Richard's statement that Larry Bird is a player he admires is definitely not a polite remark, but the truth.

Larry Bird is definitely a cross-generation type of player, and he is unmatched!

Although like Reggie Miller, he is a well-known trash talker, but there is no doubt that Bird's trash talk is much better than Reggie Miller, and Miller is more like a shrew scolding the street......

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Now that Richard has moved Larry Bird out, on the one hand, he naturally wants to end Larry Brown's coaching qualifications with the Pacers as soon as possible.

On the other hand, in fact, Richard is also thinking about seeing if he can help Larry Bird.

Imagine if Larry Bird fired Larry Brown directly at this time, instead of waiting for Larry Brown to finish the season as in history, and fire Brown himself to coach......

The Pacers have a very high probability of swinging this season!

Because according to the current situation, it may be a little difficult for the Pacers to enter the playoffs, especially in the more competitive East, and the situation of the Pacers is still very difficult to break into the playoffs.

And if it is rotten, it will be fanned by the wings of Richard's little butterfly, and under the butterfly effect, Bird will draw the champion lottery for the Pacers, and this kind of thing may not be impossible!

After all, the Spurs are the third-to-last player in the league and have been drafted as the top pick......

Once you win the lottery, it will be a big deal, and you will inevitably choose Duncan.

When the time comes, Reggie Miller plus Duncan, such an internal and external combination, with a little continued reinforcement, will be completely the prototype of a championship team!

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Of course, if Larry Bird hadn't done what Richard had envisioned, it would have been fine......

It can only be regarded as Bird's own bad luck, Richard offered him the opportunity to win, but Bird did not seize it.

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Reporters now have a creepy feeling that offending Richard is really a bit miserable......

Kobe Bryant secretly rejoiced on the side, fortunately he was a good man at that time and did not suffer the loss in front of him, otherwise, his current situation is estimated to be worse than Larry Brown!

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The Trail Blazers' four-game home game was over, and the results were quite good, except for the loss to the Rockets, who had three elders, and won the remaining three games.

The overall record is 7-4, which is pretty good.

If we can maintain this record, the Trail Blazers, a new team, will have no problem making the playoffs this season.

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In the blink of an eye, the October and November schedules are over.

Nearly a month and a half into the schedule, the Trail Blazers played a total of 22 games and had a 13-9 record......

7-4 in the first 11 games, 6-5 in the next 11 games!

Although it seems that the record has declined a little, Richard feels that their Trailblazers strength has improved a little!

Mainly in the next eleven games, the schedule is more difficult, most of the opponents are playoff-level teams, and it is already a good result to get a winning rate of more than 50%!

In December, the first important honor of the new season was released, that is, the Eastern and Western Player of the Month, and the Eastern and Western Rookie of the Month.

The Eastern Player of the Month was naturally won by Joe's gang leader, while the West was won by Postman Malone, both of which led the team to a very good record.

Such an outcome was not unexpected......

And the result of the best rookie of the month is also not suspenseful!

The rookie of the month in the West was won by Grizzlies star Raheem, averaging 19.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 1 block and 1 steal per game, as if he was already among the ranks of All-Star power forwards!

In addition to Shiram, the more outstanding rookies in the West are also the Timberwolves' horse commissar, who is currently averaging about 15+7 data per game.

Brad Miller of the Golden State Warriors averaged 12.7 points, 8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 1.1 blocks and 0.9 steals per game.

The three newcomers to the Trail Blazers are also the best rookies on this side of the West.

Big Ben averaged 3.2 points, 11.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 2.8 blocks and 1.1 steals per game, which is also quite dazzling.

Kobe Bryant is currently averaging 13.4 points, 4.3 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.9 blocks per game, which is also a leader.

As for O'Neal Jr., although he is also excellent, he is slightly inferior to the previous ones, currently averaging 11.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.5 blocks and 0.6 steals per game.

Kidders, who the Lakers got with the No. 13 pick, is currently unable to get too much playing time, and only has about 8+3+2 data in terms of data, which must be out of the Western Rookie Army.

The selection rules for the Rookie Player of the Month are not quite the same as the selection rules for the Player of the Month, basically not considering the team's record, only looking at the player's on-court performance......

Or to put it simply, most of them just look at the player's stats.

There is no doubt that Raheem the Grizzly Bear is the most dazzling existence among all the newcomers in the West, and this honor is well deserved by him.

Seeing the newcomers in the west, the management of each team was even more amazed by Richard's selection vision!

There are a total of six outstanding newcomers, five of whom have worked directly or under Richard, even if it is Commissar Ma, many people know that Richard recruited him at the beginning, but because there are too many No. 1 players in the Boiler Workers' team, Commissar Ma does not want to join.

It is equivalent to saying that the super newcomers in the west were all served by Richard!

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The performance of newcomers in the east is also extremely prominent.

The Rookie of the Month was won by Iverson without dispute, after all, the data of 24.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game is not a joke......

If it weren't for the Philadelphia 76ers' poor record, many fans felt that Iverson would definitely be selected as an All-Star this season!

In addition to Iverson, the Raptors' Camby, the Bucks' Ray Allen and Green Kai's Fat Toutuo also performed quite well, but there was a big gap compared to Iverson, and they naturally had no chance to win the Rookie of the Month award!

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As soon as this award came out, the entire league was shocked, and the rookie of the month in the East and West were all Richard's disciples!

It's all from the West Lafayette gang!

The name Richard has directly made headlines in major media, and they want to know what kind of magic Richard has and why he can choose one accurately!

As long as it is a player who has been played by Richard, there seems to be no weak!

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In the third game of December, the Trail Blazers challenged the Philadelphia 76ers away!

Richard and Big Ben have been looking forward to this game for a long time, they haven't seen Iverson's kid for a while, just looking at his statistics, you know that he is doing quite well with the Philadelphia 76ers, at least Starkerhouse, a sophomore rookie, can't shake Iverson's position as the core of the team.