The cool breeze is gentle and the autumn leaves are all over the sky.

Just after the National Day Golden Week in China, Atlanta has already entered autumn, although it is in the southeast of the United States, but Atlanta has a humid climate, and late autumn is coming.

On October 10, the Hawks ushered in the first game of the preseason, hosting Charlotte...... Now it's called the New Orleans Hornets, and in the future it's called Waterfowl.

As a person who can't read the map of the country, Liu Mang doesn't know that although New Orleans is said to be in the west, it is actually a city on the south coast, only 400 nautical miles away from Miami, by sea, and only about 600 kilometers away from Orlando and Atlanta, and 650 kilometers away from Atlanta to Orlando.

It's just that Liu Mang is blind on this map, first flew from Los Angeles to Louisiana, where New Orleans is located, then from Louisiana to North Carolina, and finally flew back to Atlanta from North Carolina, he knew that Florida was next to Georgia, but he didn't notice that Louisiana was also next to Georgia.

So in the preseason, the Hawks' first game was against the Hornets, the "Western team" that had just moved.

In the past ten days, the Hawks have shocked the United States with the exception of Glenn Robinson's mutual injury incident at the beginning, which made Eagles fans quite worried, and everything after that seems to be a good thing.

According to the reporter's description and interviews with the Hawks players, Glenn Robinson has been praised for his attitude to training after returning to the team.

After the big dog came to the Hawks, it seems that he really has a good life, and the training has become hard, you must know that when he was with the Bucks, the big dog was made a bankrupt version of O'Neal in the guard, and he relied on talent to play more than O'Neal, and he was fat at the beginning of the season, and he played for two months to return to his normal size.

Later, Jason Terry signed a three-year, $3 million endorsement contract with a Chinese sports brand called Li Ning, becoming the second star of the Eagles to have an official sneaker endorsement.

Then Liu Mang startled the Americans, and the most outrageous 7-year sky-high endorsement contract of 90 million and 1 US dollars since Jordan was sent by Nike.

On October 7, after Nike executives sent someone to Atlanta to hold a press conference, this contract can be regarded as a shock to the Americans!

In the past two days, the news has been frantically brushing the signing of Liu Mang and Nike, Nike has begun to design Liu Mang's Christmas boots, and the Eagles have finally become part of the Christmas War, and the opponent is ...... Houston Rockets!

David Stern has been waiting for this day, from Liu Mang just playing last year, to now, I have been looking forward to it for nearly a year, and the Chinese derby is finally coming!

Liu Mang has received more than 10 pairs of his customized sneakers from Nike, from the Jordan Nike era sneakers, to the blacksmith brother's combat boots, and some non-star endorsement sneakers, in short, Liu Mang has to wear Nike boots since the first preseason game of the new season.

The heat brought by Liu Mang's signing did not gradually dissipate until the preseason began.

For Hawks fans, this is all a good thing, fans are the strongest part of their own team stars and their favorite stars, their favorite stars and teams are good, they work more smoothly, and even eat deliciously.

Before the start of the preseason game with the Hornets, I don't know if it was intentional or deliberate, and the reporter of Sports Illustrated looked for a big dog for a pre-game interview.

Sports Illustrated has never been happy to see Liu Mang, mainly because he has a bad relationship with the Lakers, the popular team always has a live broadcast in the preseason, and the Hawks are also one of the popular teams this year, with more than three times the number of live games last year, and there are 16 live broadcasts in the United States this season, second only to the Lakers with 19 games and the 76ers with 17 games, and one more than the Magic and Raptors.

Old man Joe can't bring the Wizards' ratings this season, there are only 9 live broadcasts in the United States, in the middle and lower reaches of the league, and since the second half of last season, fans don't want to see Jordan play, and they don't want to see Jordan struggling so much.

On the contrary, on the side of the Celestial Empire, the Wizards have the most live broadcasts, more than the Rockets and the Hawks, and the Wizards, Rockets, Hawks, and Lakers are the four teams with the most live broadcasts in China.

Today's preseason game is not counted in the number of national broadcasts in the regular season, and it is broadcast live in the United States by Time Warner Cable, so the pre-game interview is Sports Illustrated, which is owned by Time Warner.

It seems that it has stopped for a few days, and the impetuous temperament finally can't be suppressed, and the big dog said in an interview: "Now is a start, I will take a new helper and win the first place in the regular season until I win the championship and prove myself!" ”

Liu Mang heard an interview with the big dog when he was practicing shooting on the side, and he couldn't say what he felt.

It's been 10 days since Glenn Robinson returned to the team, and the rest of the Hawks and the new All-Star level player have a lukewarm relationship, Glenn Robinson mainly wants to make the relationship good is Ratliff and Raheem, the two oldest players on the team besides him, and the others include Liu Mang, Glenn Robinson has not had much contact, saying that he is a boss, but he is not as arrogant as he expected to the "little brothers", and he is a little low-key.

