Chapter 9: The Three Heroes Brawl

Before Jim Jackson's reimbursement, Kidd played in 48 games (missing two due to injury), averaging 9.35 points, 5.6 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game while shooting 36.9% from the field, which is an extremely mediocre statistic, but in the 31 games after Jackson's reimbursement, Kidd averaged 15.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game while shooting 40.1% from the field. On April 5, 1995, the Mavericks defeated the Lakers 130-111 at home, Kidd scored 19 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists, got the first triple-double of his career, and in the next game, back-to-back to play the Timberwolves who sent warmth last season, Kidd once again scored 11 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists of the triple-double data, only four days later, the Mavericks contributed the most exciting game of the whole season, away to challenge the Rockets, after two overtime difficult wins, the score is a new team history scoring high 156: 147, Mashburn scored the third highest score of the season with 42 points, Jones grabbed a career-high 21 rebounds, and Kidd scored a new high of 38 points in his debut season, and his third triple-double of the season, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, and then, two days later, the Mavericks lost to the Spurs by one point, and Kidd scored his fourth triple-double of the season, with 10 points, 12 rebounds and 13 assists!

Ultimately, the stats from Kidd's rookie season, Stayed at an average of 11.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game, of course, 3.2 turnovers per game, which also shows that the young Kidd still has a lot to do, after the season, Kidd and Grant Hill shared the best rookie trophy, and the Mavericks' record this season, 20-30 before Jackson's reimbursement, came to 36-46 after the end of the season, although it still did not help the team to reach the playoffs, but Jason Kidd used excellent play to help the team win 16 of the team's last 32 games, and this season is also the beginning of Marshburn's peak, with an average of 24 per game.1 point, 41 rebounds and 3.7 assists, with a whopping 6.3 to victory.

Although the Mavericks did not make the playoffs this season, the Mavericks, who have Jim Jackson, Mashburn, and Kidd, both management and fans, are looking forward to a bright future, hoping that the three of them can take the team to a new level like Aguirre, Blackman and Harbour.

Good is good, but before the new season started, the Mavericks were hit with a hammer, and the Mavericks decided to keep Tapre, who performed well last season, and gave the latter a 6-year contract worth a total of $20 million, and Tapree also happily signed, but the next day, Tapre was found to be drug addicted again, and as a result, he was banned by the NBA forever, completely breaking the idea of the NBA. Among them, the first five seasons only took a total of more than 2 million, and the annual salary of the players in the rookie years was low, but when he returned to the Mavericks last season, with the newly signed TV contract, the player's salary rose sharply, and Tapre took 3 million a year, and finally got a big contract, and was killed by himself......

In the 1995 draft, the Mavericks held two first-round picks, and the hungry Mavericks, who lacked a center, did not hesitate to invest all these two draft picks on interior players, with the 12th pick in the first round, selected the 211-centimeter-tall center Cherokee Parkes, and the 24th pick in the first round, selected the 208-centimeter-tall short center Lauren Mayer.

Parkes is 211 cm tall and weighs only 107 kilograms, compared to Mayer, who is three centimeters shorter than Parks, but weighs 10 kilograms heavier than Parks! Parks never seems to smile, always looks angry, but the weight is a hard injury, the defense can't resist, the pace is slow, and there is nothing to do on the offensive end, Parks only stayed with the Mavericks for a year, and the Mavericks realized that they had made a mistake and hurriedly sent Parks to their good friend Timberwolves.

And Mayer is not much better, there are too many black and hard muscles in the NBA, not bad Mayer, the Mavericks used a year, found out that they also made mistakes, and hurriedly threw them to the Suns, and Mayer's career only played a total of 140 games.

This season's Mavericks can be called weird, with a good start, four consecutive wins, and only one loss in the first five games, which makes the team management full of confidence in this season, but then the team was weirdly subjected to a wave of seven consecutive kneeling, which is actually not weird, because the Mavericks do not have a good center, and the offensive end is more dependent on outside breakthroughs and three-point shots, and the feel is good and bad, which also belongs to the whole game, and most importantly, there is a conflict between Jim Jackson and Jason Kidd.

