After scolding Popovich, Sun Ce didn't care about the Warriors first, and first looked at his April schedule.

After playing the Warriors, the Grizzlies have 10 games left, with No. 2 and No. 3 playing back-to-back home games against the Rockets and Wizards, then No. 5 playing the Mavericks at home, No. 7 and No. 8 playing back-to-back home games against the Bucks and Trail Blazers, No. 10 playing the Spurs away, No. 12 playing the Lakers on the 12th, No. 14 and No. 16 playing the Suns at home, and No. 18 playing the 76ers away at the end of the regular season......

The schedule of the first three competition months was so easy, and there was really retribution! In the two and a half months from February to April, the schedule is as cruel as it gets.

However, it is precisely because of the easy schedule in the first three months that their Grizzlies can run in so well on the defensive end, and they can have a 16-4 record after the All-Star weekend.

After Sun Ce calmed down, he also accepted this fact.

Can't all the good things be taken up by their Fat Da Legion, isn't it, Fat Da, as the strongest mount, also hurt Chi You to lose the country.

This kind of thing can only be played game by game, and the pressure on their side is high, and after losing seven games after the All-Star weekend, they suddenly don't know which tendon is not right, and the Spurs who want to fight for the first place will not be under pressure.

There will be a direct fight in the future, and when the time comes, try to win it, maybe there will still be a chance.

Changing his mood, Sun Ce went to have some lunch, he didn't eat too much, he had to eat a lot at night, Curry's salary is much higher than him.

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In the evening, Sun Ce and Morrow came to the restaurant booked by Curry, and when they got out of the taxi, they happened to meet Ellis, who handed over the car keys to the waiter, which happened to be in time.

Sun Ce and Moro greeted Ellis, who was still cold.

Although his time as a teammate was short, Sun Ce didn't even play with Ellis in the regular season, but he seemed to be used to Ellis's character.

It's good that Ellis can come, this kind of person, from a certain point of view, is very principled, he will not change his opinion on some things because of time, identity, status, etc., he is not a kitsch person, he is quite principled, what is his opinion on someone or something at the beginning, what kind of attitude he treats, if it is not for this person itself to destroy his principles, he will not change his attitude regardless of what changes happen to this person or thing.

Putting aside Ellis's awkward personality, making friends with such a person is actually quite good, straight to the point, and not so many fancy.

After entering the restaurant, the waiter led the three of them to the reserved spot in the curry.

Ellis is the star of the Warriors, and Sun Ce and Morrow are both players who have gone out and played well in the Warriors and have shown talent in the Warriors, so the waiters naturally know them.

Coming to Curry's booked position, in addition to Curry, there is also a counterattacker who has undergone earth-shaking changes in the Warriors this season - Darrell Wright.

are all acquaintances, every time he gets together with Curry this season, he will call Wright and say hello, without so many greetings, and not asking the other party for anything, just a dinner party with no purpose, no need to be polite, sit down and order each other after saying hello.

Usually there was no such concept, so many people sat down together, and Sun Ce suddenly found one thing - this seemed to be a gathering of counterattackers.

Ellis, a second-round pick, got a three-year salary, during which he won the Most Improved Award, averaged 20+ per game in his third year, and won a five-year $55 million contract.

He and his grandson are about to lose the election.

Morrow simply lost the draft after graduating from college at the age of 23 in 2008, his rookie year was okay, when he was a sophomore last season, he averaged two three-pointers per game and scored 13 points per game, the Warriors had no money to keep him, and it would definitely cost more money to stay with the Warriors Moreau, their target was David Lee, when the Grizzlies proposed to add him to the trade, he personally wanted to play with Sun Ce, and after lowering some salary requirements, he signed first and then traded to the Grizzlies.