In addition to the command and communication of the running position during training, Liu Mang and Glenn Robinson have not spoken once in private, so they really don't know this teammate.

And Rahim was not enthusiastic in the first place, even the only time he was drunk with Liu Mang, he didn't talk much, just silently watched Liu Mang brag.

Ratliff is very modest, he greets everyone with a smile, and never gets himself involved in any disputes, because he doesn't need to stand in line or anything else, a defensive pillar center like him, even if he goes to partner with Duncan, he must be the starting center who occupies the basket, a center with normal height as the best defensive player, and at his peak, maybe O'Neal will give him up to the basket on the defensive end.

And Jason Terry is quite disgusted with his new teammates who steal his shooting guard position, he doesn't like to play point guard, he likes to shoot.

So Glenn Robinson was quite depressed when he came to the Hawks, and he deliberately kept a low profile in training camp.

But when it was time for the game to start, that restless heart finally couldn't hold back!

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There aren't a lot of tricks in the preseason, there are very few pre-game activities, after all, the attention is like that, and there is no need to invest too much money.

Although the Hawks' salary is still very good this year, in addition to Raheem's 12 million salary, Glenn Robinson, Latliffe's 9.8 million and 9.3 million salaries, the other highest salaries are Muhammad's 4.7 million, and then the 4 million renewal of Newbell, after sending away Demar Johnson, the No. 6 pick, the Eagles' salary this year is lower than last season, because Alan Henderson, who holds a 7 million salary, was not executed by the Hawks as a team option, and the other Jason Terry is 2.57 million, Dean Grove 2.25 million, Chris Crawford 2.66 million; Boozer and Prince both have rookie contracts of about 1.5 million, and Liu Mang and Barnes are both on more than 500,000 US dollars a year.

It looks like the Hawks brought in three rookies and an All-Star in a big way, and the salary is actually 3 million less than last season, with a total salary of more than 49 million dollars.

It's just that this is the last season for the Hawks to enjoy the rookie bonus, the Hawks management is actively negotiating with Jason Terry and Liu Mang's agents about early contract renewal, Liu Mang's side Schwartz has a tough attitude, at most extending the contract for one year plus a priority renewal clause, Jason Terry's side, originally negotiated at the end of last season, 7 years of more than 80 million US dollars of the contract, but because of Glenn Robinson's joining, Jason Terry is not in a hurry to renew the contract.

If it drags on until the end of the new season and the two have not renewed their contracts, other teams will definitely rush to make a poison offer, which is a headache for the Hawks management.

Therefore, with the character of Steven Price, the owner of the Hawks, he began to save money again, waiting in case the two of them did not renew their contracts in advance, and they could only match as many contracts as others offered.

Of course, it's Jason Terry, Liu Mang's side, the Hawks understand that Liu Mang wants to renew his contract for only one year and wants to get the bird rights, a little more assured, he really can't renew his long-term contract, and it's okay to sign a contract with a 1+1 player option with a priority renewal clause.

Soon, the game began, and the Eagles' side fielded a lineup of Dean Grove, Glenn Robinson, Raheem, Mohammed, and Ratliff in their first preseason game.

The Hornets, on their side, sent David Wesley, Jamal Mashburn, George Lynch, PJ Brown, and Jamal Magloyer.

The bearded Byron Davis is due to an injury that will miss at least two months from the start of the preseason season and is said to have torn a thigh muscle in training.

And Jamal Mashburn, who was half reimbursed last season, is back, and he seems to be in good physical condition, but he has changed to a seaside city, has just moved, and the new house has not been bought, so he came out to play away, and Mashburn feels weird to play this year.

It is said that Jack is the starting killer, and from time to time he sacrifices his starting teammates who are pressed on his head and then becomes a starter himself, in fact, Mashburn has a similar function.

This is the tenth season of Marshburn's career, and before that, there have been four seasons that have been reimbursed halfway through the season, and each season after the second season has an injury at the beginning of the second season, and then the new season of Marshburn has been almost full attendance......

After the game started, Liu Mang looked at Jason Terry who was sitting next to him and asked strangely: "I said Jason, why did you play as a substitute, there are no three-pointers in the starter." "You are allowed to play on the bench and try it too, are you not allowed to try it too?" Didn't I get a chance in the preseason? Jason Terry said with a menacing expression.

"Okay, okay, wait for next season, I'll change with you next season, you can play the sixth man!" Liu Mang said helplessly

"Why next season?" Jason Terry was puzzled.

"I want to win two best sixth man in a row, no! It's my dream to break all NBA history! Liu Mang had a Martin Luther King Jr. expression of the same dream.

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After the start of the game, the Hawks' side of Ratleaf won the jump ball first, and the big dog came on the court to be as irritable as he wanted to be after the opening, quite positive, and the inside and outside shooting were in excellent condition, and he scored 22 points in the first quarter to beat the Hornets to the point that they didn't want to play.

