reducing salary expenses through a buyout agreement.

Bobcats veteran center Joel Pulzbilla reached an agreement with the team, completely waiving the player option for the last year of the six-year, $44 million dollar contract, which is $8.2 million next season, and after taking the remaining $1 million dollar buyout fee this season, he was given a free agent to join the Heat, who were in dire need of a big center.

This news doesn't care about the Grizzlies who are preparing for the game with the Heat, it's not an important thing, a garbage contract center with a salary of more than 7 million to play an average of 1.8 points and 4.4 boards per game, the Heat team also uses it to press the bench, and it seems that their team has a center, mainly because Haslem suffered a major injury before the All-Star weekend and can't play in the regular season, and is expected to return in mid-April, and the Heat have been trying to find a center to support the bench.

What intrigued Sun Ce was another buyout.

On the Pistons' side, Hamilton gave up the rest of this season's salary, and the original salary of 12.5 million US dollars next season also gave up 3.5 million US dollars, and agreed that the Pistons would defer the remaining 9 million US dollars in salary next season for 3 years, starting from the 11-12 season to the 13-14 season, taking 3 million US dollars per year and reaching a buyout agreement.

The news that both Hamilton and the Pistons want to buy out has long been spread, and the Pistons have been peddling Hamilton before the trade deadline this season, but they can't sell it, and no team is willing to pay for Hamilton's $12.5 million salary next season.

But the Pistons want to save money, Hamilton wants to leave, and the agreement buyout becomes the only way, the Pistons pay less salary, Hamilton takes less money, both parties are very interested, and finally reached a buyout agreement at noon today.

But after the buyout, Hamilton did not join the Bulls as Sun Ce saw in the news and his own impression, but quickly reached an agreement with the Suns!

At the same time, after reaching a buyout agreement with the Jazz after the All-Star Weekend, Turkish center Memet Oku, who has been recovering from injuries, announced that he would join the Suns on a 1+1 contract!

After the afternoon training, Sun Ce returned to the hotel to brush up on the news about today's several buyouts, and he was very interested in knowing these things during the interval of afternoon training, how could there be such a big change.

Although he knew that he had already set off countless changes when he came to this world, he wanted to understand each change, and if he could understand it, he would understand it, and if he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't go to the tip of the bull's horns, he just wanted to understand.

After checking the news, Sun Ce learned that Hamilton had not played for the Pistons a week ago, and had been discussing the buyout, and when the buyout agreement was reached at noon today, Hamilton had already appeared in Phoenix, and attended the party held by Nash for him and Oku in the afternoon.

At half past four in the afternoon, a video of Hamilton's interview was posted on the official website of the Arizanya Daily and received a lot of retweets.

Hamilton's addition to the Suns will inevitably affect the fight for a playoff spot in the West, the Suns are currently ninth in the West, two wins away from the eighth-place Rockets, and there are more than a dozen games left, and everything is unknown.

The current 33-year-old Hamilton, whose statistics have dropped significantly from last season's average of 18.1 points and 4.4 assists per game, has only averaged 13 points and 2.6 assists per game so far this season, but to a large extent, the Pistons are unwilling to give him too much shooting rights and playing time, and want to give them the right to shoot to their rookie center Monroe, and he doesn't put him in the future plan, and he himself wants to leave.

Hamilton's own strength is still there, maybe not as strong as last year's average of 18 points per game, but it certainly hasn't dropped that much, and his level of effort and self-discipline are famous, especially since he is still the kind of run-and-shoot guard that Nash likes.

The addition of Hamilton has given the Suns another strong reinforcement on the road to fighting for eighth place in the West.

At this stage, the most important focus of fans and media is not MVP, best rookie, etc., but the competition for playoff spots and rankings, so Hamilton, who should also have the strength to average 15 points per game, has joined a team like the Suns, which has attracted widespread attention.

Hamilton said in an interview: "I want to make the playoffs with Steve, Vince, Grant and Memet, and it's a very exciting thing for me to be able to make the playoffs at the end of my career with a group of old friends and do wonders, without a doubt, it's the best end of my career." ”

Sun Ce couldn't resist this reason, and Hamilton's words entered the hearts of these NBA players.

Playing basketball, aside from money, championships, and honors, more importantly, happiness.

Basketball is basketball, and the happiness of men is sometimes easier than imagined.

Hamilton is not short of money, counting the 9 million US dollars paid by the Pistons for a 3-year deferral, he has earned more than 100 million US dollars in his career, he is only 33 years old, and he is a pitcher, he should still be able to play for two or three years, and it doesn't matter if the base salary or the middle class.

Champion Hamilton also has.

Sun Ce himself is thinking that if one day, he is more than 30 years old, and his physical fitness has declined, resulting in a decline in ability, and he has a championship in hand, and he has made enough money, he also wants to form a senior army with Curry, Harden, Gasol Jr., Jordan Jr., and Yi Jianlian to rush to the playoffs.