Curry ...... He's a lottery show and shouldn't be counted among the counterattackers, but he's in that mindset himself, he wants to go to Duke after graduating from high school and is disliked, and when he went to college for three years to participate in the draft, the best template was Mohammed Abdul Lauf, a 1990 scout show, a mediocre player who never made the All-Star or All-Star team, played only twice in the playoffs, and didn't have any other honors or deeds worth writing about except for a Most Improved Award and a rookie second team.

Curry also sees himself as a member of the counterattack team.

Darrell Wright, a 2004 19th overall pick, started his career with the Heat, barely shooting three-pointers in the first five years of his career, and only 14 three-pointers in five years combined.

For the first five years of his career, Wright was a well-known defensive player with outstanding physical fitness, but last season Wright suddenly started shooting three-pointers. Averaged 0.8 three-pointers per game, the Heat gave up his more than 2 million team options in order to clear space, the Warriors lost Morrow, and took him down on a one-year short contract, who knew that he suddenly broke out into the top three three-point shooters of the season, just entered the time of one-year contract extension, the Warriors immediately gave a 4-year contract, and Wright extended his contract until 2015.

Wright, like Morrow, is a player who Sun Ce has no impression of before, but as a result, he averaged 2+ three-pointers per game in the Warriors, which happened to be when he first entered the NBA.

After ordering the meal, we started chatting, Ellis was taciturn, everyone was used to it, and I didn't feel any embarrassment, just chat.

Chatting and chatting about labor negotiations.

"A few days ago, the two sides met and negotiated remotely, and Fisher and Jordan had another negotiation, and I don't know if it will be smooth next season." Curry said with a sigh.

Speaking of this topic, Sun Ce teased: "Thirteen years ago, Jordan was the negotiator on the player side, the toughest one, and now he is the negotiator on the boss's side, and he is also the toughest one, worthy of being the god of basketball." ”

Morrow continued Curry's sad atmosphere: "It's too bad, I remember that a lot of stars fell during the last shutdown, and there were a lot of injuries. ”

"We just have to do our own thing, if it's stopped, if it's not training, those owners can't let them go all season, they have a lot of industries that rely on the NBA to advertise them." Sun Ce analyzed.

"But there are a lot of players who may not survive, and I remember the last shutdown where a lot of marginal players went bankrupt and couldn't go back to the NBA to continue playing." Curry, as a second-generation baller, knew the situation very well.

In the 97-98 season, Curry's father Dell Curry just finished the highest salary year of his career, 3.66 million US dollars, but after the shutdown, the Hornets did not give his father the all-time scoring champion contract, when Deer Curry was 34 years old, and it was suspended for so long, the Hornets felt that Dell Curry should retire, so Curry's family suffered a huge financial crisis, Dell Curry once went to play performance baseball to support his family, and Dell Curry also participated in the Major League Baseball draft that year and was selected.

It wasn't until March that the Bucks gave Dell Curry a $1 million contract, and only got half of it, but fortunately, in the summer of '99, the Raptors, who had playoff strength, took a fancy to Dell Curry's three-point ability and signed him for 3 years and $6.2 million.

Some people are relatively self-conscious and pay more attention to themselves, since it is relative, of course, there are also people who have this mentality of "worrying about the country and worrying about the people", which may not be reflected in the family and country, such as Curry is working in the NBA, and he is worried about those role players, bench players and even water cooler managers who are not well-paid and have an unstable career.

While three young-time players are talking about the suspension, Ellis and Wright, two veterans, are calm.

Wright listened to the discussion between the three for a while, and after understanding the different views of the three, he interrupted: "Stephen, you have a point, but Noah's mentality is more suitable for us, and there are some things that we can't control, so we can only accept them, by the way, Noah, I heard that the Grizzlies management is applying for you to be able to renew your contract like Jordan?" ”

The conversation turned so bluntly, and the three young players who were in a heated discussion all felt awkward, but the topic was fascinating.