Seeing that Glenn Robinson was playing so well, Coach Krueger asked him to continue playing on the court with Barnes, Prince, Boozer, and Newbell in the second quarter, replacing the other main players.

For the original players of the Hawks except for the four new players, Coach Krueger has known them well through a season, and only needs to look at the training state to know that their new season is better than last season, so the focus is to see how many new players are in shape, seeing that Glenn Robinson is playing so well, Coach Kruger wants him to play more and see how strong Glenn Robinson is in the official game.

In the first quarter, the Hawks took a 34-17 lead, and after the start of the second quarter, Glenn Robinson continued to attack with the ball, and Barnes, Prince, and Newbell all played the defensive end, the first two were rookie substitutes, who wanted to show their advantages in the preseason to get playing time in the regular season, and Newbell had a sense of crisis because of Boozer's joining.

And Boozer has a poor change of defense, but the weight is there, and the rebounding is very stubborn, and when the Hornets really have no fighting spirit today, Glenn Robinson is crazy!

Liu Mang and Jason Terry didn't get a chance to play today, Jason Terry is very melancholy, it's rare to play a substitute, give a chance to perform!

"Ace, why do you think the Hornets are all starters and play so badly?" Jason Terry asked, puzzled.

"Uh...... Jason, I think, they're probably worried about whether the Charlotte house will sell or not. Liu Mang complained.

"Makes sense." Jason Terry really thinks it makes sense, "The Hornets players are so pathetic, the whole team moved, they probably thought about being traded to another city, but they didn't think the whole team was traded to another city!" There are at least five or six people in a team who have villas, and it is estimated that they will lose money when selling so many villas together. ”

"Huh? I didn't expect Jason, your head is okay! It's so thoroughly analyzed! Liu Mang exclaimed.

"Hmph, that's of course......" Jason Terry was just proud of being praised and suddenly reacted: "Damn! Ace! How stupid I am in your eyes! ”

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The Hawks played a little crazy in the preseason, and the first 50+ of the new season actually appeared in the preseason, Glenn Robinson joined the Hawks in his first game, and slashed 53 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists in the preseason against the Hornets, leading the Hawks to a 122-89 slaughter of the Hornets.

Not only that, in the next 7 preseason games, Glenn Robinson went crazy, and in the second and third games of the home and away doubles against the Magic, the sleepy-eyed Maddie looked at Glenn Robinson, who was crazy in the preseason, and decisively said that he couldn't be provoked and chose to retreat.

Glenn Robinson slashed 35+ in two consecutive games against the Magic, leading the Hawks to three straight preseason wins.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry, two players who are also guards, didn't get any opportunities to perform, and there was no ball in their hands.

The next two games against the Heat, then against the Hornets, and the last two games against the Wizards, Glenn Robinson's play is beyond the sky!

Glenn Robinson played crazy in eight games! When it came to the next three games against the Hornets and the Wizards, the teams of the Hornets and Old Man Joe did not resist, and after playing for a while, they saw that Glenn Robinson was so active, and simply sent a bench lineup and rookies to play.

As a result, not only the fans were dumbfounded, but also the Hawks players were stunned In the performance, Glenn Robinson averaged 39 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, leading the Hawks to eight consecutive preseason wins!

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Glenn Robinson's preseason madness has made the Eagles headlines every day.

Originally, because of the incident caused by the big dog before the start of the training camp time set by the league, many Hawks fans were worried about the new season, and other fans either did not have hope for the Eagles, or they didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement.

However, after putting on the hat, Glenn Robinson seems to have broken through the impression that he once gave people, and it is really like the arrogance he put down, using his experience and strength to lead the Eagles to victory!

Seeing Glenn Robinson's crazy performance of nearly averaging 40 points per game in eight games, the Hawks became the focus of fan discussion almost every day, and the media began to tout the Eagles' five All-Star lineups again.

Especially Glenn Robinson played so well after changing teams, a large number of media said that Glenn Robinson's eight years with the Bucks were delayed by the Bucks, give him a group of good teammates, and he can surpass the sky!

Fans have a similar opinion, and when a controversial player plays well, it is natural to blow it up.

In addition, there is also a very important point, that is, the Lakers have dominated the league for three years, too long, just like the six years of Jordan's rule, most fans in the league wanted to see what they wanted to see most at that time was not Jordan's several consecutive championships, but whether any team dared to stand up and kill the Bulls, of course, Jordan and Jordan, who had won three consecutive championships, have become unbeatable god-level players in the same position.

After the Hawks played last season, people were expecting them to go further in the new season and go to the Finals to snipe the Lakers, of course, the Hawks players are still young, and it was supposed to go further in the new season.

It's just that the sudden addition of Glenn Robinson has left the Hawks with a hint of uncertainty, after all, Glenn Robinson used to be a ticking time bomb.

But now, people feel that the Eagles seem to have a tendency to be invincible!

Glenn Robinson was also crowned the king of the preseason!