On the night he checked into the hotel, Richard specially arranged Yao Ming next to his room.

Yao Ming still has a lot of self-control in this regard, but Richard is also afraid of those flesh and bones, knocking on the door in the middle of the night, and breaking directly into the player's room is not unprecedented.

Fortunately, this did not happen this time, which made Richard breathe a sigh of relief.

In the game against the New York Knicks the next night, the Pistons naturally took it lightly again.

It's really that the Knicks' strength is a little weak, and they really don't have a single one in the lineup that can play.

The only players who can handle it are Alan Houston and the madman Sprewell.

Alan Houston is about to retire, and the madman is not in the same state as he was in the Warriors before.

The Knicks are a grave for players, and there are very few players who can keep the Knicks in hot form, and Ewing is an exception.

In the two years when Richard first entered the league, the Knicks' strength was okay, but because of the Bulls, they never had a chance to enter the Finals.

After the collapse of the Bulls dynasty, the 76ers, Green Kai and Nets, which have successfully rebuilt, have made the Knicks lose hope of entering the Finals......

The current Knicks are basically broken jars.

Tonight's game, Gerard Wallace was the absolute star of the game.

Richard promised to make Gerard Wallace have a good time, and it happened that tonight was a national live broadcast, and Richard directly gave Gerald an unlimited right to fire, allowing him to fire wantonly on the field.

Gerrard, a player, in Richard's opinion, is really a bit ill-fated.

Being selected in the Bobcats' expansion draft may have been the luckiest thing that has ever happened to Gerrard.

If it weren't for the Bobcat, I'm afraid it would be difficult for Gerald to show his head.

But in '09, he suffered a serious injury that completely ruined his career, and it would be inaccurate to say that it was an injury.

To be precise, it was hacked......

In a game between the Bobcats and the Lakers in '09, in the fourth quarter of the game, Gerrard was hit by Lakers center Bynum's malicious elbow.

The malicious elbow blow directly caused Gerald to fracture his fifth rib, and this is not the main thing, his left lung was directly damaged by the elbow blow, and 30% of his left lung atrophied.

Lung trauma is devastating for any professional footballer.

This incident also made Bynum condemned by countless fans.

Speaking of which, Bynum is in a team with a deep heritage like the Lakers, but in fact, under normal circumstances, he can attract the love of many fans.

But it was precisely because of his brain-dead that he didn't end up well in the end.

It wasn't just Gerrard who was elbowed by him, but JJ Barria and Beasley.

If it's just an elbow strike, it's nothing and doesn't cause too many serious injuries.

The main reason is that when Bynum, a brain-dead brain, specializes in picking up other people's layups and breaking through, he elbows head-on, but fortunately Gerrard is hard enough, otherwise, he might have been killed by Bynum that time.

Compared with this brain-dead, the notorious egg-chasing Greena in later generations is simply a good person......

……

In tonight's game, Gerrard had plenty of opportunities to perform, playing 46 minutes of playing time, almost the whole game.

He made a whopping 32 shots, and finally cut down 43 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks.

On this night, Gerald completely showed his eighteen martial arts.

Such an astonishing statistic directly made the fans of the New York Knicks stand up and cheer, and at the same time sigh secretly in their hearts.

If Richard had chosen to join the Knicks, it would have been so cool.

Maybe the Pistons will become their New York Knicks players!

The stronger the Pistons and the better the record, the more uncomfortable the Knicks fans will be, but there is no way to do it, but they can only see if Richard will choose to join the Knicks after the end of this four-year contract with the Pistons.

Therefore, as long as there is a game led by Richard, the attendance rate at the scene is quite high, and most of the fans cheer and scream at Richard, as if Richard is the savior of New York.

They didn't know that Richard had never thought about the Knicks at all.

……

Since tonight's game was broadcast live across the United States, Gerrard's strong performance tonight also attracted the attention of countless fans for him.

With a tough style of play and a rather low-key personality, such a player is very easy to win the favor of fans no matter where he is.

Even Richard himself is a player who likes this kind of character.

After the game, Gerrard was all smiles on his face, and tonight's explosive stats will definitely help him secure his qualification for the All-Star Rating.

Once you can make it to the All-Star, you will definitely be able to sign an amazing super contract when your rookie contract ends.

Thinking of this, he looked at Richard gratefully, and didn't know how to thank Richard for a while.

His draft pick isn't high, and if he stays on other teams, he won't necessarily get too many appearances.

Under normal circumstances, Gerrard is like this, after being drafted by the Kings with the 25th pick in the first round, he averaged about 10 minutes per game in the first three seasons.

That is, in the later expansion draft, he was picked up by the Bobcats, and this is the complete rise.

