NBA Headquarters, Office of the President of the League.

"Adam, this time is a good job." David Stern is praising Adam Silva, but there doesn't seem to be a smile on his face.

"It's a pleasure to get your compliment." Adam Silva modestly replied, and Adam Silva didn't know whether the job was done to make David Stern happy or unhappy.

"You go and do your work first, I'll look for you when I have something." David Stern let Adam Silva go.

Adam Silva left David Stern's office in a daze, thinking about the weird old man while also thinking about where he made a mistake this time, but after thinking for a long time, he returned to his office, but he didn't think that he made a mistake!

David Stern asked Adam Silva to do the job the other day to help the Eagles increase their attention, and this year the Eagles' attention has dropped significantly compared to the previous two years.

As long as it is not the championship, or the Lakers Knicks, other teams, even if they are teams that have reached the finals in a row, as long as they do not win the championship, or if they have not won the championship in recent years, even if they continue to reach the finals, they will not maintain their popularity for too long.

What's more, the Hawks are not runners-up, but the final four of the playoffs, except for local fans in Atlanta and Georgia, most fans in other parts of the United States are aesthetically tired of the Hawks.

Coupled with the unexpected rise of the Pacers in the East this year, people seem to see the Hawks two years ago, people like new things, people on the Hawks side have seen a little enough, and they have paid attention to the Pacers, and the Pacers have become the focus of the league just like the Hawks two years ago.

Moreover, the three-headed monster and the Big Four in the west have a lot of news, maybe Liu Mang's distinctive personality traits and the strength of the group of stars who are already the top point guards in the league allow him to have a good exposure, but the Hawks' exposure this year is indeed too low, and it is not as good as last year's losing streak.

This made David Stern, who saw that the Hawks had not been affected after bringing in Rasheed Wallace, who had a good start to the game, was very anxious, and the Hawks were actually "outdated", and they did not have the feeling of explosive popularity in the first two years and three days.

Of course, this does not affect the market value of the Hawks or anything else, the popularity of the Hawks in China is basically on par with the Rockets, and because the Hawks are stronger, the Hawks fans are more tough than the Rockets fans on the forum, the Hawks sell well on the local earth, the local live broadcast ratings are high, the sponsorship fees on the Chinese side are also high, and they also take the league's share of the broadcast fees, which is more profitable than last year, and the market value of the Hawks is getting louder.

But it's not good for the NBA official at all, the Hawks jersey market sales are not as good as before, the live broadcast ratings are not as good as before, the topic index is not as good as before, and the all-round decline is a headache for the league.

Who is the alliance going to hold in the east? Pedestrian? The new version of the Spurs that started hot, but couldn't score 83 points in six consecutive games, and scored less than 90 points themselves?

Or the Pistons and Nets, the two ratings killers?

The other teams that originally had superstars such as the Magic, 76ers, and Raptors are now split from the bottom three to the bottom five in the East.

The Hawks were originally the league's favorite team last year, but the Hawks were still too young and failed to reach the Finals, which made the league regretful, and when the Hawks introduced another thorn this year, David Stern's heart was pumping, but fortunately, this year's Rasheed Wallace was unexpectedly safe, and the Hawks were moving forward steadily, but they were "outdated", which gave David Stern a headache, so he asked Adam Silva, who was in charge of commercial operations, to find a way to help the Eagles create exposure.

Adam Silva did it quickly, but the approach was too radical for David Stern.

David Stern looked at the news comments on the Internet, whether it was the media, experts or fans, they all questioned the player power rankings this time, Liu Mang played very well, but Garnett and O'Neal Jr. played obviously better, both of them are 20+10, and the team's record is not worse than that of the Eagles, only half a win behind the Eagles.

Adam Silva's radical work philosophy of only getting the job done and getting the job done, not caring about the process and the negative situations that arise, made David Stern hesitate again whether to hand over the position of president to this young man.

But the key thing is that Adam Silva is very popular with the league team owners, because Adam Silva has worked in the NBA for many years, bringing a lot of income to the league, such as the seven-year broadcast agreement signed with TV stations in the summer of 2002, which increased the league's income last season, coupled with the depth of cooperation with China, the league's income last season increased by a full 10% compared with last season, and the salary cap increased by more than 4 million US dollars compared with the salary cap predicted in 2000 for the next few years.

The owners love Adam Silva very much, but David Stern doesn't like it that much, like right now, the Eagles are getting attention, but most of the attention they get is questioning, which is not what David Stern wants.

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On November 12, the Eagles took a mouthful of poisoned milk poured by the league to the North Shore Garden Arena to challenge the Celtics away.

Most teams in the East are miserable this year, except for the top five, no team in the East has a winning rate of 50%, the Heat in sixth is only 3-4, and the Celtics, who are 2-5, are ranked eighth in the East......

This year's wins in the East were basically stolen by the top three, except that the Nets are really fighting for 50 wins in the season, and the top three teams didn't lose much at the beginning, and most of the games of the Eastern teams are played with Eastern teams, no, a lot of teams with a record of 0 wins or 1 win at most 2 wins, from the seventh in the East to the fifteenth in the East, are all in these three situations.

Among them, the Magic team is at the bottom, and 0-7 is how miserable it is.