On this topic, Morrow shut up, his agent told him not to mention this matter with Sun Ce, he will enter the player option this summer, the 1+1 contract signed last summer with a total of 6 million US dollars has a player option, if there is no player option, he has the opportunity to get a higher starting salary and is a long-term contract, even if he wants to play with Sun Ce, it is unlikely that he will join the Grizzlies.

Curry didn't have any scruples: "It's so good, I'm going to get a high salary, next time you invite me to dinner, won't you still eat ......pizza?"

I don't know why it was rumored that the Grizzly Bear boss wanted Sun Ce to renew his contract like Jordan's first comeback, it's impossible to think about it, Jordan's salary was not counted in the salary cap that time, which is the current NBA can still be a situation, Sun Ce wants to explain and doesn't know where to start, he doesn't know the specific things, he just knows that Robert Pera is pulling the owners of the teams to get this matter, so he simply doesn't explain, anyway, it's quite forced.

Feeling Curry's resentment, Sun Ce didn't blush: "How delicious pizza is, I like to eat pizza, except for pizza, I like to eat hot pot the most, Stephen, I will take you to my house to eat hot pot in the summer?" Expensive things are all-you-can-eat. ”

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" teased Sun Ce's Curry was drinking water, and was almost choked to death, slowing down, Curry clenched the water cup and said, "I won't go to your house to eat hot pot again!" ”

Thinking of the things he ate last summer, Curry felt that he was not good, and he vowed not to go again!

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The small get-together with his former roommate was generally very pleasant, anyway, Sun Ce sent an invitation to Curry, and in the offseason, they had a happy hot pot together, whether Curry went or not, Sun Ce didn't care, he just wanted to see Curry's desperate expression.

One night without incident, the next morning, Sun Ce and his teammates came to the familiar and unfamiliar Oracle Arena, last season and even early this season, he came here a little nostalgic, but now, that feeling is gone, this season he has formed a friendship with his Grizzlies teammates who have just entered the NBA with Ellis and Curry.

Of course, the initial friendship when he first entered the NBA must be the most unforgettable, Nash, Curry, Ellis, these three people have a lot of weight in Sun Ce's heart, but the rest of the Warriors and the Warriors team, Sun Ce no longer feels anything.

After the pre-game tactical meeting in the morning, defensive assistant coach Jogel led the players in a simple defensive drill, mainly a high-speed rotation defense, and Gasol Jr. will not play tonight to prepare for back-to-back games at the beginning of next month.

After the morning practice, the Warriors players return to the hotel, and there is an advantage to playing the Warriors away, although the hotels in Oakland are worse than other cities, and many teams will even choose to live in San Francisco next door, but the transportation is convenient.

After returning to the hotel, Sun Ce ordered something he wanted to eat at the restaurant, and swiped Twitter for a while when the food was delivered, and at 12:05 p.m., the NBA officially announced the new edition of the weekly awards.

Last week, the Grizzlies only had 2 wins and 2 losses, Sun Ce's performance was generally okay, not good, not bad, failed to get the best of the week, the Mavericks center Yao Ming, who won three consecutive wins, won the second Player of the Week this season, Yao Ming averaged 22 points and 8 boards per game in three games last week, which was the 8th weekly best in Yao Ming's career, and in the East, Howard won the 5th weekly best of the season.

But this time the best of the week, here in the west, Sun Ce got it! The 9th Weekly Champion of the Season, continuing to set a new record for the number of weekly best times in a single season!

Last week, Sun Ce himself didn't expect that he would win two consecutive triple-doubles, the Grizzlies won all 3 games, Sun Ce's data is good, and he has beaten Parker, the Spurs point guard who has won all 4 games in the past week, Parker has averaged 18 points and 11 assists per game in the past 4 games, and has performed well, but Sun Ce performed better and beat Parker to win the best of the week, a proper surprise.

pressed the Spurs players, and Sun Ce felt a bad breath!

He has already won the best of the week twice this month, and Sun Ce is starting to wonder if there is a chance to win the third best of the month?