Now that he is in the Pistons, Richard has directly reused him and given him a fixed starting qualification, which is a pie-in-the-sky thing for a rookie who is late in the first round.

……

After the game, Richard led the team back to the hotel, and the plane flew to Washington tomorrow at noon to prepare for the next game against the Wizards.

"Ding Ding Ding"

Nearly one o'clock in the morning, Richard's phone rang.

He had just fallen asleep, and he wondered who was going to call him when he was full......

When I looked at the screen display of the mobile phone, I found that it was Jordan.

"Li, I haven't slept yet, I'll talk to you about something." Jordan's tone sounded like a full stomach.

Richard is going crazy, it's the middle of the night, did Jordan take the wrong medicine?

Tomorrow they are going to Washington, and there is nothing they can say tomorrow.

"Michael, what's the matter?" Richard asked angrily.

Asked this, Jordan on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't know how to speak.

"Ahem, Lee, can you ......?"

"Can you give Brown some ......confidence in tomorrow's game?"

Jordan coughed dryly, a little embarrassed.

Richard knew why Jordan called him in the middle of the night, and he guessed that he was embarrassed to tell him such a thing in person.

Jordan is quite a proud person, no way, people have the ability to be proud.

At the moment, I guess there is no way, so I called Richard......

He had a hunch that if Brown gave Yao Ming a severe abuse in the next game, and then was severely ridiculed by the media, it was estimated that this kid would be completely wasted.

He didn't want Brown to be abolished, and he still had hopes for Brown.

In desperation at the moment, I found Richard, although I didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning was already obvious, that is, I wanted Richard to say Yao Ming and show mercy to his subordinates on the field......

"Michael, this ......" Richard was quite speechless, this thing is really not easy to do.

Kwame Brown wants to save face, Yao Ming doesn't either?

If you release water to Kwamei Brown, causing Yao Ming's data to be inferior to Kwamei Bron, I'm afraid Yao Ming's face will not look good at that time.

So Richard is in trouble now......

He is still quite aware of Jordan's plight, and if he thinks about it, if he faces this situation, I am afraid that he will also pull down his face and go to a team with a good relationship to release water, and strive to increase the confidence of the players.

At the moment, Kwame Brown has become the focus of all the media......

The previous ESPN reporter was forced to apologize by the old hooligan Jordan, and if Kwame Brown was beaten by Yao Ming in tonight's game, it is estimated that there will be no place to put Jordan's old face.

So whether it's to boost Kwame Brown's confidence or save his face, Jordan has to turn to Richard right now.

Seeing Richard hesitating, Jordan was a little sore......

"Li, I didn't say that Yao Ming had to be beaten by Brown, as long as the data of the two sides is very different, you should understand what I mean."

"In order to express my gratitude, I will try my best to help Yao Ming build momentum for this year's All-Star, and strive to help him get an All-Star MVP in his rookie season."

"I think this honor, full of gold, is enough to make up for Yao Ming's ......"

Jordan is still quite sincere, and after this matter was asked to Richard's head, he didn't have time to glove the white wolf, but gave his own promise.

"Alright, Michael, that's settled." Richard didn't pretend to be a good person at this point in time, and directly agreed to Jordan.

As Jordan said, winning the All-Star MVP in his rookie season is really an amazing honor.

It is relatively common to get an All-Star MVP during the execution of a rookie contract, and there are probably more than a dozen people who can do this in the entire history of the NBA.

For example, O'Neal and Duncan, under normal circumstances, both won All-Star MVPs during the execution of rookie contracts.

But it is extremely rare in the entire history of the NBA to win the All-Star MVP in his rookie season.

There have only been three of them, and all three of them have been players from the Ancient Era, and more coincidentally, all three of them have been consecutive.

The first was Elgin Baylor in the '58-59 season.

The second is the coach Chamberlain in the 59-60 season.

The third is Oscar Robertson, the big O in the 60-61 season.

So far, in the entire history of the NBA, these three have won the All-Star MVP in their rookie season, and now more than 40 years have passed, and there has never been such a thing.

If Yao Ming can really win this year's All-Star MVP, it will undoubtedly cause a violent sensation.

After all, this is a record that has been sealed in the dust for forty years!

Yao Ming has become a figure comparable to Lord Belle, Da Shuai and Da O.

However, it is not certain that Yao Mingzhen will be able to win the All-Star MVP, and in the end, it depends on the victory or loss of the game.

If the East can win the game, then with Richard leading the team and Jordan's help, Yao Ming still has a good chance of winning the All-Star MVP.

But if the west wins, it will be useless, no matter how good Yao Ming's data is.

……

After receiving Richard's affirmative answer, Jordan was relieved.