And the Celtics are also a miserable team this year, sending Antoine Walker away, Kendrick Perkins, the "talented high school student" they selected this year, but they were reimbursed for their rookie season shortly after signing, and a large number of high-quality role players left last season......

Fortunately, Vinn Baker is in another contract year this year, and when Perkins is not starting on top of him, there is a feeling of returning to the past and helping Pierce win two games.

For such an opponent, the Eagles easily came to the North Shore Garden Arena to play.

After the game began, the Eagles easily won the right to attack first, and Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace, who was very excited today, started to play with blocking and pick-and-roll.

Rasheed Wallace was unhappy with the Celtics, and although he didn't like to play in Boston, where fans mocked him for looking like he hadn't read, the Celtics refused to get him and instead asked for two last-round first-round picks, which made Rashid Wallace feel like his pride had been hurt.

So this time Rashid Wallace took the initiative to ask Liu Mang and Stockton, Jason Terry, the three ball-control cores to help him play the Celtics, Rashid Wallace came up and bombarded the Celtics with Liu Mang, Liu Mang got 11 points and 4 assists in the first quarter, Rashid Wallace got 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks, and the two worked together to score 25 points in 28 minutes in the first quarter of the Hawks.

Not only on the offensive end, but the two who played the first quarter also tried their best on the defensive end, leading their teammates to defend the Celtics by 18 points in a single quarter, and the Hawks led by 10 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Rashid Wallace continued to play, and when Stockton and Boozer played a block and pick-and-roll attack, they deliberately passed a lot of balls to Rashid Wallace, and after Stockton got off the break, Jason Terry, who got the main control, did not come by himself today, and made the ball for Rashid Wallace, and Rashid Wallace continued his offensive performance.

Today, Rasheed Wallace played a crazy first half game, after scoring 14 points in the first quarter, he scored 21 points in a single quarter in the second quarter, and set a new half-time scoring record for 35 points and 7 rebounds in the half! 5 blocks in the first half is also a new career high!

In this half of the game, Rasheed Wallace tried his best on both ends of the floor in an attempt to beat the Celtics to death.

The Hawks also led the Celtics by 18 points at halftime, 57-39!

Everything looked to be going so well for the Eagles, and after halftime, the Hawks fielded a backcourt combination of Stockton and Jason Terry, who went up to take turns possessing the ball and played with the benches.

Liu Mang saw that he was about to clock out of work after only one session, and he was so sad in his heart, and finally climbed to the fifth place in the league in terms of average points per game, although it was stained with the light that the average points per game of the stars in the league this year had almost dropped significantly, and he was also sent to the legendary poisoned milk list by the league, but who doesn't want their data to look good?

It's just that the Celtics obviously didn't have a tendency to struggle in the first half, which made Liu Mang only look at his 11 points and 4 assists in silence, which had to pull down the average points per game.

This fate always seems to like to go against people, you have to accept the reality, it suddenly gives you a "surprise"!

After the start of the second half, Stockton and Jason Terry brought Barnes, Boozer, and Kwame Brown to play, and next to Muhammad, Willie Green and others were also ready to rotate at any time.

The Eagles were all waiting in line to go up and abuse the food, and suddenly there was an outburst from the Celtics.

Perhaps this year is the year when the player named James is famous, in the 2001 draft, the Celtics' backup point guard Mike James, scored 7 points in a row after the start of the second half, plus Pierce also hit a three-pointer and an open dunk, and together beat the Hawks 12-2!

The margin was suddenly chased by the Celtics to 41-59, and the Hawks' lead was only 8 points, and the time was just over three minutes!

At this time, Stockton waved his hand, saying that there was no need to rush, play slowly, and his side still had a lead.

Indeed, Stockton has experience and can hold down the scene, so that the Hawks' benches are panicked, and they continue to open up the offense and defense steadily, and the scoring begins to continue.

But on the defensive end, the Hawks still played very badly, Pierce dribbled on the outside, grinding, and threw out with a bumpy shot, without the arm span of Prince or Raheem, there was no way to limit it at all, so I could only bet on whether Pierce's hand felt accurate, and Pierce, who came up in the third quarter, felt amazingly accurate today!

As for Mike James's side, it's not a question of accuracy today, it's completely out of the way! Scored 19 points in the third quarter!

Even Pierce's outburst was driven by Mike James, and the three points and empty dunks that Pierce threw at the beginning were all opportunities given by Mike James to break through the points, and Pierce got back the confidence to shoot after these two shots, and the two teamed up to plan a counterattack.

At the end of the third quarter, Mike James hit a three-point shot at the whistle and scored the 19th point of the third quarter, which was also the 19th point of the game.

Who would have thought that in 2001, when he was 25 years old, he ran back to the United States from the Israeli league to participate in the draft, and suddenly broke out after coming up in the third quarter!

On the Eagles' side, Liu Mang is already talking and laughing with Rashid Wallace, Raheem and others, who knows the sudden change in the situation!

At halftime, they had already begun to discuss, where to go after tonight's game, Boston's nightlife is still very good, but while playing, they suddenly found that they seemed to have problems here, at first Coach Kruger was still sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, because there was Stockton on the court, but he couldn't stand Mike James was stunned to beat Stockton with 19 points in a single quarter!

Liu Mang thought that the MVP list of the alliance was not so poisonous at first, it may be that the poisoned milk powder has been effectively treated, but he didn't expect that it was still so poisonous!