In this way, his probability of winning the MVP will be further increased!

Sun Ce's current goal is to compete for the regular season championship, and if he wins the regular season championship, his probability of winning the MVP will be far ahead.

But if you can't get it, then the best of the month is very important.

NBA All-Time No. 1 Season of the Month...... Or James, the best of the month four times in the 08-09 season, James won the MVP that season, and the second is Kobe, who was the best of the month three times in the 06-07 season.

In addition, no other player has won three monthly awards in a single season, and before 2001, the monthly awards were not divided into east and west, O'Neal and Jordan, Olajuwon and other superstars have had two monthly awards in a single season, but in that era, it was almost impossible to have three monthly awards in a single season, and in the 95-96 season, Jordan led the team to 72 wins, and only won one monthly award.

Although the best of the month and MVP generally have nothing to do with it, like Kobe Bryant's 3-time best 06-07 season, which was only ranked third in the MVP vote, Nowitzki defeated Nash and Kobe Bryant by his record, and the record is the most important thing.

But Sun Ce is certainly looking forward to becoming the third player to win the Player of the Month three times in a single season.

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At 6:40 p.m., after the warm-up, Sun Ce and his teammates entered the Oracle Arena together.

The fans at the scene cheered Sun Ce, Sun Ce's contract was about to expire, and they naturally wanted to hook Sun Ce back, although the Warriors management tried their best to push for the rookie clause change because of the loss of Arenas back then, but the Warriors fans very much did not want the rookie clause change to be established.

After almost two seasons, the love of Warriors fans for Sun Ce has not diminished but increased, losing Arenas and Sun Ce successively, Warriors fans feel that they are the most tragic fans in the entire NBA.

Not to mention the fans, the Warriors players and coaching staff heard the cheers of the fans for Sun Ce, and they all blamed the two owners for having a problem with their brains.

This game is not a popular game, last season Sun Ce abused the Warriors after 59 points in a single game after the Grizzlies and Warriors played again and the additional broadcast of the national live broadcast, this season, the topic of "Sun Ce's revenge on his old club" is no longer attractive.

The Warriors lineup is still okay, the chaos is very strong, otherwise they won't be able to get 32 wins, and the Bucks, who are currently eighth in the East, will have 32 wins, and the "competition" between Curry and Jennings is still quite fierce.

The Warriors' starting lineup is very stable, from point guard Curry to power forward David Lee is very powerful, and the weakest in the starting lineup is the center - Thabitt.

"Hashem Thabit, 24, Ability Rating B-, Offensive F, Defensive A-...... Averaged 23 minutes per game, 4.6 points, 7 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game......"

I haven't paid attention to this one-on-one show of the same year for a long time, Sun Ce didn't expect Tabit to play as if it was okay, the block was properly powerful, and there was a block in almost 10 minutes.

When Tabit was drafted that year, the selling point was "the next big dream", his flexibility in players over 220 cm was good, worse than Yao Ming, but better than Big Z, with an extremely keen sense of smell for blocking, playing an average of 18 minutes and 1.8 blocks per game last season, and his playing time has improved this season, and the block data has gone up a notch.

In this way, Sun Ce feels that Tabit still has some talents, at least his height is used well, but there is no room for Tabit to be cultivated in the Grizzlies in the original time and space, Gasol Jr.'s talent is better than expected by the Grizzlies management, and Tabit's talent is far lower than expected, and the question of who to choose to cultivate can be easily decided.

After the pre-game cheerleading performance, at 6:58 a.m., both teams started their debut.

The Grizzlies, on their side, fielded a starting lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Randolph, and Jordan Jr. tonight.

Gasol Jr. and Batile were also put in the second lineup, mainly to deal with the opponent's speed.

On the Warriors' side, Curry, Ellis, Wright, David Lee, and Thabit started the lineup.

After the game started, the two teams quickly entered a fast-paced offense and defense, and Curry was very excited today and soared at the beginning!