As for the reason for the contradiction, I am interested in Baidu, let's not talk too much about the private life of the players here, anyway, you just remember it, these two people don't like each other, and the contradiction has developed from off the field to competing for each other's boss on the field.

Jackson: "I worked so hard to get out of the empty space, and he (Kidd) would rather pass it to the referee than give it to me!" ”

Kidd: "Why do you give every ball, you selfish person who never thinks about other people's feelings!" ”

As one of the three Dallas heroes, Mashburn was about to speak, but unfortunately, due to a knee injury, the season was reimbursed, and he only played 18 games this season......

I won't go into details about the season, Marsh is reimbursed this season, Jackson and Kidd don't deal with each other, how good can the record be, 26-56, the second-to-last in the West, not as good as last season, The team's only two points are that Kidd became the first All-Star in Mavericks history with 16.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game and the league's second-highest 9.7 assists per game (Aguirre and Blackman were all selected off the bench, while Harbour never made an All-Star in his career), and in his second season of his career, he had nine triple-doubles.

After the end of the season, the disheartened old man Motta resigned as head coach again, and after leading the Nuggets for a season, he was closed, and when the old man Motta left the Mavericks, assistant coach Jim Clemons took over, like Hurd Buckner before him, Clemons had 652 NBA games of experience when he was a player, but his coaching experience was blank.

The 1996 draft talent player Yunji, which is also recognized as one of the strongest drafts in the NBA, and the Mavericks got the No. 9 pick in the first round, and in the end, the Mavericks, who "chose the elite and were clumsy for ten years", successfully avoided all the outstanding players of the year, and chose Samaki Walker, who couldn't do anything except grab rebounds, and ranked below Walker that year, just list two people whose achievements and honors are hanging Walker - Kobe Bryant with the 13th pick, Peja Stojakovic with the 14th pick, Steve Nash with the 15th pick, Jermaine O'Neal with the 17th pick, Big Z Ilgoskas with the 20th pick, and so on.

Of course, the selection of Samaki Walker is not a fatal blow for the Mavericks, but the contradiction between Jackson and Kidd is that the management has finally put together these three big names, how can they easily let go and continue to mediate. Among them, the 2-year, 300-year re-signing of the team's former meritorious veteran Derek Haber is for this purpose, hoping that Haber can control the locker room, but unfortunately, Haber can't do this.

Mashburn vs. Kidd: No offense, although I pinch my fingers, you will be a Hall of Fame level player in the future, but Jim Jackson came to the team before you and me after all, so don't fight him for the boss.

Kidd: Ben Ben makes sense.

Mashburne to Jackson: Gigi, I'll pinch my fingers, you will be displaced in the future, why is this happening, your character is the main reason, don't become a cancer in other people's mouths, it's not good for you, after all, Kidd is a guard who is highly praised by the league, don't quarrel with him, don't quarrel.

Jim Jackson: You mean you can do it and don't make a noise.

Mashburn brought Kidd and Jim Jackson together.

Mashburn: I said two, the team has not made any achievements, and you have no honor to show your hands, what kind of boss to fight for, you remember, the boss is not fought for, and the person who can really become the boss will never fight.

Kidd/Jackson burst into tears: Ben Ben makes sense.

Mashburn: When do you two think I've ever argued?

Kidd: Your uncle!

Jackson: And what are you doing now?

As a result, the team's contradictions have changed from Kidd and Jackson's fighting each other to Kidd, Jackson, and Mashburn's three-person fight.

When the Mavericks management saw this situation, it was impossible not to trade, and the Mavericks management made the biggest determination in history, and the big transactions were one after another, but they didn't expect that the first person to leave turned out to be Kidd.