As a player, he understands Hamilton's psychology very well.

On Oku's side, Sun Ce learned from the news that Oku returned to the Jazz after playing the World Championships, and suffered a back injury, and returned in December to play more than a dozen games, and the three points were okay, but Sloan and Deron fell out and resigned, and he had no intention of continuing to play, so he ran to recuperate from the injury, and later Sloan was traded to the Bulls by the Jazz, and Delon left...... He simply rested, and before the trade deadline, the Jazz failed to send away the remaining 10.5 million dollars of the contract, so they made an agreement with him, 8 million dollars to buy out the contract for next season, and Oku also gave up more than 3 million salaries for the remaining two months of the season and got a free agent.

Oku is ready to join the Suns for a long time, and has been working with the Suns in Phoenix since the buyout, receiving back injury treatment from the Suns team doctor, and now it is time to come back, Hamilton joined, and he also accepted the Suns' 1+1 base salary contract.

Sun Ce looked at the Western Conference record rankings, the Suns played 68 games, 29-27, ranked ninth in the West, and the Rockets also played 68 games, 31-25, the gap is particularly small......

The Suns now have a group of veterans with playoff experience, who are in good health and have more experience with the teams that have already entered the playoffs at the end of the season.

In the end, which team will finally win the last playoff spot in the West, Sun Ce is really looking forward to it.

Because their Grizzlies are going to compete for the first place in the West, they naturally have to pay a lot of attention to which team is eighth.

If he can play against Mr. Na in the playoffs, Sun Ce will definitely be very excited.

Sun Ce is very concerned about this matter, and his teammates and coaching staff are also concerned about this matter...... Relatively speaking, it is a better choice for them!

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That night, San Antonio, the Spurs ushered in a game against the Rockets.

Originally, the Spurs should have rested again tonight.

So far, the Spurs have played 69 games, 56-13, and recently they have been resting in rotation no matter who their opponent is, and they still have won 4 in a row, and after losing to the Lakers, they have only lost one game, and the strength of the Spurs system is suppressed there.

But tonight, the Spurs, who were supposed to rest in rotation, chose to go all out to face the Rockets.

This sudden change has greatly affected the preparation of the Rockets, and all teams thought that the Spurs would definitely insist on the rotation until the end of the season, because after the All-Star weekend, the Spurs have played 18 games and have always insisted on the rotation, and the troika has been suspended for 9 of these 18 games.

The same goes for Rockets head coach Adelman.

However, tonight the Spurs suddenly made a change, and the Rockets were stunned, and after three quarters, the Spurs led the Rockets by 22 points 91-69, and the third quarter sent the game into garbage time.

The characteristics of the Spurs for more than ten years since they had Duncan have been vividly displayed, and when they have a strength advantage, they overwhelm the opponent.

But this characteristic of the Spurs is also very interesting, when they are not as strong as their opponents, they are basically unable to turn the tables; When the opponent's strength is equal to theirs, once the opponent breaks out, they don't know what to do with it at all.

In the fourth quarter of garbage time, the Rockets gave up, and instead of fighting hard with opponents who couldn't beat, Adelman chose to conserve his strength, and then they had to play the Mavericks back-to-back, the Rockets were in the Southwest Division, and then they played the Hornets away at home on the 28th and 31st, and the Grizzlies away on the 2nd next month.

On the Spurs bench, Popovich was talking to general manager Buford.

"Greg, didn't you say you don't care about the record and want to hold on to the rotation and wait for the playoffs? How did it suddenly change? Buford asked curiously.

"Their record after All-Star Weekend was beyond my imagination." Popovich said in a deep voice.

"They? You mean the Lakers, the Mavericks? ”

"That's right, and grizzly bears."

Buford understands that these three teams have lost too little after the All-Star Weekend, with the Lakers and Grizzlies losing only four games, and the Mavericks losing only two games, and all three teams have a high probability of winning 60+ games.

And this has little to do with their Spurs, who were initially seen as rushing to surpass the Bulls by 72 wins, and if they don't take a rest, it shouldn't be a big problem to hit 70 wins.

It's purely because the Grizzlies' record is too good, the Mavericks have to work harder if they want to catch up with the top four in the West, the Mavericks have given up the idea of letting Nowitzki "integrate into the system", and directly take Yao Ming + Kidd as the core of the system, Nowitzki plays a supporting role in regular time, solves problems with personal ability at critical moments, and simply and rudely handles the problem of Nowitzki's integration, so that the Mavericks have a 15-2 record after the All-Star weekend, which is better than the Grizzlies and Lakers. The gap with the Lakers has narrowed to one win.