In December 1996, after just 22 games played, the Mavericks sent Kidd, Tony Dumas, and Lorenz Mayer to the Suns for AC Green, Sam Cassel and Michael Finley and a 1997 second-round pick. AC Green was an important piece of the puzzle for the Lakers at the peak of the early eighties, but this year he is 34 years old, and Sam Cassell has not been with the team for long, only playing 16 games for the Mavericks before being sent away, and it is clear that the focus of this trade is Michael Finley.

Finley is 201 cm tall, serving in the third or fourth position, is the 21st pick in the first round in 1995, although the rank is not high, but after entering the NBA, Finley has shown strong personal ability, his physical condition is excellent, all kinds of violent dunks are at his fingertips, and the mid-range shooting is slightly backward, which is difficult to be blocked, but although Finley's shooting in the early stage of his career is beautiful but not stable, the passing and defense can only be said to be a little higher than the average, the singles ability is average, and he basically does not hold the ball alone, and the ball quotient is high. Excellent running awareness, accurate grasp of opportunities, and most importantly, Finley has a gentle personality and never gets into trouble, which is also the most important point for the Mavericks after going through the Dallas Three Heroes. After the collapse of the Dallas Sanjie, you will find that after the Mavericks, as long as it is a thorn in the head, they don't want it, Finley has become a key figure in the team's second peak, and in the blink of an eye, the Mavericks gave Finley a 3-year, $22 million contract.

Now the Mavericks, like a supermarket on the street, the managers are free to choose, everyone on the team is panicked, and Marshburn has been playing often this season because of the team's big trade and his own injury troubles, averaging only 10.6 points per game, shooting 37.2% from the field, on February 7, 1997, the Mavericks hired Don Nelson as the team's general manager to take over the team's rebuilding work, and only five days later, Mashburn was sent to the Heat to get Kurt Thomas, Sasha Danilovic and Martin Murcep.

Thomas only played five games for the Mavericks before being cut, Mulsup is also a dragon, only played 83 games in his 2-year career, the real target of the Mavericks is Sasha Danilovic, Sasha is 196 cm tall, is a scoring guard from Serbia and Montenegro and is a figure comparable to Ginobili in the international arena, he shoots exquisitely, three-point accuracy, after being won by the Warriors with the 16th pick in the second round in 1992, he did not play a game, was sent to the Heat, and quickly gained a foothold in the Heat, In his rookie season, he averaged 13.4 points per game, shooting 45.1% from the field and 43.6% from three-point range, and in the 13 games he played for the Mavericks this season, he started 9 games and averaged 16.6 points per game, shooting 42.0% from the field and 36.7% from three-point range. Sasha has opted out of the NBA, and as for the reasons, only the court will be discussed here, and no other reasons will be discussed. Sasha's exit also left Nelson Sr. with nothing to lose in this deal about Mashburn.

Jim Jackson: I'll just say, I'm the real boss of the Mavericks! Hahaha!

Just two days after the Mashburn trade, Nelson Sr. activated the button for the Jim Jackson trade, which came to Sam Cassel, Chris Gatlin, and was sent to the New Jersey Nets along with George McLeod for Shaun Bradley, Ed O'Bannon, Robert Parker, and Khaled Reaves.

Let's talk about Gatlin, Gatlin is a star signed for 4 years and 15 million dollars in the new season, and he has played at the peak of his game in the Mavericks this season. can contribute 19.1 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, thanks to the All-Star Barkley Mourning, Ewing, Drexler, O'Neal all five All-Stars retired due to injury, Gatlin was selected to the All-Star team for the first and only time in his career, becoming the fifth player to be selected as an All-Star after Aguirre, Blackman, Donaldson, and Kidd, but only ten days later, Gatlin has not recovered from the joy of being selected as an All-Star, and was sent away by the Mavericks in a blink of an eye......

Look at these players who came in the trade, Khaled Reeves is a 1-meter-tall 191-meter-tall guard, with a very high starting point, the 12th pick in the first round, but he has never been able to play, and when the draft was held, he said that it was a talent visible to the naked eye, and a talent that was visible through a magnifying glass is now a talent visible under a microscope...... The average of 9.2 points per game in the first season is not bad, but I didn't expect the rookie to be the peak, the second season was tossed around the Hornets Nets, averaging 5.5 points per game, and the third season was sent to the Mavericks by the Nets this season to play 13 games, including 12 starts, with an average of 29.5 minutes per game, it is said that the degree of attention and playing time are a lot, but pull out the data, average 7.8 points, 4.3 assists and 2.0 turnovers per game, shooting rate of 38.7%, and victory contribution value of minus 0.1......

Robert Parker is a short guard with a height of 1.88 cm, joined the Portland Trail Blazers as an undraft player in 1991 and began his career, although Parker is not tall, but his physical fitness is strong, he is a grasshopper, the kind that goes to the sky as soon as he jumps, often stages various difficult dunks in the game, is a famous spring man in the nineties, Parker played a season off the bench with the Trail Blazers, switched to the Nuggets, and gained a firm foothold in the Nuggets, through two years of hard work, became the starting point guard of the Nuggets, last season in Washington, the bullets, averaged 18.1 points per game, 7.8 assists, 2.0 steals and 3.7 turnovers, but obviously, limited by height, Parker's defensive projection guard is basically blown up, and the ceiling is not very high, but there is no doubt that he is still an above-average player, playing 20 games with the Mavericks this season, 11 of which were starts, averaged 11.5 points, 6.4 assists, 1.8 steals and 3.4 turnovers per game, and was retained by the Mavericks with a four-year 15 million contract at the end of the season, but Parker, like Leaf, was seriously injured as soon as he came to the Mavericks, and in the next three seasons, Parker only played a total of 66 games, and in the end he was also unknown.

Compared with Parker and Reaves, this Ed O'Bannon is a complete trick, 203 tall as a service forward, this invincible star forward in the NCAA, in the 1995 draft, the ninth pick in the first round was selected by the Nets, and then on the road to becoming a parallel commodity is gone, a total of two years in his career, last year he played a year in the Nets, playing an average of 20 minutes per game, got 6.2 points and 2.6 rebounds, was sent to the Mavericks this year, played 19 games, 0 starts, averaged 2.4 points and 1.9 rebounds in 9 minutes per game, and at the end of the season, he was abandoned by the Mavericks and unemployed.

It's clear that the center of the Mavericks' deal for Jim Jackson is naturally big center Sean Bradley.

Bradley's height reached a terrifying 229 cm, which was the first height in the NBA at that time, but he weighed only 107 kilograms, nicknamed "Big Bamboo Pole", such a tall height, the data is naturally inseparable from the block, the university refreshed the rookie NCAA block record at Brigham Young University, and sent 14 caps in a game, tying the NCAA single-game block record held by David Robinson (broken by Shaquille O'Neal the following year), the college studied for a year, and averaged 5 blocks per game, He went to play in Australia and quickly rose to prominence, beating Anfernee Hardaway and Jamal Mashburn in the 1993 draft to become the top picks.

Bradley's advantages and disadvantages are obvious, the offensive end is basically under the basket, occasionally go out to shoot a mid-range shot to try the feel, because the body is too thin, there is no ability to play back, and the defensive end has excellent defensive ability, but the card position can't be stuck, and when you meet a tall and strong fat man like O'Neal Yao Ming, he can only be exploded, simply, there is only one O'Neal and Yao Ming in the world. Bradley averaged 10.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game in his rookie season, but he was injured after only playing 49 games, and the second season was complete, but the average of 9.5 points, 8 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game did not seem to have made much progress, and the third season was even more sad, playing 12 games, and was sent to the Nets, and then in the Nets before the last year, he was sent to the Mavericks this year, Bradley came to the Mavericks in the first game with 10 points, 10 rebounds and 6 blocks to light up everyone's eyes, and after that, Bradley also contributed 12 points and 10 blocks in this season An alternative double-double, 32 points, 16 rebounds and 25 points, 16 rebounds and 11 rebounds, Bradley has since become the Mavericks' ultimate answer at the center position for the next eight years.