The Lakers are also a member of the push, they didn't take surpassing the Spurs as a goal at the beginning, the Spurs' record before the All-Star weekend looks like they can't catch up at all, but the Lakers want home court advantage in the second round, so the Zen master reduced the playing time of Odom and Da Gasol at the same time, and increased Bynum's chances, Bynum was also powerful, seized the opportunity, got a weekly best, and the performance continued to be hot, and the title of the third center was firmly won.

Popovich didn't know if he wanted to explain it to Buford or to himself: "I didn't expect them to chase so fast, the Lakers even played better than they did last season, Carlisle I thought he couldn't deal with Nowitzki's integration problem, he actually solved it, the Grizzlies obviously had a plan against us the last time they played us, I didn't give them a chance to experiment, but these three opponents are not easy to deal with."

I don't want to meet the Lakers early, if we are overtaken by the Grizzlies, we will have a hard time playing against the Lakers, and since they are all so difficult to deal with, it may be better for us to take home court advantage......"

As he spoke, Popovich suddenly stopped talking.

He also has a reason not to say it, and he doesn't want anyone to know - he wants revenge for being swept by the Suns last season!

He didn't sweep the Suns, he was actually swept by the Suns, he wanted revenge! Just like in the first round of the 2013 playoffs, he asked the players to go all out to get revenge on the Lakers who lost Kobe Bryant and swept the Lakers.

By letting the Rockets lose one more game, they are creating a better chance for the Suns to make the playoffs.

……

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There are always some inexplicable things in the NBA, things that only the people who operate know why they do it, and no one else can figure out why.

The Spurs are suddenly going to fight for the first place again, and the other teams don't know about it, the Grizzlies, after a day of hard preparation, at 5:10 p.m. on March 25, Sun Ce and his teammates entered the stadium of the American Airlines Center players, the first game of the four consecutive away games, and the away game against the Heat team is about to begin.

Before the start of the game, Sun Ce received a system prompt.

"Because the host and teammates, the coaching staff, and the fans of the team all have a strong obsession, they don't want to suffer a losing streak, an A-level event: but a losing streak is triggered."

"But the losing streak (A): The host needs to help the team maintain a losing streak in the 2010-2011 season.

Event Reward: 1 A-level raffle card.

Failure penalty: LeBron James plays the playoffs with the same hairstyle, and if it is not executed, the A-level penalty will be triggered, and this playoffs will be in a sluggish phase until the host changes the hairstyle. ”

As soon as he entered the field, the incident suddenly came, which caught Sun Ce off guard.

The timing of this event...... It's not easy, because they just lost to the Celtics, who are supposed to be the second best team in the East, and their current opponent is the strongest team in the East that Sun Ce feels.

The Grizzlies are currently second in the West at 54-14 and the Heat are third in the East at 47-20.

The Heat have only lost 10 games since the beginning of December, and the Big Three are so good that they have gone from 11th in the East to 3rd in the East.

Fortunately, Sun Ce, his teammates, and the coaching staff were already fully prepared for this game, and Sun Ce looked at the physical medicine he could use, and he was very confident! Although the opponent has strengthened a Purzbilla, there is one less Haslem on the inside, and although they are also missing Yi Jianlian tonight, they still have an absolute advantage on the inside!

……

The Grizzlies fielded a starting lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Randolph and Gasol Jr.

Due to Yi Jianlian's thigh muscle tension during this morning's practice, the Grizzlies coaching staff took it seriously and asked him to take a break for one game.

This doesn't have much impact, and the interior advantage is very big, and letting Battier play off the bench is just right when James is in the rotation to play power forward.

Paul George got a rare start and Conley was dropped off the bench to bring up the better Tony Allen.

The Heat, on their part, sent a starting lineup of Mike Bibby, Wade, James, Bosh, and Big Z.

After Haslem's injury, Pat Riley has not been able to complete the reinforcement of the center, but instead found an opportunity to strengthen the point guard, signed Bibby, who took the initiative to buy out with the Hawks, and Big Z returned to the position of starting center, of course, it was a pseudo-starter, averaging only 15 minutes of playing time per game to get 5 points and 4 boards.

Once the game began, the Grizzlies quickly unleashed defensive pressing, turning the pace of the game into a defensive battle from the very beginning of the game.

James and Wade really want to speed up after defending each other, but it is really not that simple to meet the trio of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, and Paul George, but the Heat team does not feel good on the outside!

In the starting lineup stage, the Grizzlies just relied on the Heat's outside shooters to shoot and defend and defend the interior to compete with the Heat, and when it came to the rotation stage, Wade rested, James and Bosh formed an interior partner, and when the three pitchers of Chalmers, Mike Miller, and James Jones played, the Grizzlies had an advantage.

Sun Ce, Conley, Morrow, Battier, and Jordan Jr. went up and sacrificed a high-speed wheel conversion defense, borrowed the opponent's three-point hand to feel poor, actively contracted, and blocked the defense crazily!